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  • BAE Plans $508M Investment to Support UAV Integration Into UK Airspace
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    BAE Plans $508M Investment to Support UAV Integration Into UK Airspace

    BAE Systems will invest $508 million to revive an industry-led effort to establish regulations and technology for the integration of unmanned air vehicles into the U.K. national airspace, FlightGlobal reported Tuesday. Beth Stevenson writes the U.K. government’s business department previously funded the Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment program before it cancelled the effort to […] More

  • Deloitte Report Suggests Private Sector M&A-Derived Actions for Presidential Transition Team
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    Deloitte Report Suggests Private Sector M&A-Derived Actions for Presidential Transition Team

    A new Deloitte report says the next U.S. president’s transition team should adopt some of the lessons derived from mergers and acquisitions in the private sector in order to facilitate transition and integration efforts in the government. “The Presidential Transition: Translating lessons from Mergers & Acquisitions” report calls on the next administration’s transition team to […] More

  • DHS, Israel’s Public Security Agency Seek First Responder Tech Grant Applications
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    DHS, Israel’s Public Security Agency Seek First Responder Tech Grant Applications

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate and the Israeli ministry of public security have announced a potential $1 million grant opportunity for developers of first responder technologies. DHS said Wednesday the NextGen First Responder Technologies program seeks new protective clothing, situational awareness and wearable platforms that can work to help  address capacity gaps listed on the […] More

  • Deltek Includes Potential State, Local & Education Market Opportunities in GovWin IQ Platform
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    Deltek Includes Potential State, Local & Education Market Opportunities in GovWin IQ Platform

    Deltek has added profiles of state, local and education organizations to the company’s market intelligence platform in a push to help government contractors identify  new business opportunities. GovWin IQ now offers data-based comparisons of more than 100,000 SLED organizations based on population, employment, expenditures and procurement activity, Deltek said Thursday. Kevin Plexico, vice president of Deltek’s information solutions business, said the company designed […] More

  • IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments
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    IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments

    IBM’s research business and Rice University have developed a robot assistant that uses Watson-based cognitive computing application to help manage care for elderly people. The prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant is designed to measure an individual’s heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate and provide answers to health-related queries as part of a study that aims to improve eldercare, IBM said […] More

  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • Report: Talks Continue on Potential Boeing, Lockheed Fighter Aircraft Production Facilities in India
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    Report: Talks Continue on Potential Boeing, Lockheed Fighter Aircraft Production Facilities in India

    The U.S. and Indian governments look to close a deal that will potentially bring the production of fighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin and Boeing to India, the Washington Post reported Monday. Annie Gowen writes Lockheed has proposed to move its Texas-based F-16 assembly line to India, which will make the country the sole producer of the single-engine aircraft that […] More

  • BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments
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    BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments

    BAE Systems has transported a new dry dock to the company’s San Diego shipyard as part of its $100 million investment to support the U.S. Navy’s fleet repair efforts on the West Coast. The Posh Terasea Eagle ship towed the 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock to the shipyard, where it will undergo testing, installation, final assembly and certification, BAE said Thursday. Joe […] More

  • Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store
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    Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store

    Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More

  • BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform
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    BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform

    BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries turned over the USS John Finn guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held on the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division signed the DD 250 document that represents the  official transfer of the ship’s custody to the military service, the company said Wednesday. “Years of working with the DDG 51 program has created a team […] More

  • Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England
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    Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England

    Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More