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    Raytheon Subcontracts SES Gov’t Solutions for FAA Uplink Stations; Tim Deaver Comments

    Raytheon has awarded SES Government Solutions a subcontract to develop two stations for the GEO Uplink Subsystem in support of the ground and space operations of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wide Area Augmentation System. WAAS is a navigation tool that works to detect errors in position estimates through the monitoring of GPS signals across the National […] More

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    Northrop Wins Air Force R&D Contract for Staring Infrared Search & Track Tool

    Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems sector has received a potential four-year, $8.5 million contract to perform research and development work for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Staring Infrared Search and Track Technologies program. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a competitive procurement process with nine proposals received, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More

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    Northrop to Develop Long-Range Radar for Army Recon Plane

    Northrop Grumman will build a synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator system for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced aircraft under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday the long-range radar combines Vehicle and Dismount and Exploitation Radar and Active Electronically Scanned Array technology to bolster the ARL-E DHC-8 reconnaissance plane’s capabilities. “The long-range radar is a natural fit into the […] More

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    Riptide Software to Help Update Navy’s Integrated Arms Training System

    Riptide Software has won a potential five-year, $47 million contract to update and support a military arms training platform designed for U.S. Navy commanders and combat units. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help build the Combined Arms Command and Control Trainer Upgrade System for naval personnel to train in live, virtual and […] More

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    DARPA, Charles River Analytics Partner for Probabilistic Modeling Project

    The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a potential two-year, $1.5 million contract to help create methods for probabilistic modeling of military systems performance. Charles River Analytics said Monday the project’s goal is to update model-based programming languages for military engineers to analyze and manage the operating behavior of mission-critical […] More

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    DISA Picks Equilateral for Army Software License Supply Contract

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Equilateral Technologies a potential three-year, $12 million contract to provide software licenses for the U.S. Army’s Program Manager Warfighter Information Networks Tactical program. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract covers licenses for ETI’s Spectrum Management Engine software and contains a base term and two option years, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

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    Army Taps Subsystem Technologies for Weapon Logistics Support; Indra Nayee Comments

    Subsystem Technologies has received a multimillion dollar contract to perform logistics engineering and product support analysis work on U.S. Army weapons and equipment. The company said Monday it will provide LEPSA services to the lifecycle supportability division of the Army’s Armament Research and Engineering Center in New Jersey. Indra Nayee, director of Subsystem Technologies’ defense […] More

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    MTSI to Help Air Force Integrate ISR Sensor Systems

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded MTSI a potential four-year, $25 million contract to help integrate space, air and ground sensor platforms for the military service to access intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data. MTSI will use a company-developed sensor resource management system to provide rapid ISR technology integration services to USAF under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, […] More

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    Orbital ATK Subsidiary to Work on NASA Space Propulsion System; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract to perform research and design work on space propulsion systems for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. NASA awarded the Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 contract to Orbital ATK’s Alliant Techsystems Operations subsidiary, Orbital ATK said Monday. In July, NASA awarded Orbital ATK and 12 other companies five-year […] More

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    CACI to Help Navy Build, Install Airborne C4I Systems; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI International a 20-month, $63.5 million contract to support the Naval Air Warfare Center’s research and development work on C4I (command, control, computers, communications, intelligence) technologies. CACI said Monday it will help NAWCAD design, produce and install rapid reaction aerial vehicle C4I systems for the Navy and Marine Corps. “This […] More

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    FLIR Surveillance Awarded Navy Infrared Imaging System Contract

    FLIR Surveillance has received a 10-year, $49.9 million contract to supply an imaging infrared system to the U.S. Navy. The Combatant Craft Forward Looking Infrared variant 2 imaging platform has image processing tools and optics that work to detect infrared radiation or light that emanates from surface targets during day and night, the Defense Department said Friday. CCFLIR2 […] More

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    Navy Taps Capstone for CNIC IT Support Task Order

    Capstone has received a task order to continue its Tier II information technology services to the Commander, Navy Installations Command’s headquarters. The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk’s Philadelphia office awarded the task order to Capstone through CNIC’s Program Management Oversight Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract, Capstone said Sunday. The contract covers data, voice and video teleconferencing […] More