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  • NASA Seeks Solar Electric Propulsion Vehicle Concept Studies
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    NASA Seeks Solar Electric Propulsion Vehicle Concept Studies

    NASA has asked industry to submit concept studies on solar electric propulsion vehicle platforms designed to support future deep space exploration missions. A draft broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps says the agency seeks study proposals to support the development of concepts and approaches related to the power and propulsion element under the Next Space Technologies […] More

  • Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics On Track to Complete Design Work on Columbia-Class Submarine
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    Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics On Track to Complete Design Work on Columbia-Class Submarine

    General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic has said the company is on schedule to complete design and development work on the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Novakovic said Wednesday at the Jefferies 2017 Industrials Conference in New York City the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense contractor expects to record $75 billion in revenue […] More

  • Report: Raytheon to Expand Operations, Create 60 Manufacturing Jobs in New Mexico
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    Report: Raytheon to Expand Operations, Create 60 Manufacturing Jobs in New Mexico

    Raytheon will expand its existing 103,000-square-foot facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and add 60 manufacturing jobs in the next six years, Albuquerque Business First reported Friday. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s office announced the company’s expansion plan that will receive $850,000 in funds from the state’s economic development agency through the Local Economic Development Act and […] More

  • Defense Firms Link Unfilled DoD Posts to Contracting Activity Slowdown; Leidos’ Roger Krone Comments
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    Defense Firms Link Unfilled DoD Posts to Contracting Activity Slowdown; Leidos’ Roger Krone Comments

    Some defense industry executives have said the Trump administration’s current process of finding leaders to fill senior-level roles at the Defense Department has resulted in uncertainty and slow pace of contract awards, Reuters reported Saturday. “The still-high number of unfilled leadership appointments and the approaching government physical year-end continue to serve as headwinds,” Leidos CEO […] More

  • State Dept OKs Sale of Harpoon Block II Missiles to Thailand
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    State Dept OKs Sale of Harpoon Block II Missiles to Thailand

    The State Department has cleared Thailand’s request to buy RGM-84L Harpoon Block II surface-launched missiles and related support services from the U.S. under a potential $24.9 million foreign military sales agreement. Thailand also asked to purchase training support, repair and spare parts, technical documentation, containers, logistics, program assistance and engineering support services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said […] More

  • Cybercom to Host Inaugural Industry Day in October
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    Cybercom to Host Inaugural Industry Day in October

    The U.S. Cyber Command will hold its first industry day on Oct. 27 in Springfield, Virginia, in an effort to exercise its congressional authority to procure cybersecurity technology platforms, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. George “Dennis” Bartko, chief information officer and director of capabilities development group at Cybercom, said the command is interested in integrated technology platforms designed […] More

  • SpaceX Conducts Falcon 9 Static Fire Test for 12th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission’s Monday Launch
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    SpaceX Conducts Falcon 9 Static Fire Test for 12th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission’s Monday Launch

    SpaceX completed Thursday a static fire test on Falcon 9 rocket’s Merlin 1D engines at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Monday launch of the Dragon spacecraft as part of the company’s 12th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday. The spacecraft is scheduled to take off […] More

  • BAE Bids on Australia SEA 5000 Future Frigate Program
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    BAE Bids on Australia SEA 5000 Future Frigate Program

    BAE Systems has submitted a proposal to construct nine anti-submarine warfare ships under Australia’s SEA 5000 Future Frigate program. The company said Thursday it proposed the Global Combat Ship-Australia for the program nearly a month after it started construction work on the first Type 26 Global Combat Ship designed to replace the U.K. navy’s Type 23 […] More

  • Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Advance Data Analytics Via Collaboration, Network Creation
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    Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Advance Data Analytics Via Collaboration, Network Creation

    Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said government agencies should establish an information technology network that will work to help them analyze and derive insights from large data workloads as a result of the adoption of internet-connected devices. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article published Tuesday that an IT […] More

  • VA Issues Mobile Cloud Services Infrastructure RFI
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    VA Issues Mobile Cloud Services Infrastructure RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has released a request for information on potential contractors that can support the development of a mobile cloud services infrastructure for VA. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the VA MCS system will replace the department’s mobile infrastructure services platform that works to facilitate common controls sharing and management across […] More

  • DLT, Hortonworks Forge Open-Source Analytics Tech Partnership; Shaun Bierweiler Comments
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    DLT, Hortonworks Forge Open-Source Analytics Tech Partnership; Shaun Bierweiler Comments

    DLT Solutions and Hortonworks have teamed up to expand the adoption of open source-based analytics platforms designed to help federal agencies and other public sector institutions perform data analysis and management operations. DLT said Wednesday it will collaborate with Hortonworks to provide open data platforms that will work to provide actionable intelligence support to agencies without […] More

  • Boeing, General Dynamics to Demo Short-Range Air Defense System at Army Shoot-Off
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    Boeing, General Dynamics to Demo Short-Range Air Defense System at Army Shoot-Off

    Boeing and a General Dynamics subsidiary have introduced a short-range air defense platform mounted on a reconfigured Stryker armored vehicle at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama, Defense News reported Wednesday. General Dynamics Land Systems and Boeing also intend to demonstrate the Manuever SHORAD Launcher Stryker system at a U.S. Army-hosted shoot-off in […] More