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Smiths Detection has launched a new online hub to function as a portal of opinion-based and other articles from aviation professionals to provide users insight about the sector. The Aviation Insider website at aviation-insider.com exhibits aviation security practices and facilitate industry discussions, Smiths Detection said Monday. “Aviation Insider is designed to be a critical hub for industry […] More

The Defense Department has granted regional F-35 maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade capacity to partner nations that will support 65 out of 774 repairables outside the continental U.S. Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, said Monday the U.K. will oversee 48 of the 65 F-35 components while Netherlands will handle 14 and Australia will manage three of the components for global […] More

Real-Time Innovations has received funds from the Energy Department to continue research on smart grid security systems that apply Data-Distribution Service standard. RTI said Monday it will collaborate with DoE and use the company’s Connext DDS real-time commercial connectivity software to develop a platform that could potentially secure the next-generation U.S. smart grid’s cyberphysical communications infrastructure. The company added it also […] More

Pierre Chao, an industry analyst and founding partner of Renaissance Strategic Advisors, has said many investors remain hesitant to make investments in the defense market due to lack of incentives, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes Chao said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted forum that defense contractors consider […] More

Davis Johnson, U.S. public sector vice president at Riverbed Technology, has said software-defined wide-area networking could support federal agencies’ digital transformation initiatives amid challenges posed by legacy information technology. Johnson wrote in a guest post published Thursday on GCN that SD-WAN works to provide agility, automation, visibility and flexibility to support the needs of key areas such as DevOps, customer experiences, […] More

NASA wants to send an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station in spring 2017 using United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Andy Pasztor writes NASA’s plan to use the Atlas V for its next ISS cargo delivery mission with Orbital ATK is part of efforts to ensure that ISS crews will have adequate […] More

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said the company thinks it has “gotten to the bottom of the problem” that resulted in the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in September. “It involves a combination of liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen… Oxygen so cold that it actually enters solid phase,” Musk […] More

BAE Systems PLC plans to start manufacturing anti-submarine warfare ships for the U.K. navy in 2017 after the conclusion of final contract negotiations with Britain’s defense ministry. The company said Friday Britain hascommitted to eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships to replace Type 23 frigates in the “2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review” and the country has invested $2.4 billion in […] More

Lockheed Martin has invested $1.4 million in CarteNav Solutions through Canada’s Industrial and Regional Benefits Investment Framework program to support the latter company’s development work on its flagship intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance product. CarteNav said Wednesday the investment covers two years of development efforts on CarteNav’s AIMS-ISR mission system software that works to deploy hosted sensing, computing and communication technologies on aircraft, vehicle […] More

A Woolpert and RS&H joint venture has received a five-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Louisville district to provide design support services for a nationwide U.S. Air Force Reserve Command construction program. Woolpert said Friday the contract covers work such as administration, education, assembly, storage, special training and other support spaces along with design […] More

OGSystems has teamed up with Prescient to integrate the latter’s intelligence products and threat alerting services into the former’s BlueGlass location-based intelligence platform. BlueGlass is designed to help users obtain insights in real time through situational awareness, anomaly alerts and incident reports that might pose a threat to user operations, OGSystems said Thursday. The platform comprises remote sensing, big data and […] More

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has partnered with the International Atomic Energy Agency to develop standards and share best practices for nuclear safety and energy. IEEE said Thursday the Practical Arrangement agreement establishes a platform for the two organizations to avoid duplication and conflicts between the groups’ technical publications. “Safety is an overriding concern in the nuclear energy field, […] More