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Leidos has been awarded a potential $38 million contract to help the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency develop software designed to manage fuel requirements at military bases worldwide. The company said Monday its Varec subsidiary will provide FuelsManager Defense software development and applications support to DLA’s energy organization. Mary Craft, a group president at Leidos, said […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that points to a 37.8-percent compound annual growth rate for the global market on mobile cloud technologies, which combine the capabilities of cloud computing and mobile devices. From a value of $9.43 billion this year, the global mobile cloud market will reach a value of $46.90 billion in […] More

CAE USA has delivered two of six T-44C flight simulators designed to train U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and foreign student pilots. The company handed the simulation equipment over to the Navy in less than one year for the branch’s aircrew training program, CAE said Tuesday. “We are pleased to deliver these new T-44C simulators, and […] More

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Air Force have completed a flight test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system. The missile reached the Marshall Islands-based Ronald Reagan test site 30 minutes after its launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Northrop said Tuesday. “Each operational test we conduct is critical to ensuring the safety, surety, reliability and […] More

The Evergreen State College’s Center for Sustainable Infrastructure has published a report that seeks to encourage U.S. organizations to adopt new strategies to operate, manage and upgrade infrastructure systems. Seventy experts from industry, academia and government agencies in the Paficic Northwest provided their insights for the report, CH2M Hill said Monday. The report says investments […] More

BAE Systems wants to offer the U.S. Army an electromagnetic railgun technology for integration onto the branch’s next fleet of armored ground vehicles, IEEE Spectrum reported Monday. Evan Ackerman writes the Army could decide in 2016 whether its proposed Future Fighting Vehicle program will proceed. BAE and General Atomics have developed long-range railguns for U.S. […] More

SkyLink Aviation has purchased an ownership stake in a Pakistan-based air operator that flies cargo out of its central hub at the country’s largest airport. Galaxy Aviation, a category one air operator which calls capital city Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport home, also delivers hazardous materials, energy equipment and other goods to customers inside Pakistan and […] More

NASA has awarded Orbital Sciences a contract to help the agency send an ionosphere-monitoring satellite to orbit in mid-2017 by using the company’s Pegasus rocket. Orbital said Monday it also started production work on the Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite at a facility in Dulles, Virginia under a contract won in 2013. The company is contracted […] More

QinetiQ has bought SR2020‘s seismic imaging and processing technology for approximately $1.7 million to complement QinetiQ’s distributed acoustic sensor and vertical seismic profiling offerings. QinetiQ acquired the SR2020 platform to allow QinetiQ’s OptaSense business to provide, analyze and interpret subsurface seismic data for customers, OptaSense said Monday. Magnus McEwen-King, a managing director at OptaSense, said the […] More

The General Services Administration will launch a third iteration of its contract vehicle for federal property leasing and brokerage services. GSA said Monday it has posted a draft solicitation for a contract that will cover work to help the agency’s realty contracting officers perform market surveys, document preparation and site visits. The GSA Leasing Support Services […] More