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    Ultra Electronics Secures Sonoubuoy Supply Contract for UK Military

    Ultra Electronics‘ sonar systems business unit has secured a $13.7 million contract extension from the U.K.’s defense ministry to supply sonobuoys for the U.K. navy’s Merlin Maritime Patrol helicopter. The company will provide sonobuoy engineering, manufacturing, logistics and support services in an effort to aid the royal navy to maintain its persistent Anti-Submarine Warfare surveillance systems used against hostile […] More

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    Coherent Technical Services Gets Navy Contract Modification for Navigation Engineering Services

    Lexington Park, Maryland-based engineering consultancy firm Coherent Technical Services Inc. has secured a $20.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide navigation technology engineering support for air and shipboard C4ISR. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center awarded the contract modification and obligated the full amount from fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Defense Department […] More

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    Christina Back Describes General Atomics Reactor Concept to Senate Subcommittee

    Christina Back, lead physicist for General Atomics‘ reactor concept, has testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on clean air and nuclear energy. Back discussed the Energy Multiplier Module reactor concept and the four core challenges that it works to address to aid the modernization of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and progress research for reactors, General Atomics […] More

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    NIST-Harris-AER Scientist Team Develops New Carbon Sequestration Monitoring Method

    A team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Harris Corp. and Atmospheric and Environmental Research have developed a laser-based measurement system to monitor sequestered carbon over a mock storage site. NIST said Wednesday the scientists reported they could discover underground gas leaks within a 16-foot radius regardless of wind conditions through a NIST-developed mathematical model that considers the change […] More

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    Exostar Updates Risk Management Service to Address DoD Cybersecurity Compliance Mandate

    Exostar has updated its risk management service offered to defense contractors in an effort to meet a cybersecurity compliance mandate from the Defense Department. The service now includes a questionnaire that works to guide defense contractors through more than 100 information security controls in the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Special Publication 800-171, Exostar said Wednesday. Non-deviation from NIST […] More

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    Ken Hunzeker: Vectrus to Extend Comms Support for U.S. Air Forces in Europe

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a potential $12 million contract to provide command, control, communications and intelligence support services to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Vectrus Systems will support C3I operations at various unmanned and manned Air Force facilities located in the U.K., Belgium, Germany and Turkey as part of USAFE’s Enterprise Legacy Voice and Information System program, the company said Wednesday. The ELVIS contract, managed […] More

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    DMI, USDA to Add Features for Food Safety & Inspection Service Agency Mobile App

    Bethesda, Maryland-based mobile services company Digital Management Inc. and the Agriculture Deparment will incorporate new features into an app operated by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. DMI said Wednesday it looks to release updates for The FoodKeeper mobile app in May and August to add hotline access, multi-lingual support, imperial or metric format measurement display, calendar of events updates, general cooking information, educational videos and […] More

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    Orbital ATK Massachusetts Facility Reaches 500-Mark in Large Composite Rocket Structure Production

    An Orbital ATK facility in Iuka, Massachusetts has reached the 500-unit production milestone for a large composite rocket structure the company makes for a Boeing–Lockheed Martin launch services joint venture. OA produced a boat tail structure –  the 68th of its product-line that includes heat shields and interstages – for the United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V launch vehicle, the company […] More

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    Airbus to Expand Ashburn, Virginia Airplane Material Distribution Hub

    Global airplane maker and defense contractor Airbus will invest an additional $1 million toward a material distribution center the company operates in Ashburn, Virginia that will support a consolidated operations hub with the parent company’s Satair Group subsidiary. Airbus will also add more employees to the facility as the company works to fulfill orders of more than 2,800 Airbus aircraft for customers in the Latin America, North […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls Sets Up “Superlift” Structure for Aircraft Carrier Construction; Mike Shawcross Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has added a new structure designed to update the construction workflow on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at its Newport News Shipbuilding dry dock facility. HII’s 965-ton “superlift” will work to support the continued development of the U.S. Navy’s future John F. Kennedy carrier, which the company said Tuesday is currently 17 percent complete ahead of its scheduled launch in 2020. […] More

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    DRS Receives $51M Subcontract from General Dynamics for Tactical C4I System Support

    Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Technologies has landed a $51 million subcontract from General Dynamics to provide support services for the U.K. armed forces’ tactical command, control, communications, computers and intelligence system. DRS said Monday it will provide rugged tactical displays, rugged computing technology upgrades, and associated services for the General Dynamics-supported Bowman tactical communications system that works to support secure radio, telephone, […] More

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    Bell Helicopter, Boeing JV Secures $55M Navy Contract Modification for V-22 Repairs

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has landed a $55 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for repair services on various parts of its multirole combat aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday the Bell Boeing Joint Program Office will provide its repair services on V-22 aircraft at facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania through December 2017. Naval […] More