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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to three industry teams to develop methods to counter small unmanned aircraft systems. DARPA said Thursday teams led by Dynetics, Saab‘s defense and security business unit and SRC will develop counter-sUAS approaches under the first phase of the Mobile Force Protection program. The contracts were awarded one year […] More
The U.S. Air Force has moved its plans to launch two Lockheed Martin-built military satellites from late 2017 to 2018 due to different circumstances, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. The Air Force told the publication it postponed the Oct. 11 launch of the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite because of a technical issue with a […] More
Harris has secured a delivery order from the U.S. Army to supply an undisclosed number of multichannel radios for evaluation under the service branch’s Handheld, Manpack & Small Form-Fit program. The company said Thursday it will provide Falcon III radios along with installation kits, ancillaries, training and field service representative support. Brendan O’Connell, president of Harris’ tactical communications business, […] More
Griffon‘s Telephonics subsidiary has secured a three-year, $23.3 contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide weapon system communication equipment for U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday Telephonics is scheduled to complete work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by July 31, 2020. DLA’s aviation unit is the contracting activity and the Army will use its fiscal 2017 through […] More
MIL Corp. has opened a new office in McLean, Virginia, to house the government services contractor’s accounting, contracts, business development, human resources and proposals and marketing teams. MIL said Tuesday the 10,000-square-foot office located at 8401 Greensboro Drive in Tysons Corner will accommodate employees who manage corporate operations for cyber, engineering, financial and information technology contracts. […] More
Frank McCall, head of strategic deterrence at Boeing, has said the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile would be cheaper than another service life extension effort on the Boeing-built Minuteman III ICBM, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. McCall told reporters that the U.S. Air Force‘s future ICBM dubbed Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent would provide better performance and support a wider […] More
A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has received a potential $23.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver modernized ejection seats for two kinds of aircraft. Universal Propulsion Co. will produce Advanced Concept Ejection Seats II for the service branch’s B-1 Lancer bomber and A-10 Warthog planes, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in Fairfield, California, […] More
The Department of Homeland Security wants information on vendors that can deliver “highly specialized” technical services in support of the DHS office of the chief information officer. DHS said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that it needs to update its business applications; migrate from unsupported systems; and optimize the OCIO’s application delivery functions. The department plans to award […] More
CSRA has led an industry team in efforts to boost the computing capacity of the National Institutes of Health‘s supercomputing cluster. The company said Wednesday it installed the second computing power increment to the Biowulf supercomputing system designed to run computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and other biomedical research efforts. The second increment follows […] More
Engility has launched five centers of excellence in a move to facilitate the development of products in technology growth areas such as agile software development, artificial intelligence, cyber, high performance computing and modeling and simulation. The five ENnovation Centers are comprised of virtually-networked experts who aim to address innovation challenges federal customers face, Engility said Wednesday. Engility CEO […] More
Lockheed Martin has kicked off a $350 million project to build a satellite production facility at the company’s Waterton Canyon campus in Colorado. The Gateway Center is scheduled for completion in 2020 and will accommodate Lockheed’s growing workforce and future projects in Colorado, the company said Wednesday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’s space systems business, […] More
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies has partnered with collab9 to offer a cloud-based unified communications platform that will support public sector customers’ compliance with federal, state and local government requirements. The joint offering integrates AVST’s CX-E unified communications platform with collab9’s hosted unified communications technologies and is designed to aid government agencies’ cloud migration efforts, AVST said Tuesday. […] More
