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  • LifePort to Supply Helicopter Ballistic Protection Tech to Middle Eastern Customer
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    LifePort to Supply Helicopter Ballistic Protection Tech to Middle Eastern Customer

    LifePort, a business unit of Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary, has received a contract from a Middle Eastern customer to provide systems that work to protect Black Hawk helicopter crew and passengers against ground-based ballistic threats. The order is for 25 customized Black Hawk Ballistic Protection Systems, Lockheed said Tuesday. Noah Zuckerman, general manager at LifePort, said the company […] More

  • Tetra Tech to Support USAID’s Water Supply & Sanitation Efforts in Uganda
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    Tetra Tech to Support USAID’s Water Supply & Sanitation Efforts in Uganda

    Tetra Tech has received a potential five-year, $32 million contract to provide technical expertise for a U.S. Agency for International Development program that seeks to expand water, sanitation and hygiene services across Uganda. The company said Tuesday it aims to assist Uganda’s government in efforts to increase household access to sanitation and improve the quality of health […] More

  • Harris Orders Sypris Electronic Assemblies for US, Foreign Military Munition Dispensers
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    Harris Orders Sypris Electronic Assemblies for US, Foreign Military Munition Dispensers

    A Sypris Solutions subsidiary has secured multiple contracts from Harris to produce electronic assemblies for munition dispensing systems of U.S. and foreign military customers. Sypris Electronics will manufacture the munition dispenser electronics for military customers that include the U.S. Navy, the company said Monday. Harris also awarded Sypris Electronics contracts last year to provide electronic assemblies for two weather satellite programs, […] More

  • Leidos to Help Air Force Sustain C2ISR Logistics Mgmt Platform
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    Leidos to Help Air Force Sustain C2ISR Logistics Mgmt Platform

    Leidos has received a five-year, $25.4 million contract to sustain an automated platform the U.S. Air Force uses to monitor the global supply chain of command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance weapons systems. The company will provide software maintenance and minor modification support for the Automated Logistics Management Support system under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More

  • BAE Awarded $50M for US Forces-Afghanistan Intell Services
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    BAE Awarded $50M for US Forces-Afghanistan Intell Services

    A BAE Systems business unit will provide intelligence-related services to U.S. forces in Afghanistan under a $50.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Army. BAE’s information solutions team will perform work in Afghanistan through Oct. 27, 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command will obligate $15 million at the time of award from the […] More

  • Jacobs Recognized for NASA Research Center Maintenance Program; Terry Hagen Comments
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    Jacobs Recognized for NASA Research Center Maintenance Program; Terry Hagen Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received the 2017 Best Reliability Program of the Year award from Uptime magazine for the company’s work on a maintenance system at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Jacobs said Tuesday it helped the space agency create maintenance strategies for the Langley facility as well as implement a suite of tools for the center to prevent […] More

  • Woolpert Appoints Frank Orr as GIS Program Director
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    Woolpert Appoints Frank Orr as GIS Program Director

    Frank Orr, a certified geographic information systems and project management professional, has joined Woolpert as program director for the company’s GIS solutions business. Orr said in a statement published Tuesday that he aims to help the company identify technology platforms to address customers’ challenges and develop an outreach strategy for both existing and potential new clients. He previously […] More

  • Japan Receives First JASDF F-35A Aircraft
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    Japan Receives First JASDF F-35A Aircraft

    The first F-35A aircraft directly assigned to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force has landed on Misawa Air Base, Japan. The jet will be assigned to the JASDF’s 3rd wing, and is the second of its kind built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries‘ Nagoya-based final assembly and check-out facility, Lockheed Martin F-35 said Saturday. The particular unit is one of 42 […] More

  • Army to Update Target Surveillance & Acquisition System
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    Army to Update Target Surveillance & Acquisition System

    The U.S. Army will install upgrades into a target surveillance and acquisition system designed to boost target identification accuracy and protect scouts while searching for targets, Army Times reported Monday. Army researchers are working to update the Long-Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System with a third-generation forward-looking infrared radar. The Raytheon-built LRAS3 is designed to give scouts […] More

  • Report: Bill Would Reform Navy Surface Ship Operations
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    Report: Bill Would Reform Navy Surface Ship Operations

    Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced a bill that would implement changes to the U.S. Navy‘s surface fleet operations, USNI News reported Monday. The Surface Warfare Enhancement Act of 2018 was created in response to ship collisions that involved the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyers in 2017. The bill […] More

  • Army Taps UAV Turbines Subsidiary to Produce UAV Propulsion Engine
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    Army Taps UAV Turbines Subsidiary to Produce UAV Propulsion Engine

    A UAV Turbines subsidiary has signed a $19 million technology investment agreement with the U.S. Army to develop a small turboprop gas turbine engine that will be used for unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion systems. Under the Reliable Advanced Small Power Systems Technology Demonstration program, Locust USA will design, build and test the engine that is expected to reach technical readiness level […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Provide Antenna Systems for BAE Systems’ Navy Network Effort
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    Ball Aerospace to Provide Antenna Systems for BAE Systems’ Navy Network Effort

    BAE Systems has selected Ball Aerospace to provide multi-beam phased array antenna systems in support of the former’s contractual effort to build a Network Tactical Common Data Link System for the U.S. Navy. A Ball-made Ku-band phased array antenna suite will be used as components for the NTCDL system that is being designed to support high-bandwidth communications connections throughout the Navy, Ball […] More