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  • Root9B Awarded Army Cyber Training Contract
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    Root9B Awarded Army Cyber Training Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded Root9B a potential two-year contract to provide onsite cybersecurity training at Fort Gordon in Georgia. R9B said Monday it will help the service branch teach students to conduct defensive and offensive cyber operations via three 170A Warrant Officer Advanced Course classes. Each instruction period can last for up to seven weeks. The WOAC […] More

  • Caddell to Build NNSA’s Albuquerque, N.M. Facility Under Potential $140M Contract
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    Caddell to Build NNSA’s Albuquerque, N.M. Facility Under Potential $140M Contract

    Caddell Construction has started to build a facility for the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration in Albuquerque, N.M., through a potential $140 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers. NNSA said Monday it broke ground on the agency’s Albuquerque Complex Project that will consolidate 25 buildings into a three-story, 333,000-square-foot facility. The facility is being built within Kirtland […] More

  • NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket
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    NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket

    A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More

  • Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract
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    Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company will help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts at Wright-Patterson AF […] More

  • Raytheon to Design Tactical Vehicle Laser Weapon System for Army
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    Raytheon to Design Tactical Vehicle Laser Weapon System for Army

    Raytheon has received a $10 million contract to design a 100-kilowatt laser weapon system potential integration onto the U.S. Army‘s fleet of medium tactical vehicles. The company said Monday it will conduct preliminary design work as part of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program. Roy Azevedo, vice president of intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems at Raytheon’s […] More

  • Engineering Services Network Gets $70M Navy Weapon Systems Support Contract
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    Engineering Services Network Gets $70M Navy Weapon Systems Support Contract

    Engineering Services Network has received a potential five-year, $69.6 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide technical, engineering and logistics support for weapon systems programs of the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The company said Monday it will help test, engineer and conduct post-event analysis of the Aegis Combat System and the Ballistic Missile Defense […] More

  • Northrop Continues Polar Satcom Ground System Support Under Follow-On Contract
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    Northrop Continues Polar Satcom Ground System Support Under Follow-On Contract

    Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More

  • Navy Vet John Stewart Appointed BWXT Nuclear Fuel Services Head
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    Navy Vet John Stewart Appointed BWXT Nuclear Fuel Services Head

    John Stewart, formerly president and general manager of BWSR, has been named president of BWX Technologies‘ nuclear fuel services subsidiary. He led the BWXT-Aptim joint venture for six years in efforts to provide decommissioning, demolition and operations support to the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, BWXT said Thursday. Stewart spent 25 years at the U.S. Navy, where he served as a staff […] More

  • Raytheon, Charles River Analytics Partner for Military Planning Tool Development Project
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    Raytheon, Charles River Analytics Partner for Military Planning Tool Development Project

    Charles River Analytics and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary will collaborate on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded effort to develop modeling tools for military planners to comprehend potential causes of a conflict. The industry team aims to produce military planning tools using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of DARPA’s Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program, Charles […] More

  • Cyber 20/20 to Develop Financial Network Security Tech Under DHS Innovation Program
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    Cyber 20/20 to Develop Financial Network Security Tech Under DHS Innovation Program

    The Department of Homeland Security has selected Cyber 20/20 to develop a platform for financial services organizations to secure networks from malicious threats. DHS said Monday its science and technology directorate awarded $200,000 for the Newark, Del.-based technology startup to demonstrate a proof-of-concept prototype of the company’s proposed Trained Using Runtime Analysis from Cuckoo Outputs system. TURACO is designed […] More

  • Anthony Aquino Named President of TechFlow’s Mission Support Subsidiary
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    Anthony Aquino Named President of TechFlow’s Mission Support Subsidiary

    Anthony Aquino, a U.S. Army reservist and former division director of strategy at Leidos, has been named president of a TechFlow subsidiary that offers mission support services to federal government and military customers. He will lead EMI Services and its efforts to help Defense Department clients maintain facilities as well as manage base operations, logistics activities and information technology […] More

  • Report: Air Force Issues RFP for Cyber ‘Unified Platform’
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    Report: Air Force Issues RFP for Cyber ‘Unified Platform’

    The U.S. Air Force is soliciting proposals to build an integrated operations platform for the U.S. Cyber Command through the General Services Administration‘s Alliant contract vehicle, Fifth Domain reported Friday. Defense Department officials have said that Cybercom’s future Unified Platform will work to support cyber defense, planning command-and-control and situational awareness efforts. USAF issued a solicitation […] More