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Northrop Grumman has received a $59.1M contract to perform engineering, manufacturing and development work on next-generation navigation systems for the U.S. Air Force. The company will aim to complete the EMD phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program by Sept. 30 of next year, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force is obligating […] More
Telesat has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to assess the capability of commercial satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit to support the Pentagon’s future broadband connectivity requirements and other space-based communication needs. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with Leidos on the contract awarded through DARPA’s Blackjack program. Blackjack seeks to leverage […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy have entered negotiations on a potential contract to build the third and fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, Navy Times reported Thursday. James Geurts, assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition at the Navy, said at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing Tuesday that he expects the military branch to […] More
Noblis has won a potential $24M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support a pair of Defense Department environmental research programs. The contract has a one-year base period of performance, two option years and an additional one six-month extension, Army Contracting Command said in an award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps. Work covers technical review, direct program area support, administrative and […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Dec. 14 in Arlington, Va., to meet vendors that can help develop technologies that aid in body resilience and recovery of military service members during warfighting missions. Through the Panacea program, DARPA wants to invent, design and test multitarget drugs that can help […] More
Some launch service providers have moved to decrease the number of their rocket offerings as part of cost-saving efforts, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, told audience at the SpaceCom Expo held Wednesday in Houston the company has reduced Atlas 5 and Delta 2 and 4 configurations from 41 to […] More
Two of Raytheon’s new drone technologies have landed spots on Popular Science’s list of 100 greatest innovations of 2018. The publication selected the company’s Skyler radar and a laser dune buggy system for the annual Best of What’s New list, recognizing the technologies’ potential to provide new functions for unmanned vehicles, Raytheon said Wednesday. Skyler is […] More
The Department of Health and Human Services has named the winners of its challenge focused on software that can help clinicians address issues in health information technology and electronic health records. The Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge tasked teams to develop tools that aid EHR users in identifying, documenting and reporting potential safety issues in […] More
The General Services Administration has added Iron Mountain‘s shredding services to the Schedule 36 governmentwide procurement vehicle for office, imaging and document offerings. The company said Wednesday federal customers can seek assistance to dispose of information under the 51-507 special item number for destruction services. “Agencies also have the flexibility to choose either onsite or offsite and one-time or recurring […] More
Mitre will relocate its current office in San Antonio, Texas, to the Northwest Side after four decades of conducting business near a joint military installation, San Antonio Business Journal reported Wednesday. The report said nearly 70 of the nonprofit company’s employees will move to a facility at Corporate Square by early 2019. Bobby Blount, department […] More
Randy Deidrick, ground-based training systems lead for the T-X program at Boeing, has said the company intends to achieve full operational capability for the T-X trainer aircraft in 2034, National Defense reported Wednesday. “Part of what we’ve been doing in these two months is familiarizing our customer with what we’ve already developed, what we already […] More
The FBI, World Bank and U.K.’s Home Office have used Amazon Web Services‘ cloud technology in efforts to make data-based decisions in real time, YourStory reported Wednesday. “We listened to our customers in the government to ramp up disaster recovery and reduce cost of completion while launching new applications,” said Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS’ worldwide […] More
