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  • Boeing Hands AH-64E Apache Crew Trainer to South Korea’s Army
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    Boeing Hands AH-64E Apache Crew Trainer to South Korea’s Army

    South Korea’s army has received an aircrew training system from Boeing as part of the country’s $1.6 billion order for 36 company-built AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters and associated training and logistical support services. Boeing said Monday the Apache Longbow Crew Trainer is equipped with flight software and flight and avionics simulation models designed to generate a training environment for crew mission readiness […] More

  • Air Force Taps Integrity Applications for White Lightening Software, Hardware Devt Contract
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    Air Force Taps Integrity Applications for White Lightening Software, Hardware Devt Contract

    Integrity Applications Inc. has landed an $8.6 million contract to provide white lightening software and hardware as well as technical documentation services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday IAI will develop concepts that will work to identify attributes and characteristics required for the analysis of operational status, capacities and modes of operation to […] More

  • Cubic Appoints Corporate HR VP Darryl Albertson as Chief HR & Diversity Officer
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    Cubic Appoints Corporate HR VP Darryl Albertson as Chief HR & Diversity Officer

    Darryl Albertson, formerly Cubic vice president of corporate human resources, will take the new role of chief HR and diversity officer at the company. Cubic said Tuesday Albertson will help broaden the company’s efforts to support and promote diversity and inclusion among its customers, suppliers and employees. “Darryl plays an integral role in bringing qualified talent to Cubic and his new role […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Jenna Hafey: ‘Data-Centric Security’ Approach Can Help Public Sector Protect Sensitive Content
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    Carahsoft’s Jenna Hafey: ‘Data-Centric Security’ Approach Can Help Public Sector Protect Sensitive Content

    Jenna Hafey, sales manager of the Adobe team at Carahsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that she believes public sector organizations should incorporate security into their content creation, collaboration and consumption processes. “Data-centric security should be the default approach in the public sector, especially to protect personally identifiable or classified data that will inevitably be […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Andy Start: Government Can Utilize Five A’s Approach for Cost-Capability Balance
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    Inmarsat’s Andy Start: Government Can Utilize Five A’s Approach for Cost-Capability Balance

    Andy Start, president of Inmarsat‘s global government business unit, said the “five A’s” approach postulated by Gartner analysts Mark McDonald and Andy Rowsell-Jones can help the government balance operating capability and cost. Start wrote in a blog post published Thursday the “Augment, Apply, Accompany, Apply and Abstract” approach in the digital world can be modified into the […] More

  • NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects
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    NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects

    NASA has chosen eight university teams to work with the agency’s engineers and scientists on two-year projects to develop new small spacecraft technologies. The space agency said Saturday these collaborations aim to create small, lightweight spacecraft that could support science, exploration and space operations. NASA chose from a variety of submitted proposals on enhanced power generation and […] More

  • Airbus Eyes Autonomous Flying Vehicle Concept to Address Urban Congestion
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    Airbus Eyes Autonomous Flying Vehicle Concept to Address Urban Congestion

    Airbus Group plans to develop an autonomous flying vehicle platform concept to fly over traffic jams in an effort to relieve urban congestion and address traffic concerns that resulted from urbanization in “megacities.” The aerospace conglomerate said in a report its A3 outpost has pursued an individual passenger and cargo transport autonomous flying vehicle platform project coined Vahana that has scheduled first vehicle […] More

  • Raytheon Launches Battle Mgmt System at Army Cyber Quest Event
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    Raytheon Launches Battle Mgmt System at Army Cyber Quest Event

    Raytheon has unveiled a battle management platform the company built to integrate cyber and electromagnetic spectrum awareness features into the defense contractor’s Electronic Warfare Program Management Tool. The company said Monday it showcased the Cyber and Electromagnetic Battle Management platform at the U.S. Army‘s Cyber Quest event. CEMBM is designed to provide a shared situational understanding of electronic warfare, EMS and cyber domains […] More

  • Army to Apply Demo-First Approach for Air & Missile Defense Radar Competition
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    Army to Apply Demo-First Approach for Air & Missile Defense Radar Competition

    The U.S. Army plans to begin its future air and missile defense sensor competition with demonstrations as part of the service branch’s new acquisition approach that aims to shorten a program’s development period, Defense News reported Thursday. Maj. Gen. Neil Thurgood told Defense News the Army aims to use a “knowledge points” system to decide whether to […] More

  • DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries
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    DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries

    The Defense Department has given initial purchase orders to Cubic‘s TeraLogics, DTECH Labs and GATR Technologies subsidiaries for the delivery of Tactical Two-way Sensor Data Transport baseband kits. Cubic said Monday the integrated T2SDT system to be delivered by its subsidiaries that operate within the Cubic Mission Solutions business division aims to help boost existing Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel via Satellite terminal capacity. […] More

  • DHS Taps JGW International, Reamda to Develop EOD Robot Operator Control Unit
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    DHS Taps JGW International, Reamda to Develop EOD Robot Operator Control Unit

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $422,330 contract to JGW International to produce a universal operator control unit for four explosive ordnance disposal robotic platforms. DHS’ science and technology directorate will collaborate with JGW International and its  partner Reamda to create a system that will work to help bomb technicians operate multiple robotic platforms using a single standardized control unit console, the […] More

  • DARPA to Brief Proposers on Microelectronic Tech Programs
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    DARPA to Brief Proposers on Microelectronic Tech Programs

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on Sept. 20 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the microsystems technology office’s mission and three technical areas that MTO aims to address in the field of microelectronics. DARPA said Friday those areas of interest include the need to control and exploit the electromagnetic spectrum, development […] More