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The North American subsidiary of Terma has received a potential six-year, $44.3 million contract to build a three-dimensional audio system for integration into the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 C and D aircraft models. Terma North America will engineer, integrate and produce the 3D audio technology as well as provide spares, support equipment and interim contractor support, the Defense Department […] More

Saab has been selected to join a European Union-funded research project that seeks to demonstrate the use of unmanned systems to increase situational awareness in naval environments. The OCEAN2020 project will include two live demonstrations slated to occur off the Italian Mediterranean coast sometime in 2019 and in the Baltic Sea during 2020, Saab said Tuesday. Saab will […] More

Octo Consulting Group has received a potential five-year, $10 million blanket purchase agreement to maintain and update a quality and safety review system at the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Tuesday it will help manage the QSRS platform that HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality uses to monitor patient safety and adverse events nationwide. […] More

Accenture has opened a new innovation hub in Boston, Massachusetts built to help partners grow and transform their organizations within the digital economy. The company said Tuesday the hub located in Boston’s Back Bay is the second of 10 new innovation hubs to be developed as part of Accenture’s $1.4 billion investment to train and […] More

Drone Delivery Canada has announced its commercial unmanned aircraft system testing program is being expanded to cover the U.S., starting at the first quarter of 2018. The company said Monday the testing program will have activities that are to take place at the Griffiss International Airport’s Federal Aviation Administration-approved UAS test venue in Rome, New York. DDC’s Sparrow […] More

A communications satellite made by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for  Hispasat has been delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will lift off aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket. SSL said Tuesday the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will provide communications services for television, broadband, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications in Europe, North Africa and […] More

Englewood, Colorado-based cybersecurity firm Merlin International has made a $10 million investment in Centerity, a Newton, Massachusetts-based provider of performance analytics and business services management offerings. Merlin said Tuesday Centerity will use the funds to expand its research and development center as well as its sales, marketing and distribution organizations. Centerity developed its software to help […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s energy unit seeks development and manufacturing partners from the solar industry who can help develop the company’s flow battery technology, PV Tech reported Tuesday. John Battaglini, director of business development at Lockheed Martin Energy, said the company sees four primary applications for its future long-duration energy storage offering including wind, transmission and distribution, solar […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a two-year, $1 million contract to develop a hands-free human-machine interface for U.S. Army soldiers who operate in diverse environments. The company said Monday it will produce the Supervisory HMI Enabling Practical Autonomous Robot Direction under the follow-on contract. “Our goal is to develop controls that let robots seamlessly integrate into human teams,” said […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has won a potential five-year, $20 million contract to develop solid rocket booster technology as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to address technical requirements for future propulsion systems. The service branch can use the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to order solid rocket motors for tactical, strategic or spacecraft engines, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Air Force […] More

A Vigor Industrial subsidiary has received a $19.6 million contract to support repair and alteration work on a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer. Vigor Marine will support scheduled, selected restricted availability activities for the USS Kidd (DDG 100) as part of the service branch’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship repair program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will occur in Everett, Washington, […] More