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  • FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform
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    FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform

    A CSRA-developed online registry platform has helped the Federal Aviation Administration document more than 1 million owners of civilian drones throughout the U.S. CSRA said Wednesday more than 870,000 of the registered drones are from hobbyists while the remaining 122,000 registrations are for individually documented commercial and public drones. The company helped FAA design, build and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech
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    Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech

    Orbital ATK has received a contract to help the U.S. Navy update the configuration of an extended range variant of an airborne tactical missile system designed to engage and destroy enemy air defenses. The company said Wednesday it aims to mature the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range design ahead of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. AARGM-ER is […] More

  • Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support
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    Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $1 million delivery order modification to provide support services to the U.S. Army project manager for tactical networks. The company said Wednesday its command and control technologies group will support communications assets for U.S. expeditionary unit readiness. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO at ComTech, said the company aims to deliver  communications systems to the military’s […] More

  • Connexta to Help Update Air Force’s DCGS Integration Backbone
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    Connexta to Help Update Air Force’s DCGS Integration Backbone

    Connexta has won a potential five-year, $83 million contract to develop a fifth version of the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help the service branch develop DIB software and related software as well as support the DCGS/Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise. DCGS is designed to receive, process, […] More

  • BAE Unveils Modernized CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
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    BAE Unveils Modernized CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle

    BAE Systems has introduced a new variant of its CV90 infantry fighting vehicle at the International Armored Vehicles Conference in London. CV90 MkIV is designed to feature a Scania-built engine with up to 1,000 horsepower, updated drive train capacities along with active damping technology built to help increase speed and handling in the battlefield, BAE Systems […] More

  • Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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    Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $12.5 million contract modification to perform engineering work on U.S. Army‘s fleet of Hunter unmanned aircraft systems The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s technical services business in Sierra Vista, Arizona, will perform work through Jan. 17, 2019. Hunter is designed to help Army personnel collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in the battlefield with […] More

  • Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test
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    Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test

    A Sparton–Ultra Electronics Holdings joint venture has received a potential three-year, $9.7 million delivery order to design representative sonobuoys for qualification and testing by the U.S. Navy. ERAPSCO will also support engineering and development of underwater active multiple ping sonobuoys under the order, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Systems Command will obligate $1.8 […] More

  • Bill Phelps, Adam Sohn Take Lockheed Comms VP Roles
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    Bill Phelps, Adam Sohn Take Lockheed Comms VP Roles

    Bill Phelps, former director of worldwide media relations at Lockheed Martin, has been appointed vice president for external communications of the company. Lockheed said Wednesday it also named Adam Sohn, former director of strategic communications at Amazon‘s devices and services business, as VP of space communications. Phelps will succeed Nettie Johnson, who will retire from by the end of […] More

  • SOSi’s Julian Setian Joins PSC Exec Committee
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    SOSi’s Julian Setian Joins PSC Exec Committee

    Julian Setian, president and CEO of government services integrator SOS International, has been appointed to serve on the Professional Services Council’s executive committee. Setian has served on the PSC’s board of directors since 2017 and led SOSi over the past 15 years, the company said said Wednesday. He is also the board chairman at SOSi subsidiary Exovera, a media […] More

  • Ensco’s Boris Nejikovsky Gets DoD Service Member Patriot Award; Scott Goldstein Comments
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    Ensco’s Boris Nejikovsky Gets DoD Service Member Patriot Award; Scott Goldstein Comments

    Ensco President Boris Nejikovsky has received the “Service Member Patriot Award” from the Defense Department‘s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program for supporting a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve. The company said Wednesday Nejikovsky was nominated by Scott Goldstein, an Air Force reservist and Ensco’s chief strategy and technology officer. Goldstein, an Air Force Reserve brigadier general and mobilization assistant, […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Named MSUA Board Member for 2018
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Named MSUA Board Member for 2018

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has been reappointed to serve on the Mobile Satellite Users Association’s board of directors. MSUA works to promote exchange of ideas, information and news among providers and customers of mobility communications, navigation and safety platforms, the association said Thursday. Other individuals elected to the MSUA […] More

  • Ensco to Continue IT Services for Pentagon’s CBRNE Warning & Decision Support System
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    Ensco to Continue IT Services for Pentagon’s CBRNE Warning & Decision Support System

    Ensco has received a five-year, $8.2 million contract to continue support work on a warning and decision support tool the company built for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s branch for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense. The company said Tuesday it will develop software and provide customization services for the SENTRY application that works to help personnel view data […] More