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  • Air Force Selects Perspecta for $50M Nuclear Detonation Monitoring Support IDIQ
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    Air Force Selects Perspecta for $50M Nuclear Detonation Monitoring Support IDIQ

    Perspecta has won a potential six-year, $49.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop technology platforms that can support efforts to monitor space, atmosphere and subsurface nuclear detonations. The company will provide analytical, engineering and scientific services to mature approaches, processes, tools and systems used to track nuclear treaties and directed technology applications, the […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Install Sensors on Army’s V-280 Valor Aircraft
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    Textron Subsidiary to Install Sensors on Army’s V-280 Valor Aircraft

    A Textron subsidiary is set to install a suite of sensors on a new tiltrotor aircraft being developed for the U.S. Army, Military.com reported Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Jeff Schloesser, executive vice president for strategic pursuits at Bell, told Military.com that the company will install Lockheed Martin‘s Pilotage Distributed Aperture Sensor system that is designed to provide 360-degree awareness for aircraft. […] More

  • General Atomics Flies SkyGuardian RPA on Maiden Trans-Atlantic Voyage
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    General Atomics Flies SkyGuardian RPA on Maiden Trans-Atlantic Voyage

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business flew an MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft Tuesday from Grand Forks, N.D., to a U.K. air force station located in Gloucestershire, England. The company said Tuesday it used Inmarsat‘s SwiftBroadband L-band satellite communications system to manage the first trans-Atlantic flight of the medium-altitude, long-endurance RPA. SkyGuardian will be presented at the three-day Royal […] More

  • CACI Opens Shared Services Hub Named After Jack London
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    CACI Opens Shared Services Hub Named After Jack London

    CACI International has established a facility named after Jack London, executive chairman and chairman of the board at the information technology services contractor. The Dr. J.P. London Shared Services Center is located in Oklahoma City, Okla., and built to accelerate the delivery of support services across the company, CACI said Tuesday. Tom Nesteruk, a CACI executive vice president, […] More

  • DHS Grants SAFETY Act Designations for Motorola Solutions’ Access Management, Surveillance Systems
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    DHS Grants SAFETY Act Designations for Motorola Solutions’ Access Management, Surveillance Systems

    The Department of Homeland Security has authorized designations for the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act to the access management and video surveillance products of a Motorola Solutions business. Avigilon‘s Access Control Manager software was assigned the developmental testing and evaluation designation and the Avigilon Control Center was fully designated as a qualified anti-terrorism technology, Motorola Solutions said […] More

  • John Walsh: SAIC Joins VMware’s Certified Partner Architecture Program
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    John Walsh: SAIC Joins VMware’s Certified Partner Architecture Program

    Science Applications International Corp. has received design certification under a VMware partnership program for software-defined data center technology. SAIC said Tuesday it deployed an “active-active” configuration of its SDDC architecture using VMware’s automated deployment toolkit. John Walsh III, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s information technology solutions market segment, said the partnership seeks to help customers address […] More

  • Rocket Lab Eyes U.S. Spaceports for Second Launch Site; Peter Beck Comments
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    Rocket Lab Eyes U.S. Spaceports for Second Launch Site; Peter Beck Comments

    Rocket Lab has shortlisted Vandenberg Air Force Base, Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, Wallops Flight Facility and Cape Canaveral for its second launch site. The company said Tuesday it plans to select by August 2018 the location of the future Launch Complex 2, which will expand its Electron rocket production and customer access to orbit. Peter Beck, founder and chief executive […] More

  • Booz Allen to Support Army in Developing Personal Protective Equipment
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    Booz Allen to Support Army in Developing Personal Protective Equipment

    Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a five-year, $43 million task order to provide the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center with assistance in developing, testing and evaluating protective combat gear. Under the task order, awarded in March through the Air Force Installation Contract Agency, Booz Allen will provide technical input on the […] More

  • Kratos to Produce Specialized Equipment for CBRNE Defense Mission
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    Kratos to Produce Specialized Equipment for CBRNE Defense Mission

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a $6.3 million contract to supply tools and hardware in support of a national security organization’s efforts to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats. The company said Tuesday its modular systems division will manufacture specialized equipment for the unnamed customer under the contract. Tom Mills, the division’s president, said the […] More

  • General Dynamics, Telesat Partner to Build LEO Satellite User Terminals; Manny Mora Comments
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    General Dynamics, Telesat Partner to Build LEO Satellite User Terminals; Manny Mora Comments

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business and Telesat have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop user terminals designed to operate with the latter company’s low-Earth orbit satellites. Canada-based Telesat said Tuesday its LEO constellation will initially consist of 120 satellites and be designed to provide fiber-like broadband connectivity for government and commercial customers worldwide. “Our customers […] More

  • CTSi Demos Navigation System Prototype Under Navy SBIR Program’s Phase 3
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    CTSi Demos Navigation System Prototype Under Navy SBIR Program’s Phase 3

    Coherent Technical Services Inc. has collaborated with L3 Technologies to demonstrate an integrated communication and navigation technology designed to work in a GPS-denied or contested environment. CTSi said Tuesday it developed and flight-tested the Enhanced Link Navigation System prototype under an $8.7 million Small Business Innovative Research phase 3 contract from the U.S. Navy. Pilots at aviation company Airtec provided turn-key support during the flight […] More

  • Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov’t, Critical Infrastructure Operations
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    Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov’t, Critical Infrastructure Operations

    Peraton has launched efforts to add new points-of-presence across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific region and broaden its terrestrial core network in an effort to build up its global communications services. “Demand for high speed persistent communications has grown exponentially over the past few years, with today’s applications often requiring gigabit rather […] More