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    Data Services Provider Illuminate to Hire 100-Plus Employees; Gregg Melanson Quoted

    Illuminate, a data collection and analysis services provider to the government sector, is opening more than 100 job vacancies across the company for application development and intelligence analysis professionals. The company said Tuesday it offers a competitive pay package, a Safe Harbor 401(k) plan and programs meant to help employees manage their quality of life […] More

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    Northrop, Cubic Showcase Gateway System for Defense Tech Connectivity

    Northrop Grumman and Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions division have jointly demonstrated a high-capacity backbone platform intended to support mission systems interoperability and data connectivity in all defense domains. The companies presented during a cross-industry event the potential applications of HCB technology and an open-architecture gateway system to the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain […] More

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    GE, Air Force Conclude Phase 2 Testing of F-35 Adaptive Cycle Engine

    General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have jointly tested a next-generation fighter jet engine for the F-35 aircraft at the service branch’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. The company said the second phase of testing on the XA100 three-stream adaptive cycle engine was concluded in August in preparation for its maturation and full-scale […] More

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    CISA Seeks Public Input on Proposed Cyber Incident Reporting Regulations; Jen Easterly Quoted

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is soliciting input from critical infrastructure owners and operators on the development of proposed cyber incident and ransom payment reporting requirements. CISA said Friday it seeks comments on how to implement requirements in line with the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, which was signed into […] More

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    SAIC Books Follow-On Missile Defense System Analytical Support Contract

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a five-year, $39.6 million follow-on contract to help the Missile Defense Agency’s Quick Reaction Team research, develop and test the U.S. military’s missile defense system. SAIC will perform trade studies, generate technical reports and data inputs and provide advisory and analytical services to support the development and deployment of […] More

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    Idemia NSS Appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 3; Patrick Clancey Quoted

    Idemia’s U.S. national security solutions business unit has achieved Maturity Level 3 appraisal under ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program following an appraisal conducted by ChangeBridge Consulting. The rating certifies that Idemia National Security Solutions‘ business procedures align with the CMMI standard for enhancing capability and optimizing performance, the company said Thursday. “Achieving Maturity Level […] More

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    Northrop Ramps Up High-Temperature Material Manufacturing With Robotic 3D Printer

    Northrop Grumman is using a patented, robotic-based additive manufacturing technology to advance the development of high-temperature composites used in hypersonic and high-speed weapon manufacturing. The Scalable Composite Robotic Additive Manufacturing Carbon/Carbon system employs 6-axis continuous fiber reinforcement to fabricate 3D-printed composite structures before undergoing a proprietary manufacturing process, Northrop said Thursday. SCRAM works to reduce […] More

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    Peraton to Maintain, Enhance Navy’s Law Enforcement Information Sharing Systems

    Peraton will assist the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in the operation, maintenance and modernization of law enforcement information sharing systems under a five-year, $32 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers support services for the Law Enforcement Information Exchange and Department of Defense Law Enforcement Defense Data Exchange systems managed by NCIS, […] More

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    Air Force, Raytheon & Kongsberg Demo Missile Defense Capability With NASAMS Launcher

    The U.S. Air Force and business arms of Raytheon Technologies and Kongsberg have jointly conducted an air base air defense experiment to demonstrate the ability of a medium-range missile system to shoot down cruise missile targets. Raytheon’s missiles and defense division said Wednesday the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System or NASAMS fired AIM-9X and other […] More

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    Boeing Demos MQ-25 Open Autonomy Architecture to Enable Manned-Unmanned Teaming

    Boeing has conducted a virtual demonstration of a new open autonomy architecture designed to enable manned-unmanned teaming capabilities for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 aerial refueling system. During the digital flight test, three different simulated naval aircraft tasked four virtual, autonomous MQ-25s to conduct tanking and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions without communicating with the ship-based […] More

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    NTT Data Wins Spot on FCC Deal for App Development Support Services; Christopher Merdon Quoted

    The Federal Communications Commission has awarded an NTT Data subsidiary a spot on a multiple-award contract to provide application development support services to the agency. Net ESolutions will help the FCC transition to a cloud environment, develop new information technology platforms and revamp software delivery processes under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, NTT Data said Tuesday. Christopher […] More