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  • ICF Secures $52M Cyberspace Support Contract for Major Air Force Command
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    ICF Secures $52M Cyberspace Support Contract for Major Air Force Command

    ICF will provide cyberspace support for a U.S. Air Force command under a potential $51.7 million contract. The contract includes technical and programmatic expertise and cyberspace support recommendations for the Air Combat Command, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will run through Nov. 20, 2021 and will take place at Joint Base Langley-Eustis with an […] More

  • USAF Taps Tribalco to Support Technology Service Effort Under $57M Contract
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    USAF Taps Tribalco to Support Technology Service Effort Under $57M Contract

    Tribalco has received a five-year, $57 million contract to deliver services and products in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Guardian Angel Technical Recovery III program. The company will provide technical recovery kits, training, annual maintenance, system engineering, program management and kit modernization via technology refresh under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur in Bethesda, Md., with […] More

  • Boeing Completes KC-46 Tanker Flight Test for FAA Supplemental Type Certificate
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    Boeing Completes KC-46 Tanker Flight Test for FAA Supplemental Type Certificate

    Boeing has completed the flight tests of its KC-46 aircraft for a Federal Aviation Administration certificate after a refueling and communications exercise with a C-17 Globemaster III. The company said Thursday it will submit the flight test data and results for the FAA’s review for the award of the Supplemental Type Certificate. The STC tests for […] More

  • Industry Vet Steve Tarallo Named Dewberry Associate VP, Water/Wastewater Manager
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    Industry Vet Steve Tarallo Named Dewberry Associate VP, Water/Wastewater Manager

    Steve Tarallo, a more than 28-year industry veteran, has been named associate vice president and manager of the water/wastewater unit for Dewberry‘s office in Baltimore, Md. Tarallo’s previous work in the municipal water and wastewater industry includes conducting engineering services such as the selection and design of process technology to mature treatment, energy efficiency and resource […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium’s Broadband Service Could Complement LEO Constellations
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    Matt Desch: Iridium’s Broadband Service Could Complement LEO Constellations

    Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has said he observed new low-Earth orbit satellites work to support broadband services that the company already offers along with very small aperture terminals, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Desch told investors in an earnings call held Thursday he believes LEO constellation operators do not pose a significant threat to Iridium’s business. “This is […] More

  • Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments
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    Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments

    Leidos’ Sea Hunter autonomous anti-submarine vessel has passed nearly two years of testing with the U.S. Navy and joined the service’s fleet of warships, CNBC reported Wednesday. The report said almost all of Sea Hunter’s elements are now classified. Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, vice president and Navy strategic account executive at Leidos, stated that Sea […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Navy Develop Maritime Surveillance, Targeting Platform
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    Raytheon to Help Navy Develop Maritime Surveillance, Targeting Platform

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has won a potential $29.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a maritime technology that can support command, control and communication across multiple domains. The company will perform work through Oct. 31, 2020, in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Cross Domain Maritime Surveillance and Targeting program, the […] More

  • IBM’s Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform Gets FedRAMP OK
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    IBM’s Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform Gets FedRAMP OK

    John Hamilton, program manager of operations at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, has tweeted that IBM‘s collaboration platform became the 100th cloud service offering to receive FedRAMP approval, Federal Times reported Wednesday. IBM Connections is designed to support business email, instant messaging, web conferencing and social business networking, file sharing, online document editing and archiving. […] More

  • Leidos Wins Potential $65M USACE Info Mgmt, IT Support Contract
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    Leidos Wins Potential $65M USACE Info Mgmt, IT Support Contract

    Leidos has won a one-year, $64.5 million contract to information management and information technology services across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enterprise. USACE received four bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online-based solicitation and will obligate $63.3 million in fiscal 2018 revolving funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The company’s innovations business […] More

  • Army Reviews Design of GE’s New Military Helicopter Engine
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    Army Reviews Design of GE’s New Military Helicopter Engine

    The U.S. Army has completed a preliminary design review of an engine technology General Electric‘s aviation business developed under a 24-month, $102 million contract awarded in September 2016. GE said Wednesday the PDR represents a milestone for the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the service branch’s Improved Turbine Engine Program. The company offered its T901-GE-900 as a […] More

  • Sixth Batch of Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrives at SpaceX Site in VAFB
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    Sixth Batch of Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrives at SpaceX Site in VAFB

    Five Iridium NEXT satellites that are scheduled for launch on May 19 have arrived at SpaceX’s launch site in Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to go through pre-launch processing procedures. Iridium Communications said Wednesday each satellite will be mated in the dispenser, fueled, stacked on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s payload adapter and encapsulated […] More

  • Accenture Vet Ron Griggs Joins Avaya as System Integrator Relations VP
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    Accenture Vet Ron Griggs Joins Avaya as System Integrator Relations VP

    Ron Griggs, a more than 20-year veteran of Accenture and formerly an alliance sales executive at Deloitte, has joined Avaya as vice president of system integrator relations. Avaya said Wednesday Griggs will lead the company’s relations with partners that aim to integrate emerging technology with its unified communications and contact center platforms. He previously managed Deloitte’s alliances with cloud, […] More