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  • Draper Forms Team to Pursue NASA’s Next Lunar Exploration Project
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    Draper Forms Team to Pursue NASA’s Next Lunar Exploration Project

    Draper has teamed up with three other companies to bid for a project to build small exploration vehicles and scientific instruments to help NASA explore the moon’s surface. Cambridge, Mass.-based Draper said Tuesday it will lead an industry team composed of General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems group, ispace and Spaceflight Industries to pursue the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract. NASA asked industry […] More

  • Qatar University Hosts Boeing Defense Head Leanne Caret
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    Qatar University Hosts Boeing Defense Head Leanne Caret

    Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, recently visited Qatar University and spoke to engineering students about aviation career opportunities. “These students are the future dreamers, innovators and leaders of Qatar’s engineering industry. At Boeing, we build the future every day, and I was thrilled to share some of the exciting possibilities that […] More

  • Insitu, University of Alaska Fairbanks Obtain FAA Approval for Autonomous BVLOS Test Flights
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    Insitu, University of Alaska Fairbanks Obtain FAA Approval for Autonomous BVLOS Test Flights

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct unmanned beyond-visual-line-of-sight and nighttime test flights. The effort will help authorize autonomous drone flights in the National Airspace System, at or below an altitude of 400 feet, Insitu said Wednesday. Esina Alic, president and CEO of […] More

  • MSi Raises Funds to Expand Market Reach With Cybersecurity Platform
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    MSi Raises Funds to Expand Market Reach With Cybersecurity Platform

    Mission Secure has completed a Series A financing round as the company aims to expand the reach of its cybersecurity software offering in the defense, transportation and energy markets. The MSi Platform is designed to help customers monitor and secure industrial-grade control systems within protected facilities, the company said Wednesday. Energy Innovation Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures […] More

  • NVIDIA, Oracle to Combine Server, Cloud Platforms
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    NVIDIA, Oracle to Combine Server, Cloud Platforms

    NVIDIA and Oracle have partnered to integrate a cloud-based server technology with an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to help customers address various computing requirements. The partnership will offer the NVIDIA’s HGX-2 platform on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in a push to give clients access to a unified architecture intended to support artificial intelligence, analytics and machine learning functions, Oracle said Wednesday. Both […] More

  • Boeing Invests in Propulsion System Developer Accion Systems via HorizonX
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    Boeing Invests in Propulsion System Developer Accion Systems via HorizonX

    Boeing has invested in Accion Systems to support production and delivery of electric propulsion systems for satellites and other space vehicles. Boeing said Wednesday the investment, which was led by its HorizonX Ventures arm in partnership with GettyLab, will allow Accion to expand its manufacturing operations, as well as access Boeing’s personnel and facilities. Boeing […] More

  • Juniper, Nutanix Extend Collaboration to Support Enterprise Migration to Multicloud Platforms
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    Juniper, Nutanix Extend Collaboration to Support Enterprise Migration to Multicloud Platforms

    Juniper Networks and Nutanix have extended their partnership to help enterprise customers migrate information technology applications to multicloud computing platforms. Both companies will combine offerings that work to manage virtual workloads and secure enterprise cloud environments through a microsegmentation approach, Juniper said Wednesday. Bikash Koley, chief technology officer at Juniper, said the company plans to integrate […] More

  • DynCorp to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Forces Central Command’s Warfighting Material
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    DynCorp to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Forces Central Command’s Warfighting Material

    DynCorp International has received a one-year, $66.7M contract modification to continue to help U.S. Air Forces Central Command sustain war reserve materiel. The U.S. Air Force exercised the WRM support contract’s second option year, DynCorp said Wednesday. The company will perform work at at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and other locations in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar […] More

  • Northrop Explores New Platforms for Black Hawk Helicopter Avionics System
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    Northrop Explores New Platforms for Black Hawk Helicopter Avionics System

    Northrop Grumman is looking at other possible applications of an avionics system used on the U.S. Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter, Rotary & Wing International reported Tuesday. The company designed its Integrated Avionics Suite with an open architecture intended to support future system adjustments without having to involve the original equipment manufacturer. Robert Fleming, vice president of […] More

  • ECS to Help Update Air Mobility Command’s Transport Info System; George Wilson Quoted
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    ECS to Help Update Air Mobility Command’s Transport Info System; George Wilson Quoted

    ECS has secured a potential five-year, $51M contract to provide full life cycle support for an information technology platform that Air Mobility Command uses to track Defense Department cargo and passenger movements globally. The company said Tuesday it will help AMC, a component of U.S. Transportation Command, to update and maintain the Global Air Transportation Execution […] More

  • Raytheon, Army Develop Excalibur Projectile Variant
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    Raytheon, Army Develop Excalibur Projectile Variant

    Raytheon and the U.S. Army have updated a precision-guided projectile built to operate with multiple artillery systems and help warfighters engage targets in secluded locations. Excalibur Shaped Trajectory is designed to reach a multistory facility via the building side, a bunker situated on a mountain slope’s opposite side or adversarial assets located under an overpass, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Army […] More

  • NASA Officials Visit BWXT for Tech Progress Monitoring
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    NASA Officials Visit BWXT for Tech Progress Monitoring

    Officials from NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate have visited BWX Technologies‘ facility in Lynchburg, Va. to monitor progress on the company’s nuclear thermal propulsion technologies. Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA STMD, observed BWXT’s year-long progress on NTP projects that may support a future manned Mars mission, the company said Tuesday. These projects cover […] More