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  • Leidos to Help Manage Navy’s Acoustic Signature Measurement Hub in Alaska
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    Leidos to Help Manage Navy’s Acoustic Signature Measurement Hub in Alaska

    Leidos has received a potential $41.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain a Ketchikan, Alaska-based military facility that conducts acoustic engineering measurements. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide operations, maintenance, logistics and program management assistance services to support naval ship and undersea signature silencing programs at at the Southeast Alaska […] More

  • Naval Group, Fincantieri Team Up to Pursue Canadian Surface Combatant Ship Program
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    Naval Group, Fincantieri Team Up to Pursue Canadian Surface Combatant Ship Program

    Naval Group and Fincantieri have partnered to submit a joint proposal to the Canadian government for the development of a surface combat ship. Both companies aim to offer Canada an “off-the-shelf” naval platform based on the FREMM multimission frigate designed for French and Italian navies, Fincantieri said Friday. Canada intends to procure up to 15 surface combatant ships for the […] More

  • Leonardo DRS to Engineer Army Fighting Vehicle Targeting Subsystem
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    Leonardo DRS to Engineer Army Fighting Vehicle Targeting Subsystem

    The network and imaging business division of Leonardo DRS has received a $15.7 million contract to engineer a targeting subsystem designed for the U.S. Army‘s Bradley fighting vehicles. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers engineering services for the Improved Bradley Acquisition Subsystem through March 31, 2022, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD noted the full obligated […] More

  • Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia’s Combat Training System
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    Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia’s Combat Training System

    Cubic has received a $14.8 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide logistics services for Saudi Arabia’s P5 combat training systems. The Defense Department said Friday Cubic’s defense applications unit will help sustain operational tempos at various military bases in Saudi Arabia through the foreign military sales contract. Work under the sole-source acquisition effort will occur through Feb 28, 2022. Cubic’s global […] More

  • Marc Teerlink Appointed Global VP for SAP’s Digital Innovation System
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    Marc Teerlink Appointed Global VP for SAP’s Digital Innovation System

    Marc Teerlink, formerly chief business strategist of IBM‘s Watson business group, has joined SAP as global vice president of the software company’s digital innovation system SAP Leonardo. SAP said Friday that Teerlink will be responsible for helping drive the company’s presence in the artificial intelligence and machine learning markets in his new position. He will be based at a company […] More

  • Military Vet Mark Donaldson Joins Boeing Defense Australia as Strategic Adviser
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    Military Vet Mark Donaldson Joins Boeing Defense Australia as Strategic Adviser

    Boeing‘s defense business in Australia has appointed Australian military veteran Mark Donaldson to serve as a strategic defense adviser. The company said Wednesday Donaldson will support Boeing Defense Australia‘s growth strategy in the areas of joint and land systems. Darren Edwards, vice president and managing director for Boeing Defense Australia, said Donaldson will provide strategic counsel that will […] More

  • OGSystems Adds Former Novetta CEO Peter LaMontagne to Board of Directors
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    OGSystems Adds Former Novetta CEO Peter LaMontagne to Board of Directors

    Peter LaMontagne, former CEO of analytics company Novetta, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Chantilly, Virginia-based geospatial and security technology provider OGSystems. OGSystems said Monday LaMontagne brings to his more than 17 years of national security and technology experience in the commercial and federal markets to the company. “We are very excited that Peter will […] More

  • NASA Offers Commercial Licensing for 2 CubeSat Technologies
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    NASA Offers Commercial Licensing for 2 CubeSat Technologies

    NASA has unveiled commercial licensing opportunities for two agency-built technologies geared for small spacecraft and satellites. The technologies were part of the recently launched Dellingr six-unit CubeSat created at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA said Tuesday. Enidia Santiago-Arce, senior technology manager for the Goddard Strategic Partnerships Office, said the unit constantly seeks partners and licensees for NASA […] More

  • Orbital ATK Brings Comms Satellite to French Guiana Ahead of January Launch
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    Orbital ATK Brings Comms Satellite to French Guiana Ahead of January Launch

    Orbital ATK has transported a hybrid electric propulsion communications satellite built for Al Yah Satellite Communications to a launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of the system’s intended liftoff in January 2018. Orbital ATK said Thursday it built the GEOStar-3 satellite designated Al Yah 3 to help expand Yahsat’s commercial Ka-band services to approximately 600 million […] More

  • Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles
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    Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles

    The government of Romania has signed an agreement to buy Lockheed Martin-built Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and related equipment from the U.S. government. Scott Arnold, vice president and deputy of integrated air and missile defense at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said in a statement published Thursday the company is honored […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator
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    Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator

    TRU Simulation + Training, a Textron subsidiary, will test an augmented reality feature for the Bell V-280 Valor helicopter simulator, Defense News reported Thursday. John Hayward, senior vice president and general manager of military and the business simulation sector at TRU, told the company developed the V-280 simulator to introduce augmented reality features in the […] More

  • CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a one-year, $1.8 million contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support a mobile-based electronic validation technology the company developed through previous agreements with FEMA. CTC said Thursday it helped develop FEMA’s Federal and Mutual Aid Emergency Response Official Accountability Tracking System for the agency to identify personnel in the event of […] More