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Level 3 Communications has received a five-year, $79 million contract from the government of Pennsylvania to deliver backbone network, internet and managed network security services. The company said Wednesday the contract covers managed dedicated fiber, ethernet, virtual private local area networks, private line, multi-protocol label switching virtual private networks and wavelengths. Level 3 will also facilitate direct connections […] More

Orbital ATK has launched an intercept target vehicle for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to help boost the readiness of the country’s Patriot air and missile defense system. The company said Thursday that the Patriot Target Vehicle was launched into the Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Island and was used as an […] More

CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received a $45.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to exercise the eight option year under a previously awarded contract for KC-135 aircrew training system support. The Defense Department said Wednesday CAE USA will support KC-135 aircrew training systems at various Air Force facilities in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, […] More

Spirent Federal Systems and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop software that will work to support military code for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS constellation modernization effort. The partnership comes nearly three months after Spirent obtained approval from the service branch’s GPS directorate to develop M-Code support technology with the use of Modernized Navstar Security Algorithm, Spirent said Wednesday. Spirent […] More

Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a $21.7 million contract to develop an automated technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to retrieve foreign language information. The Defense Department said Wednesday BBN will build the platform to support cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, automatic speech recognition and surprise language summarization. Work will occur in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Nov. […] More

Salient CRGT has received a subcontract to help Technica perform support work on the U.S. Air Force‘s Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System. Salient CRGT said Thursday it will also support the Air Combat Command’s JWICS program management office and intelligence directorate, 25th Air Force and 625th Air and Space Communications Squadron. The Air Force awarded Technica the potential […] More

Avaya has opened a new office in Bahrain as the company aims to offer communication and collaboration tools in support of digital transformation projects there. The company said Tuesday some Bahrain-based public and private sector organizations seek to adopt cloud, artificial intelligence, analytics and internet-of-things technologies with the goal to contribute to the country’s economy. The Kingdom’s […] More

Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems unit will deliver Mk 54 lightweight torpedo common parts kits to the U.S. Navy and U.K. and Thailand under a $35 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification also covers Mk 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo kits, exercise fuel tanks, spares, production support material and various related engineering and […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army have demonstrated a prototype laser weapon system equipped with sensors, software and specialized optics built to engage adversarial unmanned aerial vehicles. The Advanced Test High Energy Asset system worked to eliminate five Outlaw unmanned aerial systems during a test that took place at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, […] More