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The Transportation Security Administration has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate to request potential detection and screening technologies from startups, which will have the opportunity to receive up to $800,000 in non-dilutive funds. The TSA’s Object Recognition and Adaptive Algorithms in Passenger Property Screening solicitation through S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program seeks products […] More

NTT Group and Dell Technologies have teamed up to launch a smart cities program in Las Vegas in support of the city’s digital transformation effort. The companies will field a smart city platform that will integrate NTT’s Cognitive Foundation architecture with Dell EMC’s internet-of-things gateways and hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware’s vCloud network functions virtualization function, […] More

The Defense Department has begun to seek vendors that can develop, deliver and operate 10 tethered aerostat platforms for Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. DoD said in an April 16 announcement that aerostats should have a set of sensors such as acoustic sensors, a ground indicator for moving targets and two electro-optical/infrared sensors in […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed the last two C-130J-30 Super Hercules deliveries to a U.S. Air Force base in Japan. The company said Tuesday 36th Airlift Squadron crews stationed at Yokota Air Base use the airlifters to conduct cargo delivery, troop transport, airdrop and aeromedical operations in the Western Pacific region. Yokota received a total of nine C-130J-30s from […] More

General Dynamics plans to make an $850 million investment in its operations in Connecticut to support the production of 12 Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines for the U.S. Navy under a potential $5 billion contract awarded in 2017, the Connecticut Post reported Tuesday. General Dynamics Electric Boat plans to establish a new dry dock in Groton, Conn., […] More

General Atomics has secured grants from the Energy Department to further develop new types of fuel designed to power nuclear reactor systems. DOE will help fund two company-led projects to produce and license a reactor fuel system that uses uranium carbide pellets in silicon carbide composite cladding, General Atomics said Monday. The projects were among 13 recipients of up […] More

The Defense Department has given a team from Northrop Grumman the Nunn-Perry award for supporting QTEC Aerospace with its business operations for three years under the Missile Defense Agency’s Mentor-Protégé Program. Northrop Grumman said Monday QTEC saw its business and workforce expand during the effort. The Va.-based firm also worked on the program in collaboration […] More

Orbital ATK has set May 20 as target date to launch its ninth cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Monday Orbital ATK moved Cygnus from a payload processing facility to a spacecraft fueling facility Monday at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After […] More

The Informatics Applications Group has won a potential five-year, $47.1 million task order from the U.S. Navy to help the Office of Naval Research establish an information technology network operation. Virginia-based tiag will also support ONR’s business process as part of the task order awarded under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. The order has a one-year […] More