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  • Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program
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    Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program

    Lockheed Martin and five other defense contractors have formed a consortium to offer a warship design for a program that seeks to replace the Canadian navy’s fleet of surface combatants. The Canada’s Combat Ship Team composed of Lockheed’s Canadian arm, CAE, BAE Systems, L3 Technologies, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates – now called Maxar Technologies – and […] More

  • BAE, Asco Form Advanced Manufacturing, Eurofighter Typhoon Partnership
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    BAE, Asco Form Advanced Manufacturing, Eurofighter Typhoon Partnership

    BAE Systems and Asco Industries have agreed to partner across the areas of composite materials, additive layer manufacturing, advanced manufacturing and engineering. Both companies will also pursue potential airframe assembly and manufacturing work on Eurofighter Typhoon should Belgium pick the aircraft to replace its fleet of F-15 fighter jets, BAE said Nov. 21. BAE and […] More

  • Deltek: Federal Cloud Spending via NIH CIO-CS GWAC Reached $28M in FY 2015-2017
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    Deltek: Federal Cloud Spending via NIH CIO-CS GWAC Reached $28M in FY 2015-2017

    A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent a total of $28.3 million on cloud platforms and services from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2017 through the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer IT Commodities and Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. NIH spent $18.8 million on cloud platforms over the past three fiscal years, followed by the National […] More

  • CAE, Rockwell Collins Form LVC Training Partnership; Gene Colabatistto Comments
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    CAE, Rockwell Collins Form LVC Training Partnership; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has teamed up with Rockwell Collins to build live, virtual, constructive integrated training platforms. The companies announced the partnership at the four-day Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference that kicked off Monday in Orlando, Florida, CAE said Monday. “Integrated live, virtual, constructive training is becoming more critical as defense forces look to cost-effectively maintain readiness and prepare […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Integration Work on 3rd Air Force GPS III Satellite
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    Lockheed Completes Integration Work on 3rd Air Force GPS III Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has wrapped up integration work on the third GPS III satellite the company built for the U.S. Air Force through its processing facility in Denver, Colorado. Lockheed technicians finished the integration of the propulsion core, navigation payload, system module and other major components into the GPS III Space Vehicle 03 on Aug. 14 […] More

  • Accenture, Partnership for Public Service Urge Agencies to Use Tech in Citizen Service Delivery
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    Accenture, Partnership for Public Service Urge Agencies to Use Tech in Citizen Service Delivery

    Accenture’s federal services business and the Partnership for Public Service have released an issue brief that calls on government agencies to adopt three strategies in order to change the way they deliver services to citizens. Kathy Conrad, director of digital government at Accenture Federal Services, wrote in a guest piece posted Wednesday on Government Executive that […] More

  • DARPA Issues RFI on Subterranean Domain Navigation, Mapping Tech Concepts
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    DARPA Issues RFI on Subterranean Domain Navigation, Mapping Tech Concepts

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a request for information on potential concepts for novel technology platforms designed to navigate and map urban underground infrastructure, manmade tunnels, natural cave networks and other subterranean environments. DARPA said Tuesday it is interested in platforms that can help locate trapped survivors and other objects of interest […] More

  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Uses 3D Printing Tech to Help Simulate, Virtualize Satellite Designs
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    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Uses 3D Printing Tech to Help Simulate, Virtualize Satellite Designs

    Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of space systems segment at Lockheed Martin, told Via Satellite in an interview published Tuesday the company has made multi-year investments across its production processes in order to compete with “NewSpace” startups and meet mission demands. “What we’re really concentrating on now is designing in 3D — what we call […] More

  • Orbital ATK Backs Delta II Rocket Launch With Solid Rocket Motors, Payload Fairing
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    Orbital ATK Backs Delta II Rocket Launch With Solid Rocket Motors, Payload Fairing

    Orbital ATK supplied a composite fairing component and nine graphite epoxy motors – GEM 40 – for a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II rocket that took off Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The first Joint Polar Satellite System that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration developed through a collaborative effort launched aboard the Delta […] More

  • DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments
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    DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments

    Project Performance Co., a Data Systems Analysts subsidiary, has received a potential $6 million contract to upgrade the Justice Department’s Victim Notification System. PPC said it will update the VNS application that works to send automated notifications to federal crimes victims through the use of Pegasystems’ Pega 7 platform. Pega 7 is an application development […] More

  • Applied DNA Gets DLA Microcircuit DNA Marking Support Extension
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    Applied DNA Gets DLA Microcircuit DNA Marking Support Extension

    Applied DNA Sciences has received a one-year contract extension to provide DNA marking support services for the Defense Logistics Agency’s Federal Supply Class 5962 microcircuits. The company said Monday the contract extension will run through Oct. 13, 2018, and will cover the application of the firm’s SigNature DNA marks and provision of related supplies, equipment and […] More