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A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has been selected by Chile’s civil aviation authority DGAC to supply an air traffic management communication system for use on the country’s airport network. Northrop said Friday its Park Air Systems business will provide a turnkey system that consists of eight Sapphire very-high-frequency and ultra HF ATM communication systems as well as training, installation and commissioning support […] More

Calibre Systems has signed an agreement to guide Wittenberg Weiner Consulting in business development efforts as part of the Small Business Administration‘s mentor-protege program. Both companies also seek to jointly pursue opportunities in the business analytics, strategy, financial management and audit readiness areas under the agreement, Calibre said Tuesday. WWC CEO Lauren Weiner said the company aims to provide high-quality services to government clients […] More

A team comprised of US Ignite and Northeastern University has received a $6.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a program that seeks to accelerate research on future wireless communication and networking technologies. NSF said US Ignite and NSF will oversee the program office of the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program and collaborate with industry partners […] More

Lockheed Martin plans to concurrently operate its Atlas V rocket with the United Launch Alliance-built Vulcan launch vehicle for a period of five years, Space News reported Friday. “We will be flying both vehicles for some period of time until we are absolutely certain that the Vulcan system can maintain the cadence, and the rhythm […] More

MBDA plans to establish a joint venture with Lockheed Martin to oversee a missile defense program in Germany after the country’s defense ministry voiced concerns about MBDA’s capacity to execute the project independently, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes both companies are in talks with the German defense ministry regarding their planned JV and the ministry does not expect to finalize a contract with […] More

Boeing has launched a parachute system of its crew capsule at Spaceport America‘s purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico to verify the inflation characteristics and landing system performance of the platform during touchdown. Spaceport America said Friday the CST-100 Starliner Parachute System Test Launch utilized a giant helium-filled balloon that carried a flight-sized boilerplate spacecraft 40,000 feet above the San Andres Mountains and […] More

NASA plans to award Deloitte‘s consulting business a sole-source contract to help the agency design and develop a proof of concept for robotic process automation software. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the company will support the development of four proof-of-concept processes for NASA Shared Services Center’s future bots-as-a-service platform. The bots will support processes such as funds […] More

Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

U.S. Army leaders have told House members that one of the service branch’s top modernization priorities is to update the turbine engines of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The potential $10 billion Improved Turbine Engine Program seeks to replace the T700 family of engines and is one of the reasons behind proposed defense […] More

Cubic‘s defense applications business has won a $20.9 million contract to assemble,  produce, document, test and deliver 25 Portable Common Data Link systems for installation at the U.S. Navy‘s tactical and mobile tactical operation centers. The Defense Department said Friday that work also covers engineering services for TacMobile Person PCDL systems and spare suites. The contract’s 18-month base […] More

Lockheed Martin has wrapped up two flight tests of the updated Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in order to verify and demonstrate the missile’s GPS anti-jam software and hardware systems. JASSM missiles launched from B-52 and B-2 bomber aircraft at an altitude of at least 24,000 feet and […] More

M.C. Dean has been awarded a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet. The Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland will determine funds and performance locations with each order. Contract work is scheduled to […] More