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  • ManTech CEO Kevin Phillips Appointed to NVTC Board
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    ManTech CEO Kevin Phillips Appointed to NVTC Board

    Kevin Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech International, has been named to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors. He assumed the CEO role in January and has held other senior leadership roles at ManTech since 2002 such as chief operating officer, chief financial officer and corporate vice president, NVTC said Tuesday. Phillips, a […] More

  • Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrive in California for 5th Launch; Matt Desch Comments
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    Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrive in California for 5th Launch; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has announced the arrival of the fifth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for the launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that is set to take off on March 29. Iridium said Monday each satellite will go through encapsulation, fueling and other pre-launch processing […] More

  • NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms
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    NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms

    NICE has partnered with AGENT511 to integrate a text-to-911 recording technology with a multimedia messaging platform to help customers manage public safety communications. The partnership seeks to combine NICE Inform and AGENT511’s TEXTBLUE for public safety answering points to record text messages from the latter platform and produce an incident report by gathering data from 911 calls, radio transmissions, operator screens, […] More

  • Air Force Prepares for B-21 Bomber Critical Design Review
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    Air Force Prepares for B-21 Bomber Critical Design Review

    The U.S. Air Force plans to conduct a critical design review of its B-21 Raider bomber to facilitate evaluation of technology plans, weapons integration, computing power and design specifications for the aircraft program, Warrior Maven reported Friday. Anne Stefanek, senior public affairs director at the Air Force, said the B-21 program has concluded the preliminary […] More

  • SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Sends Communications Satellite, Secret Payload Into Orbit
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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Sends Communications Satellite, Secret Payload Into Orbit

    A communications satellite with a classified secondary payload took off March 6 aboard a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. The classified secondary satellite, dubbed PODSat, was integrated into Spain’s Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite through the Payload Orbital Delivery System built by Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary. PODS is […] More

  • Battelle Team Hits Milestone in DOE-Backed Carbon Capture, Storage Project
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    Battelle Team Hits Milestone in DOE-Backed Carbon Capture, Storage Project

    A Battelle-led team has injected 1.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into a deep rock formation as part of a Department of Energy project that sought to demonstrate carbon capture, utilization and storage processes. The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership conducted the scientific demonstration effort built upon DOE’s 10-year-old goal to store CO2 beneath the earth’s […] More

  • DHS Seeks Management Software for Finance, Procurement, Assets
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    DHS Seeks Management Software for Finance, Procurement, Assets

    The Department of Homeland Security has posted a sources sought notice for a software that will be used to manage DHS federal finance, procurement and assets. DHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it seeks a software platform built to implement enterprise-level business processing with minimal customization needed. Products to be delivered are expected to […] More

  • Lockheed Runs Site Acceptance Test of Multi-Role Radar for Latvia
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    Lockheed Runs Site Acceptance Test of Multi-Role Radar for Latvia

    Lockheed Martin has conducted a site acceptance test of a multi-role radar that the company produced for the Latvian military. The company said Monday the test marks the on-schedule delivery of the first of three TPS-77 radars to Latvia’s defense ministry. Latvia awarded Lockheed a contract in 2015 to supply three TPS-77s for aircraft surveillance operations. The radar […] More

  • Viasat Debuts Satcom System for Government, Military Operations
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    Viasat Debuts Satcom System for Government, Military Operations

    Viasat introduced its satellite communications system and ground networking technologies for military and government applications at the 2018 Satellite Show that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it showcased the ViaSat-2 platform to U.S. military representatives and the technology’s cloud-based government applications earlier this month. The speed of broadband connection with ViaSat-2 exceeded 100 […] More

  • Leonardo Showcases Naval Gun Mount at Doha Maritime Exhibition
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    Leonardo Showcases Naval Gun Mount at Doha Maritime Exhibition

    Leonardo has unveiled a naval gun mount system designed to integrate with small and fast vessels built for patrol operations. The company said Monday it showcased the OTO Marlin 40 system for the first time at the ongoing Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition and Conference in Qatar. Marlin 40 is equipped with a 4,630-pound remotely controlled gun […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Rafael Offer Missiles for Army Multimission Launcher
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    Report: Lockheed, Rafael Offer Missiles for Army Multimission Launcher

    Lockheed Martin and Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will offer their respective missiles to the U.S. Army for possible integration with the service branch’s Indirect Fires Protection Capability multi-mission launcher, Defense News reported Monday. The Army seeks a second missile as part of the IFPC Increment 2 program, which aims to develop a weapon system that can counter rockets, […] More

  • Kymeta Produces, Markets Electronically-Steered Flat Satellite Antennas
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    Kymeta Produces, Markets Electronically-Steered Flat Satellite Antennas

    Kymeta has begun production of electronically-steered flat satellite antennas in partnership with government clients, Space News reported Monday. A hundred of these Mtenna flat satellite antennas have already been shipped across 23 countries. The antennas have been used with military-grade armored vehicles and ships made to operate in austere environments. The company said it is currently developing […] More