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Boeing has received a potential $45M contract to provide updated airframe structures for U.S. Special Operations Command’s A/MH-6  helicopters. The company will provide 56 primary airframes for the rotary wing platform under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that has a minimum order value of $100K, the Defense Department said Monday. SOCOM will obligate $5.2M in fiscal 2018 procurement funds at the […] More

Raytheon has received a $37.2M contract modification to continue intermediate-level repair and maintenance services for the U.S. Navy’s Standard Missile-2 and Standard Missile-6 systems. The Navy will obligate $19M in fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Monday. The company’s missile systems business will perform work in Arizona, Arkansas and Alabama […] More

BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business will help the U.S. Navy maintain and operate electronic, communication and computing platforms under a potential five-year, $79.8M contract. The firm-fixed-price contract has a base value of $13.9M over a 12-month period that runs through November 2019 and work could extend for an additional four more years if […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have invited academic and industry researchers worldwide to develop algorithms for retrieval of cross-lingual information through a $30K prize competition. IARPA said the OpenCLIR Challenge seeks technology that will work to help English speakers to identify content from blogs, social media, speeches, newswire and […] More

NASA has started to seek information on potential offerors that can provide mechanical systems engineering support through the Mechanical Integrated Services and Technologies recompete contract. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says NASA wants interested stakeholders to submit capability statements to determine how to acquire the services through the proposed MIST II contract in support of […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit input on other potential applications of distributed consensus protocols that are widely used in cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. A FedBizOpps notice posted Nov. 19 states that DARPA seeks methods to create large-scale permissionless distributed protocols without depending on currency transfers, economic-based security models for multiparty computation […] More