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Air Force Seeks Contractors to Produce Next-Gen BLU-136/B Warheads
The U.S. Air Force is seeking companies that can manufacture next-generation area attack warheads for the service’s BLU-136/B fragmentation bomb.
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Constellis CEO Tim Reardon Appointed to Humane Rescue Alliance’s Board of Directors
Tim Reardon, CEO of Constellis and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the board of directors of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization Humane Rescue Alliance.
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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Inches Closer to Final Assembly; Mark Kirasich Quoted
NASA engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are expected in the coming weeks to integrate the crew module with the service module for the agency’s Orion spacecraft in preparation for the vehicle’s unmanned test flight mission to the lunar orbit, Artemis 1, in 2020, Spaceflight Now reported Monday.
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Travis Szabo Named Unissant Business Development SVP
Travis Szabo, former director of the Defense Health Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs programs at Octo Consulting, has been named senior vice president of business development at data analytics company Unissant.
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HII Shipbuilding Division to Extend Refueling, Overhaul of Navy’s USS George Washington Aircraft Carrier
Huntington Ingalls Industries received a two-year, $40M contract modification to perform additional refueling and complex overhaul work for the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier.
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T-Rex CEO Seth Moore on Federal IT Modernization, Cloud Migration
Seth Moore, president and CEO of government information technology services contractor T-Rex Solutions, told CIO Review in an interview that identifying how to fund IT modernization efforts is one of the challenges facing government agencies.
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PG&E Launches Satellite-Based Wildfire Warning System
Pacific Gas and Electric Company has deployed a satellite-based technology called the PG&E Satellite Fire Detection and Alerting System that is designed to alert authorities to wildfire incidents.
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Boeing Hands Over Control of 10th WGS Satellite to Air Force
Boeing officially transferred control of the the 10th company-built Wideband Global SATCOM satellite to the U.S. Air Force's 4th Space Operations Squadron at a ceremony that took place Thursday at Schriever AF Base in Colorado. The service branch said Friday that WGS-10 represents the second satellite of its kind that an Air Force component has accepted since the merger of the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and 4th SOPS.Â
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DARPA Seeks Concepts for Encrypted Data Verification Research
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for research proposals on verification methods that can enable data validation while keeping sensitive information hidden from verifiers.
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SpaceX to Put Reusable Upper-Stage Rocket Through Hover Test
SpaceX is set to demonstrate a prototype of its Starship reusable launch vehicle during a low-altitude flight test after the company completed installation of an engine into the second-stage rocket, SpaceNews reported Friday.
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ULA Changes Date of Next Atlas V Rocket Satellite Launch
United Launch Alliance has moved the schedule of its upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launch to accommodate more efforts to address an unspecified component issue, SpaceFlight Now reported Thursday.