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  • DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract
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    DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract

    The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More

  • Saab to Update Australian Navy’s Submarine Control Mgmt & Monitoring System
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    Saab to Update Australian Navy’s Submarine Control Mgmt & Monitoring System

    Saab has received an $18.8 million contract to update a system that works to help the Australian navy manage and monitor systems of Collins-class submarines. The company said Wednesday it will provide an updated Integrated Ship Control Management and Monitoring System along with spares for four submarines under the from ASC, the prime contractor on Australia’s Collins-class platform. ISCMMS is […] More

  • Lockheed, New Zealand Sign Contract for Anzac-Class Frigate Tech Installation, Test
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    Lockheed, New Zealand Sign Contract for Anzac-Class Frigate Tech Installation, Test

    Lockheed Martin‘s Canadian arm and the New Zealand government have formalized an agreement for the installation and testing of Anzac-class frigate systems as part of ship modernization efforts. The company said Wednesday it designed a combat system for two New Zealand frigates and subcontracted Seaspan Victoria Shipyards to install the technology on both ships at a Canada-based […] More

  • AT&T to Deploy Band 14 Spectrum Under FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network Project
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    AT&T to Deploy Band 14 Spectrum Under FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network Project

    AT&T has received a task order from the First Responder Network Authority to field the Band 14 spectrum for first responders in various states and territories as part of expansion efforts for a national public safety broadband network. “We are implementing the state plans and delivering on our commitment to first responders in each state and […] More

  • Lockheed Starts to Build 8th Comms Satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT
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    Lockheed Starts to Build 8th Comms Satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT

    Lockheed Martin has begun to assemble an eighth communications satellite for Japan-based operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. inside a clean room near Denver, Colorado. JCSAT-17 is based on Lockheed’s LM2100 bus and the satellite’s payload is designed to incorporate S-band transponders, a processor and an 18-meter mesh reflector, the company said Wednesday. The satellite will offer high-bandwidth communications during high-volume events, such […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Intros Maritime Situational Awareness System
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    Rolls-Royce Intros Maritime Situational Awareness System

    Rolls-Royce has unveiled a situational awareness system meant to aid ship navigators who operate vessels at night and in adverse weather or congested waterways. The company said Tuesday its Intelligent Awareness system works to collect data from multiple sensors to offer users a comprehensive view of a ship’s external surroundings through four user interface modes, augmented and virtual reality and […] More

  • Security Devices International Releases 40 Ammo Product
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    Security Devices International Releases 40 Ammo Product

    Security Devices International has released a new 40mm ammunition round offering that employs a company-made collapsible head technology. The Collapsible Head Impact Projectile is based on a blunt impact projectile and designed for law enforcement use, SDI said Wednesday. CHIP completed third-party tests in accordance with NATO’s AEP-99 Thorax Injury Risk Assessment of Less-Lethal Projectiles. Evaluators found that SDI’s […] More

  • Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract
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    Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract

    Capco has received a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce two impulse cartridge variants and test aircraft ejection devices. Work covers the production of WA83, CCU-136A/A; WB24, CCU-145A cartridges; and/or production lot testing of ejection devices from aircraft, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Unveils 3 First Responder Comms Products
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    Motorola Solutions Unveils 3 First Responder Comms Products

    Motorola Solutions has rolled out three products the company designed to help first responders communicate via land-mobile radio and long-term evolution networks. LEX L11 is designed to support global broadband networks such as the country’s future emergency broadband network FirstNet, Motorola said Wednesday. The LTE device works in conjunction with the APX 8500HP portable radio technology and Capture Mobile […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems
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    Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has won a potential $19.9 million contract to update the service branch’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and the Next Generation Jammer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers the development of an X-band radar technology, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $1.1 million in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation […] More

  • Sikorsky Concludes CH-53K Envelope Expansion Tests
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    Sikorsky Concludes CH-53K Envelope Expansion Tests

    Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of envelope expansion flight tests of the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at a facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The CH-53K aircraft lifted a 36,000-pound external payload during a flight demonstration held Feb. 10 at Sikorsky’s facility in Florida, Lockheed said Wednesday. Sikorsky conducted the external lift flight test as it prepares to […] More

  • Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies
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    Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies

    Arizona-based organization Ethisphere Institute has selected Dun & Bradstreet as one of the 135 most ethical companies around the world in 2018. D&B said March 1 this is its 10th consecutive year in the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies list. Louis Sapirman, chief compliance officer of Dun & Bradstreet, stated that the company recognizes its responsibility to […] More