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    Air Force Taps Peerless Technologies for $54M Consulting Support Task Order

    Peerless Technologies has secured a potential four-year, $53.7 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide consulting and assistance support services for the structures and aerodynamics test centers of the aerospace vehicles division. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus, level-of-effort order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated […] More

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    Airbus Wins $600M Inmarsat Satellite Production Contract; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Airbus’ defense and space business has won a potential $600 million contract from Inmarsat to construct the first two communications satellites for integration with the Inmarsat-6 satellite constellation. The two I-6 satellites will work to provide Ka- and L-band mobile communications services to Inmarsat clients, Inmarsat said Wednesday. Airbus is scheduled to hand over the […] More

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    CGI Lands Recompete Contract for Marine Corps Logistics Support

    CGI has won a potential five-year, $19.6 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide software systems, engineering and logistics support services for Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, Florida. Blount Island Command works to provide logistics support for the service branch’s Maritime Prepositioning Force with regard to the management of combat equipment and supplies, […] More

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    Brazil Taps BAE for $82M Assault Amphibious Vehicle Production, Upgrade Contract

    BAE Systems will produce and supply 23 AAV7A1 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability/Rebuild to Standard assault amphibious vehicles to Brazil’s marine corps through a potential $82 million contract. The contract also covers test equipment and tools for maintenance, field service support, spare parts and training support for users of the AAV7A1 RAM/RS vehicles, BAE Systems said Monday. The […] More

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    CAE Captures $72M in Contracts for Pilot Training, Full-Flight Simulator Sales

    CAE has received contracts worth approximately $71.7 million combined to provide cadet-to-captain training services and training equipment to five international commercial airlines. The company said Monday the contracts include cadet and pilot training for China’s Shenzhen Airlines, Japan’s Spring Airlines and a European customer. CAE will also supply three A350 full-flight simulators, one Boeing 787 FFS, one A350 flight training device […] More

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    ULA Taps Orbital ATK to Build Composite Structures for Atlas V, Delta IV Rockets

    Orbital ATK has received a contract from United Launch Alliance to produce large composite structures for installation onboard ULA-built Delta IV and Atlas V rockets. Orbital ATK said Thursday its contract with the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture was awarded in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles initiative. “Our support of ULA EELV […] More

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    GSA Taps SolarCity for Renewable Energy Project at 9 Federal Buildings

    SolarCity will build and operate photovoltaic technology at nine government facilities under a power purchase agreement with the General Services Administration as part of the Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Pilot initiative. GSA launched the energy procurement and management effort with the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service and Energy Department, EPA said Tuesday. The project will span up to 20 years and […] More

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    Air Force Space Command Selects Telos as System Security Evaluation Agent

    Telos has obtained a license from the Air Force Space Command to serve as a special agent of the command’s security control assessor in the evaluation and accreditation of military space systems. The company said Tuesday it will test system, network, application and platform information technology security features as well as assess documentation, policies, procedures and operational […] More

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    Louis Berger to Help Assess Power Transmission Line Rebuild Project in New York

    Louis Berger has been awarded a $2.7 million contract to provide environmental research, assessment, certification and licensing services for the first phase of an 85-mile power distribution system modernization effort in New York. The New York Power Authority seeks to rebuild electric transmission lines that run between St. Lawrence and Lewis counties through the Strengthening Moses-Adirondack with Resilient Technology Path initiative, Louis […] More

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    DARPA Picks 9 Firms for Dismounted Squad Threat Detection Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded nine companies contracts to build new systems for dismounted service personnel to collaborate with other troops and detect potential threats during military operations. DARPA said Thursday it made the awards through the agency’s Squad X Core Technologies program to develop lightweight, integrated platforms that will work to provide situational awareness functions for […] More

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    MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a contract to introduce updates to DigitalGlobe’s international ground stations for customers to directly receive and process Earth imagery and geospatial data from DigitalGlobe’s future WorldView-4 commercial satellite. MDA said Thursday WorldView-4 is scheduled to launch in September 2016 to provide customers with multi-spectral images of the Earth’s surface. The company aims […] More

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    DARPA Selects SRI International, SwRI for Toxic Chemical Conversion Contracts; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded SRI International and Southwest Research Institute contracts to develop and design system prototypes to convert toxic chemicals into soil and other non-hazardous compounds. DARPA said Wednesday it made the awards under the agency’s Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents initiative. ACDC aims to develop new transportable platforms that will work to neutralize […] More