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  • Kratos Completes UTAP-22 UAS Demonstration Mission
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    Kratos Completes UTAP-22 UAS Demonstration Mission

    Kratos Defense and Security has concluded a multi-unmanned aircraft system demonstration mission for the UTAP-22 Mako UAS. The company said Monday the demonstration is based on the unit’s previous test flight series and is part of a larger military exercise effort. The UAS’ features that were exhibited in the exercise include unmanned collaborative operation and mission payload set functions. […] More

  • Eurofighter Consortium Pledges to Support Creation of Natl Innovation Centers in Belgium
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    Eurofighter Consortium Pledges to Support Creation of Natl Innovation Centers in Belgium

    Members of the Eurofighter consortium have committed to aid the establishment of two national innovation centers in Belgium as part of efforts to help boost the country’s aeronautical and defense capacities. The consortium said Saturday Airbus‘ defense and space business, BAE Systems and Leonardo signed formal endorsements to support the centers alongside France-based missile systems provider MBDA. […] More

  • NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System to Carry Northrop-Made CERES Flight Model 6 Instrument
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    NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System to Carry Northrop-Made CERES Flight Model 6 Instrument

    NASA has announced that a solar energy-measuring instrument from Northrop Grumman will launch aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 in November. JPSS-1 is scheduled to lift off Nov. 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 4:47 a.m. Eastern time and will carry the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Flight Model 6, NASA said Friday. The […] More

  • Inmarsat Taps Arianespace for Global Xpress-5 Satellite Launch Services
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    Inmarsat Taps Arianespace for Global Xpress-5 Satellite Launch Services

    Imarsat has selected France-based company Arianespace to help launch a fifth Global Xpress communications satellite from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Arianespace said Friday it aims to send Global Express-5 satellite for Inmarsat into orbit with the  Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher platform within the second half of 2019. Thales Alenia Space will build GX-5 based on the modernized […] More

  • NRC Eyes Software License, Hosting Services Contract Award to CGI’s Federal Business
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    NRC Eyes Software License, Hosting Services Contract Award to CGI’s Federal Business

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced its intent to award CGI’s federal business a potential five-year contract to provide software licenses for NRC’s financial system. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the sole-source contract will cover licenses for CGI Federal’s Momentum software as well as hosting, help desk support, operations and maintenance services. NRC said […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Satcom Systems Support Caribbean, Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Operations
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Satcom Systems Support Caribbean, Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Operations

    Iridium Communications continues to provide satellite communications services in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico to aid hurricane recovery efforts, NASASpaceflight.com reported Saturday. Iridium CEO Matt Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told the publication that Iridium saw an increase in satcom demand in the Carribean and Puerto Rico “on a scale that we have […] More

  • Report: Defense Firms Explore Space Market Opportunities
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    Report: Defense Firms Explore Space Market Opportunities

    Defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing have started to step up efforts to compete in the space segment as they see new business opportunities in the market, Space News reported Thursday. Bruce Tanner, chief financial officer at Lockheed, said at an earnings call Tuesday the company intends to spend up to […] More

  • Ameresco Builds Photovoltaic System for EPA
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    Ameresco Builds Photovoltaic System for EPA

    Ameresco has constructed a solar array system for the Environmental Protection Agency as part of an energy savings performance contract the Defense Logistics Agency‘s energy unit awarded in January. EPA said Wednesday it installed the Ameresco-built 4,788 photovoltaic panels at the agency’s Edison, New Jersey, campus. The system is designed to generate up to 1.5 megawatts of electric power […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Support Post Shakedown Availability for USS Ralph Johnson Destroyer
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    Huntington Ingalls to Support Post Shakedown Availability for USS Ralph Johnson Destroyer

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $9.9 million order for engineering, design, liaison, material procurement, program management and scheduling services to facilitate the post-shakedown availability of USS Ralph Johnson destroyer ship. Seventy-five percent of the work will occur in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and the remaining 25 percent will take place in Everett, Washington, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract
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    Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received an $11.6 million contract to provide training systems support for U.S. Marine Corps‘ air-ground task force. The Defense Department said Thursday MTSS will utilize a computer-based simulation platform designed to train Marines in the command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance, staff training and reconnaissance areas. DoD added the program will also cover MAGTF tactical warfare training and […] More

  • Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson, Rick Ambrose Host VP Mike Pence at Colorado Space Systems Facility
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson, Rick Ambrose Host VP Mike Pence at Colorado Space Systems Facility

    Vice President Mike Pence toured the Colorado campus of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business to visit NASA‘s future Mars probe and the U.S. Air Force‘s latest global positioning system satellites, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Company CEO Marillyn Hewson and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Executive Vice President Rick Ambrose joined Pence and Air Force Secretary Heather […] More

  • Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant
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    Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant

    Battelle has completed a 15-year project to store carbon dioxide at American Electric Power‘s coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. The nonprofit research and development organization said Thursday it initiated the carbon capture and storage project at Mountaineer Plant in 2002 with funds from the Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Neeraj Gupta, Battelle senior research […] More