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Lockheed Martin is modernizing littoral combat ships of the U.S. Navy, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Joe DePietro, vice president of small combatants and ship systems at Lockheed, said Thursday prior to the commissioning of the USS Sioux City on Monday, that the LCS modernization seeks to increase the ships’ firepower and survivability. The program involves equipping the […] More
Lockheed Martin’s space business has received two contract modifications to provide deployed system support and manufacturing services for the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 missiles. The modifications tasked Lockheed to perform missile support work through Sept. 30, 2023 and are worth $49.1M and $41.3M, the Defense Department said Friday. The Navy will obligate $31.3M from […] More
Northrop Grumman on Saturday launched the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a mission to deliver 7,400 pounds of NASA‘s scientific equipment and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The company said Saturday its vehicle, nicknamed S.S. John Young, lifted off at 4:01 a.m. Eastern time from the Wallops Flight Facility’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A in Virginia aboard the medium-class Antares rocket. […] More
Rockwell Collins has secured a Type-1 certification from the National Security Agency for the company’s airborne software-defined radio technology built to allow communication among warfighters in the air and on the ground. The company said Friday the certification confirms the ability of its AN/ARC-210 RT-2036(C) radio to secure the handling of information up to Top Secret […] More
The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to host a two-day conference in March to provide information about DARPA’s artificial intelligence research and development programs to Defense Department researchers and industry stakeholders. AI Colloquium will take place from March 6 to 7 in Alexandria, Va., and seeks to explore the potential applications of the technology in DoD missions, DARPA […] More
Cubic‘s global defense unit has selected Leonardo DRS to provide over 500 internal subsystems of a combat training platform for the F-35 aircraft. The effort would globally bring the number of F-35 units equipped with the P5 Combat Training System to over a thousand, Leonardo DRS said Friday. The P5CTS is designed to record real-time mission […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential five-year, $14.6M task order to Battelle for information technology services in support of the Defense Technical Information Center’s data search needs. The company said Friday it will work with Securboration and Information International Associates under the Cybersecurity Technical Area Task multiple-award contract to augment the center’s capacity […] More
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is designed to travel at a speed of approximately 940 miles per hour at 55K feet and reduce sonic boom noise […] More
Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at its buildings through an agreement. Northern Virginia’s Arlington is one of the two locations […] More
NASA has issued a request for information on potential switch designs for a communication payload network as part of the agency’s Laser Optical Near-Earth Satellite System project. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday, the agency encourages both large and small businesses to submit capability statements describing their abilities to address the LOCNESS switch requirement. The […] More
General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems business has won a one-year, $14.4M contract to provide ground mobility vehicles and related kits to the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command received three proposals for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet and the military service will determine funds and work locations upon issuance of orders, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More
