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SOS International has received a potential $55M contract to help the U.S. Army manage wideband enterprise satellite systems designed to facilitate military communications. The company said Monday it will help the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems to deliver voice, data and video services to WESS Data Communications Network users worldwide. Work also covers satcom engineering, installation, operation, […] More

The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences will establish a new facility in Harford City, Md. that will host industrial additive manufacturing lines, National Defense Magazine reported Monday. The organization is coordinating with public and private organizations such as Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, University of Delaware, Northrop Grumman, 3D Systems and the Army Research Laboratory, […] More

Raytheon has opened a new facility in Portsmouth, R.I. that will house collaborative work on radar equipment for the U.S. Navy, WPRI-TV reported Monday. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony that the new space will enable companies to work together, as well as with foreign partners and the Naval Warfare Center. He […] More

The National Science Foundation has asked colleges to submit proposals for a program that seeks to develop foundries to facilitate the prototyping and development of quantum devices and materials. NSF said it plans to award between $20M to $25M in funds to up to five recipients through cooperative agreements to perform work under the Enabling […] More

Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, will retire by the end of December after more than three decades at the helm. He will join the South Carolina-based College of Charleston in January to serve as a fellow at the Joseph P. Riley Center for Livable Communities and as an […] More

The U.S. Air Force has asked five prospective contractors to bid for a contract to design user interface technology to transform the delivery of software platforms to the warfighter. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the service branch seeks Kessel Run UX designers with top secret/sensitive compartmented information clearances to help update and move applications into a […] More

Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has been chosen to receive the Society of Women Engineers’ 2018 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award in recognition of his initiatives to promote diversity in the workplace and empower female engineering professionals through mentoring. SWE chose Kennedy based on testimonials from multiple industry representatives who vouched for his efforts to diversify program teams […] More

The U.S. Army plans to deploy by 2022 three new protection systems for its combat vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Those systems are the advanced reactive armor tiles that work to neutralize warheads; a signature management platform designed to protect an armored vehicle from detection by reducing the vehicle’s noise, radar and heat signature; and […] More

Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES‘ government solutions business, has said the company aims to offer a suite of managed services and systems designed to help customers transmit data in real time via a new satellite network. He wrote in an article published by SpaceNews that Boeing will build seven medium-Earth orbit satellites for […] More

Fredericksburg, Va.-based IST Research has received a potential five-year, $48.3M contract to supply the U.S. Army with a communications platform designed to help users obtain insight into human security challenges. The company said Thursday it will provide the Pulse Platform to the service and perform research, development and engineering efforts to advance the technology as […] More

Nano Dimension has been chosen to supply U.S. military services with three-dimensional printing systems designed to facilitate electronics prototyping and manufacturing processes. The company said Monday it sold DragonFly Pro 3D Printers to the country’s armed forces via two sales transactions after receiving a “U.S. Government Certified Vendor” designation. TriMech Solutions and Fathom helped Nano Dimension sell the technology as value-added […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected 11 companies to explore airframe and software models for the military service’s proposed unmanned aerial system with a vertical takeoff and landing feature, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. USMC and Naval Air Systems Command officials started to visit factories after the service branch hosted an industry day for the […] More