Industry News

A division of Bechtel will continue to manufacture nuclear propulsion components to the U.S. Navy under a potential $64.3 million contract modification awarded through the Naval Sea Systems Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday the full obligated amount at the time of award is from the service branch’s fiscal 2016 shipbuilding and conversion and “other” procurement funds. Bechtel’s plant […] More

The U.S. Air Force plans to seek industry partners that can manufacture silicon carbide substrates and epitaxial films to help develop radio frequency and power switching semiconductor devices. A pre-solicitation notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps says the Air Force is scheduled to issue a request for proposals on September 30 and the program could be worth $13.1 million and $11.2 million in government funds and […] More

A partnership between Fluor, Honeywell and SN3 Stoller Newport News Nuclear has been awarded a 22-month contract extension to continue to help the Energy Department  manage the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions will continue its operation and maintenance  services at the nuclear reservation facility after DOE exercised an option under a contract originally awarded in January 2008, Fluor […] More

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement to deploy a six-unit miniaturized lunar research satellite as part of NASA‘s Orion Exploration Mission-1 in 2018. Lockheed said Monday the SkyFire satellite is designed with an infrared camera that will work to capture high-quality images of the moon’s surface. NASA will receive SkyFire-gathered data during the EM-1 mission as part of the agreement. “The CubeSat […] More

The Defense Systems Information Agency is working to obtain a maximum $12 million in funds for its rapid innovation projects, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes DISA will use the funds to advance its merit-based research and development program meant to deploy innovative technologies. DISA is seeking solicitations via FedBizOpps in four areas that include a transport […] More

The U.S. Air Force looks to issue a sole-source contract for repair work on the military branch’s radiation detector equipment. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated the Air Force seeks a contractor to inspect and fix three Cryo-Pulse 5 detectors as well as provide one coaxial field effect transistor for detector. Responses to the solicitation are due Aug. 9. Canberra, the original equipment manufacturer of the Cryo-Pulse 5 technology, […] More

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division has completed final phase tests of an Applied Research Associates and Chevron Lummus Global co-developed 100 percent drop-in renewable diesel fuel on a U.S. Navy Self Defense Test Ship. ARA said Friday the ReadiDiesel 100-percent renewable biofuel was designed to serve as a drop-in replacement for petroleum F-76 marine diesel in […] More

Cubic‘s global defense business segment has received a new $52 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to support rotational and pre-deployment training exercise at the service branch’s Joint Readiness Training Center. The company said Monday it will continue to assist JRTC’s integration with U.S. and allied forces on training exercises through action-based and theater-specific operational environment scenarios […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a program that aims to create new materials that exhibit the characteristics of living systems as well as the structural attributes of building materials. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement published Friday on FedBizOpps the Engineered Living Materials program seeks to develop […] More

Boeing has secured a $60.8 million delivery order modification to perform preliminary and critical design reviews intended to help mature the Increment 3 Block 2 update of the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing will review P-8A wideband satellite communications, computing and security architecture, automated digital network system, common data link, anti-surface […] More

Implant Sciences is working to acquire France-based Zapata Industries to distribute the latter’s personal flight system to the defense, security and commercial markets, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen Judson writes Zapata Industries has passed a proof-of-concept milestone for its Flyboard Air system that seeks to bring an envisioned hoverboard concept into reality for possible military applications such as […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will provide maintenance, repair and pilot simulator training support to Mexico’s UH-60 Black Hawk operators through Sikorsky’s facility in Colombia. Lockheed said Thursday Black Hawk operators in Mexico can go to the helicopter flight simulator center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar to utilize its five-axis flight simulator as well as the depot repair facility at Tolemaida […] More