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  • Sikorsky Gets Navy CH-53K Spare Parts Order
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    Sikorsky Gets Navy CH-53K Spare Parts Order

    Lockeed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $58.4M delivery order to provide spare parts for the U.S. Navy‘s CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The service ordered 866 interim spare parts needed to repair and maintain lot 2 CH-53K low-rate initial production units, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur through January 2021 in Connecticut, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada and […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL to Help Air Force Manage Space Asset Portfolio
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    Johns Hopkins APL to Help Air Force Manage Space Asset Portfolio

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory a five-year, $23.8M contract to provide life cycle support for the military branch’s space assets APL will support concept development, design, implementation, transition and management of tactical space and small satellite platforms under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force […] More

  • Army Orders Harris Tactical Radios, Equipment
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    Army Orders Harris Tactical Radios, Equipment

    Harris will provide more than 1.K units of the AN/PRC-163 handheld radio system, equipment and support services to the U.S. Army under new orders awarded through an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Thursday its AN/PRC-163 radio uses two-channel connectivity to facilitate tactical data transmission across the battlefield network and chain of command. Army personnel use the […] More

  • Cubic to Build F-35 Combat Training System; Dave Buss Quoted
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    Cubic to Build F-35 Combat Training System; Dave Buss Quoted

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Cubic’s global defense segment a contract of an undisclosed value to build an air combat training system for the F-35 Lightning II program. Cubic said Thursday it will deliver more than 500 ACTS subsystems over the next four years as part of F-35 production lots 12 to 14. The system will incorporate the P5 ground software […] More

  • CACI Awarded $66M Army IT Support Extension
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    CACI Awarded $66M Army IT Support Extension

    CACI International has received a six-month, $66.4M task order from the General Services Administration to continue information technology support services for the U.S. Army‘s reserve component automation system. The company has provided RCAS sustainment, program management, infrastructure integration, technical services to the Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems over the past five years through […] More

  • Raytheon to Demonstrate Deployable Version of Approach, Landing Guidance System to Air Force
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    Raytheon to Demonstrate Deployable Version of Approach, Landing Guidance System to Air Force

    Raytheon plans to demonstrate a deployable version of its approach and landing guidance system at two of the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 operation facilities in 2019, Military.com reported Wednesday. The company aims to show the U.S. Air Force the ability of the Joint Precision Approach and Landings System to guide pilots in landing in austere […] More

  • Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop’s Autonomous Maritime Platforms
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    Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop’s Autonomous Maritime Platforms

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated seabed warfare systems and the multidomain integration of unmanned platforms during a three-day exhibition of potential U.S. Navy technologies held last month in Newport, R.I. The company said Wednesday it launched sonobuoys from an autonomous Fire Scout surrogate helicopter and deployed micro synthetic aperture sonar on a man-portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of the 2018 Advanced Naval […] More

  • VMware’s Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects
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    VMware’s Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects

    Rob Sherry, senior director of federal health care at VMware, has shared lessons that he believes information technology professionals could learn from the Defense Department’s project to modernize the military electronic health records system, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. He told the publication in an interview IT leaders should help end users adapt to EHR system changes and […] More

  • Lockheed Celebrates 400th F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System Delivery
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    Lockheed Celebrates 400th F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System Delivery

    Lockheed Martin has delivered the 400th unit of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter’s Electro-Optical Targeting System under a low-rate initial production contract. The EOTS uses forward-looking and infrared search and track tools to help pilots verify targets and deploy weapons that rely on laser guidance and the global positioning system, Lockheed said Wednesday. “Achieving […] More

  • ACT I Chosen ‘Contractor of the Year’ Finalist for GovCon Awards; Michael Niggel Quoted
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    ACT I Chosen ‘Contractor of the Year’ Finalist for GovCon Awards; Michael Niggel Quoted

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has been selected for two years in a row as a finalist in one of the Contractor of the Year categories of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards. ACT I said Tuesday the company is vying for the award for contractors with $25M to $75M in annual revenue. “It is […] More

  • Esri to Cosponsor Navy’s Data Application Development Competition
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    Esri to Cosponsor Navy’s Data Application Development Competition

    Esri will cosponsor an upcoming U.S. Navy event that would gather developers to boost the service branch’s digital capacities for protection of sea, air, space and subsurface domains. The Naval Sea Systems Command will host the HACKtheMACHINE event from Sept. 21 to 23 in Seattle, Wash., the company said Wednesday. Attending developers would receive access to […] More

  • Cambridge Named Trusted Integrator Under NSA-Led Program
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    Cambridge Named Trusted Integrator Under NSA-Led Program

    The National Security Agency has named Cambridge International Systems a Trusted Integrator under a program aiming to provide the government with secure information assurance tools. The Commercial Solutions for Classified program sets criteria that provide an NSA assessment standard for system integrator businesses to follow, the company said Wednesday. Firms recognized as Trusted Integrators receive […] More