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    Space News: Lockheed to Consider Alternative Uses for Future NASA Habitat Module

    Lockheed Martin is looking into alternative uses for a habitat module it is developing for NASA‘s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships program focused on research-and-development projects to identify new technologies, Space News reported Wednesday. Bill Pratt, NextSTEP program manager at Lockheed, told the publicaiton its cislunar habitat could be used to support other countries and companies that are looking to embark […] More

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    SES GS Secures Army TROJAN Satellite Support Follow-On Contracts

    SES Government Solutions has received two follow-on contracts from the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command to provide satellite services for a global network used to transmit voice, video and data. Reston, Virginia-based SES GS said Thursday it will support the TROJAN Network that includes terminals and ground infrastructure for uniformed Army personnel and decision makers at the […] More

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    Comtech Subsidiary Lands Int’l Contract to Provide RF Microwave Amplifiers

    Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary Comtech PST has been awarded a $1.3 million contract by an international customer to provide broadband radio-frequency microwave amplifiers for a communications jamming system. The communications products and services company said Wednesday the amplifiers work to provide broad frequency coverage for jamming systems through broadband solid-state switching and transistor technology. Stanton Sloane, Comtech president and CEO, said Comtech PST’s broadband amplifiers […] More

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    Leidos to Provide Military Commissions Case Preparations Labor Under WHS Contract

    Leidos has been awarded a $10.4 million contract by the Washington Headquarters Services to provide labor support for the Office of Military Commissions’ case preparations for hearings and trials. The Defense Department said Wednesday the labor-hour contract requires linguists, interpreters, translators, stenographers and court reporters for enemy combatant trials at the U.S. naval station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DoD said […] More

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    Project Performance Company to Operate, Maintain National Archives Big Data Systems

    The National Archives and Records Administration agency has awarded a potential five-year, $17.3 million contract to Project Performance Company for operations and maintenance work on two NARA systems built to manage large amounts of data. PPC said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s efforts to develop, modernize and update its Description and Authority Service and National Archives Catalog systems that work to […] More

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    Sotera Receives Readiness Reporting System Software Support Task Order From Army

    Sotera Defense Solutions has been awarded a three-year, $16 million task order from the U.S. Army for technical, engineering and management services to the branch’s Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center. The company said Tuesday it will support the Defense Readiness Reporting System-Army and also carry out design, development, integration, test and documentation work. Herndon, Va.-based Sotera will also provide logistics, […] More

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    UMass Lowell Completes PICTURE-B Exoplanet Research Mission Using Northrop-Built Mirror

    The University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology has concluded its Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base exoplanet research mission following its return from space. PICTURE-B features a 22-inch-diameter silicon carbide primary mirror built by Northrop Grumman‘s AOA Xinetics subsidiary, Northrop said Tuesday. The mirror worked to support PICTURE-B’s mission to observe the Rigel […] More

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    Research and Markets: Healthcare IoT Security Market to Reach 39.44% CAGR by 2022

    Research and Markets has released a new report that forecasts a 39.44% compound annual growth rate for the global healthcare Internet of Things security market from 2016 through 2022. The “Global Healthcare IOT Security Market: Focus on Solutions, Services, and Geography – Estimation & Forecast, 2016-2022” estimates the market reached $4.74 billion in 2015 and will […] More

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    ManTech Receives DoD Intell Operations Support Task Order Under GSA OASIS Vehicle

    ManTech International has been awarded a potential five-year, $33 million task order by a U.S. Defense Department organization to provide systems engineering, technical assessment and subject matter support for intelligence operations. The company said Tuesday it received the firm-fixed-price task order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. DoD’s Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems program office coordinates with […] More

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    MorphoTrust Identity Verification Systems Get DHS SAFETY Act Certification

    MorphoTrust USA has achieved the Department of Homeland Security‘s SAFETY Act Certification on two of the company’s identity verification platforms: Universal Enrollment Services and Automated Biometric Identification System. The company said Tuesday the certification authorizes UES and ABIS as anti-terrorism systems for use by DHS component agencies. UES is deployed across 360 MorphoTrust IdentoGO centers under the Transportation Security Administration‘s […] More

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    GSA Federal Acquisition Service Issues RFI on Cybersecurity Services for Gov’t Agencies

    The General Services Administration is requesting information on existing cybersecurity services in the market that could meet the needs of government agencies. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service office of integrated technology services sought feedback from stakeholders on cybersecurity products and services that could address threats that government and industry currently face. The agency seeks to […] More

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    DARPA Unveils Unmanned Spaceplane Program’s 2nd Phase

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and its industry partners will transition into the second phase of a program to build a reusable unmanned spaceplane that can carry satellites into space. DARPA said Thursday it will hold a proposers day April 29 in Arlington, Virginia for phase two of Experimental Spaceplane-1, a program to develop a spaceplane that can carry payloads […] More