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  • Telos Helps Process LAX Aviation Worker Background Checks
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    Telos Helps Process LAX Aviation Worker Background Checks

    Telos‘ identity management solutions business has secured a contract to help process background checks for aviation workers at the Los Angeles International Airport. The company said Monday it integrated the web-based Designated Aviation Channeling service with LAX’s credential management system and performed onsite DAC and Rap Back training. Los Angeles World Airports, which operates LAX, awarded the contract. Dawn […] More

  • BAE Taps Sparton Unit to Supply Ruggedized Displays
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    BAE Taps Sparton Unit to Supply Ruggedized Displays

    A Sparton business unit has received a $13 million contract to supply ruggedized flat panel displays for a BAE Systems program that supports the U.S. Navy. Sparton said Monday its Aydin Displays team will deliver more than 600 panels to BAE over a 30-month period. “Our suppliers help us meet the commitments we make to our customers, and it is essential those relationships […] More

  • Drone Aviation Gets Additional DoD Tactical Aerostat Order
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    Drone Aviation Gets Additional DoD Tactical Aerostat Order

    Drone Aviation will provide an additional tactical aerostat system and operator training support to the Defense Department under a potential $1.7 million contract. The company said Monday it expects to deliver the multimission Winch Aerostat Small Platform to DoD by the end of the third quarter. The order also covers multifrequency and multiwaveform communications services and  intelligence, surveillance […] More

  • Magnolia, DARPA Partner to Develop Portable Solar Power Source
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    Magnolia, DARPA Partner to Develop Portable Solar Power Source

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Magnolia Optical Technologies to develop a photovoltaic system under a Small Business Innovation Research effort. The company said it aims to build power generator for military and commercial applications via the Phase II SBIR Program for Development of High-Performance Thin-Film Solar Cells for Portable Power Applications. A PV device can help power unmanned aircraft, […] More

  • Katrina McFarland, Sehlke Advisory Board Member, to Speak at NPS Acquisition Research Symposium
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    Katrina McFarland, Sehlke Advisory Board Member, to Speak at NPS Acquisition Research Symposium

    Katrina McFarland, a member of Sehlke Consulting‘s board of advisers and president at Blue Oryx, will participate in a panel discussion on government acquisition reform at an upcoming Naval Postgraduate School event in Monterey, California. Sehlke said McFarland will speak at NPS’ 15th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium on May 10 along with David Berteau, president and […] More

  • Radiant Solutions to Continue Army Geospatial Center Support
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    Radiant Solutions to Continue Army Geospatial Center Support

    Maxar Technologies‘ Radiant Solutions business will continue to help the Army Geospatial Center engineer systems and develop software for the Remote Ground Terminal program under a $2.6 million follow-on contract. Radiant Solutions said Thursday it helped the center develop the RGT platform for the U.S. Army to access geospatial data when the service branch performs military, humanitarian and disaster relief missions. The terminal […] More

  • Amazon Obtains USPTO Patent for Delivery Drone
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    Amazon Obtains USPTO Patent for Delivery Drone

    Amazon.com has secured a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to react to human gestures, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The patent supports Amazon’s plans to develop a fleet of UAVs that will work to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes. The UAV will use various […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Build New Campus in Arizona for Launch Vehicle Operations
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    Orbital ATK to Build New Campus in Arizona for Launch Vehicle Operations

    Orbital ATK will establish a new 47-acre campus in Chandler, Arizona to accommodate the expansion of the company’s launch vehicle operations. The new campus will include 617,000 square feet of space for two buildings as well as 261,000 square feet for manufacturing, Orbital ATK said Friday. Rich Straka, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s launch vehicles division, […] More

  • NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support
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    NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support

    Tahara Dawkins, director of the commercial remote sensing regulatory affairs office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said she believes government regulators should help in-orbit satellite servicing systems reach commercial viability, C4ISRNET reported Friday. “If we restrict this industry to a place where they’re not commercially viable, then this gets driven overseas,” Dawkins said at […] More

  • NASA Taps Metis Flight Research Associates for $63M Aerospace Modeling, Simulation Contract
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    NASA Taps Metis Flight Research Associates for $63M Aerospace Modeling, Simulation Contract

    Metis Flight Research Associates has received a potential five-year, $62.8 million contract to support aerospace systems modeling and simulation efforts at NASA‘s Ames Research Center. The Aerospace Modeling and Simulation III contract’s 45-day phase-in period will begin on April 23, followed by one base year and four option years, NASA said Saturday. Work covers software development, systems administration, […] More

  • Raytheon to Maintain Depot Facility for US, UK Cruise Missile Systems
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    Raytheon to Maintain Depot Facility for US, UK Cruise Missile Systems

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a three-year, $36.8 million contract to provide lifecycle management and technical services needed to maintain a Tomahawk cruise missile depot facility for the U.S. Navy and U.K. government. Work covers depot maintenance, demilitarization preparation, system test operations, spare parts supply and repair services, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Air Systems Command will […] More