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  • NIST Seeks Microelectromechanical System Design Tool
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    NIST Seeks Microelectromechanical System Design Tool

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a request for information on companies that offer design and layout software for microelectromechanical systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says NIST is interested in an electronic design automation technology designed to generate masks for MEMS device production. The agency requires software for creating geometrical figures and hierarchical models, as […] More

  • Leidos to Provide Additional Support for Navy Synthetic Signature Guidance-Based Systems
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    Leidos to Provide Additional Support for Navy Synthetic Signature Guidance-Based Systems

    Leidos has secured a $17.3M contract from the U.S. Navy to expand support work on synthetic signature guidance-based systems designed for naval missions. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide technical and engineering services for SSG-based platforms under the scope increase modification. The Navy originally awarded Leidos a $49.5M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in February 2015 to […] More

  • ManTech to Help Army Build Cyber Training Platform; Kevin Phillips Quoted
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    ManTech to Help Army Build Cyber Training Platform; Kevin Phillips Quoted

    ManTech International will collaborate with three other companies to build a prototype for the U.S. Army‘s Persistent Cyber Training Environment under an “other transaction” agreement with Consortium Management Group. ManTech said Tuesday it will integrate its software, cyber and systems engineering experience with learning management platforms and infrastructure development expertise of Ultimate Knowledge Institute, C5 Cyber Partners and […] More

  • Lockheed-Made InSight Spacecraft Passes Halfway Mark in Journey Towards Mars
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    Lockheed-Made InSight Spacecraft Passes Halfway Mark in Journey Towards Mars

    A Lockheed Martin-made spacecraft designed to study Mars’ deep interior has traveled halfway towards the red planet. NASA said Tuesday the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodsey and Heat Transport or InSight spacecraft covered 172M miles since it was launched in May aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute CloudBees Software Delivery Suite to Gov’t Clients, Resellers
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    Carahsoft to Distribute CloudBees Software Delivery Suite to Gov’t Clients, Resellers

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute CloudBees‘s suite of automated software delivery platforms to public sector agencies via a NASA-managed governmentwide acquisition vehicle. Government customers will have access to CloudBees Core, which is based on the Jenkins open source automation server, through Carahsoft’s position on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract, the company said Tuesday. CloudBees’s product portfolio also includes […] More

  • Hughes Selected for 2018 Fortune Change the World List
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    Hughes Selected for 2018 Fortune Change the World List

    Hughes Network Systems has been listed in Fortune magazine’s ranking of companies that have demonstrated a social impact in core business strategies. Fortune placed Hughes in the top 10 of its Change the World List and cited the firm’s efforts to facilitate communications in disaster recovery efforts with technology, the company said Monday. Hughes operated more than […] More

  • BAE Secures Navy Multimission Airborne Detection Contract
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    BAE Secures Navy Multimission Airborne Detection Contract

    BAE Systems has won a potential $39M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide support services to the U.S. Navy’s multimission airborne detection system. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the Office of Naval Research awarded the contract to BAE’s information and electronic systems unit via a long-range broad agency announcement dated Sept. 29, 2017. ONR will continue […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing Subsidiary to Deliver Lot II Blackjack UAS, Attrition Aircraft
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    Navy Taps Boeing Subsidiary to Deliver Lot II Blackjack UAS, Attrition Aircraft

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has received a $54M U.S. Navy contract to provide four Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems and eight attrition aircraft. Seven of the attrition vehicles would go to the U.S. Marine Corps, while the remaining one would go to the Polish government, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Insitu would also provide complementary […] More

  • Lockheed to Ship Orion EM-2 Crew Capsule to Kennedy Space Center
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    Lockheed to Ship Orion EM-2 Crew Capsule to Kennedy Space Center

    Lockheed Martin is now ready to transport the crew capsule of the Orion spacecraft from Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the completion of the structural closeout weld in July, NASASpaceflight.com reported Tuesday. Orion will launch with four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-2 that […] More

  • Lockheed’s Second GPS III Satellite Receives USAF ‘Available for Launch’ Status
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    Lockheed’s Second GPS III Satellite Receives USAF ‘Available for Launch’ Status

    The second Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite has received the “available for launch” designation from the U.S. Air Force and is now expected to lift off in 2019. Lockheed said Tuesday GPS III Space Vehicle 02 will become part of the service’s next-generation GPS III satellite constellation that will work to deliver anti-jamming capabilities to U.S. […] More

  • DLT to Help Appian Distribute Software to Public Sector Agencies
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    DLT to Help Appian Distribute Software to Public Sector Agencies

    DLT Solutions and Appian have partnered in an effort to provide software, related services and expertise to the public sector. Under the partnership, DLT will distribute Appian’s low-code application services to government agencies, DLT said Tuesday. Brian Strosser, president at DLT, said the products and services to be delivered would help the public sector accelerate digital […] More

  • MAG Aerospace Moves to New Fairfax County, Virginia HQ
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    MAG Aerospace Moves to New Fairfax County, Virginia HQ

    MAG Aerospace has moved its corporate headquarters from Sterling to Fairfax, Va., and aims to create 120 new jobs through its relocation and expansion efforts at the new site. The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority said Tuesday that Gov. Ralph Northam approved a $500K Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund grant to help the local government secure the project with MAG. […] More