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Leidos has won a potential $47.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop integrated electro-optical imaging technology prototypes. The Defense Department said Thursday the project aims to evolve and increase the capacity of emerging high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging; infrared search and track; and sense and avoid technologies. The Air Force Research […] More

The Defense Department wants industry to voluntary share information on potential weaknesses in its supply chain as part of a review led by DoD, Defense News reported Thursday. President Donald Trump signed in July an executive order that calls for a cross-government evaluation of U.S. manufacturers’ capacity to support the defense industrial base. John McGinn, […] More

Nigel Whitehead, BAE Systems chief technologist, has said he believes that directed energy weapons can be deployed aboard fighter aircraft in the not-too distant future, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. Whitehead told reporters during his visit to Singapore that directed energy weapons should be able to beam energy precisely on one spot to disrupt targets such as aircraft, munitions […] More

The European Space Agency has selected Leonardo to study ways to manage the cybersecurity of a European navigation satellite system. Leonardo said Wednesday it will create a benchmark architecture and establish requirements and processes for the information security management of the Galileo satellite program. The company aims to help the ESA build a security monitoring system for […] More

Defense contractors such as Harris, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have integrated software sustainment into their practices as they work to support U.S. service branches’ efforts to build organic capabilities to sustain software on military systems, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. “The way the Air Force and the way Harris is teaming with the Air Force is to […] More

Iron Mountain has opened an information management facility in Arkansas that is built to store up to 200,000 cubic feet of records and 260,000 data tapes for enterprise customers. The 23,000-square-foot building joins other local and regional Iron Mountain facilities that support data management, imaging and secure shredding operations, the company said Thursday. “We chose Little […] More

MapR Technologies and C3 IoT have formed an alliance to build an end-to-end platform designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications based on internet of things and artificial intelligence. The companies will collaborate on go-to-market programs and technology development efforts to accelerate the roll out of applications that work to leverage the cloud, […] More

Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 joint program office, has said a $60 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin would support the second phase of the Blueprint for Affordability program in an effort to cut the production costs of the F-35 fighter jet, Defense News reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded the $60 […] More

Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a potential $61 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to update the U.S. Air Force‘s P5 air combat training system. The sole-source contract includes modifications for the company to help the service branch address emerging government requirements for the P5 system and supporting infrastructure, the Defense Department said Wednesday. P5 CTS is designed to train warfighters from […] More

An ASRC Federal subsidiary and Xentity have won spots on a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide geospatial support services for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service. A contract award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says ASRC Federal Data Networx and Xentity will provide vector and imagery-based data analysis, geospatial training, remote sensing and services related to the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential eight-year, $60.5 million contract to perform wing durability test on the company-built C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Lockheed will carry out test preparation, test operations, residual strength test, test teardown and inspection, outer wing test and technical data delivery under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said […] More