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Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the capacity of an airborne networking system to facilitate and secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations. The company said Monday its Talon HATE networking system helped F-15C pilots share information via the military’s Link 16, Common Data Link and Wideband Global Satellite Communications System during a flight test held at Nellis Air […] More

MacAulay-Brown has received a three-year, $8.5 million task order to support engineering and demonstration of electronic warfare systems at the Air Force Research Laboratory. MacB said Monday the order falls under the Spectrum Warfare Evaluation and Assessment Technology Engineering Research contract and the company will perform work at AFRL’s headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The SWEATER […] More

PaxVax has begun the initial phase of clinical trials of an updated version of a three-decade-old vaccine against Adenovirus Serotypes 4 and 7 that cause acute respiratory distress that leads to severe pneumonia and hospitalization and occurs in military training centers. The company said Monday it has collaborated with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded AECOM a $13.5 million contract modification to provide architect-engineering services in support of environmental action programs within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility. The Defense Department said Monday that work will include information evaluation; environmental sample analysis; field investigations; analytical data assessment; human health and ecological risk evaluation; community relations support; and construction oversight services. DoD added the […] More

A business unit of BAE Systems has won a potential $12.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a knowledge-based space testbed architecture. The Defense Department said Monday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration business will create a testbed for the military branch to evaluate space enterprise command-and-control tools and technologies. DoD noted that the Air Force Research […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to release a draft request for proposals on a potential five-year, $850 million contract for analytical and technical support services by early June. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it also plans to conduct one-on-one meetings with potential vendors in mid-June before it issues the final RFP for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has selected Ensco to present two independent research and development projects in front of a government intelligence community audience at the INSA Innovators Showcase forum. Ensco said Thursday it showcased the Virtual Phased Array and Low SWaP Software Defined Environments projects to a large group of program managers, engineers and scientists from the U.S. government […] More

A joint Defense Department agency and a government-industry consortium inked a memorandum of understanding to help define open avionics standards for military aircraft. The Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE,) a coalition of government and industry organizations which aims to determine open avionics standards for military aircraft, issued the memo with the DoD agency, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The memorandum will […] More

A team composed of Safran Electronics & Defense‘s Robonic subsidiary and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have delivered two pneumatic launchers to the targets management office of the U.S. Army’s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Safran said Wednesday the military branch will use Kontio to deploy Firejet aerial targets from Kratos subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. The Kontio system supports the […] More

AECOM has received a five-year, $9 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of professional architecture and engineering support services. The Defense Department said Friday AECOM’s technical services business unit will furnish required labor, materials, supplies and equipment in support of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. […] More

NASA has received and begun to review 12 proposals for a future unmanned solar system mission that could be launched in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Friday the proposals submitted under the New Frontiers program will undergo scientific and technical review in the next seven months. NASA plans to choose one or more concepts for Phase A study then […] More