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  • Parsons Debuts ZEUS 4 Mine-Clearing System for Air Force JLTVs
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    Parsons Debuts ZEUS 4 Mine-Clearing System for Air Force JLTVs

    Parsons has developed ZEUS 4, a next-generation directed laser energy mine-clearing system for integration onto a joint light tactical vehicle, or JLTV, under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center, Readiness Directorate.  Mike Kushin, Parsons’ president of defense and intelligence, said that aside from enhancing operational capabilities, the […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Partners With Nokia & Verizon on 5G for DOD Use
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    Lockheed Martin Partners With Nokia & Verizon on 5G for DOD Use

    Nokia’s 5G technologies and Verizon network management capabilities have been integrated into Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL hybrid base station in demonstrations of commercial 5G interoperability with military communication networks. Open systems architecture and commercial standards were integrated in traditional tactical communication tools during the demonstrations, Lockheed Martin said. The open standards approach enables the rapid integration […] More

  • Core4ce Appoints Navy Vet Doug Small to Advisory Board
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    Core4ce Appoints Navy Vet Doug Small to Advisory Board

    Core4ce, a federal contractor for data and cybersecurity services, has appointed Doug Small, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, to its board of advisers. He brings to the Arlington, Virginia-based company over 30 years of military experience, including as leader of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Core4ce said Thursday. Project Overmatch Past Lead Role […] More

  • Trump Appoints CACI Exec Hung Cao as Navy Under Secretary
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    Trump Appoints CACI Exec Hung Cao as Navy Under Secretary

    President Donald Trump has nominated Hung Cao, a retired U.S. Navy captain, as Department of the Navy under secretary, calling him “the embodiment of the American Dream,” the New York Post reported Friday. Trump cited Cao’s 25 years of combat experience as a special operations officer and his immigration to the United States as a […] More

  • PsiQuantum Develops New Chipset for Quantum Computing
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    PsiQuantum Develops New Chipset for Quantum Computing

    PsiQuantum will deploy Omega, a photonic chipset designed specifically for the utility-scale quantum computers it is developing in the United States and Australia under partnership agreements. The company presented the chipset’s advanced components and features vital to the development of million-cubit-scale quantum computers in a paper Nature published Wednesday. The paper discussed the high-fidelity qubit […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Demos New System Against Small Drones
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    Lockheed Martin Demos New System Against Small Drones

    Lockheed Martin announced it had completed the first in a series of field demonstrations for a new counter-unmanned aerial system designed to deter small drones.  The new tool uses a command and control platform to integrate various sensors to collect data for conversion into actionable information through Lockheed’s complementary technologies, Tyler Griffin, Lockheed Martin’s C-UAS […] More

  • Constellis Subsidiary Centerra Secures Spot on $249M Guantanamo Naval Base Construction Contract
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    Constellis Subsidiary Centerra Secures Spot on $249M Guantanamo Naval Base Construction Contract

    Centerra, the infrastructure services subsidiary of non-financial risk management company Constellis, has secured a spot on a $249 million multiple award construction contract for general construction projects at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, also known as NAVSTA. Terry Ryan, Constellis CEO, said in a statement Wednesday that the award shows the company’s […] More

  • Prometheus Energetics Debuts as Kratos-Rafael JV for Solid Rocket Motors
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    Prometheus Energetics Debuts as Kratos-Rafael JV for Solid Rocket Motors

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have formed Prometheus Energetics, a joint venture for the production and distribution of solid rocket motors and other energetics for the defense industrial base. The partnership has a joint total commitment of up to $175 million in capital at approximately 50-50 sharing, Kratos said Wednesday. […] More

  • Booz Allen Hamilton Lands Spot on $249M NAVAIR Contract
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    Booz Allen Hamilton Lands Spot on $249M NAVAIR Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a spot on a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, subordinate NAVAIR commands and program executive offices. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract is valued an estimated $249 million, with the selected companies given the opportunity to bid for individual task orders, according to a […] More

  • Rheinmetall Unifies & Rebrands US Vehicle Manufacturing Operations
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    Rheinmetall Unifies & Rebrands US Vehicle Manufacturing Operations

    The U.S. vehicle manufacturing operations of Germany-based global automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has been rebranded as American Rheinmetall. The move on the venture, formerly known as American Rheinmetall Vehicles, merges its three core businesses: System Prime work, Tier 1 Component work, and Commercial work, Rheinmetall said. The integration includes the operations of Loc Performance, […] More

  • Auria Touts Benefits of EASI Architecture to NOAA Satellite Ops Scheduling
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    Auria Touts Benefits of EASI Architecture to NOAA Satellite Ops Scheduling

    Space systems and software company Auria recently announced having developed the Enterprise Automated Scheduling Implementation architecture, or EASI, which is meant to enhance the scheduling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s satellite operations Challenges of Legacy Satellite Scheduling Auria said Friday that NOAA’s satellite operations involve the use of a network of ground and […] More

  • Pratt & Whitney Design Review Advances Engine Prototyping for Next-Gen Air Force Aircraft
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    Pratt & Whitney Design Review Advances Engine Prototyping for Next-Gen Air Force Aircraft

    Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, can now start hardware procurement for its XA103 engine prototype for the planned next-generation U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft, with the engine’s detailed design review already finished. Ground demonstrations for the prototype engine being developed under the USAF’s Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion, or NGAP, program is expected in the late […] More