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    Defense Intelligence Agency Selects 5 Mentor-Protege Pairs

    The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded three-year contracts to five pairs of companies through the Defense Department‘s mentor-protege program. DIA said Wednesday that awardees will collaborate on work areas such as continuous diagnostics and mitigation; data collection and analysis; cyber range; program protection; insider threat; preventing strategic surprises; analysis technologies and methods; intelligence collections; improving mission support capabilities; enhancing counterintelligence […] More

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    Stryke-Scorpion Team to Integrate AI Engine With Army UAS, Ground Control Station

    Stryke Industries has received a contract to integrate an artificial intelligence engine with U.S. Army unmanned aerial systems and a universal ground control station. Stryke will conduct the ScenGen engine integration effort in partnership with subcontractor Scorpion Computer Services as part of the Defense Research and Development Rapid Innovation Fund program, Scorpion said Thursday. The Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama will license the […] More

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    Orbital ATK to Build 2nd Satellite Servicing Vehicle for Intelsat

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract from Intelsat to produce, test and launch a second commercial in-space servicing vehicle designed to extend the life of in-orbit satellites. Orbital ATK said Thursday it will start providing satellite servicing support through the Mission Extension Vehicle 2 by mid-2020 under the contract. The Dulles, Virginia-based aerospace and defense […] More

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    OSC Edge to Help Manage National Defense University’s Enterprise Network

    OSC Edge has won a potential six-year, $44.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology services to the National Defense University. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will help manage an enterprise network that supports university IT users and students through the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center received 12 offers for […] More

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    Raytheon to Develop Radar Operational Flight Software for USSOCOM

    Raytheon has received a $9.75 million sole-source contract to develop radar flight software for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s fixed-wing aircraft. The company will develop the Silent Knight Radar Operational Flight program under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. USSOCOM will finance work through task or delivery orders and will obligate $3 million […] More

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    Orbital ATK-Air Force Agreement Sets Data Exchange Plan for Next Generation Launch System

    Orbital ATK and the U.S. Air Force have signed a cooperative research and development agreement that seeks to facilitate certification of a rocket system for USAF’s Space and Missile Systems Center. The CRADA establishes a data exchange plan and framework required to certify Orbital ATK’s Next Generation Launch system for use in national security space missions, the company said […] More

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    Research and Markets: Soldier Modernization Programs to Help Drive Man-Portable Electronics Market Growth

    A new Research and Markets report predicts the global man-portable military electronics market will reach $6.4 billion by 2027 with a compound annual growth rate of 3.29 percent due to the increasing complexity of modern warfare techniques and soldier modernization efforts. The company said Friday it expects the communication segment to hold a market share of 56.7 percent over the […] More

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    Boeing Gets FAA Registration Number for MQ-25 Tanker Drone Offering

    Boeing has secured a registration number from the Federal Aviation Administration for its proposed unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanker drone program, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. The company received Dec. 26 the FAA registration number N234MQ for its proposed “T1” drone prototype. Boeing previewed its demonstrator for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling tanker program […] More

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    Hughes’ Rick Lober: DoD Should Apply ‘Commercial Tenets’ to Military Space Tech Acquisition

    Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division, has said the Defense Department leadership should adopt the tenets of commercial satellite technology procurement to transform the way DoD acquires space hardware. He wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Defense News that he believes department-industry collaboration is the “only […] More

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    QinetiQ, UK MoD to Upgrade Environmental Test Facility

    QinetiQ and the British defense ministry will jointly provide $27 million in funds to support the upgrade of an environmental test facility based at a military installation in Shoeburyness, England. The company said Tuesday the investment in the Environmental Test Centre is part of an effort to modernize the U.K.’s test and evaluation systems. ETC provides facilities, technology and […] More

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    Babcock-UGL JV Lands $157M Australian Frigate Maintenance Support Contract

    A Babcock–UGL joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $156.7 million contract to help maintain the Australian navy’s Anzac-class frigates, Shephard Media reported Thursday. Naval Ship Management will provide engineering services for eight Australian frigates beginning this month in support of the Warship Asset Management Agreement program. WAMA is a collaborative effort of the Commonwealth of Australia, NSM, BAE Systems  and Saab to […] More

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    Latvia State Border Guard Orders Leonardo-Built Multipurpose Helicopters

    Leonardo has received a contract of an undisclosed value to supply two AW119Kx helicopters to Latvia’s state border guard. The contract has an option for an additional helicopter and related aircrew or maintenance technician training services, Leonardo said Tuesday. Leonardo is scheduled to deliver the initial AW119Kx units from a company facility in  Philadelphia is expected […] More