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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to sponsor a Proposers Day from June 22 to 23 to inform industry on the objectives of an upcoming Defense Sciences Office broad agency announcement. DARPA said Wednesday the event is intended to discuss basic or applied research ideas in mathematics, modeling and design; physical systems; human-machine systems; […] More

NASA will conduct the second qualification ground booster test for the deep-space rocket Space Launch System on June 28 at an Orbital ATK test facility in Utah. The space agency set up 82 qualification test objectives that it will measure during the two-minute booster test, NASA said Thursday. The test will use approximately 530 instrumentation channels and operate at a […] More

Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

Orbital ATK has secured a $16 million contract to supply DSU-33D/B proximity sensors to an undisclosed international customer through a direct commercial sale. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin delivery of the fuzing systems to the customer in mid-2016. DSU-33D/Bs uses radio frequency signals to determine the height of a weapon above a target zone, Orbital ATK noted. […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched an employee exchange initiative that will work to facilitate partnerships with industry and academia to share new technologies and methodologies. NGA said Tuesday the eNGAge program looks to send its middle management and senior executive employees to U.S. companies or universities in efforts to share geospatial knowledge and gain insights on business processes. Placements under eNGAge will […] More

Lockheed Martin plans to introduce a concept for a spacecraft that would be manned by six astronauts and would establish and operate a laboratory in Mars orbit by 2028, Popular Science reported Wednesday. Sarah Fecht writes Lockheed plans to launch the “Mars Base Camp” concept at the Humans to Mars conference in support of NASA’s plan to […] More

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services looks to procure commercial software that can be modified to help the agency implement a workers compensation case management system. USCIS is looking for potential sources of a web-based platform that will work to process, analyze, compile and generate reports for the agency’s Workers’ Compensation Program, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice posted […] More

General Dynamics will collaborate with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop GPS satellite digital waveform generation technology under a potential $10.1 million contract the company has won from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will also perform analyses as well as help the AFRL researchers to refine algorithms and assess implementation methods […] More

Christina Back, General Atomics vice president for nuclear technologies and materials, has said the U.S. needs to develop new nuclear reactor technologies rather update current platforms in order to meet cost, safety, proliferation and waste objectives. General Atomics said May 5 Back wrote a testimony for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for a hearing on the status […] More

NASA has awarded Boston-based agriculture technology company Freight Farms a Small Business Technology Transfer grant to explore methods for the development of a self-sustaining crop production unit. Freight Farms said Tuesday it will collaborate with Clemson University in an effort to help NASA develop a crop production system for the agency’s future manned deep-space missions. Jon Friedman, co-founder and president of Freight […] More

A PAR Technology subsidiary has been chosen to supply geospatial situational awareness and collaboration tools to firefighters who will participate in a two-day wildfire emergency management exercise to be held in Boulder, Colorado. The company said Tuesday Full Scale Boulder Wildland Urban Interface Exercise  participants on Friday and Saturday will use tools PAR Government Systems designed to help incident managers track crew locations, the geography and […] More