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Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has been chosen to receive the Society of Women Engineers’ 2018 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award in recognition of his initiatives to promote diversity in the workplace and empower female engineering professionals through mentoring. SWE chose Kennedy based on testimonials from multiple industry representatives who vouched for his efforts to diversify program teams […] More
The U.S. Army plans to deploy by 2022 three new protection systems for its combat vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Those systems are the advanced reactive armor tiles that work to neutralize warheads; a signature management platform designed to protect an armored vehicle from detection by reducing the vehicle’s noise, radar and heat signature; and […] More
Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES‘ government solutions business, has said the company aims to offer a suite of managed services and systems designed to help customers transmit data in real time via a new satellite network. He wrote in an article published by SpaceNews that Boeing will build seven medium-Earth orbit satellites for […] More
Fredericksburg, Va.-based IST Research has received a potential five-year, $48.3M contract to supply the U.S. Army with a communications platform designed to help users obtain insight into human security challenges. The company said Thursday it will provide the Pulse Platform to the service and perform research, development and engineering efforts to advance the technology as […] More
Nano Dimension has been chosen to supply U.S. military services with three-dimensional printing systems designed to facilitate electronics prototyping and manufacturing processes. The company said Monday it sold DragonFly Pro 3D Printers to the country’s armed forces via two sales transactions after receiving a “U.S. Government Certified Vendor” designation. TriMech Solutions and Fathom helped Nano Dimension sell the technology as value-added […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps has selected 11 companies to explore airframe and software models for the military service’s proposed unmanned aerial system with a vertical takeoff and landing feature, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. USMC and Naval Air Systems Command officials started to visit factories after the service branch hosted an industry day for the […] More
Science Application International Corp. has received a $95.6M contract modification to provide technical services to help the U.S. Army update computing systems. The Army will initially obligate $9.7M in fiscal 2018 funds to finance the additional work under the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur through Oct. 18, 2021, at various locations in Mississippi, Ohio and Maryland. […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $25.1M contract to supply spares of a medium-range, surface-to-air weapon system built to defend naval vessels against anti-ship missiles. The company will provide life-of-type-buy and assembly-level components for the Navy’s Block I Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile through June 2021 under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Sea Systems Command […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received recognition for contributions in support of the National Guard Education Foundation. Sikorsky garnered NGEF’s BG William W. Spruance Legacy Award at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 140th General Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Lockheed said Saturday. The award recognizes people and firms that have significantly supported NGEF and […] More
CACI International plans to offer the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division with a wide range of support for training and simulation platforms through a potential $980M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in late July. The company said Thursday the award represents new work for its logistics and material readiness market area. The IDIQ runs for nine years […] More
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a potential $31.6M “bridge” contract for information technology operations support services. SAIC will continue to help the agency manage IT infrastructure, end-user services, data and test centers, and voice, video and network systems, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The extended contract also covers infrastructure monitoring […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has signed a multiyear lease deal with CyrusOne to move one of its data centers to the latter’s data center location in Northern Virginia by the first six months of 2019. “During the past seven years, CyrusOne and SAIC have developed a strong relationship that will continue to grow with our new […] More
