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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a third development jettison motor built to support the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft at the company’s Rancho Cordova, California facility. The company said Wednesday its jettison motor will be integrated alongside an attitude control and abort motor on the spacecraft’s next test flight called Exploration Mission-1 which covers travel of about 40,000 miles beyond the moon and return to […] More

  • Orbital ATK Unveils New Rocket Motor Manufacturing Facilities in West Virginia
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    Orbital ATK Unveils New Rocket Motor Manufacturing Facilities in West Virginia

    Orbital ATK has unveiled new large tactical motor manufacturing facilities at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, West Virginia as part of the company’s efforts to fulfill demand for insensitive munitions rocket motors. The company said Wednesday the new facilities will help create a production line for Orbital ATK’s family of propulsion systems that support defense programs. Orbital ATK […] More

  • Reuters: SWIFT Discovers Cyber Theft Attempts Against Member Banks
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    Reuters: SWIFT Discovers Cyber Theft Attempts Against Member Banks

    The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has detected cyber theft attempts against its member banks that resulted in some successful attacks, Reuters reported Wednesday. Jim Finkle writes a SWIFT letter to clients stated the hacking attempts have been discovered since June – after SWIFT gave customers its latest update on cyber attacks. “Customers’ environments have been compromised, and subsequent attempts (were) made to send […] More

  • Progeny Systems Receives $66M Navy Contract for Lightweight Torpedo Sonar Assembly Kits
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    Progeny Systems Receives $66M Navy Contract for Lightweight Torpedo Sonar Assembly Kits

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Progeny Systems a $66.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract to provide MK 54 Mod 1 lightweight torpedo sonar assembly kits and associated test equipment, spare units and engineering and hardware services. The Navy will use Progeny’s sonar assembly kits to build, test and evaluate MK 54 Mod […] More

  • Artis Obtains DoD Approval to Test Active Protection System With Israeli Radars
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    Artis Obtains DoD Approval to Test Active Protection System With Israeli Radars

    Artis has received the Defense Department‘s approval to test and evaluate Israel-based Rada Electronic Industries‘ radars with an Artis-built active protection system, Defense News reported Tuesday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Rada said it would provide its Compact Hemispheric Radar-based RPS-10 system to aid Artis’ Iron Curtain APS in operations against rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched threats. “We have received approval from […] More

  • NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission
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    NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission

    A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff on Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket as part of a NASA  mission to survey a near-Earth asteroid and return a sample back home. Lockheed said the University of Arizona will lead the space agency’s seven-year Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission that aims to explore […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Secures $65M Navy Contract Modification for USS Enterprise Long Lead-Time Materials
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    Huntington Ingalls Secures $65M Navy Contract Modification for USS Enterprise Long Lead-Time Materials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding business has landed a potential $65.3 million undefinitized contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the purchase of long lead-time materials for a Ford-class aircraft carrier. The Defense Department said Wednesday Newport News Shipbuilding will provide the materials for the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier and perform work in Newport News, Virginia, through December 2018. […] More

  • BAE’s US Arm to Unveil ‘Beowulf’ Utility Vehicle at National Guard Symposium
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    BAE’s US Arm to Unveil ‘Beowulf’ Utility Vehicle at National Guard Symposium

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has scheduled the debut of its new all-terrain utility vehicle on Sept. 10 at the National Guard Association of the United States symposium in Baltimore, Maryland. Beowulf is an unarmored version of BAE Systems’ BvS10 combat vehicle built to replace the BV206 small unit support vehicle, BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday. The U.S. […] More

  • Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments
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    Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments

    A new Accenture study has identified five emerging technology trends driven by a “people-first approach” the company believes can help move forward the federal government’s digital initiatives. The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 study sought input from the Technology Vision External Advisory Board that consists of individuals from the public and private sectors and academia, Accenture said Wednesday. Accenture cited intelligent automation, liquid workforce, platform-based […] More

  • USmax to Offer Physical Security, Training Services on GSA Schedule 84
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    USmax to Offer Physical Security, Training Services on GSA Schedule 84

    The General Services Administration has awarded USmax Corp. a position on GSA’s Schedule 84 contract vehicle, allowing the company to provide technical/physical security and training services to federal customers. Potential customer agencies can view the company’s offerings under the 246 60 1 special item number for security systems  integration and design services and the 426 6 SIN for law enforcement/security training, the company […] More

  • DOE Awards Geothermal Energy Research Funds to Sandia Labs, University of Utah
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    DOE Awards Geothermal Energy Research Funds to Sandia Labs, University of Utah

    The Energy Department has allocated $29 million in total funds for two separate geothermal systems research efforts led by the University of Utah and the Sandia National Laboratories. Eeach team will receive funds to instrument, define and permit candidate sites for an underground laboratory as part of DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy program, the department said Wednesday. […] More