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  • 4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Begins Testing, Validation Phase; Scott Smith Comments
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    4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Begins Testing, Validation Phase; Scott Smith Comments

    Iridium Communications has started the testing and validation phase for the fourth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites that launched Friday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Scott Smith, chief operating officer at Iridium, said in a statement published Wednesday the company’s team at the satellite network operations center started to conduct initial diagnostics minutes after the […] More

  • Boeing-Bell JV Gets Navy Osprey Fleet Software Sustainment Order
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    Boeing-Bell JV Gets Navy Osprey Fleet Software Sustainment Order

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has received a $20.6 million order from the U.S. Navy to maintain software of the V-22 Osprey joint service, multimission aircraft fleet. The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will engineer and provide technical support for  the V-22 flight control system and avionics software, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work also covers flight control […] More

  • Northrop to Implement Army ‘Hunter’ UAV Engineering Change Proposal
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    Northrop to Implement Army ‘Hunter’ UAV Engineering Change Proposal

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $12.7 million contract modification to incorporate an engineering change proposal into the payload technology of the U.S. Army‘s Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop will perform work in Sierra Vista, Arizona through Oct. 20, 2018. The Army Contracting Command obligated $6.2 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal year […] More

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Microsoft to Launch IT Academy at Marine Corps Base Quantico
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    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Microsoft to Launch IT Academy at Marine Corps Base Quantico

    A partnership of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Microsoft will launch an information technology academy meant to train transitioning service members at the U.S. Marine Corps‘ installation in Quantico, Virginia. The ERAU-Microsoft Software and Systems Academy will be unveiled during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Marine Corps’ National Museum on Jan. 8, the military branch said Saturday. The […] More

  • Raytheon, University of Arizona Partner on STEM Program for Native-American Students
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    Raytheon, University of Arizona Partner on STEM Program for Native-American Students

    An employee resource group at Raytheon has partnered with the University of Arizona to mentor and inspire Native-American students toward science, technology, engineering and math careers. Raytheon American Indian Network members facilitate monthly workshops that offer  hands-on activities revolving around STEM to high school and middle school as part of the university’s Native Student Outreach for Access […] More

  • xG Technology Supplies Army with ISR Devices
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    xG Technology Supplies Army with ISR Devices

    The integrated microwave technologies and wireless network businesses of xG Technology have fulfilled the initial order of the U.S. Army under a previously awarded $12.5 million contract for hand-held situational awareness systems. IMT and Vislink have delivered hand-held intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance receiver devices under the first order slated for completion by Feb. 15, 2018, xG […] More

  • SSL’s Richard White Envisions Space-Based Satellite Manufacturing Facility
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    SSL’s Richard White Envisions Space-Based Satellite Manufacturing Facility

    Richard White, president of SSL‘s government systems business, predicts that satellite production efforts in the near future could take place in space, he told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday. White added he believes that all activities on Earth will eventually be performed on-orbit. SSL, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, is working with the Defense […] More

  • Navy Plans Mobile Gateway Buoy Devt Contract Award to Hydronalix
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    Navy Plans Mobile Gateway Buoy Devt Contract Award to Hydronalix

    The U.S. Navy plans to award Hydronalix a potential five-year blanket ordering agreement develop a mobile gateway buoy that can support an unmanned underwater vehicle. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the company will build a pair of MGB prototypes to the Naval Air Systems Command under the third phase of the service branch’s Small Business Innovation Research program. Hydronalix will […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Govt, Industry Partner to Create Integrated Satcom Architecture
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Govt, Industry Partner to Create Integrated Satcom Architecture

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said calendar year 2017 saw several efforts that government and industry leaders initiated to build an integrated satellite communications architecture that views commercial and military satcom as a “holistic capability.” Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a SpaceNews commentary published Dec. 18 those efforts include the launch of the […] More

  • CAE’s Gene Colabatistto: Industry Moves to Standardize Networked Aircraft Training Systems
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    CAE’s Gene Colabatistto: Industry Moves to Standardize Networked Aircraft Training Systems

    Gene Colabatistto, CAE‘s group president for defense, has said that the training and simulation industry will move toward the standardization of interoperable aircraft simulators, Defense News reported Thursday. Colabatistto told the Defense News at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education conference that training system providers aim to support the joint mission training of U.S. military and allied forces […] More

  • GSA Releases Login.gov Identity Proofing RFQ
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    GSA Releases Login.gov Identity Proofing RFQ

    The General Services Administration has posted a request for quotation from vendors that can provide identity proofing services. GSA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice that selected contractors will help verify the identity of users of the login.gov website, which is designed to give U.S. citizens access to various platforms of participating government agencies. GSA plans to issue a multi-award blanket purchase agreement with a one-year base […] More

  • Report: Leonardo Seeks Export Sales Growth Through New Marketing, Logistics Offices
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    Report: Leonardo Seeks Export Sales Growth Through New Marketing, Logistics Offices

    Leonardo aims to double the aerospace and defense conglomerate’s export sales over the next three years through the establishment of additional marketing offices and logistics facilities worldwide, Defense News reported Sunday. Lorenzo Mariani, chief commercial officer at Leonardo, was quoted as saying by Defense News that the company wants to build “a network of regional hubs” to […] More