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    Amentum Secures Air Force Contract Modification for Aircraft Maintenance, Back Shop Support

    Amentum has been awarded a $46 million contract modification to continue providing executive airlift maintenance support services to the U.S. Air Force. The company will support back shop maintenance operations for aircraft assigned to the 316th Wing and 89th Wing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work will occur […] More

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    Raytheon to Install Modernized Mission Computer Into Air Force A-10C Aircraft

    A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has received a $46.2 million award from the U.S. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center to provide a modernized mission computer for the A-10C Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will deliver the Common Open Secure Mission Computer to AFLMC to upgrade the A-10C’s operational flight program software environment, the […] More

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    Saab Delivers Final Aft Fuselage to Boeing for T-7A Red Hawk

    Saab has delivered to Boeing the final aft airframe section for the T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft being developed by the latter for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing said Thursday the aft is the final delivery in the T-7A’s engineering and manufacturing development phase and completes the aft fuselages that have been integrated with the […] More

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    NDi to Provide IT Modernization Support to DOJ Antitrust Division

    Network Designs, Inc. has secured a five-year contract to provide information technology modernization support services to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. The company said Wednesday the task order was awarded under the fifth iteration of DOJ’s Information Technology Support Services contract vehicle and encompasses engineering, operations, service desk and program and project management services. […] More

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    DOD Taps Viasat to Research Use of 5G for Expeditionary Advanced Base Ops

    Viasat will conduct research to determine how 5G networks could support expeditionary advanced base operations under a third contract awarded through the Department of Defense’s Information Warfare Research Project. The company said Wednesday it will use digital twin models and agile software-defined networks to support command and control capabilities, advanced processing and network enhancements as […] More

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    Pega Cloud for Government Secures DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization

    Pegasystems has received Impact Level 4 provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency for its cloud offering designed for federal government customers. Pega Cloud for Government is a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant platform that works to enable federal agencies to develop and deploy cloud-based applications in support of their digital transformation initiatives, […] More

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    Army Taps Lockheed to Install Energy Storage System at Fort Carson

    Lockheed Martin will deliver its flow battery technology for installation at a U.S. Army military base in Colorado to help the Department of Defense advance its renewable energy generation goals. The company said Tuesday it secured a contract to install the GridStar Flow long-duration energy storage system at Fort Carson, where it will serve as […] More

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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Lays Keel of USS District of Columbia Ballistic Submarine

    General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has hosted a keel laying ceremony in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to formally start the construction of the U.S. Navy’s first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. The keel plate of the USS District of Columbia, designated as SSBN 826, bore the initials of  Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the sponsor of the […] More

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    HII Ingalls Shipbuilding Christens Coast Guard’s Calhoun National Security Cutter

    HII christened the U.S. Coast Guard’s 10th Legend-class national security cutter during a ceremony held at a facility of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding subsidiary in Pascagoula, Mississippi. USCGC Calhoun (WMSL 759) will join the military branch’s flagship fleet and support manned and unmanned aircraft during national security and defense support missions, such as preventing the […] More

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    Amentum Receives Navy Contract Extension for Aircraft Fleet Maintenance

    Amentum has been awarded a $48 million contract extension from the U.S. Navy to continue providing aircraft maintenance and contractor logistic support services to Naval Test Wing Atlantic. The company will extend the provision of full organization, selected intermediate and limited depot-level maintenance and logistic support for the aircraft and related equipment that support test […] More

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    Airbus, Lockheed Select Arkansas to House Production of LMXT Aerial Refueling Boom System

    Airbus will use a manufacturing facility in Arkansas to produce the aerial refueling boom system for Lockheed Martin’s offering for a U.S. Air Force strategic tanker program. The Arkansas-built boom system will be integrated into the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft during the second phase of the plane’s assembly and configuration process, Lockheed said Wednesday. The […] More

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    DARPA Unveils Broad Agency Announcement for Tactical-Grade Clock Development

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a broad agency announcement seeking proposals on the development of ultra-small, low-power clocks envisioned to maintain microsecond precision for a week. The H6 program aims to create a low size, weight and power platform that works to provide precise global positioning system timing updates in a GPS-denied […] More