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Rockwell Collins has received a contract from L3 Technologies to oversee repair work on more than 500 parts for the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-10 aircraft. Rockwell Collins said Monday it will partner with the company’s Intertrade subsidiary to manage approximately 4,000 repairs each year and provide logistics support services via a distribution facility in Memphis, Tennessee. […] More
AE Strategies has won a potential five-year, $20.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of professional services to the Department of the Navy‘s Office of Civilian Human Resources. The company will help DoN OCHR formulate policy and guidance, oversee services and develop and implement information technology plans under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More
Lockheed Martin will work with Saab to build an integrated system for the U.S. Army to train crews of the service branch’s tactical vehicles under a potential $288 million contract awarded in April. The team aims to deliver an Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System equipped with Lockheed’s SciosLive platform, the […] More
Pixelligent Technologies has received $2.15 million in total funds from the departments of Defense and Energy to further develop new applications based on the company’s nanocomposite technology. The company said Monday it will create an organic light emitting diode under two Phase I and Phase IIB grants awarded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program. DoD also seeks […] More
A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon has secured a $56.8 million contract modification to supply containerized rounds, electronics, command launch units for the U.S. Army‘s Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile system. Javelin Joint Venture will also provide non-recurring engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Friday. The JV developed the system to offer fire-and-forget and medium-range […] More
Amazon Web Services has granted certification to Fairfax County, Virginia-based InfoReliance for the latter company’s capacity to help customers migrate, deploy or manage Microsoft workloads to an AWS platform. InfoReliance said Friday it demonstrated technical expertise to support Microsoft-based Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server platforms through customer case studies under the AWS Partner Competency Program. John Sankovich, executive vice president of InfoReliance’s […] More
QinetiQ and the U.K. ministry of defense have agreed to invest a combined $21.7 million to replace a pair of instrumentation radar systems at MOD Hebrides range facility with BAE Systems-built tracking radars. The installation of new radar technology will support data and safety monitoring activities as well as demonstration, evaluation, experimentation and rehearsals of […] More
Kearney and Co. has won a potential $46.6 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to conduct a financial statement audit of the Defense Health Program. The labor-hour contract has an 18-month base period plus three one-year options, the Defense Department said Thursday. DFAS received two quotes via a competitive acquisition process and […] More
An Independence-variant littoral combat ship built by Austal USA for the U.S. Navy has completed a maiden voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to a naval base in San Diego, California. USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) underwent combat ship qualification trials, crew certification training and scheduled equipment and system checks during the vessel’s expedition, the Navy said Thursday. Austal USA […] More
A business unit of McAfee has completed a two-month evaluation of a Unisys-made operating system designed to help enterprise clients manage high-volume computing tasks. Unisys said Thursday that McAfee’s Foundstone Services business has rated the ClearPath OS 2200 platform “highly secure” and the resource protection capacity of the system “exceptional.” During the assessment, Foundstone found the software works to […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a conference on July 26 to provide information on a new agency program that aims to help developers and architects use cryptographic techniques to build distributed applications. IARPA said the conference will take place in Washington and will field inquiries from potential vendors on the Homomorphic Encryption Computing […] More
KBR‘s government services arm has received a three-year, $48 million task order from the U.S. Army to provide support services for the Defense Department‘s missile defense systems. The company said Thursday its KBRwyle business will provide program management, foreign military sales case support, system engineering, diagnostics and testing support to the Lower Tier Project Office located in Huntsville, […] More
