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  • Military Vet Mark Donaldson Joins Boeing Defense Australia as Strategic Adviser
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    Military Vet Mark Donaldson Joins Boeing Defense Australia as Strategic Adviser

    Boeing‘s defense business in Australia has appointed Australian military veteran Mark Donaldson to serve as a strategic defense adviser. The company said Wednesday Donaldson will support Boeing Defense Australia‘s growth strategy in the areas of joint and land systems. Darren Edwards, vice president and managing director for Boeing Defense Australia, said Donaldson will provide strategic counsel that will […] More

  • OGSystems Adds Former Novetta CEO Peter LaMontagne to Board of Directors
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    OGSystems Adds Former Novetta CEO Peter LaMontagne to Board of Directors

    Peter LaMontagne, former CEO of analytics company Novetta, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Chantilly, Virginia-based geospatial and security technology provider OGSystems. OGSystems said Monday LaMontagne brings to his more than 17 years of national security and technology experience in the commercial and federal markets to the company. “We are very excited that Peter will […] More

  • NASA Offers Commercial Licensing for 2 CubeSat Technologies
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    NASA Offers Commercial Licensing for 2 CubeSat Technologies

    NASA has unveiled commercial licensing opportunities for two agency-built technologies geared for small spacecraft and satellites. The technologies were part of the recently launched Dellingr six-unit CubeSat created at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA said Tuesday. Enidia Santiago-Arce, senior technology manager for the Goddard Strategic Partnerships Office, said the unit constantly seeks partners and licensees for NASA […] More

  • Orbital ATK Brings Comms Satellite to French Guiana Ahead of January Launch
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    Orbital ATK Brings Comms Satellite to French Guiana Ahead of January Launch

    Orbital ATK has transported a hybrid electric propulsion communications satellite built for Al Yah Satellite Communications to a launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of the system’s intended liftoff in January 2018. Orbital ATK said Thursday it built the GEOStar-3 satellite designated Al Yah 3 to help expand Yahsat’s commercial Ka-band services to approximately 600 million […] More

  • Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles
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    Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles

    The government of Romania has signed an agreement to buy Lockheed Martin-built Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and related equipment from the U.S. government. Scott Arnold, vice president and deputy of integrated air and missile defense at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said in a statement published Thursday the company is honored […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator
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    Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator

    TRU Simulation + Training, a Textron subsidiary, will test an augmented reality feature for the Bell V-280 Valor helicopter simulator, Defense News reported Thursday. John Hayward, senior vice president and general manager of military and the business simulation sector at TRU, told the company developed the V-280 simulator to introduce augmented reality features in the […] More

  • CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a one-year, $1.8 million contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support a mobile-based electronic validation technology the company developed through previous agreements with FEMA. CTC said Thursday it helped develop FEMA’s Federal and Mutual Aid Emergency Response Official Accountability Tracking System for the agency to identify personnel in the event of […] More

  • DoD Taps Lockheed to Design New Heavily Armed Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia
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    DoD Taps Lockheed to Design New Heavily Armed Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia

    Lockheed Martin has received a $22.7 million contract from the Defense Department to transform the design of current Freedom-class littoral combat ships into a heavily armed multi-mission surface combatant, USNI News reported Thursday. The contractor secured the award via a potential $20 billion foreign military sales deal with Saudi Arabia for various arms such as […] More

  • Lockheed Assembles First Comms Satellite for Saudi Arabia-Based Operator
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    Lockheed Assembles First Comms Satellite for Saudi Arabia-Based Operator

    Lockheed Martin has finished assembly and integration work on the first of two communications satellites the U.S. aerospace contractor is building for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City’s Science and Technology organization in Saudi Arabia. Lockheed said Thursday it shipped the Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 satellite to a company facility in Sunnyvale, California to undergo environmental tests that would simulate various  launch and space […] More

  • UK Allocates Nearly $73M for Aerospace R&D Projects
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    UK Allocates Nearly $73M for Aerospace R&D Projects

    The U.K. government plans to invest nearly $73 million in seven research and development projects meant to support innovation in the British aerospace sector. The funds will be awarded through the Aerospace Technology Institute as part of the British government and industry’s commitment to invest as much as $5.3 billion in civil aerospace R&D initiatives by 2026, […] More

  • Esri Agrees to Expand Airbus Defense & Space Unit’s GIS Tech Access
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    Esri Agrees to Expand Airbus Defense & Space Unit’s GIS Tech Access

    Esri has signed an enterprise agreement to extend Airbus‘ access to a geographic information system to support the intelligence program line of the latter’s defense and space business. Airbus seeks to expand its use of Esri-built ArcGIS platform in efforts to help address  environmental, social and economic challenges globally with the use of the mapping and geospatial analysis […] More

  • Blue Sky Network to Provide Satellite Phones to International Monetary Fund
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    Blue Sky Network to Provide Satellite Phones to International Monetary Fund

    The International Monetary Fund has selected Blue Sky Network to supply satellite-based communications systems for use by IMF personnel who travel to high-risk locations worldwide. Blue Sky Network said Thursday it will deliver Iridium 9575 Extreme satellite phones under a multiyear contract with IMF. Extreme is a military-grade handheld device designed with shock/water resistance, voice, data and tracking features. Gregoire […] More