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NASA has performed a certification test on a flight controller for a future Space Launch System deep space rocket as part of a series of tests on components built using advanced manufacturing approaches. The space agency said Wednesday the flight controller was integrated on the RS-25 developmental engine for a 365-second full-duration test held at the […] More
Galois has received a $2 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to build an integrated suite of tools that will work to analyze cryptographic algorithms. The company said Wednesday it will develop the Cryptographic Analysis, Verification, Exploration, and Synthesis workbench in an effort to help cryptographers address performance requirements for encryption software. CAVES will be designed […] More
U.K.-based spacecraft technology developer Effective Space has received a contract to perform in-orbit satellite servicing support for an unnamed regional operator, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. Effective Space will launch two Space Drone servicing spacecraft in 2020 to conduct station-keeping and attitude control support for two communications satellites. Daniel Campbell, managing director at Effective Space, told Via Satellite that […] More
Orbital ATK demonstrated its anti-unmanned aerial system defense system at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment held at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in an effort to gather feedback and address short-range air defense capability gaps. The company said Wednesday the AUDS platform worked to help soldiers detect, track and target hostile UAS during the demonstration. AUDS […] More
CSRA will work with Supermicro Computer and Edge Solutions & Consulting to expand the computing capacity at NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation under a contract with the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. CSRA said Wednesday it will update NASA’s Discover supercomputer to increase the system’s high-performance computing capacity to approximately 5 petaFLOPS as part of the […] More
Boeing has received a $12.6 million order from the U.S. Navy to deliver 39 T-45 Goshawk retrofit kits, support equipment and special tools for the trainer aircraft’s service life extension program. The Defense Department said Wednesday the order also includes retrofit engineering and logistics services meant to address associated government technical directives. Eighty-six percent of work will occur in Missouri […] More
Qatar’s defense minister Khalid Bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah has said the country’s government looks to purchase nine BAE Systems-built Hawk trainer aircraft units, Dow Jones Newswires reported Wednesday. The report noted Qatar had planned to buy only six Hawk jet trainers. BAE closed on a potential $6.7 billion contract last month to supply 24 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar’s air force beginning […] More
The North American subsidiary of Terma has received a potential six-year, $44.3 million contract to build a three-dimensional audio system for integration into the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 C and D aircraft models. Terma North America will engineer, integrate and produce the 3D audio technology as well as provide spares, support equipment and interim contractor support, the Defense Department […] More
Saab has been selected to join a European Union-funded research project that seeks to demonstrate the use of unmanned systems to increase situational awareness in naval environments. The OCEAN2020 project will include two live demonstrations slated to occur off the Italian Mediterranean coast sometime in 2019 and in the Baltic Sea during 2020, Saab said Tuesday. Saab will […] More
Octo Consulting Group has received a potential five-year, $10 million blanket purchase agreement to maintain and update a quality and safety review system at the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Tuesday it will help manage the QSRS platform that HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality uses to monitor patient safety and adverse events nationwide. […] More
Accenture has opened a new innovation hub in Boston, Massachusetts built to help partners grow and transform their organizations within the digital economy. The company said Tuesday the hub located in Boston’s Back Bay is the second of 10 new innovation hubs to be developed as part of Accenture’s $1.4 billion investment to train and […] More
Drone Delivery Canada has announced its commercial unmanned aircraft system testing program is being expanded to cover the U.S., starting at the first quarter of 2018. The company said Monday the testing program will have activities that are to take place at the Griffiss International Airport’s Federal Aviation Administration-approved UAS test venue in Rome, New York. DDC’s Sparrow […] More
