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Katrina McFarland, a member of Sehlke Consulting‘s board of advisers and president at Blue Oryx, will participate in a panel discussion on government acquisition reform at an upcoming Naval Postgraduate School event in Monterey, California. Sehlke said McFarland will speak at NPS’ 15th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium on May 10 along with David Berteau, president and […] More
Maxar Technologies‘ Radiant Solutions business will continue to help the Army Geospatial Center engineer systems and develop software for the Remote Ground Terminal program under a $2.6 million follow-on contract. Radiant Solutions said Thursday it helped the center develop the RGT platform for the U.S. Army to access geospatial data when the service branch performs military, humanitarian and disaster relief missions. The terminal […] More
Amazon.com has secured a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to react to human gestures, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The patent supports Amazon’s plans to develop a fleet of UAVs that will work to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes. The UAV will use various […] More
A team led by BAE Systems has secured a $227.5 million contract from the British defense ministry to update the power and propulsion systems of the U.K. navy’s fleet of Type 45 destroyers. The defense ministry said Wednesday the Power Improvement Project will replace two generators of all six Type 45 ships with three larger units that will […] More
Orbital ATK will establish a new 47-acre campus in Chandler, Arizona to accommodate the expansion of the company’s launch vehicle operations. The new campus will include 617,000 square feet of space for two buildings as well as 261,000 square feet for manufacturing, Orbital ATK said Friday. Rich Straka, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s launch vehicles division, […] More
Tahara Dawkins, director of the commercial remote sensing regulatory affairs office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said she believes government regulators should help in-orbit satellite servicing systems reach commercial viability, C4ISRNET reported Friday. “If we restrict this industry to a place where they’re not commercially viable, then this gets driven overseas,†Dawkins said at […] More
Metis Flight Research Associates has received a potential five-year, $62.8 million contract to support aerospace systems modeling and simulation efforts at NASA‘s Ames Research Center. The Aerospace Modeling and Simulation III contract’s 45-day phase-in period will begin on April 23, followed by one base year and four option years, NASA said Saturday. Work covers software development, systems administration, […] More
Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a three-year, $36.8 million contract to provide lifecycle management and technical services needed to maintain a Tomahawk cruise missile depot facility for the U.S. Navy and U.K. government. Work covers depot maintenance, demilitarization preparation, system test operations, spare parts supply and repair services, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Air Systems Command will […] More
Lockheed Martin has agreed to collaborate with the Saudi Federation for Cyber Security and Programming in efforts to help train future information technology security professionals in Saudi Arabia. Both parties aim to help increase the country’s capacity to defend against computer intrusions and viruses through their partnership, the Saudi Press Agency said Friday. Federation Deputy Chairman […] More
Capstone will continue to provide mobile training teams and course development services to the Commander, Navy Installations Command under a task order awarded through a multiple-award contract vehicle. The company said Sunday it will help manage curriculum, facilitate courseware, administer staff, conduct professional instruction and support white-cell activities for CNIC Region and Installation Security and Emergency […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a $13.8 million contract to deliver programmatic and engineering services for the Japanese government’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye weapon system trainer. Services will be done to support the development, integration and verification of the early warning aircraft trainer under a foreign military sales effort with Japan, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will conduct 60 […] More
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has approved of President Donald Trump’s move to sign an executive memorandum that would impose tariffs on certain products in response to China’s unfair trade practices, CNBC reported Thursday. Trump proposed to implement additional 25 percent tariffs that could potentially impact Chinese imports worth approximately $60 billion. “This is a very important moment […] More
