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A Textron subsidiary has secured a $66 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide armored personnel carriers to Iraq and Colombia. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems will supply each nation with 60 Commando Select APCs, of which 58 have a 40/50 turret and four have a command-and-control variant, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Contracting […] More
Peru’s navy has selected a Rockwell Collins-designed tactical radio for installation on the agency’s fleet of SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters. The company said Thursday its Talon V/UHF tactical radios are built to give pilots secure voice and data communications for missions in areas such as surface and sub-surface maritime, blue water and littoral surveillance, and search-and-rescue operations. Alan Prowse, vice president […] More
Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Datawheel have launched a new visualization engine to display U.S. public data. MIT’s Macro Connections Group partnered with Deloitte and Datawheel to develop Data USA that works to aggregate and visualize data from multiple sources including government agencies such as Commerce Department, Labor Deparment and Education Department, Deloitte said Monday. […] More
Sandia National Laboratories and the California Fire and Rescue Training Authority have signed a memorandum of agreement for the development of new emergency planning, exercise and response concepts. Sandia aims to build on its nine-month agreement with California for emergency response scenarios on wildfire, chlorine tanker release and radiological dispersal device for CFRTA and the state, Sandia […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has christened the 30th guided missile destroyer in the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh-Burke ship class. This ship is named after Medal of Honor awardee Ralph Johnson, who served in the Vietnam war from the age of 19, the company said Saturday. Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias said the company aims to build on the company’s other programs such […] More
The U.S. General Services Administration is searching for industry and government partners to provide input and feedback for a cloud computing products and services contract under development for defense and civilian agencies. GSA’s Cloud Computing Services Program Management Office has started to develop a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract called Cloud Contract Fostering Innovation in Government, the agency said Monday. The […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a series of phase one contracts to four companies for proposals to develop unmanned air systems that can be recovered while in flight and are reusable. DARPA said Thursday it selected General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit, Lockheed Martin, Dynetics and Composite Engineering to develop launch and recovery techniques, airframe designs, digital […] More
A unit of the U.S. Marine Corps has expanded unmanned aircraft system flight operations over airspace that regularly accommodates military and commercial air traffic. During the flight, Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 integrated RQ-21A Blackjack operations with manned aircraft in the Class D airspace at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps said March […] More
Harris Corp. has landed a $17 million order from a Middle East nation for the supply of multiband networking radios. The company will provide RF-7850M Falcon III radios to the customer as part of the country’s tactical communications modernization program, Harris said Thursday. Chris Young, president of Harris’ communications systems business, said that the radio supply aims to […] More
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has landed a three-year, $38.7 million contract from NASA to provide avionics software development and operations support services. The Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control and Avionics Technology Development and Analysis II contract covers research, design analysis, simulation, integration, testing and certification services, the space agency said Friday. Draper Laboratory will provide software development support to the […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s commercial engine development and distribution unit has received an eight-year exclusive contract from Frontier Airlines for CFM56-5 engine repair and maintenance services on the Airbus-built A319 and A320ceo aircraft. Lockheed Martin Commercial Engine Solutions will perform work in Montreal and receive initial delivery orders from the first quarter of this year through 2023, Lockheed said Wednesday. Prior to the agreement, […] More
A Northrop Grumman Australian subsidiary has partnered with HTC Corp. to develop smartphone security offerings and set up a new mobile device data security standard. Northrop Grumman M5 Network Security has started to work on several Android-based platform offers as part of its secure communications mobile program, the company said Wednesday. Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop […] More
