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    Marine Autonomy Company ThayerMahan Promotes 2 Executives to President Roles

    ThayerMahan, a Groton, Connecticut-based marine autonomy company, has elevated two of its executives to president positions amid business growth and continued pursuance of government and commercial contracts. The company said Tuesday John Russ, a 30-year U.S. Navy veteran, has been elevated to president of ocean technologies from vice president of operations and engineering He now oversees […] More

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    Lockheed Awarded Army Contract for PAC-3 Missile Component Engineering Support

    The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business a $23 million contract to provide engineering services for a common ignition safety device for the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 missile segment. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is expected to be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, until April 28, 2025, the Department of Defense said Monday. Lockheed […] More

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    Booz Allen Expands Engineering Capabilities With New Systems Integration Facility

    Booz Allen Hamilton is scheduled to inaugurate a 20,000-square-foot mission systems integration facility as part of its plan to expand engineering capabilities to meet customer needs, particularly the U.S. Navy. The company said Tuesday it will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday at the new site near the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. The […] More

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    DOE Picks 5 Teams to Develop Aviation Contrail Predictive Tools; Evelyn Wang Quoted

    The Department of Energy has selected five teams that will receive funding to further develop their technology platforms and tools designed to mitigate aviation emissions. The teams will get $10 million in funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s exploratory topic titled Predictive Real-time Emissions Technologies Reducing Aircraft Induced Lines in the Sky or PRE-TRAILS […] More

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    SpiderOak Demos OrbitSecure Software on Orbiting Laboratory; John Moberly Quoted

    SpiderOak deployed and demonstrated its OrbitSecure software aboard the International Space Station using an Amazon Web Services-built edge computing device provided by Axiom Space. SpiderOak said Tuesday OrbitSecure was uploaded on July 31 aboard the ISS and demonstrated its capability to receive and transmit secure ops traffic between low-Earth orbit and the ground using AWS […] More

  • in Artificial Intelligence, Contract Awards, News

    DOD Enlists TurbineOne for Machine Learning Prototyping Project

    San Francisco-based analytics software company TurbineOne will undertake a prototype machine learning development project under a multiyear contract from the Department of Defense’s innovation arm. TurbineOne said Monday the collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit and DOD’s FutureG and 5G Office will pursue ML applications for geolocation and threat detection. This award aligns with the […] More

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    DLA Moves to 3rd Phase of Federal Logistics Info System Modernization Effort

    The Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services is entering the third phase of a program meant to modernize the agency’s management system that provides information about supply items used by the Department of Defense. Launched in 2020, the Federal Logistics Information System Data Cleansing Project developed a modernized algorithmic base that uses machine learning and […] More

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    Aerospace & Defense Engineering Company Boecore Unveils Expansion Plan in Colorado

    Aerospace and defense engineering firm Boecore is set to expand its operations in Colorado and generate 620 new jobs focused on software and systems engineering. The company will establish a large sensitive compartmented information facility in Colorado Springs to house the additional operations and employees, the Colorado government said. Boecore will collaborate with the Polis-Primavera Administration and […] More

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    SilverEdge to Provide Software Services to Intell Agency

    SilverEdge Government Solutions, a Godspeed Capital Management-backed software provider, has received a multi-million-dollar firm fixed price task order to deliver its software-as-a-service platform to an intelligence agency. The Columbia, Maryland-based company said Monday its SOAR platform will be used to provide customized SaaS offerings in support of agency missions. SOAR is an SaaS platform tailored to […] More

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    Northrop Completes Deep-Sensing & Targeting Platform Demo at Army Event

    Northrop Grumman’s deep-sensing and targeting technology installed on a Bombardier CRJ-700 aircraft was able to collate multidomain data and analyze information from commercial satellites. The findings during a test flight were part of a demonstration featured at the U.S. Army’s Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event in Yuma, Arizona, the company announced Monday. The DSaT platform was […] More