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AFLCMC Eyes Next Generation Helmet Acquisition for Fixed-Wing Aircrews
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has teamed up with the Advanced Tactical Acquisition Corps to equip fixed-wing aircraft personnel with modernized helmets in a move to meet present technological requirements.
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in News, Space News
Report: Air Force Plans Follow-On Military Satellite Program With Rapid Acquisition Strategy
The U.S. Air Force is considering using a rapid acquisition pathway to buy military communications satellites that would succeed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. Col. David Ashley, program manager of the Air Force’s AEHF system, said the service branch will seek approval from its senior acquisition executive in December to use […] More
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Cybercom, Nonprofit Form Cyber Tech Prototyping Partnership
U.S. Cyber Command and the nonprofit organization Maryland Innovation and Security Institute have established a new partnership that seeks to facilitate collaboration among government, industry and academic institutions to build new cyber platforms, Fifth Domain reported Friday. DreamPort “provides a venue for robust collaboration, problem solving and innovation; includes prototyping; and provides many contracting options,†[…] More
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in C4ISR News, News
Azure Summit Technology to Support SIGINT Mission Sensor for Navy Platforms
Azure Summit Technology has secured a potential five-year, $48.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support a mission sensor developed for the military branch’s manned and unmanned platforms. The Defense Department said Friday the Common Chassis Signals Intelligence mission sensor will be used to facilitate collection of identification and localization intelligence data from electronic […] More
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in Industry News, News
Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hybrid Power Generation Tech for US Military
Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted field tests on a power generation system designed to help U.S. deployed troops to produce electricity out of surplus materials. The company said Thursday its Rocket Shop defense advanced programs unit developed the Hybrid Renewable Multifuel Power Generator for the U.S. Navy‘s Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center. HR-MPG works to burn […] More
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in Featured, General, Industry News, News
Booz Allen Unveils ‘Build & Field’ Initiative for Internet of Things; Susan Penfield Comments
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a program to help the company create and deploy Internet of Things technologies in the areas of security, analytics and mobile devices under the mantra of “build and field.” The company said Tuesday it will work to deliver end-to-end services to address cyber risk and other challenges with the emergence of IoT platforms. “The proliferation of IoT […] More
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CACI Awarded $38M Rapid Prototyping, Technology Insertion Work for CERDEC; Ken Asbury Comments
CACI International has been awarded a contract to provide rapid prototyping and technology insertion support to the U.S. Army’s applied research facility for $38.5 million. The new task order from the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract previously awarded to CACI in October 2012 and includes one year base period of […] More
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Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Works with US Navy on Integration, Interoperability Areas
Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company is working with the U.S. Navy to implement the service’s interconnectedness goals, the Daily Transcript reported Wednesday. Wenzel noted that there are Navy officers who say they need to operate in a networked system “rather than as individual ships, doing their own thing,” Tony Lovitt […] More
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Tech, Aerospace Exec Gretchen McClain Joins Booz Allen Board of Directors
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. has appointed Gretchen W. McClain as the newest member of its board of director. McClain’s experiences gleaned from previous leadership roles in government and industry will help in the company’s push to expand its engineering and technology services portfolios, Ralph Shrader, Booz Allen chairman and CEO, said Tuesday. “Her experience as […] More
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in Industry News, News
Andrew Bushnell: Lockheed-RedEye Team Builds Tank Simulators Through 3D Printing
Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has partnered with rapid prototyping firm RedEye to build two fuel tanks for a satellite simulation project with a three-dimensional printing technology tool. The companies used RedEye’s fused deposition modeling system to develop large satellite fuel tank simulators within a compressed time frame, RedEye said Wednesday. “With RedEye’s machine capacity […] More