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    Defense Firms Link Unfilled DoD Posts to Contracting Activity Slowdown; Leidos’ Roger Krone Comments

    Some defense industry executives have said the Trump administration’s current process of finding leaders to fill senior-level roles at the Defense Department has resulted in uncertainty and slow pace of contract awards, Reuters reported Saturday. “The still-high number of unfilled leadership appointments and the approaching government physical year-end continue to serve as headwinds,” Leidos CEO […] More

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    L3 Subsidiary to Update Army, Marine Satellite Terminals

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a $48.8 million contract to inspect, test and update U.S. Army and Marine Corps AN/TSC-156 tactical satellite communications terminals. The Defense Department said Friday that L3’s Communication Systems West business in Salt Lake City, Utah, will support AN/TSC-156B/D and AN/TSC-156C terminals under the contract. Work is scheduled to occur through through Aug. 10, 2022. The Army Contracting Command is […] More

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    DLA Orders Additional PCX Connecting Links for Army Apache Weapon System

    PCX Aerostructures has received a five-year, $7.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide additional right connecting links for the U.S. Army‘s Apache AH-64 weapon systems. The Defense Department said Friday that DLA will use fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2022 Army working capital funds to procure the equipment. DLA also awarded PCX a […] More

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    Technavio Forecasts 15% Annual Growth for Low-Light-Level Imaging Sensor Market

    A Technavio report predicts that the global market for low-light-level imaging sensors will experience a 15-percent compound annual growth rate from 2017 through 2021. Technavio reported Thursday it found that night-vision devices accounted for nearly 55 percent of the total market revenue last year, driven by defense organizations’ increased adoption of low-light-level imaging sensors. The research company added that […] More

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    Lockheed Completes Arabsat Comms Satellite Integration; Rick Ambrose Comments

    A group of Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians has integrated a modernized A2100 communications satellite built for Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia ahead of a scheduled launch in the second quarter of 2018. Lockheed said Thursday Hellas-Sat/SaudiGeosat-1 is designed to provide telecommunications services for Arabsat customers across the Middle East, Africa […] More

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    State Dept OKs Sale of Harpoon Block II Missiles to Thailand

    The State Department has cleared Thailand’s request to buy RGM-84L Harpoon Block II surface-launched missiles and related support services from the U.S. under a potential $24.9 million foreign military sales agreement. Thailand also asked to purchase training support, repair and spare parts, technical documentation, containers, logistics, program assistance and engineering support services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said […] More

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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 4th RS-25 Engine Controller for NASA Space Launch System

    Aerojet Rocketdyne tested the fourth and final RS-25 engine controller needed for NASA’s Space Launch System. The company said Wednesday the testing for the fourth RS-25 controller was done at Stennis Space Center, which follows the third controller test done in July to check engine thrust and mixture ratio precision. The four RS-25 engines are designed to provide above […] More

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    Cybercom to Host Inaugural Industry Day in October

    The U.S. Cyber Command will hold its first industry day on Oct. 27 in Springfield, Virginia, in an effort to exercise its congressional authority to procure cybersecurity technology platforms, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. George “Dennis” Bartko, chief information officer and director of capabilities development group at Cybercom, said the command is interested in integrated technology platforms designed […] More

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    Insitu FireWhat, Esri Form Aerial Reconnaissance for Firefighting Alliance

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, FireWhat and Esri have partnered with the goal to help firefighters put out wildfires through aerial reconnaissance support. The alliance seeks to integrate Insitu’s INEXA Solutions aerial remote sensing services with FireWhat’s geographic information system hosted on Esri’s ArcGIS mapping platform, Insitu said Thursday. The integrated system will work to deliver near-real time, web-based video feed of […] More

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    Charles River Analytics-Led Team to Help DARPA Build Virtual Data Scientist Assistant

    Charles River Analytics will lead a team comprised of Win-Vector and Oregon State University to develop a virtual data scientist assistant that will help users answer real-world analytical questions under a four-year, $2.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The team will build the Eve virtual assistant through DARPA’s Data-Driven Discovery of Models program, Charles River said Tuesday. Mukesh Dalal, […] More

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    Lockheed to Develop System Prototypes for Combined-Arms Squad Under DARPA Program

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $12.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to design, develop and test system prototypes for a combined-arms squad. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed will perform contract work as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Squad X Experimentation program. Squad X aims to build portable, integrated technologies that would […] More

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    Army Receives 1st Tactical Missile System From Lockheed’s Arkansas Production Facility

    Lockheed Martin has shipped the first Army Tactical Missile System from a manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas, to the U.S. Army as part of a contract to produce ATACMS weapons for the service branch and a foreign military customer. Lockheed said Thursday the missile was built at the company’s Precision Fires Production Center of Excellence where the […] More