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M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery services across multiple industries and […] More

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Oshkosh Defense a potential five-year, $71.7 million contract to produce motor vehicle parts and accessories for the U.S. Marine Corps. The firm-fixed-price contract has three base years along with two option years, the  Defense Department said Tuesday. Oshkosh Defense will perform work at a company facility in Wisconsin and is scheduled to finish by Nov. […] More

NASA has started to checkout and commission a small satellite that is designed to demonstrate the capacity of CubeSats to gather scientific data. The agency said Tuesday its ground controllers began checking out the Dellingr CubeSat a few hours after the spacecraft was launched into low-Earth orbit by a NanoRacks-built CubeSat deployer aboard the International Space Station on Nov. 20. […] More

Lockheed Martin and five other defense contractors have formed a consortium to offer a warship design for a program that seeks to replace the Canadian navy’s fleet of surface combatants. The Canada’s Combat Ship Team composed of Lockheed’s Canadian arm, CAE, BAE Systems, L3 Technologies, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates – now called Maxar Technologies – and […] More

Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies group has received contract worth more than $8 million to source and test spacecraft components for use in a NASA program. An unnamed U.S. space contractor awarded the contract and initially obligated $4 million, Comtech said Tuesday. “We are pleased that this customer has placed their confidence in our space-level parts supply chain management […] More

Applied Technology Associates has received a potential $7.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to support a research and development program that seeks to increase the resiliency of space structures. The company will provide R&D services required by the service branch’s integrated structural systems program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work will occur at Kirtland Air Force Base […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force shipped a fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit missile warning satellite Oct. 31 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company said Tuesday GEO Flight 4, the service branch’s next Space Based Infrared System, is scheduled for liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in January. SBIRS is designed […] More

Accenture has invested in Vancouver, Canada-based quantum computing software developer 1QBit in a push to help organizations generate intelligence data with quantum-based analytics technology. Both companies also formed a strategic alliance for Accenture to serve as 1QBit’s systems integrator and leverage the 1QBit platform in efforts to demonstrate, train, develop and test tools and assets, Accenture said Tuesday. The […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have begun to test the performance of a drag chute that is designed for installation on Norway’s F-35A conventional takeoff and landing aircraft. The company said Monday the initial icy runway ground test at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is part of a certification process for the Norwegian F-35A drag chute and […] More

Battelle‘s SeeByte subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $22.6 million contract to provide technical, engineering and training support for U.S. Navy‘s MK18 unmanned underwater vehicles. SeeByte said Monday it will update the SeeTrack common operator interface for Navy explosive ordnance disposal software modules, procure Neptune autonomy software licenses for MK18 UUVs and develop automatic target recognition modules. The SeeTrack open architecture software […] More

The U.S. Navy seeks information on potential vendors that can develop an integrated communications system for a mission control station to support carrier and shore-based management of the service branch’s proposed MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial tanker. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office seeks an ICS platform that will work to transport voice […] More