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The U.S. Army is testing a range of vehicle-mounted systems that feature radar, computer processing, fire control technology and interceptors to detect and destroy enemy fire, Scout Warrior reported Tuesday. Kris Osborn writes the Army is looking at both domestically produced and allied international technologies to take part in the Modular Active Protection Systems program. The service branch wants […] More

NASA has started its solicitation of early-stage space technology proposals from universities to support the agency’s future space programs that include a human exploration of Mars. The agency said Thursday its space technology mission directorate plans to grant $500,000 each for 10 to 12 proposals from accredited U.S. universities. “We’d like to see Early Stage Innovations proposals that address our need for unique, disruptive […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $40.8 million contract modification to provide engineering support for AN/SQQ-89A surface ship undersea warfare systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract for the development, integration and production of an  AN/SQQ-89A variant. The system is designed to search, detect, classify, localize and […] More

SpaceX‘s Dragon spacecraft has returned to Earth with 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo including science and technology samples after a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The space agency said Thursday the spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday and will be shipped to California to unload some cargo for NASA and prepare for transport to SpaceX’s facility in […] More

NetApp will provide its storage and backup-to-cloud services for data access and application response to more than 40 departments across the public school district of Seminole County, Florida. The company will offer its NetApp FAS8040HA and AltaVault products to assist Seminole County schools in supporting new applications and objectives, meeting workload needs through hybrid storage array and data […] More

A Textron business unit has established a new facility for unmanned aircraft system training and maintenance activities to support research on UAS integration into national airspace. The unmanned systems service and support center houses Textron Systems‘ training and global service operations, the company’s schoolhouse for operators and maintainers and its sustainment operations for the Aerosonde small UAS, Textron said Monday. “With this […] More

The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service is requesting information on tools that could track and authenticate information and communication products distributed in the federal market to manage supply chain risk. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA said the targeted supply chain management tool is an integrated and portable device set that could detect tampered, counterfeit and grey market products. GSA added it wants […] More

ManTech International has won a potential five-year, $32.1 million contract to provide advisory and assistance services for the Missile Defense Agency‘s counterintelligence programs. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will support counterintelligence missions and functional areas covered by the DoD Directive 5240.02. ManTech will work to help MDA detect, identify, exploit and work to neutralize intelligence collection efforts against agency personnel, data, facilities, material, […] More

Australia’s finance department has issued a request for proposals to establish a panel of telecommunications service providers in November that would provide transport data link services, managed wide-area network and Internet connection services to government agencies, ZDNet reported Monday. Corinne Reichert writes the proposed TSP would replace Australia’s Internet based network connection services committee and […] More

CACI International‘s logistics and material readiness segment has been rated at maturity level five under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for the third time as a result of an appraisal. CACI said Tuesday the company has worked to meet industry-standard operations to maintain its CMMI levels for decades. President and CEO Ken Asbury said the achievement of ML […] More