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Planet and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have partnered in an effort to increase the process for NGA to extract and analyze commercial imagery. Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager, said in a statement published Thursday both parties signed a cooperative research and development agreement that could yield change detection services such as object monitoring, broad area search and baseline and […] More
Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce has said the company has launched a new program that aims to develop new spacecraft to build up its fleets of Ka– and L-band satellites in an effort to meet demand, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Pearce said Wednesday at an earnings call that the GX Flex program, which is now in the […] More
Raytheon has been chosen to help the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance design, develop and support an airspace corridor in New York state to facilitate testing of unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Thursday the new airspace corridor will serve as a venue for companies to test drones and platforms designed for air traffic management […] More
Accenture and SAP have agreed to team up to co-develop a digital platform designed to help defense agencies advance their digital transformation initiatives. The companies will develop the digital defense platform based on SAP’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning offering built on SAP HANA in-memory platform, Accenture said Thursday. “What our co-development with SAP does is […] More
CACI International CEO Ken Asbury has said the company’s effort to strike a “transformational transaction†is not based on scale but on the need to address gaps in capabilities across the 12 markets it serves, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “We are an organization that is not consumed by the notion of scale,â€Â Asbury told […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment, has said the company is “on the cusp of delivery†of the first 18 KC-46 air refueling tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force this year, the Seattle Times reported Thursday. “We have an entire fleet of tankers here and as we get […] More
Cubic‘s global defense business will present a range of combat and security training products at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference that is scheduled to take place May 7 to 10 in Amman, Jordan. The biennial event aims to gather homeland security, special operations, and industry representatives worldwide to discuss national security and counterterrorism […] More
Lockheed Martin aims to integrate the U.S. Air Force’s Space Fence on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as early as June, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The company has confirmed to the publication that the S-band radar array met all contractual requirements and is ready to undergo full integration and assessment beginning in July. Space Fence […] More
Emcore has received a contract from a U.S. defense contractor to design an inertial measurement unit to support airborne line-of-sight and navigation functions of a fighter aircraft targeting pod. The company said Thursday it will also deliver hardware by the end of the year for use in flight demonstrations slated to occur early in 2019. Emcore […] More
A member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council has selected CAE to establish a simulation center for joint command and staff training efforts. CAE said Wednesday it will equip the Joint Multinational Simulation Center with the company’s GlobalSim technology. The center is intended to prepare commanders, officers and operators from different military services and staff colleges for tactical and strategic missions. […] More
Atos‘s North American arm has signed a multiyear, $120 million agreement to provide cybersecurity services to the Virginia Information Technology Agency. The company said Thursday it will provide a technology platform intended to help VITA detect threats, manage vulnerabilities, secure information and endpoints and manage security events. VITA will receive the services through Atos’ Prescriptive Security model […] More
Janus Global Operations, under a U.S. State Department effort, has cleared two schools in the Iraqi city of Mosul of explosives stored by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Lenoir, Tenn.-based company said Thursday its deployed teams removed more than 700 tons of rubble from the Al Muthana Boys School and Al-Mansour Boys […] More
