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Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have finished developmental testing of the Joint Standoff Weapon C warhead for use on the F-35 aircraft’s C variant. The company said Tuesday the 1,000-pound JSOW makes use of a global positioning system-based inertial navigation platform equipped with an infrared seeker made to autonomously detect targets. The air-to-ground weapon system was designed to […] More
Numerica has received a contract from the General Services Administration for a platform to support government agencies’ criminal investigations. The Information Technology Schedule 70 contract from GSA will provide federal, state and local government agencies access to Numerica’s Lumen platform suite through the GSA Advantage electronic online ordering system, the company said Monday. The Lumen suite […] More
The Australian government has selected Lockheed Martin to provide a technology platform designed to help users gain situational awareness of space events. Lockheed said Tuesday it will deploy the iSpace Mission System at the Australian Space Operations Center to collect data from government, commercial and science community sensors. The system works to integrate surveillance data and offers a comprehensive space picture […] More
NASA plans to launch a flight campaign in Galveston, Texas, to explore approaches for the agency to gather community response data as part of its Commercial Supersonic Technology Project. The agency said Thursday it will kick off a series of research flights in November from the Ellington airport and use an F/A-18 aircraft to test supersonic dive […] More
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has introduced an industrialization plan that seeks to advance partnership with the German aerospace and defense industry in support of its effort to compete for the European country’s heavy lift helicopter program. Sikorsky and Rheinmetall Group agreed to team up in February to offer the former’s CH-53K King Stallion helicopter for the German air force’s […] More
Simplilearn has received a potential five-year contract from the General Services Administration to offer professional certification training courses to U.S. government employees. The company said Tuesday it aims to help customer agencies train personnel in big data and analytics, artificial intelligence, project management, digital marketing, cybersecurity and cloud computing through GSA’s IT 70 Schedule. Krishna Kumar, founder and CEO of Simplilearn, […] More
Albany Molecular Research Inc. has secured a potential 10-year, $39.5 million contract renewal to support a National Institutes of Health program that aims to develop medicines for nervous system disorders. AMRI said Tuesday it will continue to provide medicinal chemistry, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion services to the Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network managed by NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and […] More
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership has accepted Advanced Concepts and Technologies International into a one-year program that seeks to help aerospace and defense companies identify international market opportunities. ACT I said Tuesday it received Global Defense Program status after the company met VEDP’s quantitative and qualitative selection criteria. “Acceptance into this program allows us to leverage and further cultivate our existing Allied […] More
Lockheed Martin has delivered its proposal to the U.S. Air Force to compete for the service’s GPS III Follow On satellite development program. The company said Tuesday the GPS IIIF program aims to develop up to 22 next-generation GPS satellites designed to build up anti-jamming capabilities. Lockheed said its proposed GPS III platform will have a […] More
HawkEye 360Â has appointed Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, and John Mulholland, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, to its advisory board. Letitia Long, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director and a HawkEye 360 advisory board member since 2017, will assume the role of board chairperson, the company said Monday. Work served as […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has awarded Curtiss-Wright an $85 million contract to produce main propulsion steam turbines and auxiliary equipment for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s future Enterprise (CVN 80) aircraft carrier. Curtiss-Wright said Tuesday its EMS division is scheduled to perform engineering and production work under the contract through at least 2022. HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division will receive the products at its Virginia […] More
Herndon, Virginia-based iDirect Government has released an updated version of its software platform designed to power 9-Series satellite routers, tactical hub and line cards. Version 4.2 of Evolution works to help government and military clients manage intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance content, voice calls and other high bandwidth applications intended for maritime, ground or aerial missions, iDirectGov said Tuesday. […] More
