Jane Edwards

The U.S. Navy has asked General Atomics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to submit proposed concepts for a carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling tanker through an updated draft request for proposals issued in July, USNI News reported Thursday. The service branch plans to release the final RFP for the MQ-25A Stingray program in the fall of 2017 […] More

Onvia has introduced a sales intelligence platform designed to help sales and marketing professionals identify and manage government contract leads as well as share information on those leads with distributors and channel partners. Onvia 8 is a software-as-a-service platform that works to allow users to access data related to request for proposals and government bids, […] More

Bloomberg Government has introduced a new dashboard designed to help users view expiring government contracts and task orders awarded through the 8(a) set-aside program. Approximately 9,500 expiring federal contracts worth $14 billion combined will be available by Sept. 1 for recompetition as 3,300 small disadvantaged businesses that won contracts through the 8(a) program will no longer […] More

A Lockheed Martin-built radar warning receiver component of the tactical mission platform for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program has completed technical readiness level 6 review. The AN/APR-52 RWR system achieved TRL 6 after the U.S. Air Force demonstrated the platform at its integrated demonstrations and applications laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Lockheed said Wednesday. […] More

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built supercomputer took off aboard a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of SpaceX’s 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer is part of a one-year experiment that HPE will conduct with NASA to […] More

Raytheon has demonstrated an air and missile defense radar platform during the second ballistic missile flight test held at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The Raytheon-built AN/SPY-6(V) radar searched and tracked a long-range ballistic missile test target as well as satellites and aircraft during the live test flight, the company said Tuesday. The […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $106,010 contract to extend desktop software subscription for the Tactical Data Link Integration Exerciser platform. DISA announced the contract award through a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. TIGER is a suite of software tools based on the Defense Department’s data link test system – Multi-Link System […] More