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Shawn Moore, former commander of detachment 6 at the U.S. Air Force‘s Installation and Mission Support Center, has been named program director for Woolpert’s military market area. Woolpert said Friday the retired Air Force colonel will oversee efforts to secure U.S. military base support projects in both domestic and international locations in his new role. […] More
State and county officials in Maryland and representatives from the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T have organized an event to mark the state’s first anniversary of subscribing to the FirstNet platform. AT&T said Thursday the event recalls Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s approval of the adoption of the FirstNet network platform in the state in […] More
Harry Jenkins, test and evaluation command systems chair for the Army Evaluation Center’s mounted systems evaluation directorate, has said contractor testing-derived data combined with government insight could help the military speed up the acquisition process. Jenkins wrote in an article published Friday on DVIDS that BAE Systems came up with a detailed testing plan for […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $13.6M to provide life cycle management services for U.S. Army programs covering multiple ammunition product lines. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Department said Friday. SAIC will perform work through Dec. 4. 2023. The company received a $52M task […] More
Raytheon’s missile systems business has received a $62M contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to support form, fit and function upgrade work on the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile system. The modification exercises an option under a previously issued contract and covers phase 5 activities to refresh the missile’s guidance section, the Defense […] More
NASA uses an Amazon Web Services tool with a machine learning infrastructure designed to help agency personnel monitor and calculate the wind speed of hurricanes. The Deep Learning-Based Hurricane Intensity Estimator works to generate and display wind flow velocity at 15-minute intervals with the use of near real-time images from GOES-16 satellite’s web mapping server, according to an AWS […] More
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company plans to launch on Dec. 30 the final batch of Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket, Teslarati reported Thursday. Desch said in a tweet the Iridium-8 mission will take off aboard Falcon 9’s previously-flown booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. He noted the B1049.2 booster would skip a return-to-launch […] More
Advanced Technology International has issued a request for enhanced whitepapers regarding a consortium aiming to develop aviation and missile technologies for the U.S. military. The Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium consists of national armaments and vertical lift groups partnered with the U.S. Army on an effort to boost the combat performance of warfighters, the Department […] More
The U.S. Navy will christen two of its future Virginia-class attack submarines on Saturday at General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries locations. The service branch will christen USS Vermont at a General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., while USS Delaware will be christened at an HII Newport News Shipbuilding site in Newport News, Va., the […] More
David Shedd, a government service veteran with nearly 33 years of intelligence and national security experience, has been elected as chairman of Draper’s board of directors. He has served as a board member at Draper over the past three years and succeeds Franklin Miller, who held the chairman role for the past five years, the nonprofit […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on research efforts that involve hardware and software architectures with intelligent computing functions. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it seeks to determine the possibility of developing within the next 20 years a computer system that can reason and learn from experience, […] More
The U.S. Army plans to come up with an interconnected platform designed to collect and transmit intelligence data to warfighters as they navigate the battlefield through the Distributed Common Ground System-Army program, Defense One reported Thursday. Raytheon has demonstrated its proposed offering, FoXTEN, for the DCGS-A competition. “We’ve been maturing the look and feel, the […] More
