Jane Edwards

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential $67 million contract to develop an electric propulsion system for integration with NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion space vehicles. The company said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded under the Advanced Electric Propulsion System program and covers development and qualification work on five 12.5-kilowatt Hall thruster subsystems for the Solar Electric […] More

Northrop Grumman has received component parts from Korea Jig and Fixture and Firstec for integration with South Korea’s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Thursday it received deliveries of KJF-built aerospace-grade machine parts after Firstec handed the wire harnesses designed to transmit electrical signals for the UAS early this year. Firstec and KJF started producing […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

DigitalGlobe has entered into a tentative agreement to provide an unidentified international defense and intelligence agency with direct access to a commercial Earth observation satellite with the receipt of a letter of intent. The company said Wednesday the agreement will cover access to high-resolution Earth imagery from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite for a period of three […] More

Raytheon has received a potential $21.6 million contract to continue to provide software updates in support of the 2016 tactical control system Linux cyber baseline of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system. The company will perform work in Dulles, Virginia, through October 2018 under the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

Engility has received four contracts worth approximately $102 million combined from the Intelligence Community during the first quarter of 2016. Intelligence agencies made the awards in the form of recompete, sole-source and new contracts, Engility said Wednesday. The contracts are in addition to a potential five-year, $82 million contract awarded by the Defense Department to Engility in […] More

LinQuest has received a potential five-year, $67.8 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical support services to the space and missile systems center’s remote sensing systems directorate. The service branch received three offers for the task order that was awarded under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business contract […] More