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  • Boeing gets $64M contract to restart missile production line for Saudi Arabia
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    Boeing gets $64M contract to restart missile production line for Saudi Arabia

    Boeing will restart the production line of a stand-off land attack missile for expanded response in support of Saudi Arabia under a one-year, $64.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract also includes the redesign of complete and nearly obsolete and uneconomical parts for enhanced production and sustainment, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work will […] More

  • TAPE gets ISO/IEC IT security certification; Michael Kelliher comments
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    TAPE gets ISO/IEC IT security certification; Michael Kelliher comments

    Technical and Project Engineering has received a certification from the International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission for cybersecurity practices. TAPE said Tuesday the ISO/IEC 27013:2015 certification seeks to demonstrate the company’s efforts to implement an integrated data security and information technology service management system in support of government clients. Michael Kelliher, vice president […] More

  • IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization
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    IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization

    IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage provisioning services intended to help […] More

  • CACI to Support Army’s Commercial Based Technology Analysis program; DeEtte Gray comments
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    CACI to Support Army’s Commercial Based Technology Analysis program; DeEtte Gray comments

    CACI International has received a potential one-year, $41.5 million task order to provide engineering services for a U.S. Army program that seeks to facilitate the analysis of commercial-based technologies in support of mission requirements worldwide. “Our partnership with the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate in support of its critical Commercial Based Technology Analysis […] More

  • Lockheed-Cobham team to compete for Navy’s low-band jamming pod replacement program
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    Lockheed-Cobham team to compete for Navy’s low-band jamming pod replacement program

    Lockheed Martin and Cobham have teamed up to compete for a U.S. Navy program that seeks to replace the ALQ-99 tactical jamming pod system onboard the service’s Boeing-built EA-18 Growler electronic warfare aircraft. The Next Generation Jammer Low Band program aims to develop a system that will work to build up the Growler’s electronic attack capabilities […] More

  • Trevet-Bay West JV wins $75M Navy environmental program support IDIQ
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    Trevet-Bay West JV wins $75M Navy environmental program support IDIQ

    A Trevet–Bay West joint venture has won a potential five-year, $75 million contract to provide support services necessary to implement the U.S. Navy‘s environmental restoration program and media requirements for other environmental programs. The JV will conduct resource conservation and underground storage tank studies, risk assessments and multiple projects to demonstrate technology platforms for monitoring and managing […] More

  • NGA plans historical imagery scanning tech acquisition via OTA process
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    NGA plans historical imagery scanning tech acquisition via OTA process

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has begun its search for a commercial provider to develop a scanner prototype that NGA can implement to digitize historical images. NGA said Tuesday it will use “other transaction authority” to acquire technology designed to catalog imagery from aerial and satellite film missions conducted over the past 83 years. “We’ve never had […] More

  • Raytheon integrates air-to-ground missile tech into Navy F-35C
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    Raytheon integrates air-to-ground missile tech into Navy F-35C

    Mark Borup, senior manager of business development for the air warfare systems product line at Raytheon‘s missile systems business, has said the company helped the U.S. Navy integrate a variant of the Joint Standoff Weapon system into the F-35C aircraft, Military.com reported Tuesday. Borup told Military.com in an interview the JSOW-C installation was part of the fighter developmental test phase […] More

  • Retired Army Gen. Charles Jacoby joins Cornerstone Defense’s board of directors
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    Retired Army Gen. Charles Jacoby joins Cornerstone Defense’s board of directors

    Charles Jacoby, a retired U.S. Army general, has been named a member of Cornerstone Defense‘s board of directors. Jacoby’s background is aligned with the company’s goal to deliver technologies and services for the space and intelligence communities and the Defense Department, said Cornerstone Defense CEO Chris Goodrich in the company’s press release published Tuesday. Patrick Palmer, chief […] More

  • Steve Ambrose named Woolpert government solutions program director
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    Steve Ambrose named Woolpert government solutions program director

    Steve Ambrose, a former scientist at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has joined Woolpert as program director for the company’s government solutions business. He brings more than 40 years of Earth science, data engineering, climatology and geospatial experience to his new position, Woolpert said Tuesday. Jeff Lovin, senior vice president and director of government solutions […] More

  • Northrop, subsidiary to support Canadian air traffic control radio system
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    Northrop, subsidiary to support Canadian air traffic control radio system

    Northrop Grumman‘s U.K.-based air traffic management subsidiary has received a contract to supply a remote control and monitoring system for air traffic control radios to a Canadian civil air navigation services provider. Park Air Systems will provide its MARC Server to NAV CANADA to monitor the country’s air traffic control radio system from various sites, […] More

  • Col. Eric Ropella: Navy plans to buy 17 presidential helicopters under new proposal
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    Col. Eric Ropella: Navy plans to buy 17 presidential helicopters under new proposal

    The U.S. Navy intends to procure 17 presidential helicopters to replace the service’s fleet of 11 VH-3D and eight of H-60N aircraft, the Naval Air Systems Command reported Monday. “The proposal that we have is for a total of 17 aircraft to be purchased in three years,” Col. Eric Ropella, Marine Corps program manager for VH-92, […] More