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  • Harris-NASA Team Completes Thermal Vacuum Test on James Webb Space Telescope
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    Harris-NASA Team Completes Thermal Vacuum Test on James Webb Space Telescope

    NASA and Harris have conducted thermal vacuum tests on the future James Webb Space Telescope to evaluate the system’s capacity to operate within the space environment. Harris said Monday the telescope is designed to function as a space observatory over the next decade and conduct studies on star, planet and galaxy formations. The telescope will be shipped to […] More

  • DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments
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    DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments

    Project Performance Co., a Data Systems Analysts subsidiary, has received a potential $6 million contract to upgrade the Justice Department’s Victim Notification System. PPC said it will update the VNS application that works to send automated notifications to federal crimes victims through the use of Pegasystems’ Pega 7 platform. Pega 7 is an application development […] More

  • Tata, Terma Partner to Produce Surface Surveillance Radars for Indian Navy
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    Tata, Terma Partner to Produce Surface Surveillance Radars for Indian Navy

    India-based Tata Advanced Systems has partnered Danish aerospace and defense company Terma to develop radar technology for integration onto Indian navy ships. The team will deliver, install and commission 31 radars under India’s Surface Surveillance Radar project, as well as supply simulators, establish depot facilities and provide integrated logistics services, Terma said Wednesday. Tata, the prime contractor […] More

  • Saab to Build South African Military Field Feeding Systems
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    Saab to Build South African Military Field Feeding Systems

    Saab has secured a two-year contract to build mass field fielding platforms for South Africa’s national defense force. The company said Monday it will provide a 200-man system consists of expandable kitchen, reefer and utility units along with a 50-man system comprised of a fully equipped expandable unit and water storage bladders. Both systems will feature diesel […] More

  • IAP to Support Navy Base Operations in Annapolis, Maryland
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    IAP to Support Navy Base Operations in Annapolis, Maryland

    The U.S. Navy has awarded IAP Worldwide Services a potential $19.4 million contract to help operate the Naval Support Activity base in Annapolis, Maryland. IAP will provide management, supervision and labor services as well as training, equipment and supplies to NSA Annapolis under the contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work covers facility investment, service calls, pest control, […] More

  • Mojo Networks Clears FedRAMP Security Assessment Phase
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    Mojo Networks Clears FedRAMP Security Assessment Phase

    Mojo Networks has completed a security assessment report required to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification. Mountain View, California-based Mojo said Monday it selected Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to evaluate the cloud WiFi service provider against the FedRAMP Moderate baseline and submit the results in a security assessment report. Mojo Networks CEO Rick Wilmer […] More

  • Navy Taps Iridium for DoD Network Services Support
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    Navy Taps Iridium for DoD Network Services Support

    Iridium has received a potential $45.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide commercial satellite-based network services support for Defense Department satellite, ground node, user equipment/terminal software and hardware development, integration and testing activities. DoD said Monday the contract will cover continued communication support services that can aid tactical, operational and strategic-level activities of […] More

  • Koniag SVP Jon Panamaroff Named to Native American Contractors Association Board
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    Koniag SVP Jon Panamaroff Named to Native American Contractors Association Board

    Jon Panamaroff, chief compliance officer and a senior vice president for Koniag‘s government services unit, has been appointed to the Native American Contractors Association board of directors for the second time. Panamaroff, who was elected Nov. 8, is a a member of the Sun’aq tribe of Kodiak, Alaska, and previously sat on the NACA board from 2015 to 2016, […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Training Systems at Florida Conference; Dave Buss Comments
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    Cubic to Demo Training Systems at Florida Conference; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic will showcase its portfolio of training systems at the five-day Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida, that is scheduled to kick off Nov. 27. I/ITSEC is an annual modeling, simulation and training conference organized by the National Training and Simulation Association, Cubic said Tuesday. The 2017 event will carry the theme “Harnessing New Technologies […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance

    A Koniag subsidiary has secured a five-year, $19 million contract to aid an office of the Food and Drug Administration in its initiatives to comply with the government’s Cloud First policy. Arlluk Technology Solutions will furnish FDA’s Office of Information Management and Technology with a cloud-based container-as-a-service platform to enable the Department of Health and Human Services agency […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines Help Send NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines Help Send NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit

    Two Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines helped power United Launch Alliance‘s  Delta II rocket that launched a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite into space. The RS-27A engine generated 237,000 pounds of thrust to lift the rocket carrying NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 and the AJ10-118K upper-stage engine produced 10,000 pounds of thrust to insert the payload into orbit, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Saturday. […] More

  • ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards
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    ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards

    Advanced Technology International will lead a federal government-established group of satellite industry stakeholders from the public and private sectors that is intended to set the standards for satellite servicing. The Analytic Services subsidiary said Thursday that it will head the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations as the prime contractor that the Defense Advanced Research Projects […] More