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    Lockheed to Assess F-35 Air System Under Navy Contract

    Lockheed Martin has received a $14.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to determine if the current F-35 air system can address future operational requirements. The company will also help the service branch explore cost and weight reduction strategies as well as conduct modeling and simulation efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work also includes additional analysis efforts to […] More

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    Navy Taps Boeing for P-8A Radar Support Equipment Contract

    Boeing has received a potential $24.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide peculiar support equipment for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft’s airborne sensor technology. The service branch seeks to obtain engineering and logistics data for PSE support functions under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Monday. The company will conduct product support analysis and […] More

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    Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Eyes Public Sector Demand for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

    Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, has said the company looks at the potential use of geospatial data to support artificial intelligence-based training efforts in the public sector, SpaceNews reported Saturday. He told the publication in an interview increasing the access to public data can help developers create open-source machine learning algorithms designed to recognize […] More

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    Frost & Sullivan: US Defense Satellite Market to Reach $30B by 2023

    A new Frost & Sullivan analysis predicts the U.S. market for defense satellites will experience a 10.3 percent compound annual growth rate and reach approximately $30.3 billion in the next five years. The market research firm said Tuesday the potential market growth can be attributed to the Defense Department’s efforts to strengthen its satellite infrastructure through modernization, program funding […] More

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    Pivotal to Provide Software, Services to Air Force Facilities

    Pivotal Software has received a one-year, $47.54 million “other transaction” agreement to provide software and services to multiple U.S. Air Force bases. The company will also help the service branch implement a prototyped methodology across the Air Operations Center and targeting and geospatial-intelligence enterprises, the Defense Department said Thursday. Locations of work include Tyndall AFB in […] More

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    Raytheon Wins Army Mission Support Contract

    Raytheon has received a five-year, $25.3 million contract to provide mission support services to the U.S. Army. The service branch obligated $1.4 million at the time of award from its operations and maintenance funds for fiscal 2018, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will take place at Fort Irwin in California through June 29, 2023. The Army Contracting Command received […] More

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    General Dynamics Gets $87M Contract for Navy Destroyer, Frigate Ship Planning Yard Services

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary will provide integrated planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s DDG-51 destroyer and FFG-7 frigate under a potential $87.2 million contract. Work covers design, material and planning support to facilitate the guided missile ships’ maintenance and modernization, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $5.3 million in fiscal year […] More

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    Leidos to Assist Navy in Undersea Medical Research Efforts

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $28.5 million contract to help a U.S. Navy  laboratory study the biomedical aspects of the military branch’s submarine fleet operations. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will support the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory in Groton, Conn., through May 31, 2023 under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test […] More

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    Oshkosh Defense Gets Marine Vehicle Engineering Change Proposal Contract

    Oshkosh‘s defense business has received a potential five-year, $43.2 million contract to provide engineering change proposal tools for the U.S. Marine Corps‘s medium tactical vehicle replacement effort. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers the provision of ECP kits, parts and hardware components to the Marine Corps Systems Command’s land systems program executive officer. Work will […] More

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    Air Force Taps PreTalen to Research, Develop Global Navigation Satellite System Application

    PreTalen will help the U.S. Air Force research and develop an application for the operation of global navigation satellite systems under a potential $23.7 million completion contract. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract for the Operational Multi-Domain Enhanced Global Navigation Satellite System is intended to extend the autonomous negotiator for position, navigation and time […] More

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    4 Firms Awarded Spots Under $60M Army Contract for Engineering Services

    Four firms have landed spots under a $60 million U.S. Army contract for architect and engineering services. Tetra Tech, HDR Engineering, AECOM‘s technical service business and a joint venture between MCM and Stantec will compete for task orders under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Army will assign work locations and funds with each order. Work under the five-year contract will […] More

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    Northrop Grumman Gets USAF Reimbursement Modification for Satellite Sustainment

    Northrop Grumman has received a $7.1 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for reimbursements concerning satellite sensor sustainment services. The increase stems from an exercised option tasking the company to sustain sensors of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbit constellation and raises the contract’s value to $14.1 million, the Defense Department said Wednesday. USAF obligates entire the modification amount that was […] More