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  • NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite
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    NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite

    The first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites launched Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:42 p.m. Eastern time. NOAA said Saturday the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the orbit within two weeks and will work to provide […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility

    ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the national environmental satellite, data and information service division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for systems engineering support to NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Alaska. The company said Thursday its federal technical services subsidiary will perform the work under the NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station […] More

  • Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs
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    Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs

    Raytheon looks to add up to 2,000 positions over the next five years through an expansion of the defense company’s missile systems business headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. Raytheon said Friday it will hire workers at all skill levels to serve in engineering and higher-wage technical roles. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon’s missile systems unit, said that several Arizona-based organizations will help the company meet workforce and infrastructure needs to […] More

  • BAE Develops Bendable Titanium Alloy Suspension System for Military Vehicles
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    BAE Develops Bendable Titanium Alloy Suspension System for Military Vehicles

    BAE Systems has developed a bendable titanium alloy suspension system that the company said has the potential to protect military vehicles from explosive impacts. The suspension system is based on the hard shells and legs of ironclad beetles and the system uses memory metal alloy to “bounce back” into shape after impact, BAE said Sunday. Marcus Potter, head of mobility at […] More

  • Navy Selects L-3 Switchgear for Ohio Replacement Submarine; Christine Montalvo Comments
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    Navy Selects L-3 Switchgear for Ohio Replacement Submarine; Christine Montalvo Comments

    L-3 Communications has won a contract to provide switchgear equipment for the power distribution and protection system of a future U.S. Navy submarine. Work covers design, qualification and delivery of switchgear to the first submarine built to replace the military branch’s legacy Ohio-class platform, L-3 Communications said Friday. L-3’s surge protection device electrical systems business has been assigned to perform the […] More

  • DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop’s Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype
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    DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop’s Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research aim to commence ground-based and at-sea flight tests of a Northrop Grumman-built prototype unmanned air system in 2018 as part of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. DARPA said Thursday its joint Tern project with ONR seeks to utilize forward-deployed small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates as mobile launch […] More

  • Deloitte Report: Aerospace & Defense Firms Need to Adapt Business Strategies to Evolving Market Conditions
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    Deloitte Report: Aerospace & Defense Firms Need to Adapt Business Strategies to Evolving Market Conditions

    A new report by Deloitte says aerospace and defense firms that modified their business models and strategies based on changing market conditions outperformed by sevenfold those that did not make any adjustments to their strategies. The finding is based on an analysis of performance of 100 largest firms in the aerospace and defense sector in the last […] More

  • Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards
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    Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards

    Authentic8 has updated its virtual browser to validate users with government-issued common access cards in efforts to help address federal customers’ demand for added CAC functionality. The company said Thursday its Silo virtual browser will be configured with the Defense Department‘s public certificates. “Support for CAC authentication ranked high on our customers’ list of requested enhancements,” said Authentic8 co-founder and […] More

  • GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner
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    GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner

    The General Services Administration has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to assist in the redevelopment project for the Transportation Department’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT will act as exchange partner for the project and help GSA pick a team to design a nearly 400,000-square-foot federal facility as a […] More

  • Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments
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    Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments

    Infor has partnered with Drone Aviation to develop an unmanned aerial system-based enterprise platform designed to help public and private sector customers manage assets. The Drone Enterprise Asset Management Solution integrates Drone Aviation’s tethered drone technologies with Infor’s enterprise asset management system for organizations to inspect buildings, power stations, railways and other assets, Drone Aviation said Tuesday. Drone Aviation’s tethered drones […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy
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    Boeing’s Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has demonstrated the new wide-area maritime surface search and identification feature of its unmanned aerial vehicle to the U.K. navy, military officials and industry representatives. Insitu said Tuesday it installed the ViDAR payload in a ScanEagle UAV that was used to conduct various maritime missions during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior demonstration held in Benbecula, Scotland. […] More

  • Qualys’ Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS
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    Qualys’ Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS

    Qualys‘ cloud platform has received an authority-to-operate from the Department of Health and Human Services under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as the company seeks to expand its footprint in federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday the Qualys Cloud Platform provides more than 9,200 organizations an integrated suite to support asset discovery, compliance monitoring, network security, […] More