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  • ICF to Support Digital Modernization Efforts at CMS; Mark Lee Quoted
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    ICF to Support Digital Modernization Efforts at CMS; Mark Lee Quoted

    ICF will help the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services modernize its information technology capabilities under a potential four-year, $33 million recompete contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. CMS’ IT office will leverage digital modernization services from ICF to enhance agency operations, productivity and end-user experience, the global consulting and digital services […] More

  • L3Harris, Navy Showcasing Nomad USV at RIMPAC Maritime Exercise
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    L3Harris, Navy Showcasing Nomad USV at RIMPAC Maritime Exercise

    L3Harris Technologies and the U.S. Navy have partnered to exhibit during an international maritime warfare exercise in Hawaii the service branch’s Nomad medium-displacement unmanned surface vehicle that is equipped with the defense company’s control systems. The demonstration of Nomad at the 2022 Rim of the Pacific Exercise will aim to show how the USV can […] More

  • Textron to Help Evaluate Navy Electronic Warfare Tech
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    Textron to Help Evaluate Navy Electronic Warfare Tech

    Textron has secured a $48.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Navy test the performance of integrated electronic warfare systems. The company’s systems business will develop hardware for an EW integration test environment as part of the IDIQ award from Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, the Department of Defense said Monday. Contract work […] More

  • New HII-Built Navy Amphibious Transport Dock Enters Active Service
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    New HII-Built Navy Amphibious Transport Dock Enters Active Service

    The U.S. Navy placed its 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock into active service at a commissioning ceremony held Saturday in Florida. HII built USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and delivered the vessel to the military branch Nov. 30 last year, the Navy said Saturday. Meredith Berger, assistant […] More

  • Amentum Wins Navy Spectrum Management Support IDIQ
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    Amentum Wins Navy Spectrum Management Support IDIQ

    Amentum will support spectrum management work at the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $55 million over five and a half years. The company will help the two service branches plan, retain, secure and manage the utilization of electromagnetic spectrum resources, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Work under the […] More

  • Raytheon’s Venture Arm Backs VerdeGo Aero Propulsion Tech Development
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    Raytheon’s Venture Arm Backs VerdeGo Aero Propulsion Tech Development

    RTX Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of Raytheon Technologies, has agreed to invest in VerdeGo Aero and lead a Series A funding round for the propulsion technology startup. Florida-based VerdeGo Aero aims to raise $12 million in the venture round to build up its powertrain systems portfolio, which includes a 185 kilowatt generator designed […] More

  • AAR Gets FAA Recognition for Safety Management Practices
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    AAR Gets FAA Recognition for Safety Management Practices

    The Federal Aviation Administration has recognized AAR‘s company-wide approach to managing safety risks. AAR said Wednesday it became the first independent maintenance, repair and operations entity to have a corporate safety management system in place with FAA recognition. “Moving to a corporate SMS demonstrates the maturity of our program and our proactive approach to safety,” […] More

  • ICF to Help Manage Labor Department Apprenticeship Programs; Mark Lee Quoted
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    ICF to Help Manage Labor Department Apprenticeship Programs; Mark Lee Quoted

    ICF has received a potential $14 million contract to support two Department of Labor programs that offer pathways to connect employers and career seekers. Under the five-year contract, ICF intends to apply its workforce development experience to deliver technical services to DOL’s Apprenticeship Building America grant program and Registered Apprenticeship Technical Assistance Centers of Excellence, […] More

  • DMI to Continue NIH Research Database Support; Jay Sunny Bajaj Quoted
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    DMI to Continue NIH Research Database Support; Jay Sunny Bajaj Quoted

    Digital technology services provider DMI will continue to help the National Institutes of Health manage and maintain a data collection platform under a five-year task order. The award includes application development, website maintenance, systems administration and other information technology services for NIH’s Intramural Database, the company said Tuesday. NIH uses the system to collect scientific […] More

  • Kratos Receives $54M Air Force Engine Development Task Order
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    Kratos Receives $54M Air Force Engine Development Task Order

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division has received a potential $54 million task order to conduct engine development and testing efforts as part of an Air Force Research Laboratory project. The award includes $6.8 million in initial funds for Kratos Turbine Technologies to test key components and perform trade studies under AFRL’s Attritable Cost Optimized […] More

  • IperionX, DOE Lab Partner for Metal Additive Manufacturing Project
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    IperionX, DOE Lab Partner for Metal Additive Manufacturing Project

    IperionX has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to apply company-made technologies for titanium metal powder development and demonstrate the application of the material as an alloying additive for component production. The partnership will utilize the Department of Energy’s manufacturing demonstration facility at ORNL to carry out the project under a signed user agreement, IperionX […] More

  • Scout to Demo Space-Based Sensing Tech for Department of the Air Force
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    Scout to Demo Space-Based Sensing Tech for Department of the Air Force

    Scout Space has secured a Small Business Innovation Research contract to demonstrate how commercial sensing technology can support space domain awareness efforts at the Department of the Air Force. Under the phase two SBIR grant, Scout will utilize its dual-use platform to present space object observation applications for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s intelligence systems […] More