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    Intelligent Decisions Eyes Army IT Infrastructure Requirements Under ITES-3H; Joe Armstrong Comments

    Intelligent Decisions seeks to provide information technology infrastructure to the U.S. Army under the potential $5 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 Hardware contract the service branch awarded in February. The company said Tuesday it will work to meet Army requirements for Unix-based and non-Unix-based servers, workstations, storage systems, networking equipment, network printers and scanners, cables and connectors, […] More

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    Army Taps SAMS for CECOM Systems Engineering Support Contract

    Strategy and Management Services has received a contract to continue to provide systems engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. The contract covers lifecycle management of post-deployment and post-production software for CECOM’s intelligence support division in support of the software engineering center’s Defense Department clients, SAMS said Friday. This award marks […] More

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    Army Eyes Contract for C5ISR, Supercomputing R&D Services

    The Army Research Laboratory has asked for information on commercial tools and services to facilitate research and development of command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. ARL’s Computational and Information Sciences Directorate is also interested in collaborating with industry to explore supercomputing architectures for the U.S. Army and the Defense Department, the military branch said Monday in […] More

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    SRC Lands Army R&D Support Contract for Electronic Warfare System

    The U.S. Army has awarded New York-based nonprofit research and development firm SRC a potential $49.2 million contract to research, develop, evaluate and test new capabilities for the AN/ULQ-35 CREW Duke system. The Army Contracting Command awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-fee contract through an online-based competitive procurement process with one proposal received, the Defense Department said […] More

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    Five Companies Win Army Weapons Part Production FMS Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded five companies a $49 million contract to produce nonstandard weapons components for several international clients under a foreign military sales agreement. Culmen International, Defense Technology, Multinational Defense Services, Sierra Four Industries and UDC USA will perform work through Feb. 18, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. The companies will produce […] More

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    Raytheon Lands Army Contract for Excalibur Missiles

    Raytheon secured a $31.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide 464 Excalibur Ib missiles. The GPS-guided Excalibur Ib works to engage long-range targets with enhanced precision and has been in full-rate production since 2014, the company said Tuesday. Duane Gooden, Raytheon vice president for land warfare systems, said the company has pursued internal development efforts to deliver […] More

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    Reuters: BAE Systems, Japan’s Daicel Eye US Army for Helicopter Airbag Tech

    BAE Systems has partnered with Japan’s Daicel Corp. to offer cockpit airbags for U.S. Army helicopters in a push to establish military and industrial ties with Tokyo, Reuters reported Monday. Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo write that the partnership with the British defense contractor also works to build on Japan’s military exports following the repeal of a […] More

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    Former DIA Director Michael Flynn Named Member of Brainwave Advisory Board

    Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has been appointed to the advisory board of Brainwave Science. “We are thrilled to have attracted to our advisory board such [a] prominent and decorated General who shares our interest in transforming the landscape through technological innovation in law enforcement, counterterrorism […] More

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    Northrop Team Concludes Army Black Hawk Design Review; Ike Song Comments

    Northrop Grumman and several partners have completed a critical design review of the UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter as part of a program to update the rotorcraft. The company said Monday it worked with the U.S. Army, Prototype Integration Facility and Redstone Defense Systems to assess the helicopter’s design, software architecture, technical data package, navigation system and portability of software applications. UH-60V Black […] More

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    Army Talks Medium Tactical Vehicle Modernization With Industry Partners

    The U.S. Army hosted an industry day for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles to discuss modernization ideas for the FMTV with interested contractors at the Nevada Automotive Test Center. The Army said Friday the acquisition leaders and Army Transportation Corps also shared their experiences on the FMTV program as the service branch seeks to award […] More

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    Army Picks Mission1st to Help Migrate Enterprise Systems; Richard Zareck Comments

    Mission1st Group has received a five-year, $35 million task order to support the transition of the U.S. Army’s enterprise systems and develop an integration schedule for all of the service’s enterprise information systems initiatives. Mission1st’s workforce will provide information technology advisory and assistance services to support the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and Project Director […] More

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    ManTech Subsidiary to Develop Army Joint Border Security Architecture

    A subsidiary of ManTech International has been awarded a $24.1 million contract for research and development work on a joint-service-oriented system intended to help bolster the U.S. Army’s border security operations. ManTech SRS Technologies will research an architecture that combines operational data to provide real-time situational information to border security personnel, the Defense Department said Thursday. […] More