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Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has delivered a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine slated for U.S. Navy commissioning in September. USS Indiana is the 16th Virginia-class submarine HII has built through a partnership with General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary and eighth craft that Newport News Shipbuilding handed over to the service branch, HII said Monday. The industry […] More

Systems Planning and Analysis has been included in The Washington Post’s Top Workplaces 2018 list, which is based on the results of an anonymous employee survey. SPA said Saturday it was selected among 50 other medium companies and received high ratings on leadership connections, employee development, company values and ethics, communication, pay and benefits, work-life balance and business […] More

Thomas Afferton, vice president of civil solutions at Northrop Grumman, has said the company will help update legacy systems at the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs through a potential 10-year, $850 million contract. “We look forward to drawing on our deep experience in modernizing systems for defense, intel and civilian customers and applying our unique tools […] More

A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $44.9 million contract to provide security and access control support across the Missile Defense Agency enterprise. Chenega Infinity will help the MDA secure the agency’s domestic and international facilities, personnel, missions and events, the Defense Department said Wednesday. “Chenega is very pleased to serve the Missile Defense Agency as […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on July 17 in Arlington, Va., to solicit vendors for the development of insect-scale robotic platforms. Registration for the Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms Proposers Day will run through July 13, DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday. The SHRIMP program will include three 12-month […] More