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  • Report: Northrop’s H03 Firebird Intell Aircraft Flies at California-Based Space Port
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    Report: Northrop’s H03 Firebird Intell Aircraft Flies at California-Based Space Port

    The latest version of the Firebird optionally-manned aircraft built by Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites subsidiary has been seen flying at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, the Drive reported Saturday. Northrop’s H03 Firebird intelligence gathering aircraft, which has the civil registration code N326JG, has been photographed by photojournalist David Wirth and features a large […] More

  • AeroVironment Gets Quality Management System Certification
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    AeroVironment Gets Quality Management System Certification

    AeroVironment has received ISO 9001:2015/AS9100D certification for the quality management system the company uses across its unmanned aircraft, tactical missile, electric vehicle charging and power cycling and test systems businesses. SAI Global issued the certificate that covers AeroVironment’s design, development, operational performance, production and support processes, the UAS manufacturer said Friday. Wahid Nawabi, president and CEO of AeroVironment, […] More

  • Bloomberg Government Updates Defense Spending Database
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    Bloomberg Government Updates Defense Spending Database

    Bloomberg Government has updated its database and dashboard to help companies gain insight into the Defense Department‘s five-year spending plan for procurement and research and development programs. Kevin Brancato, director of government contracts research at BGOV, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the Future Years Defense Program dashboard features a search tool for business developers […] More

  • Red Hat Featured in Gartner API Management Quadrant
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    Red Hat Featured in Gartner API Management Quadrant

    Red Hat has been named a leader in Gartner‘s latest magic quadrant for vendors that offer application programming interface management platforms. The market research firm included Red Hat’s 3scale platform in the April 2018 edition of the “Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management,” the software company said Friday. The platform is designed with security management, access […] More

  • Raytheon to Equip Army Gray Eagle UAS With Common Sensor Payload
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    Raytheon to Equip Army Gray Eagle UAS With Common Sensor Payload

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $28.5 million contract to provide an electro-optical/infrared sensor technology designed to process visual imagery and complement electronic sensors of a U.S. Army unmanned aircraft system. Raytheon will provide 20 common sensor payloads that include data, one turret and an electronics unit in each CSP system for the Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS, […] More

  • Cubic Opens Office in Dallas for AT&T Partnership Support; Mike Twyman Comments
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    Cubic Opens Office in Dallas for AT&T Partnership Support; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic‘s mission solutions business has established an office located close to AT&T‘s Dallas headquarters. Both companies started to collaborate last year to develop an interoperability platform and have formalized a partnership to create an interagency communications offering based on the Vocality RoIP gateway, Cubic said Thursday. “We take pride in our ability to provide exceptional service to our […] More

  • BAE, Prismatic Partner to Develop Solar-Powered Surveillance, Communications UAV
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    BAE, Prismatic Partner to Develop Solar-Powered Surveillance, Communications UAV

    BAE Systems and Prismatic have partnered to develop a solar-powered, high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle that can be used for surveillance and communications operations in remote areas. BAE Systems said Thursday the Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft-35 will be equipped with battery and solar cell technology that would allow the 330-pound UAV to remain aloft […] More

  • NGA, Planet Sign CRADA for Imagery Extraction, Analytics
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    NGA, Planet Sign CRADA for Imagery Extraction, Analytics

    Planet and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have partnered in an effort to increase the process for NGA to extract and analyze commercial imagery. Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager, said in a statement published Thursday both parties signed a cooperative research and development agreement that could yield change detection services such as object monitoring, broad area search and baseline and […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Build NY Airspace Corridor for Drone Test
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    Raytheon to Help Build NY Airspace Corridor for Drone Test

    Raytheon has been chosen to help the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance design, develop and support an airspace corridor in New York state to facilitate testing of unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Thursday the new airspace corridor will serve as a venue for companies to test drones and platforms designed for air traffic management […] More

  • Accenture, SAP to Build Digital Platform for Defense Agencies; Drew Soltis Comments
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    Accenture, SAP to Build Digital Platform for Defense Agencies; Drew Soltis Comments

    Accenture and SAP have agreed to team up to co-develop a digital platform designed to help defense agencies advance their digital transformation initiatives. The companies will develop the digital defense platform based on SAP’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning offering built on SAP HANA in-memory platform, Accenture said Thursday. “What our co-development with SAP does is […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Fill Capability Gaps Through ‘Transformational’ M&As
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Fill Capability Gaps Through ‘Transformational’ M&As

    CACI International CEO Ken Asbury has said the company’s effort to strike a “transformational transaction” is not based on scale but on the need to address gaps in capabilities across the 12 markets it serves, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “We are an organization that is not consumed by the notion of scale,” Asbury told […] More