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    Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More

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    Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract

    The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a BlackBerry division a potential four-year contract to help the agency expand deployment of a suite of crisis communications applications at the Defense Department. AtHoc said Tuesday its Networked Crisis Communications Suite will support about 37,000 users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Security Services and the Washington Headquarters Services. “Their […] More

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    Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities

    Parsons has landed a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide life cycle management support services for Technical Engineering, Advisory and Management Support facilities. Parsons Government Services will offer advisory and assistance services including facility and infrastructure planning, programming, design, acquisition, construction and configuration management, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company […] More

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    Air Force Selects McKenna Principals for Data Access Control System Dev’t

    McKenna Principals has received  a $15 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and develop an operational prototype of a data access control software. The Defense Department said Thursday the Data Framework and Access Control Enterprise II system will work to facilitate the Department of Homeland Security‘s data exchange with DoD and other agencies as well as maintain information security. […] More

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    Raytheon to Help Maintain US Army’s Persistent Surveillance Systems

    Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $49.8 million contract to operate and sustain persistent surveillance and dissemination system of systems for the U.S. Army. The company will carry out the contract work through July 1, 2020, at locations to be determined with each task order, the Defense Department said Thursday. The surveillance system is designed to be […] More

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    DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations

    DMI will deploy a mobile application meant to help cemetery operations teams manage catalogs and assign location tags at Defense Department national military cemeteries. The company will provide the Enterprise Interment Services System app and build a common virtual database and network environment for more than 42 military cemeteries across the U.S., DMI said May 24. DMI intends for the enterprise app […] More

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    CFM International to Provide Supplies, Services for P-8 Aircraft CFM56 Engines

    The Navy has awarded CFM International a $32.5 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver field assessment, repairs and replacement support for CFM56 engines on the Boeing Poseidon P-8 aircraft. Services include unscheduled depot maintenance and repair, Sermetel protective coatings and other required non-standard repairs, the Defense Department said Thursday. CFM will conduct work in Cincinnati, Ohio, with an […] More

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    Reuters: Orbital ATK Eyes Development of Rocket Tech Offering for Military Satellite Sector

    Orbital ATK aims to build a rocket technology offering for the U.S. Air Force as part of the company’s push into the national security satellite market, Reuters reported Tuesday. Irene Klotz writes John Steinmeyer, director of business development at Orbital ATK, said at the Space Congress held Tuesday in Florida the company would base its “Next Generation Launcher” on solid-rocket […] More

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    Navy Picks Global Technical Systems to Supply RF Countermeasure Hardware Components

    Global Technical Systems has secured a $7.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of as many as 12,275 hardware components to be used for the Technique Control Modulator Hydra. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division will obligate $55,498 from the U.S. Air Force‘s fiscal 2015 missile procurement and fiscal 2016 […] More

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    Georgia Tech Wins Air Force Contract to Develop Analog Sensing Platforms for Digital Devices

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech a potential four-year, $9.4 million contract to research and develop multi-model analog sensing platforms for the service branch. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost reimbursement contract through a competitive acquisition process with 45 proposals received as part of the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security program, […] More

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    Air Force Taps SRI International to Develop Automated Media Integrity Assessment Tech

    The U.S. Air Force has bestowed a $9.5 million cost-plus-fixed-price contract to SRI International to deliver automated media integrity assessment technologies to be integrated into a visual media forensics platform. The Defense Department said Wednesday the software and hardware will work to automatically assess the integrity of both images and videos. The Air Force Research Laboratory has obligated $1 million […] More

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    General Dynamics Selected to Develop Shadow Compass Software Prototype

    General Dynamics has secured a $14.8 million cost-plus-fixed fee contract from the U.S. Air Force to create a Shadow Compass software prototype designed to correlate geospatial and signals intelligence, as well as cyber indicators and warning data streams. The Defense Department said Friday the Air Force will obligate $4.7 million from fiscal 2015 and 2016 research, development, […] More