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A subsidiary of BAE Systems has received a contract from Denmark’s defense acquisition and logistics organization to modernize Denmark’s fleets of 44 CV90 infantry fighting vehicles and BV206 all-terrain vehicles. BAE Systems Hagglunds will also provide prototyping, systems integration, safety, maintenance, repair and overhaul services under the contract, the company said Thursday. The subsidiary will collaborate with Denmark-based industrial partners on the project. CV90 is designed for high […] More

Centrus Energy has received a one-year, $25 million contract from a Battelle-University of Tennessee partnership to support the advancement of U.S. gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology. Centrus said Thursday it will engineer and test the American Centrifuge technology under the follow-on contract with UT-Battelle in efforts to help address the country’s future national and energy security requirements. UT-Battelle runs the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in […] More

The U.S. Air Force will collaborate with its counterpart in Canada on a proposal for the upcoming Space Based Space Surveillance follow-on mission that will work to monitor the geosynchronous-orbit belt, Space News reported Wednesday. The proposal will be designed to help the program stay within the Defense Department‘s $400 million price threshold by allowing Canada to contribute additional satellites or sensors, […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will open a new forward stocking location for the S-92 helicopter at the Aberdeen International Airport in Scotland as part of efforts to position inventory closer to commercial helicopter operators. Lockheed said Tuesday Sikorsky will begin operations on the new FSL by the close of the third quarter and also expand an existing S-92 FSL […] More

A Saab Group subsidiary will provide three shipboard air traffic radar systems to the U.S. Navy over a four-year period under an initial engineering and manufacturing development contract. The Navy will deploy AN/SPN-50 (V)1 radars from Saab Defense and Security USA on the military branch’s aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships to replace the current AN/SPN-43C model, the company said Wednesday. The SPN-50 system is […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services has entered strategic partnerships with a Roche Group subsidiary and The Medicines Co. to develop antibiotics against multi-drug resistant infections. HHS’ office of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response forged the partnerships with the two companies through other transaction authority under the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness […] More

NASA has called on government agencies, aerospace companies, universities and the general public to suggest new technology that could support the agency’s program to explore Mars and other components of the solar system. The iTech initiative seeks white papers that address challenges in space technology areas such as radiation protection, life support systems, astronaut crew health, in-space propulsion […] More

United Launch Alliance has submitted a bid to compete on a contract to launch the U.S. Air Force’s third GPS III satellite in 2019 and reiterated its concern about price as a deciding factor in contract competition, Florida Today reported Tuesday. “As recent launch failures have shown, rockets are not commodities,” the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture […] More

Microsemi has supported a NASA mission that completed the successful orbit insertion of the Juno spacecraft sent to Jupiter to begin the data collection phase of its mission following a five-year journey. The company said Tuesday its RTSX-SU and RTAX-S field programmable gate array product lines were used in various applications during the launch of the Juno spacecraft […] More

Lockheed Martin and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy have signed a deal to keep the headquarters of Lockheed’s Sikorsky subsidiary in Connecticut and increase the helicopter business’ workforce in the state to more than 8,000 by 2032. Sikorsky will develop 200 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the U.S. Navy over the next 16 years through its […] More

Rockwell Collins has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Defense Contract Management Agency to establish a new procurement process for commercial items to be used in military applications. The aviation product maker said Wednesday the new process outlined information required from Rockwell Collins to comply with government-recommended commercial item classification and pricing structures. Industry and government partners pursue these types […] More

NASA and Orbital ATK plan to launch a Cygnus spacecraft for its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station between October 9 and October 13 as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Wednesday Cygnus will lift off aboard an Orbital ATK-built Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Orbital […] More