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    Curtiss-Wright Secures $75M Army Hatch Actuation Control Supply Contract for Air Defense Launcher

    Curtiss-Wright has been awarded a potential $75 million contract to provide engineering services and hatch control actuators for installation on the U.S. Army’s Multi-Mission Launcher under the Indirect Fire Protection Capability initiative. The service branch’s MML program is an open system architecture-based aerial defense launcher designed to deploy various interceptors against cruise missile and unmanned […] More

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    Army Taps Motorola Solutions Software for VoIP Communications; Michael Thurston Comments

    The U.S. Army has purchased a Motorola Solutions-built software platform intended to facilitate communication between disparate devices, the branch website said Thursday. The service branch will integrate the WAVE software tool with its tactical communications network to meet program requirements of the Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications – Tactical in Maryland. WAVE is designed to convert […] More

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    NCI to Maintain US Army Network Enterprise Center; Brian Clark Comments

    NCI Inc. has been awarded a $9.4 million contract to maintain and operate the U.S. Army’s Network Enterprise Center at Fort Benning in Georgia. The company will administer, install and engineer classified and unclassified communication systems for the center, NCI said Wednesday. The contract contains a one-year base period and one 12-month option year. “We […] More

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    CACI Awarded Army Counter-IED Services Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a task order from the U.S. Army to assist the service branch in efforts to combat improvised explosive devices. The company will perform rapid response technical forensics and exploitation services under the contract, CACI said Monday. “With this award to continue our support for the Army’s technical forensics and exploitation mission, we […] More

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    US Army Seeks Cyber Lab Technical Tools

    The U.S. Army is looking for technical tools from industry as part of efforts to develop a Fort Gordon, Georgia-based cyber laboratory, FCW reported Tuesday. Sean Lyngaas writes the Army’s cyber battle lab is meant to accommodate experimentation with a new warfare domain. The lab is scheduled to begin operation in October, according to the […] More

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    US Army Kicks Off Electro-Optical, IR Payload Engineering, Logistics Market Survey

    The U.S. Army has begun its search for a product manager electro-optical and infrared payloads system engineering, configuration and logistics services from industry. In a request for information released Monday, the Army has sought potential sources that can operate and sustain existing systems fielded in the CENTCOM operational area, configure PSDS2 systems, train contractor and […] More

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    Army Orders $45M in Harris SATCOM Terminals; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris Corp. will provide satellite communications terminals, electronics equipment and associated services to the U.S. Army under $45 million in delivery orders as part of the Army’s Modernization of Enterprise Terminals program. The company said Monday the orders are for new X-band or simultaneous X-/Ka-band terminals. Ed Zoiss, president of Harris’ electronic systems business, said the MET terminals will work […] More

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    Comtech Subsidiary to Sustain Army’s C2 System; Stanton Sloane Comments

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has been awarded an additional $5.3 million of funding to maintain the U.S. Army’s battle command and control system for another year. Maryland-based Comtech Mobile Datacom will perform the sustainment services for the Army’s Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue Force Tracking program, Comtech said Monday. Comtech began […] More

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    Defense Business Board Adds 8 Members; Ashton Carter Comments

    The Defense Department has elected new members to the Defense Business Board who will work to advise the defense secretary and other DoD officials on business standards. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced the appointments on Thursday. “I welcome the new business leaders joining our ranks, and pleased to see former members return at such an important […] More

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    Honeywell to Produce Radar Altimeters for US Army, Civilian Agencies

    Honeywell International has received a five-year, $41,432,253 award from the Defense Logistics Agency to produce radar altimeters for the U.S. Army’s avionics equipment. Federal civilian agencies will also use the APN-209 radar altimeters under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Honeywell will perform work in Arizona through July 14, 2020. The radar features […] More

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    Pentagon Agencies Demo AtHoc Security Tool; Guy Miasnik Comments

    The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has conducted a cross-agency communications exercise to assess how the agency shares information with mission partners through the use of a security tool developed by AtHoc. AtHoc said Tuesday the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security deployed AtHoc Connect to send and receive information, control the […] More