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Rockwell Collins has delivered the 770th global positioning system receiver built for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center as part of a contract awarded in 2012. The company said Thursday that the Military-Code GPS receivers were ordered under the Military GPS User Equipment program which works to boost GPS capacities for the military in […] More
An Earth observation platform developed by a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has been installed on the International Space Station to host imaging, technology demonstration and space qualification payloads. The Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform from Teledyne Brown Engineering launched with SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket in early June and has completed an initial operational assessment at the space station, Teledyne said Tuesday. MUSES, which orbits approximately 250 miles […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on current products and services that can help increase the detection rate for weapons of mass destruction via networked sensors. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday it aims to explore new technologies to help defend metropolitan- and city-sized environments from radiological and nuclear-based threats under the SIGMA program. The program looks […] More
Gryphon Technologies has won a potential seven-year, $57.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support integration work on the Sea-Based X-Band Radar mission. The Defense Department said Thursday that Gryphon will provide communication operations and support services to MDA’s SBX strategic mission under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. SBX Radar is built as part of the country’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and designed to help […] More
Gigamon has launched its visibility platform on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud environment to help public sector organizations manage and secure sensitive data and regulated workloads. Gigamon said Tuesday the availability of the Visibility offering builds on the company’s push to offer first-to-market services in the AWS Cloud as well as efforts to achieve a public sector […] More
Varley Group has received a $37.5 million contract to collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the design and development of portable ground facilities for U.S. Air Force personnel deployed overseas to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Varley Group said Thursday it will build ground facilities that can expand thrice the size of a shipping container as well as house the F-35 aircraft’s Autonomic […] More
VSE has received a potential three-year, $22.3 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force repair and maintain aerospace ground and support equipment at the service branch’s Kadena Air Base in Japan. The company said Wednesday it will also work to prevent and treat corrosion on equipment operated by the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Group, […] More
Amazon Web Services has selected 19 winners for its 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge to highlight local and regional governments’ contribution to develop technologies for citizens around the world. The company said Wednesday it named winners across the Best Practices, Dream Big and Partners in Innovation categories during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Teresa […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group has received a 10-year, multimillion dollar contract to design a multimodal system for the Pennsylvania Transportation Department to manage traffic along the city of Philadelphia’s Interstate 76. The company said Tuesday it will also perform systems engineering, analysis of alternatives, right-of-way acquisition and construction consultation to support arterials throughout the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 1 interchanges. The contract […] More
Lockheed Martin has awarded ViaSat a contract of an undisclosed value to provide L-band data link communications technology for the integration and testing phase of the U.S. Navy‘s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program. ViaSat said Wednesday it will deliver Weapon Data Link L-Band units and provide software enhancement and flight test support services under the follow-on contract. LRASM is a key element of the […] More
CH2M has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to continue to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Mobile District design and plan civil projects. The company said Tuesday it will perform coastal erosion, flood damage, storm damage and risk reduction; bank erosion protection; deep draft navigation; ecosystem habitat restoration; fish and wildlife mitigation evaluation; and environmental impact studies under the […] More
Navistar‘s defense business has received an $18.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to build medium tactical vehicles for Iraq as part of a foreign military sales deal. The company said Tuesday it will supply Iraq’s army with 115 7000-MV medium tactical vehicles that are based on International Trucks‘ multipurpose Workstar platform. Workstar is designed for on-road and off-road operations […] More
