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    SSL Ships Hispasat Satellite to Cape Canaveral Launch Site

    A communications satellite made by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for  Hispasat has been delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will lift off aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket. SSL said Tuesday the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will provide communications services for television, broadband, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications in Europe, North Africa and […] More

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    Merlin Invests in IT Performance Analytics Firm Centerity; David Phelps, Roi Keren Comment

    Englewood, Colorado-based cybersecurity firm Merlin International has made a $10 million investment in Centerity, a Newton, Massachusetts-based provider of performance analytics and business services management offerings. Merlin said Tuesday Centerity will use the funds to expand its research and development center as well as its sales, marketing and distribution organizations. Centerity developed its software to help […] More

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    Lockheed’s Energy Division Seeks Partners to Help Develop Flow Battery Offering

    Lockheed Martin‘s energy unit seeks development and manufacturing partners from the solar industry who can help develop the company’s flow battery technology, PV Tech reported Tuesday. John Battaglini, director of business development at Lockheed Martin Energy, said the company sees four primary applications for its future long-duration energy storage offering including wind, transmission and distribution, solar […] More

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    American Systems to Build Air Force’s Emergency Notification Platform; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has won a potential five-year, $68.6 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force develop and implement a emergency mass notification system. The company said Tuesday it will build a cloud-based enterprise EMNS infrastructure for the service branch’s personnel to receive alerts in the event of a critical situation. “We are honored to have […] More

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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Human-Machine Interface for Army

    Charles River Analytics has received a two-year, $1 million contract to develop a hands-free human-machine interface for U.S. Army soldiers who operate in diverse environments. The company said Monday it will produce the Supervisory HMI Enabling Practical Autonomous Robot Direction under the follow-on contract. “Our goal is to develop controls that let robots seamlessly integrate into human teams,” said […] More

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    Air Force Selects Aerojet Rocketdyne for Solid Rocket Booster Tech IDIQ

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has won a potential five-year, $20 million contract to develop solid rocket booster technology as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to address technical requirements for future propulsion systems. The service branch can use the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to order solid rocket motors for tactical, strategic or spacecraft engines, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Air Force […] More

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    Vigor Industrial Subsidiary to Help Repair USS Kidd Destroyer Ship

    A Vigor Industrial subsidiary has received a $19.6 million contract to support repair and alteration work on a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer. Vigor Marine will support scheduled, selected restricted availability activities for the USS Kidd (DDG 100) as part of the service branch’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship repair program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will occur in Everett, Washington, […] More

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    PeopleTec Wins MDA Engineering Advisory, Assistance Services Contract

    PeopleTec has won a potential five year, $33.6 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on engineering, technical and management of MDA’s international programs. The Defense Department said Tuesday that PeopleTec will also support systems engineering efforts for the Ballistic Missile Defense System designed to help protect U.S. forces and allies from ballistic missile threats. MDA […] More

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    Cubic to Enter Full-Rate Production on Army Satellite Antennas; Mike Twyman Comments

    A business unit of Cubic has received approval from the U.S. Army to commence full rate production of satellite antenna systems for the service branch’s Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. Cubic Mission Solutions will begin to produce GATR expeditionary satellite antennas for deployment to multiple Army units, the company said Tuesday. Mike Twyman, president of Cubic Mission Solutions, […] More

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    Mercury Systems to Deliver Storage Appliances for Undisclosed Military Application

    Mercury Systems has received a $2.5 million task order to deliver storage appliances in support of an undisclosed military-use product being developed by a prime defense contractor. The company said Friday the custom storage appliances to be delivered were built with TRRUST-Stor secure solid-state drive devices that make use of Mercury’s ARMOR processor. The company’s SSD technology integrates algorithms and […] More

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    Report: Raytheon Eyes Sale of Tomahawk Missiles to Foreign Customers

    Raytheon is considering the foreign military sale of its Tomahawk cruise missiles beyond the U.K., Seapower Magazine reported Wednesday. Christian Sprinkle, Raytheon’s senior program director for Tomahawk, said that the company wants to keep its missile production activities going to be well-positioned to compete for the U.S. Navy‘s Next-Generation Land-Attack Weapon program in 2030. Sprinkle added that Raytheon […] More

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    IARPA Eyes Automatic Activity Detection and Alerting Tech for Public Areas

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has introduced a research effort to create a system that can discover and identify public safety dangers outside government facilities and public transportation areas. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Friday the Deep Intermodal Video Activity platform aims to mitigate a gap between human visual perception […] More