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  • Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems
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    Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems

    Unisys has secured a potential five-year contract from the Customs and Border Protection to update systems that CBP uses to identify people and vehicles that enter and exit the U.S. The Integrated Traveler Initiatives contract was awarded as a task order under the Department of Homeland Security-run EAGLE II procurement vehicle and represents an iteration of CBP’s Land Border Integration project awarded to […] More

  • DoD’s Innovation Org Awards $36M in FY 2016 Contracts Via New Acquisition Process; Raj Shah Comments
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    DoD’s Innovation Org Awards $36M in FY 2016 Contracts Via New Acquisition Process; Raj Shah Comments

    A Defense Department organization has awarded 12 contracts worth approximately $36.3 million combined in fiscal year 2016, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental group made the contract awards within an average period of 60 days and provided $8.3 million in funds to support the contracts. Tanium secured $12.7 million in DIUx contracts to develop […] More

  • NASA Launches Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission
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    NASA Launches Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    An Orbital ATK-built spacecraft lifted off Monday onboard the company’s updated Antares 230 rocket to deliver more than 5,100 pounds of scientific instruments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. NASA said Monday the Cygnus spacecraft’s launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia marks Orbital ATK’s sixth cargo delivery mission to the ISS under the Commercial Resupply Services contract and […] More

  • SpaceX Seeks Dragon Spacecraft Reuse for 2017 ISS Resupply Mission
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    SpaceX Seeks Dragon Spacecraft Reuse for 2017 ISS Resupply Mission

    SpaceX plans to launch used Dragon spacecraft for cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station by 2017 as part of the Elon Musk-owned company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, SpaceNews reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes that Benjamin Reed, SpaceX director of commercial crew mission management, told the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight that SpaceX looks to reuse Dragon spacecraft to […] More

  • Breaking Defense: Air Force’s F-35 Flight Operations to Resume by Year’s End
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    Breaking Defense: Air Force’s F-35 Flight Operations to Resume by Year’s End

    The U.S. Air Force plans to resume operations of its F-35 joint strike fighter jets by the end of this year after the completion of repairs to the aircraft’s fuel pipes, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The F-35 Joint Program Office has has said the non-compliant Polyalphaolefin coolant tubes of the Air Force’s 15 operational F-35 jets are undergoing modifications, Colin Clark writes. Repairs […] More

  • Report: NASA Will Not Extend Soyuz Crew Capsule Launch Contract With Russian Space Agency
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    Report: NASA Will Not Extend Soyuz Crew Capsule Launch Contract With Russian Space Agency

    NASA officials have said the agency does not have plans to extend its contract with the Russian space agency to transport U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in 2019 through the Russian-built Soyuz crew capsules, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday. Stephen Clark writes NASA bought six round-trip seats for U.S. astronauts on the Soyuz spacecraft under […] More

  • American Systems Gets Aerospace Quality Mgmt System Certification; Peter Smith Comments
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    American Systems Gets Aerospace Quality Mgmt System Certification; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has received the AS9100C aerospace quality management system certification for the company’s engineering and analytical solutions directorate in Lexington Park, Maryland. EASD went through a two-day external audit of the unit’s contracts management, program management, engineering and production, risk management, configuration management, purchasing and quality processes prior to the certification, American Systems said Monday. Peter Smith, president […] More

  • Tory Bruno: ULA Reassesses Cost Structure for Space Launch Services Amid Competition
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    Tory Bruno: ULA Reassesses Cost Structure for Space Launch Services Amid Competition

    Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has said the competition between ULA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX has made the former company re-evaluate its cost structure for space launch services, Forbes reported Friday. Bruno told Forbes contributor Loren Thompson in an interview that the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture has made a 35 percent reduction in […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy’s Submarine Maintenance Org
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy’s Submarine Maintenance Org

    Trowbridge & Trowbridge has secured a task order under a potential three-year, $11.1 million prime contract to provide information management technology services to the Naval Sea Systems Command’s submarine maintenance, engineering, planning and procurement organization. The company said Wednesday the contract has a one-year base period and two option years and was awarded through the General Services […] More

  • Nikkei: Lockheed, Mitsubishi Submit Joint Response to Japan’s F-2 Replacement RFI
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    Nikkei: Lockheed, Mitsubishi Submit Joint Response to Japan’s F-2 Replacement RFI

    Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn Hewson has said her company and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have jointly responded to Japan’s request for information on stealth fighter aircraft in August, Nikkei reported Saturday. Sam Nussey writes that Japan is considering whether to develop new aircraft domestically, tap foreign defense companies or just procure additional fighters in the marketplace to replace […] More

  • RFID Journal to Host A&D Radio Frequency Tech Forum
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    RFID Journal to Host A&D Radio Frequency Tech Forum

    RFID Journal will host an event focused on radio-frequency identification technologies for the aerospace and defense sector on Oct. 20 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. The media company said Thursday the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman and Delta Air Lines will participate in the event to share how they apply RFID technology in operations. RFID Journal added the forum will feature discussions on customer […] More

  • NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees
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    NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees

    NeoSystems has launched a government contractor online resource center for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ potential 10-year, $25 billion Strategic Partner Acquisition Readiness Contract vehicle for information technology services. The company said Thursday its online resource center and lineup of jump-start events will work to prepare SPARC awardees execute and comply with the contract requirements. “Being […] More