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Lockheed Martin has conducted long-range endurance tests on a company-built tactical group 3 unmanned aerial system ahead of low-rate production of the drone. The company said Wednesday its Fury UAS has recorded a flight endurance time of 12 hours while the vehicle operated nearly 100 pounds of payload such as electro-optical/infrared surveillance and multiple signals intelligence systems, satellite communications links and voice […] More

AECOM‘s URS Federal Services subsidiary has received a $47.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide logistics services in support of the service branch’s Fort Polk installation and the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification covers the supply, transportation and maintenance support. The Army Contracting Command will obligate $18.5 million at the time of award […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a contract to design and build a traumatic injury prediction tool for the U.S. Army as part of efforts to help combat lifesavers, medics, civilian and military first responders lower the incidence of preventable deaths. The company said Monday that the Ensemble Prediction for Intelligent Combat Casualty Care mobile app is based on […] More

Cubic is part of a public-private consortium that has received a 10-year, $41.3 million grant from the government of Australia to develop smart transport and mobility technologies. Cubic said Tuesday it aims to build multimodal systems intended to help address Australia’s transportation challenges through the iMOVE Cooperative Research Center — a consortium comprised of technology companies, academic institutions and government agencies. CRC will focus on […] More

The U.S. Navy has opened a command-and-control complex, designed by Burns & McDonnell, to support broad area maritime surveillance operations at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida Burns & McDonnell said Tuesday the complex houses a tactical operations center for manned P-8A surveillance aircraft and a MQ-4C Triton squadron that supports the Navy’s unmanned aerial vehicle program. The facility is built to comply […] More

ReedGroup has won a contract from the Defense Department to provide clinical medical guidelines for all U.S. military branches. The Department of the Navy‘s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery chose ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines offering through a competitive procurement process, the company said Tuesday. Joe Guerriero, senior vice president of ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines business, said the company seeks to help military […] More

Accenture‘s federal services business has received a potential four-year, $64 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration update and maintain more than 70 enterprise information technology applications through the use of agile and DevOps methodologies. The company said Tuesday it will provide a range of IT services in support of TSA’s current technology environment and modification efforts on the agency’s core […] More

Boeing has secured a $49.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help extend the service life of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft beyond its original operational life of 6,000 flight hours. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will perform work under the Service Life Assessment Program and Service Life Extension Program through April 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri and […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said during a conference call Tuesday that she expects Congress to reach a defense budget deal for the remaining months of fiscal 2017, Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday. Marco Santana writes Hewson added lawmakers should work to ensure a continuous flow of funds to all military branches. “We, as a nation, need to recognize these threats and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Xerox’s PARC subsidiary to lead a team to create a new computational model designed to eliminate limitations in computer-aided design technology platforms and advance digital manufacturing processes. PARC said Tuesday it will work with Oregon State University and Intact Solutions on the Fabricating with Interoperable Engineering, pLanning, Design […] More

BWX Technologies‘ Nuclear Operations Group subsidiary has received a $76.2 million contract from General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat business to produce additional common missile compartment tube assemblies for U.S. and U.K. nuclear submarines. BWXT said Monday the Block II CMC missile tubes will be integrated on Columbia-class and Dreadnought-class nuclear submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat received a $95.6 million contract […] More