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    Lockheed Releases Satellite Specs to Advance Collaboration Via ‘Open Space’ Project; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin has launched a new program that seeks to encourage researchers, startups and companies to propose new technologies designed to address space-related challenges. The company said Thursday it published technical specifications about payload accommodation data for its LM 2100 satellite, LM 400 satellite and two LM 50 nanosatellite variants through the Open Space initiative to […] More

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    Lockheed Taps BAE to Update UAE F-16 Head-Up Displays

    BAE Systems has secured a contract from Lockheed Martin to modernize head-up displays of the United Arab Emirates’ F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. The British defense contractor said Thursday it will replace the fleet’s analog HUDs with digital displays using its Digital Light Engine technology. Lockheed received a potential $1.6 billion order from UAE in November 2017 to upgrade the […] More

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    Lockheed to Help Build, Integrate ExxonMobil’s Automation Control System

    Lockheed Martin has received multiple contracts from ExxonMobil to design, build and integrate an automation control system to support the international oil and gas company’s plant operations. Both companies have worked to develop a proof-of-concept system as part of a joint initiative that began two years ago, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the PoC phase, Lockheed also produced a base design and […] More

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    Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ

    Northrop Grumman has landed a potential $75 million  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help Saudi Arabia’s warfighters simulate threats with a company-built Joint Threat Emitter system. JTE is designed to generate a battlespace environment that facilitates training of military personnel to identify and address enemy missile and artillery threats, Northrop said Thursday. The company developed the system to be reprogrammable […] More

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    Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities

    Corps Solutions has received a $44.4 million contract from to provide support services to U.S. Marine Corps range control facilities. The Defense Department said Thursday that USMC will obligate $6.8 million in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds for the first delivery order under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will conduct base work at locations in Arizona, Virginia, California, Georgia, Hawaii, […] More

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    Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators

    Boeing has received a potential $20.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators designed to target concrete bunkers and tunnels. The service branch will obligate the full contract amount from its fiscal 2016 production funds at the time of award and the company will perform work through July 31, 2020, […] More

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    Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments

    A team of Iron Mountain and Chenega Corp.‘s applied solutions subsidiary has received a five-year contract for offsite records management storage and services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Both companies will help BOP manage, transport, digitize, shred and provide special project services for records containing personal, medical and parole information on inmates, Iron Mountain said Thursday. The contract […] More

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    Accenture Gets VA Loan Oversight System Upgrade Order

    Accenture has won a potential 57-month, $29 million task order to modernize a system the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to manage VA-guaranteed loans for former military personnel. The company said Thursday its federal services business will update current VA Office of Information and Technology systems to include new web-interface and integration tools designed to automatically load events and updates […] More

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    Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funding for Tourniquet Master Training System

    The U.S. Army has provided an additional funding of $1 million through a two-and-a-half-year contract for Charles River Analytics‘ effort to develop a training system on tourniquet technology usage. The company said Tuesday it is working in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Boston Engineering and Compression Works to construct the Tourniquet Master Training system. The TMT system is being […] More

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    BAE Reports UK Air Force’s Missile Firing Tests With Typhoon Aircraft

    BAE Systems has reported that a U.K. air force squadron fired air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles from a Eurofighter Typhoon during recent trials aimed to showcase the aircraft’s weapon upgrades. The Royal Air Force’s Test and Evaluation Squadron was the first unit to fire-test the  Storm Shadow and Meteor weapons in trials as part of Project Centurion, BAE said Tuesday. RAF aims to […] More

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    GE to Build Performance Mgmt Tool for Navy Dry Cargo Ships

    General Electric has received a contract extension from the U.S. Navy‘s Military Sealift Command to provide an asset performance management tool for the USNS William McLean and USNS Medgar Evers vessels. The company said Monday it will deliver a Predix-based technology to help the Navy assess the health of its dry cargo ammunition ships and mitigate potential asset […] More

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    Polaris-ARA-Neya Team Unveils Unmanned Transport Vehicle at AUVSI Conference

    Polaris has launched at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference an unmanned ground vehicle the company and its partners proposed for the U.S. Army’s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program, Defense News reported Wednesday. Polaris partnered with Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems in September 2017 to offer the MRZR X unmanned vehicle for […] More