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  • Lockheed Seeks Unmanned Maritime Opportunities Through Ocean Aero Investment
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    Lockheed Seeks Unmanned Maritime Opportunities Through Ocean Aero Investment

    Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm has invested in Ocean Aero as both companies aim to seek opportunities to expand their autonomous maritime capabilities. The strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures seeks to help the firms continue to demonstrate their capability to configure teams of autonomous platforms for complex missions, Lockheed said Friday. Chris Moran, executive director […] More

  • Northrop to Help Air Force Test North Pole EHF Satcom System
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    Northrop to Help Air Force Test North Pole EHF Satcom System

    Northrop Grumman has received a $22.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide testing support for a system designed to manage strategic and tactical satellites communications in the North Polar region. The Defense Department said Friday Northrop’s information systems unit will help the military branch test the Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment ahead of […] More

  • New Age Protection to Help Manage DIA Access Control Program
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    New Age Protection to Help Manage DIA Access Control Program

    New Age Protection has won a potential $23.5 million contract to support management of a Defense Intellience Agency access control program. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also help DIA establish accountability measures for vehicle, personnel and equipment that enter and leave agency facilities. The Virginia Contracting Activity received five offers for the labor hour […] More

  • AT&T to Provide Army Integrated Comms Service
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    AT&T to Provide Army Integrated Comms Service

    AT&T has secured a potential five-year, $35.8 million contract for the provision of integrated instant messaging, chat, voice, video, presence and screen sharing services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the Army Contracting Command received seven bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online-based solicitation. The military branch obligated the full contract amount […] More

  • Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract
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    Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract

    Leidos has won a potential five-year, $23.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop integrated threat warning systems. The Defense Department said Friday Leidos will research, build and demonstrate integrated threat warning platform prototypes as well as advance electro-optical test and developmental risk reduction measures. Work will occur at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through Sept. […] More

  • General Dynamics Performs Ajax Armored Vehicle Live-Fire Tests; Kevin Connell Comments
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    General Dynamics Performs Ajax Armored Vehicle Live-Fire Tests; Kevin Connell Comments

    General Dynamics‘ land systems unit in the U.K. has conducted manned live-fire trials for its armored vehicle program using CTA International-built weapons including a 40mm autocannon, chain gun and smoke grenade launchers, UPI reported Friday. The company will continue to perform testing activities on the Ajax armored vehicles which will range from static firing on […] More

  • A. West to Update Electrical Systems at Sheppard AF Base
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    A. West to Update Electrical Systems at Sheppard AF Base

    A. West Enterprise has won a two-year, $15 million contract to construct an underground power distribution system and update airfield lighting at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. The company said Friday it will design and build airlighting for the base’s four major runways, remove overhead electrical wires and repair circuit 1 system controls as the […] More

  • DISA Selects Vetegrity for Computer-Aided Drafting, Engineering Contract
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    DISA Selects Vetegrity for Computer-Aided Drafting, Engineering Contract

    Vetegrity has won a potential five-year, $27 million contract to provide computer-aided drafting and engineering services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA received two proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will provide the guaranteed minimum value of $500,000 through issuance of subsequent task orders, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will perform work at DISA headquarters […] More

  • Report: Boeing Vet Roger Roberts Named Hera Systems CEO
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    Report: Boeing Vet Roger Roberts Named Hera Systems CEO

    Roger Roberts, who led Boeing‘s space and intelligence systems business from 1997 to 2015, has joined Hera Systems as CEO of the Earth observation satellite company, Space News reported Friday. The report said Roberts succeeds Hera founder Bobby Machinski, who will transition to a new role as chief business development officer of the satellite startup. Roberts […] More

  • Navy Selects Charles River Analytics to Identify, Assess Bots on Social Media
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    Navy Selects Charles River Analytics to Identify, Assess Bots on Social Media

    Charles River Analytics has been awarded by the U.S. Navy a potential $2 million contract to perform analysis and identify “bots” on social media networks under an Office for Naval Research program. The Composable Hybrid Approach to Recognizing Bots and their Influence in Social Media Analysis or CHARISMA program aims to distinguish and assess risk, threats and vulnerabilities in social media […] More

  • BlackSky, NGA Partner on GEOINT Broker Platform Work for Air Force Lab
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    BlackSky, NGA Partner on GEOINT Broker Platform Work for Air Force Lab

    Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to develop a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory under a previously awarded $16.4 million contract. The GEOINT Broker Development Platform will utilize an agile development approach that works to enable users to continuously provide input to build the technology, Spaceflight announced Thursday. […] More