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ProLog has been awarded a potential five-year, $79.5 million contract to provide logistics services for the U.S. Navy‘s depot-level aircraft maintenance program. The Defense Department said Monday that ProLog will perform majority of the work at the military branch’s Fleet Readiness Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and the rest at other naval aviation depots in the […] More

The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

This is part two of our chat with Kevin Kelly, LGS Innovations‘ CEO. Click here for part one. ExecutiveBiz: How would you describe the current state of the GovCon M&A market? What do LGS and other companies look for in potential targets? Kevin Kelly: It is very active. In the course of the last twelve months, LGS has looked […] More

A Chemring Group subsidiary has secured two contracts worth a combined $26 million to manufacture special material decoys for the U.S. military to guard aircraft from infrared guided missile threats. The Army awarded Chemring unit Alloy Surfaces a three-year contract for the production of M211, MJU50A/B and MJU-51A/B IR countermeasures for both the Army and […] More

Kevin Desouza, a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation, has said new technologies are changing the way local governments perform their duties. Desouza wrote in a blog post for Brookings Institution published June 2 that driverless cards, digital currencies, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles are some of the technologies that lead […] More

A Cubic subsidiary has been awarded a potential 33-month, $5 million contract to develop a testbed for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to evaluate technologies for infantry use. Intific is part of Cubic’s global defense segment and will build the testing platform in support of the agency’s Squad X Core Technologies project, Cubic […] More

Symantec CEO Michael Brown believes the Internet of Things brings a “huge opportunity” for the company in its efforts to help protect e-commerce transactions, Economic Times reported Friday. Brown told Economic Times’ TV Mahalingam that Symantec considers endpoint protection as its biggest business. “We protect a billion devices today… from set top boxes, point of […] More

Lockheed Martin has begun to demonstrate a new electronic warfare pod in an anechoic chamber. The electronic warfare package contains a suite of systems in one unit and fits various platforms, Lockheed said Thursday. Brigitte Aungier, Lockheed’s EW business development head, said the company’s electronic warfare offering is designed “to understand the electromagnetic battlespace through passive […] More

Christopher Ames, director of international strategic development for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, has noted at several indicators that he said point to a “growing interest in maritime surveillance,” DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Brendan McGarry writes the Department of Homeland Security bought a fleet of a maritime-configured variant of the General Atomics-built Predator B aircraft to aid in the U.S.-Mexico […] More