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Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a five-year, $43 million task order to provide the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center with assistance in developing, testing and evaluating protective combat gear. Under the task order, awarded in March through the Air Force Installation Contract Agency, Booz Allen will provide technical input on the […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a $6.3 million contract to supply tools and hardware in support of a national security organization’s efforts to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats. The company said Tuesday its modular systems division will manufacture specialized equipment for the unnamed customer under the contract. Tom Mills, the division’s president, said the […] More
General Dynamics‘ mission systems business and Telesat have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop user terminals designed to operate with the latter company’s low-Earth orbit satellites. Canada-based Telesat said Tuesday its LEO constellation will initially consist of 120 satellites and be designed to provide fiber-like broadband connectivity for government and commercial customers worldwide. “Our customers […] More
Coherent Technical Services Inc. has collaborated with L3 Technologies to demonstrate an integrated communication and navigation technology designed to work in a GPS-denied or contested environment. CTSi said Tuesday it developed and flight-tested the Enhanced Link Navigation System prototype under an $8.7 million Small Business Innovative Research phase 3 contract from the U.S. Navy. Pilots at aviation company Airtec provided turn-key support during the flight […] More
Peraton has launched efforts to add new points-of-presence across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific region and broaden its terrestrial core network in an effort to build up its global communications services. “Demand for high speed persistent communications has grown exponentially over the past few years, with today’s applications often requiring gigabit rather […] More
ViON and Nutanix teamed up to present a hyperconverged infrastructure-based platform at the five-day ESRI User Conference that kicked off in San Diego on Monday. ViON said Tuesday the HCI-based Enterprise Cloud platform from Nutanix is backed by ViON’s data center-as-a-service financial model and is designed to help users of geographic information systems manage image […] More
Perspecta has received an “other transaction” agreement worth $49 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency to build a prototype of a case management system designed to speed up background investigations. The company will work with Accenture’s federal services business, Pegasystems, Next Tier Concepts and Torch Research to develop the National Background Investigation Services Investigation […] More
Altamira Technologies has received a potential five-year, $24.6 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a radio frequency sensing technology intended for areas with a contested and congested spectrum. The company said Tuesday it will use previous work on internal and client-backed RF technology research and development efforts to support AFRL’s Distributed Radio Frequency Sensing […] More
MicroTech has chosen Dr. Barry West as president, who will oversee corporate business operations and development, as well as the expansion of cybersecurity and cloud computing offerings, the Tysons, Va., company announced Tuesday. Tony Jimenez, who formerly held both the president and chief executive officer titles, said the company’s level of growth necessitated the addition […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business, told Shephard Media in an interview published Monday that the company’s presentation at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow will cover vulnerability assessment. “Every weapon system brings a new computer that represents a cyber vulnerability,” Probert said. He explained that Raytheon’s […] More
Evoke Research and Consulting has secured a potential five-year, $65 million blanket purchase agreement to provide executive services to the Energy Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. The company said July 3 it will support DOE OCIO in core functional areas such as portfolio management and governance, enterprise policy and resource management, as well as help the […] More
Yale University astronomy professor Dr. Debra Fischer said during the recent Exoplanets II conference that NASA is financially supporting a study that would look into the possibility of launching a space telescope using SpaceX’s upcoming BFR reusable rocket, Teslarati reported Monday. The Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor telescope, or LUVOIR, is being developed for use in the exploration and investigation of exoplanets […] More
