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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Boeing to design, develop and test a demonstration space vehicle under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program. The XS-1 program seeks to build and launch a new set of hypersonic aircraft designed to provide less-expensive access to space at short notice in support of national security missions, DARPA said Wednesday. […] More

CGI has begun to offer a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform to state and local government entities that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative procurement program. The company said Wednesday it offers the CGI Advantage360 software-as-a-service ERP platform to NASPO ValuePoint participants under a master agreement with the state of Utah. CGI Advantage consists of software, business process services and […] More

Orbital ATK has received a $76 million order to produce and deliver an undisclosed number of .50 caliber ammunition to the U.S. Army. The Army placed the order for small-caliber ammunition under a supply contract with Orbital ATK, the company said Wednesday Jim Nichols, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s small caliber systems division, said that company-made […] More

InfoZen has helped NASA to develop and launch a searchable database of 14,000 downloadable images, video and audio files on the images.nasa.gov website, GCN reported Wednesday. The database is hosted in Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform and powered by Limelight Network‘s content delivery service, according to the report. InfoZen operates the online library using the AWS Lambda serverless computing service. […] More

The Energy Department will award 73 grants worth up to $72 million combined to help fund phase II research-and-development projects of 68 small businesses across 24 states. DOE said Wednesday the grants, worth an average of $1 million each, will be funded via the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs and cover a two-year base […] More

Jim Tyrell, a principal architect of JBoss solutions at Red Hat‘s public sector business, has said he observed many government agencies have purchased and implemented the Java programming language in their information technology systems. Tyrell wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on GCN that Java is designed to run on multiple IT systems and has driven the expansion of […] More

Intellicheck Mobilisa has officially changed its name to “Intellicheck Inc.” in efforts to establish a new corporate identity based on a strategic plan for growth in the field of identification authentication. The company said Monday its shareholders and board of directors voted in favor of the name change that takes effect immediately. “We believe our new company […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a second flight engine controller for its RS-25 rocket engine at NASA‘s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA will use the Aerojet Rocketdyne-made engine technology to power the Space Launch System as part of a planned unmanned space mission, the company said Tuesday. Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the RS-25 development and flight engines logged more than 6,800 […] More

Canada-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates expects its pending merger with Earth imaging services provider DigitalGlobe to help counterbalance the fluctuating revenues and profits of its commercial satellite manufacturing business, Space News reported Tuesday. MDA agreed to buy DigitalGlobe through an estimated $3.6 billion transaction in February. Howard Lance, MDA president and CEO, told investors Tuesday the pending deal seeks […] More

Northrop Grumman has secured a $49 million contract to design hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation integrated navigation system. The company said Tuesday it will design preliminary architecture under the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program. EGI-M will be equipped with M-Code-capable GPS receivers to support the transmission of military signals. Dean Ebert, […] More

Boeing has completed an effort to optimize the radar systems of Saudi Arabia’s fleet of E-3A airborne warning and control system aircraft. The Radar System Improvement Program is intended to boost the original equipment’s radar sensitivity and widen the range for tracking targets, Boeing said Tuesday. Northrop Grumman provided the RSIP kit which is comprised of a new radar computer, […] More