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A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More
Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company will help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts at Wright-Patterson AF […] More
Raytheon has received a $10 million contract to design a 100-kilowatt laser weapon system potential integration onto the U.S. Army‘s fleet of medium tactical vehicles. The company said Monday it will conduct preliminary design work as part of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program. Roy Azevedo, vice president of intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems at Raytheon’s […] More
Engineering Services Network has received a potential five-year, $69.6 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide technical, engineering and logistics support for weapon systems programs of the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The company said Monday it will help test, engineer and conduct post-event analysis of the Aegis Combat System and the Ballistic Missile Defense […] More
Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More
John Stewart, formerly president and general manager of BWSR, has been named president of BWX Technologies‘ nuclear fuel services subsidiary. He led the BWXT-Aptim joint venture for six years in efforts to provide decommissioning, demolition and operations support to the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, BWXT said Thursday. Stewart spent 25 years at the U.S. Navy, where he served as a staff […] More
Charles River Analytics and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary will collaborate on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded effort to develop modeling tools for military planners to comprehend potential causes of a conflict. The industry team aims to produce military planning tools using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of DARPA’s Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program, Charles […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has selected Cyber 20/20 to develop a platform for financial services organizations to secure networks from malicious threats. DHS said Monday its science and technology directorate awarded $200,000 for the Newark, Del.-based technology startup to demonstrate a proof-of-concept prototype of the company’s proposed Trained Using Runtime Analysis from Cuckoo Outputs system. TURACO is designed […] More
Anthony Aquino, a U.S. Army reservist and former division director of strategy at Leidos, has been named president of a TechFlow subsidiary that offers mission support services to federal government and military customers. He will lead EMI Services and its efforts to help Defense Department clients maintain facilities as well as manage base operations, logistics activities and information technology […] More
The U.S. Air Force is soliciting proposals to build an integrated operations platform for the U.S. Cyber Command through the General Services Administration‘s Alliant contract vehicle, Fifth Domain reported Friday. Defense Department officials have said that Cybercom’s future Unified Platform will work to support cyber defense, planning command-and-control and situational awareness efforts. USAF issued a solicitation […] More
Virgin Orbit has obtained authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to test-fly the company’s rocket system through what the agency calls a reusable launch vehicle mission. FAA issued Friday a commercial space transportation license that says Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne platform can launch from a Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft as part of the test slated to occur at Mojave Air and Space […] More
Hortonworks and PSSC Labs have teamed up to develop a high-performance computing system for use in conjunction with Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform. PSSC’s CyberRax Cybersecurity Appliance is a turnkey platform that works to deliver cyber data with alert summaries, real-time processing and high-speed ingestion capabilities to users and supports 240 processor cores and 150 terabytes of data, the […] More
