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  • Rocket Lab Appoints Kenneth Possenriede to Board of Directors
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    Rocket Lab Appoints Kenneth Possenriede to Board of Directors

    Kenneth Possenriede, a financial leader with 35 years of experience at Lockheed Martin, was named board director at Rocket Lab USA. Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said in a statement Thursday, “We’re building the space company of the future here – an end-to-end space company that truly unleashes the potential of space as the next industrial […] More

  • Booz Allen to Continue Providing LCMP-IDE Support Under $83M Air Force Contract
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    Booz Allen to Continue Providing LCMP-IDE Support Under $83M Air Force Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a five-year, $82.7 million contract to continue supporting the life cycle management process – integrated data environment for the U.S. Air Force. The contract covers the sustainment of the LCMP-IDE program management tool and software system, infrastructure, applications and related information technology management services, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Supporting […] More

  • Trellix to Secure Defense Department Emails Under DISA Deal
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    Trellix to Secure Defense Department Emails Under DISA Deal

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has tapped Trellix to provide its Email Security service to protect over 4 million Department of Defense inboxes from advanced cyber threats. Trellix said Wednesday the agreement is in support of DISA’s Zero Day Network Defense Program, an initiative designed to safeguard DOD networks from unpatched software vulnerabilities. Email Security offers hyper-automated […] More

  • State Department OKs Potential $100M Javelin Missiles Sale to Australia
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    State Department OKs Potential $100M Javelin Missiles Sale to Australia

    The Department of State has approved Australia’s request to purchase 350 Javelin FGM-148F missiles as part of a $100 million foreign military sales deal. The deal also includes U.S. government technical assistance, technical data, repair and return services and other logistics and program support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. Javelin Joint Venture, a partnership […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Wraps Ups Flight Testing of New Multifunction Sensor
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    Northrop Grumman Wraps Ups Flight Testing of New Multifunction Sensor

    Northrop Grumman has completed the first flight campaign of its Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor, which is designed to perform radar, electronic warfare and communication functions simultaneously in support of warfighter operations. The company said Tuesday the flights demonstrated EMRIS’s open architecture in collaboration with government partners using a government-provided aircraft. During the tests, Northrop demonstrated […] More

  • Telos Opens 8 New TSA PreCheck Enrollment Centers
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    Telos Opens 8 New TSA PreCheck Enrollment Centers

    Telos has opened enrollment and renewal centers for the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck expedited airport screening service at eight new locations across the U.S. As part of its ongoing expansion, the company said Monday it added sites in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, with enrollment operations starting on Aug. 19. Earlier this month, […] More

  • Matthew Liba Named Compute Line of Business VP at Mercury Systems
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    Matthew Liba Named Compute Line of Business VP at Mercury Systems

    Matthew Liba, formerly general manager of Sionyx’s government business unit, has joined aerospace and defense company Mercury Systems as vice president of the compute line of business. In a statement on Sunday, Liba expressed his excitement, saying, “I’m thrilled to be a part of the Mercury team, providing our warfighters with a competitive advantage on the battlefield.” […] More

  • HawkEye 360 Deploys 10th Cluster of RF Monitoring Satellites
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    HawkEye 360 Deploys 10th Cluster of RF Monitoring Satellites

    HawkEye 360 has launched three radio frequency-sensing satellites into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-11 Rideshare mission via launch integrator Exolaunch, bringing the company’s satellite constellation to 31. The company said Friday the Cluster 10 satellites will enhance HawkEye 360’s ability to frequently revisit strategically important areas as well as improve data collection efforts. Rob Rainhart, president at […] More

  • HII Books DOD Contract for Presidential & Executive Aircraft Modernization Effort; Grant Hagen Quoted
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    HII Books DOD Contract for Presidential & Executive Aircraft Modernization Effort; Grant Hagen Quoted

    HII’s mission technologies division has secured a contract worth over $30 million under the Department of Defense’s Information Analysis Center multiple-award vehicle to support the U.S. Air Force in upgrading its presidential and executive aircraft fleet. Under the task order, the company said Thursday its Ohio team will enhance aircraft reliability and supportability by analyzing critical […] More

  • Maxar Intelligence Launches Second Block of WorldView Legion Satellites; Dan Smoot Quoted
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    Maxar Intelligence Launches Second Block of WorldView Legion Satellites; Dan Smoot Quoted

    Maxar Intelligence has deployed its third and fourth high-resolution Earth imagery and mapping satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The company said Thursday the two WorldView Legion satellites were placed into a mid-inclination orbit, allowing for dawn-to-dusk data collection. Company CEO Dan Smoot, said, “Having multiple WorldView Legion satellites […] More

  • Leidos Books $86M NGA Analytics Systems Management Contract; Roy Stevens Quoted
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    Leidos Books $86M NGA Analytics Systems Management Contract; Roy Stevens Quoted

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $86.4 million indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract dubbed “Chinook” from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide lifecycle management services for existing and emerging analytics systems. The task orders under the contract cover software development, systems engineering, integration and operations and sustainment services for NGA’s commercial joint mapping tool kit, target coordinate […] More