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    Huntington Ingalls Segment Gets NAVSEA Engineering Support Task Order

    A business segment of Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential five-year, $40 million task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command for engineering support services to NAVSEA’s Combat Direction Systems Activity-Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The company said Monday its technical solutions business will provide global readiness and training engineering services intended to help the […] More

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    Maximus, Interactions Unveil Virtual Assistant Tech Offering for Federal Sector; Tom Romeo Comments

    Maximus has partnered with Interactions to offer a virtual assistant technology designed to help federal agencies communicate with citizens they serve. The Maximus Intelligent Assistant platform works to facilitate transactions such as general inquiries, appeal status, benefits eligibility, program awareness, authentication, registration and enrollment via a phone, text or the web, Maximus said Tuesday. Interactions’ artificial intelligence-based Adaptive Understanding technology […] More

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    General Dynamics Unit Wins Denmark Armored Patrol Vehicle Supply Contract

    Denmark’s defense acquisition and logistic organization has awarded General Dynamics‘ European Land Systems business a contract to supply armored patrol vehicles to the Danish army. GDELS will deliver an initial batch of 36 EAGLE 4×4 vehicles in 2018 in support of Denmark’s APV program, General Dynamics said Monday. The contract includes options for the company to provide electronic […] More

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    Boeing, Verizon Invest in AI Tech Developer SparkCognition

    The venture businesses of Boeing and Verizon have invested in SparkCognition to help the Austin, Texas-based company further develop information technology applications through artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. Boeing said Monday its ventures arm HorizonX joined an investment group, led by Verizon Ventures, to support a $32 million initial funding round for SparkCognition. SparkCognition develops machine learning and analytics tools […] More

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    Lena Furci: Battelle to Help Update Army’s Combat Support Equipment

    Battelle has received a five-year, $20 million contract to help the U.S. Army update and address sustainment challenges related to its military support technologies. The nonprofit company said Monday it will carry out work for the service branch’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. Warren, Michigan-based TARDEC develops and sustains critical equipment the Defense Department deploys to military […] More

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    Raytheon BBN to Help Army Implement Foreign Language Translation Platform

    A Raytheon subsidiary has received a $4 million contract to provide one-year automatic speech and optical character recognition, text-to-speech and machine translation software licenses to the U.S. Army. Raytheon BBN Technologies will also help the Army’s Machine Foreign Language Translation System Program Office field a system for military personnel to communicate with Arabic and Pashto speakers from Iraq as well as understand […] More

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    HII Subsidiary to Update, Maintain Navy Guided Missile Cruiser Systems

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary has been awarded a $37.8 million delivery order by the U.S. Navy to conduct special selected restricted availability work on a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser ship. The Defense Department said Monday HII subsidiary Continental Maritime of San Diego will provide depot-level maintenance, alteration and modification services to update military and technical systems of the Navy’s USS […] More

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    General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has produced and delivered its 10,000th air traffic control radio to the Federal Aviation Administration under the agency’s NEXCOM 2 modernization program. The company said Friday the CM-300/350 voice over internet protocol radios were designed to offer communication capacity for air traffic controllers and pilots who operate within the National Airspace System. […] More

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    General Dynamics Gets $85M Navy Funds for Virginia-Class Submarine Material Procurement

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary has received $85 million in contract funds from the U.S. Navy to obtain additional long-lead time materials for the construction of two Virginia-class submarines for fiscal year 2019. The Defense Department said Friday the contract modification covers materials for the steam and electric plant components of SSN 802 and SSN 803 along with main […] More

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    BAE Delivers 1st Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft to Oman AF

    BAE Systems delivered the first of 12 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets built for the air force of Oman during a ceremony held Wednesday at the country’s Adam military base. The company said Friday the delivery follows an official roll-out of Oman’s Typhoon unit alongside a Hawk jet trainer at a company facility in Warton, England, in May. Oman […] More

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    NASA Taps Lockwood Hills’ Federal Unit for Institutional Logistics Mgmt Services

    Lockwood Hills‘ federal business has received a potential five-year, $31.5 million contract from NASA to provide institutional logistics management services at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in California. NASA said Friday work covers equipment, fleet and supply management, warehousing and re-distribution, graphics, janitorial services, mail service center, property disposal, refuse and recyclable materials collection, removal […] More

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    Orbital ATK Tests Hostile-Fire Indication Tech on Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft

    Orbital ATK has installed and tested an acoustic hostile-fire indication system on a fixed-wing aircraft that was configured to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. ShotFinder was integrated onto a Cessna-built Grand Caravan aircraft to collect data in various operating missions as part of the test, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. Orbital ATK developed the warning system with Scientific Applications and Research […] More