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Raytheon-General Dynamics JV to Help Army Manage Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site; Todd Probert Quoted
The U.S. Army has chosen a General Dynamics and Raytheon joint venture to help the military service manage a missile test range located in the Marshall Islands.
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Stu Shea, CEO of Peraton, Selected to 2019 Wash100 for Efforts to Accelerate Growth, Provide Exemplary Customer Service
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Peraton CEO Stu Shea as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his efforts to accelerate growth and provide exemplary customer service. This marks the third Wash100 award for Shea.
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Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Space Systems EVP, Named to 2019 Wash100 for Space Technology Push, Cloud Adoption for Space Missions
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space systems segment, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the improvement of space technologies, including utilizing the cloud for space missions. This marks the fourth Wash100 award for Ambrose in the last five years.
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NASA Requests Info on Market Capability to Develop Solar Irradiance Sensor Spacecraft
NASA on Friday issued a request for information notice, seeking capability statements from companies that possess the expertise and technologies needed to develop and support a spacecraft for the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 Mission. The goal of TSIS-2 is to deliver by March 2022 a spacecraft equipped with sensors that will gather solar irradiance data.
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Lockheed Licenses Varactor Tech to Help Mitigate Sensor Interference
Lockheed Martin and the University of Dayton have partnered to determine whether a varactor technology can mitigate interference from devices that may affect the performance of sensors.
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General Atomics to Equip MQ-9B RPA With Detect-Avoid Tech for Certification; Linden Blue Quoted
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business continues to develop a multimission remotely piloted aircraft and intends to equip the new vehicle with a detect and avoid technology as part of certification efforts.
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Virgin Galactic Conducts Second ‘SpaceShipTwo’ Suborbital Test Flight
Virgin Galactic launched its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft on Friday carrying four NASA-supported research payloads into suborbital space. NASA said Saturday the payloads aboard the second test flight are the Microgravity Multi-Phase Flow Experiment for Suborbital Testing from the agency’s Johnson Space Center; Vibration Isolation Platform from Controlled Dynamics; Collisions into Dust Experiment from the University of Central Florida in Orlando; and Electromagnetic Field Measurements from Johns Hopkins University.
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AWS, Enlighten IT Partner to Help Gov’t Clients Secure Cloud Data
Enlighten IT Consulting has partnered with Amazon Web Services in a push to help federal civilian and defense agencies store, manage and secure information in the GovCloud (US) environment.
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DARPA Seeks Competency-Awareness Machine Learning Research Proposals
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started the process of soliciting research proposals for a machine learning technology to help autonomous systems determine its task competency and support human-machine teaming activities.
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Army Plans to Award Master Planning Architect & Engineering Support Contracts in May
The U.S. Army intends to award in May up to 10 potential five-year contracts worth $94.5M combined for master planning architect and engineering support services to support the Army Corps of Engineers Europe District’s plans to construct military and other related facilities. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday said the military branch plans to award a minimum of three indefinite-delivery contracts for such services in support of the Army Corps of Engineers Europe District.
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USMC Solicits Input to Build Precision Fire Weapons System
The U.S. Marine Corps has asked industry to submit ideas on how to develop a weapons system that would hit targets at a range surpassing that of systems being used by organic infantry units.