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  • GE Delivers Gas Turbine Propulsion Tech for Navy’s DDG 125 Destroyer Ship
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    GE Delivers Gas Turbine Propulsion Tech for Navy’s DDG 125 Destroyer Ship

    General Electric‘s marine solutions business has delivered an LM2500 marine gas turbine propulsion module built to help power the U.S. Navy‘s 75th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. GE said Wednesday that Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division is contracted to build the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) with Flight III design upgrades. The Navy expects DDG 125 to enter the service branch’s fleet by 2023. Each […] More

  • Report: CSRA Eyes February Launch for DoD’s milCloud 2.0
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    Report: CSRA Eyes February Launch for DoD’s milCloud 2.0

    CSRA announced that it aims to introduce the second version of the Defense Department‘s cloud computing platform on February 1, three months ahead of the initially scheduled launch date. The unclassified sections of MilCloud 2.0 will be rolled out at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the Washington Business Journal reported Saturday. […] More

  • Assured Information Security to Help Air Force Researchers Examine Cyber Assessment Tech
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    Assured Information Security to Help Air Force Researchers Examine Cyber Assessment Tech

    Assured Information Security has won a potential two-year, $47.9 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force researchers investigate cyber assessment tools designed for telecommunications systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will support the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Investigation of Next-Generation Network Operations and Vulnerability Assessment Technology effort, or INNOVATE. AFRL received two offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract […] More

  • ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space
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    ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Friday at 2:11 p.m. Pacific time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission. Will Crawford, NRO program manager at ULA, said in a statement published Friday the payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s 27th NRO mission in partnership with the […] More

  • Army Taps 3 Small Businesses for Facility Construction, Renovation & Repair Services
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    Army Taps 3 Small Businesses for Facility Construction, Renovation & Repair Services

    Three small businesses have secured spots on a potential five-year, $35 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construct renovate or repair military and federal buildings. USACE received 16 bids for the contract via the internet and will determine performance locations and funds with each order, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD […] More

  • DISA Taps X Technologies to Help Update DoD’s Public Key Infrastructure
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    DISA Taps X Technologies to Help Update DoD’s Public Key Infrastructure

    X Technologies has received a potential five-year, $38.3 million contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency increase the security and technical capacity of the Defense Department‘s public key infrastructure. The company will review system engineering documents for the DoD PKI and common service provider, as well as develop software to support the infrastructure, the department said Friday. The Defense Information […] More

  • Former Air Force Scientist Robert Peterkin Named Director of General Atomics’ Albuquerque, NM Office
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    Former Air Force Scientist Robert Peterkin Named Director of General Atomics’ Albuquerque, NM Office

    Robert Peterkin, a veteran of the Air Force Research Laboratory and former vice president at Science Applications International Corp., has joined General Atomics as director of the company’s office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. General Atomics said Friday Peterkin will help coordinate and implement technology strategies to meet future customer demands and identify opportunities within the directed […] More

  • Forbes, JUST Capital Recognize Leidos in Top 100 Corporate Citizens List; Roger Krone Comments
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    Forbes, JUST Capital Recognize Leidos in Top 100 Corporate Citizens List; Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos has been included in Forbes and nonprofit company JUST Capital‘s list of top 100 publicly traded U.S. companies recognized for their corporate citizenship efforts. Reston, Virginia-based Leidos said Tuesday it landed the 62nd spot on the Just 100 List that ranked corporations based on criteria such as worker pay and treatment, customer respect, product quality, environmental impact, ethical […] More

  • Block MEMS Advances to Second Phase of IARPA’s Explosive Trace Detection Program
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    Block MEMS Advances to Second Phase of IARPA’s Explosive Trace Detection Program

    A Block Engineering subsidiary will continue to develop a system that works to detect explosives and toxic chemical threats under a $10.7 million  Intelligence Advanced Research Programs Activity project. IARPA selected Block MEMS to move forward with Phase II of the agency’s Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared Light Signatures effort through a competitive down-selection process, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring
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    Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring

    Engility CEO Lynn Dugle has said the company has started to pilot continuous evaluation initiatives in an effort to address issues related to security clearances. “What we know from a community is about 80 percent of people who lose clearances do so for financial reasons,” Dugle told Defense One in an interview published Thursday. “Under continuous monitoring, instead […] More

  • Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System
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    Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its solid state radar platform with the Aegis Ashore system in an effort to demonstrate the capability of the combined systems to detect and counter ballistic missile threats. Tony DeSimone, vice president and chief engineer at Lockheed’s integrated warfare systems and sensors, said in a statement published Thursday the combination of […] More

  • Navy Taps Clayton International for AS-61 Helicopter Maintenance
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    Navy Taps Clayton International for AS-61 Helicopter Maintenance

    Clayton International has received a $7.6 U.S. Navy contract to deliver maintenance services for an AS-61 helicopter that will be used to support the Egyptian government. The Navy will obligate the entire contract amount in foreign military sales funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will […] More