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Alphaport has received a potential five-year, $47.5 million contract to provide mission assurance and safety support services to NASA. The company will provide such services under the Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services IIIÂ contract through risk evaluation, investigations, engineering analyses, inspections and assessment of work done by other NASA institutions and contractors, NASA said Wednesday. […] More
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has awarded a $500,000 grant to a business group to perform environmental remediation work on a property in Marinette, Wisconsin, to facilitate the construction of a 23,000-square-foot maritime facility, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday. Rick Barrett writes the Marinette County Association for Business and Industry will use the grant to clean […] More
Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch’s fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work in Indiana through June 30, […] More
The Defense Department has expressed support to proposals by Lockheed Martin and Boeing to produce their respective F-16 and F-18 fighter jets in India as part of the Make in India program, Hindustan Times reported Monday. Shishir Gupta writes Defense Secretary Ashton Carter relayed DoD’s support to the proposals to Manohar Parrikar, India’s defense minister, during the […] More
SpaceX has initiated an investigation into the cause of the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida approximately eight minutes before the rocket’s static fire test. SpaceX said Friday its probe complies with accident investigation plans that include collection of all potential evidence and formation of […] More
Rockwell Collins has unveiled at Land Forces 2016 exhibition in Adelaide, Australia, a new helmet-mounted display system that works to provide situational awareness functionality for warfighters. The company’s Integrated Digital Vision System is designed to combine mission data from command center, unmanned aerial systems and other sources with multispectral vision sensors to provide soldiers a view […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential two-year, $16.4 million contract modification to continue to produce MK 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo array kits for the service branch. The modification exercises the third option year on a previously awarded contract and covers engineering, production support materials, hardware repair services and factory test equipment […] More
CH2M has been chosen by a government agency in Ontario, Canada, to serve as a vehicle technology consultant for the province’s Regional Express Rail program. The RER program is part of the Ontario government’s plan to invest $11.5 billion over 10 years in transit development efforts in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area that includes the electrification […] More
Jennifer Napper, group vice president for defense and intelligence group at Unisys, has said the U.S. Army Cyber Command should adopt software-defined networks as the country counters ground conflicts in the Middle East and faces dwindling resources, PCMag reported Wednesday. Sophia Stuart writes Napper made the remarks at TechNet Augusta conference in Georgia when asked […] More
BAE Systems and Australia have signed a contract that would allow the company to refine its Type 26 Global Combat Ship design in an effort to meet the requirements of Australia’s naval force as part of the SEA 5000 Future Frigate program. Glynn Phillips, CEO of BAE’s Australian arm, said in a statement released Thursday the […] More
DLT Solutions and FinalCode have teamed up to provide file collaboration and sharing security platforms to public sector clients. FinalCode said Tuesday it will integrate its file security-based digital rights management platform with DLT’s portfolio of information security tools. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity for DLT, said the combination of products as a result […] More
The Aerospace Corp. has launched a study that aims to make position, navigation and timing services more resilient through the development of a user-device platform that will work to combine PNT signals from multiple sources. The nonprofit organization said Monday it will use an open-source method to develop a user-device system designed to collect PNT […] More
