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  • Harris to Help Modernize Asian Country’s Military Comms Network
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    Harris to Help Modernize Asian Country’s Military Comms Network

    Harris has been named the prime systems integrator for a project to update a military communications network of an undisclosed Asian country. The company said Wednesday it will replace the country’s disparate systems with military and commercial products that will compose an integrated platform compatible with Falcon III tactical radios. Falcon III is designed for military users […] More

  • Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments
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    Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments

    Peraton has received a potential five-year, $40.97 million contract to help the Department of the Navy identify, locate and remove unexploded underwater and ground ordnance. The contract has a one-year base term and four one-year options and covers support for the Navy’s explosive ordnance disposal program management office, Peraton said Wednesday. “Detecting, locating, removing or […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Gets USAF Precision Strike Package Contract Option
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    Sierra Nevada Gets USAF Precision Strike Package Contract Option

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a one-year, $19.9 million contract modification to provide additional services for the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft precision strike package. The Air Force exercised an option under a previously awarded contract that covers PSP logistics support for the Lockheed Martin-built AC-130J and AC-130W platforms, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the latest award brings the contract’s […] More

  • Gemalto Adds Security Features to Color Laser Tech for Govt ID Documents
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    Gemalto Adds Security Features to Color Laser Tech for Govt ID Documents

    Gemalto has introduced two laser-personalized tools designed to secure polycarbonate documents such as driver’s licenses, national identification cards, passports and resident and voting permit cards. The company said Wednesday it offers the Color Variable Microtext and Color Window  systems as additional options in the Color Laser Shield product range. Both features are designed to help government customers prevent […] More

  • Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech
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    Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech

    Artificial intelligence chip developer Mythic has obtained $40 million in series B financing round led by SoftBank Ventures and backed by Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, Data Collective, Lux Capital, DFJ, AME Cloud Ventures and Andy Bechtolsheim. Mythic said Wednesday it will use the investment to further develop a compute-in-memory technology designed to deliver the […] More

  • State Dept Clears Second Kratos UAS Offering for International Markets
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    State Dept Clears Second Kratos UAS Offering for International Markets

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received State Department approval to market a second tactical unmanned aerial system in select countries within North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The department initially cleared Kratos’ Mako UAS for the European and APAC markets, the company said Wednesday. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said the company has invested $85 million […] More

  • KBR to Help Naval Group Design Australian Submarine Construction Yard
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    KBR to Help Naval Group Design Australian Submarine Construction Yard

    Naval Group has subcontracted KBR to support the concept design of a proposed shipyard for the Australian navy’s future class of submarines. KBR said Wednesday it will help Naval Group produce and deliver the concept design for a South Australian-based Future Submarine construction yard to the Australian government by July. Naval Group aims to build the facility at Osborne […] More

  • Vencore Among NOVA Chamber Innovation Award Finalists
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    Vencore Among NOVA Chamber Innovation Award Finalists

    The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce has selected Vencore as one of five finalists for the Greater Washington Innovation Award in the health and life sciences category. Vencore said Tuesday it presented the Precision Analytics technology co-developed with Havas Health to a panel of judges during an innovation showcase held March 2 as part of the selection process for NOVA Chamber’s awards […] More

  • Technica to Support Army Cloud Migration Under $250M Basic Ordering Agreement
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    Technica to Support Army Cloud Migration Under $250M Basic Ordering Agreement

    Technica has secured a position on a potential $250 million basic ordering agreement to support the U.S. Army‘s cloud migration and modernization efforts. The company said Tuesday it aims to help the service branch transition information technology systems and applications to an authorized commercial cloud hosting technology or enterprise hosting facility through the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation contract. […] More

  • DynCorp Reports 2017 Earnings, Displaying Strong Year-Over-Year Revenue and Income Increase
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    DynCorp Reports 2017 Earnings, Displaying Strong Year-Over-Year Revenue and Income Increase

    DynCorp International announced Wednesday 2017 fourth quarter earnings and full year financial results. Revenue in Q4 climbed to $567.3 million, with an adjusted EBIDTA of $38.6 million for the period, as compared to Q4 2016 revenue of $461.8 million. Full year 2017 revenue reached $2 billion, with the company handling a total backlog of $4.2 […] More

  • Tiag to Help Military Health Profession Academy Consolidate IT Systems
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    Tiag to Help Military Health Profession Academy Consolidate IT Systems

    The Informatics Applications Group has received a contract to help the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences consolidate operational information technology systems, environments and applications into a single IT platform. The company said Tuesday it will migrate IT equipment and users at several USU Research Centers into the university’s accredited .edu domain and evaluate the remaining 18 centers […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Support NASA’s Test for a Future Mars Missions Parachute
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    Orbital ATK to Support NASA’s Test for a Future Mars Missions Parachute

    NASA will test a supersonic parachute system for potential use in future Mars missions through the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket supported by Orbital ATK under a contract from the space agency’s Heliophysics Division. Orbital ATK has received the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations contract and will provide mission planning, engineering and field operations services […] More