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  • NASA Continues Partnerships With 3 Firms to Develop Lunar Cargo Delivery Tech
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    NASA Continues Partnerships With 3 Firms to Develop Lunar Cargo Delivery Tech

    NASA has extended its partnership agreements with Astrobotic Technology, Masten Space Systems and Moon Express to further develop technologies designed to transport payload cargo to the moon’s surface. The space agency said Tuesday it amended the original Space Act Agreements between NASA and its three industry partners to extend the performance for work by two years. All three companies have supported […] More

  • Leidos Secures NIH IT Support Task Orders
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    Leidos Secures NIH IT Support Task Orders

    Leidos has received three task orders worth $45 million combined from the National Institutes of Health to provide information technology services to the National Heart Lung Blood Institute’s IT and applications center. The company said Thursday it will use a software quality process that employs agile and DevOps methods in efforts to help ITAC maintain NHLBI’s IT application portfolio […] More

  • NASA Taps 5 Companies to Study Power & Propulsion Tech
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    NASA Taps 5 Companies to Study Power & Propulsion Tech

    NASA has awarded five companies $2.4 million in combined funds to study power and propulsion technologies that can support the development of a solar electric propulsion platform for deep space missions. The studies will help NASA identify requirements and reduce risk for a 50 kilowatt-class SEP system that will support human missions into deep space, the agency said Thursday. […] More

  • Druva Obtains FedRAMP Authorization for Data Mgmt-as-a-Service Offering
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    Druva Obtains FedRAMP Authorization for Data Mgmt-as-a-Service Offering

    Druva has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to sell its cloud-based data management platform to U.S. government agencies. The FedRAMP authority to operate confirms that the Druva inSync data management-as-a-service platform meets government cloud security standards, the company said Thursday. Druva inSync works to provide a single unified control system for the […] More

  • BAE Systems to Update Nulka Active Missile Decoys for Australian Armed Forces
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    BAE Systems to Update Nulka Active Missile Decoys for Australian Armed Forces

    BAE Systems‘ Australia-based business unit secured a potential $153.4 million contract to boost the capacities of the Nulka active missile decoy system. The company said Friday the 20-year program will also cover the development of a new launch system along with supporting technologies that can bolster Nulka’s capacity to protect Australian and allied fleets. Glynn […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program
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    Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program

    Northrop Grumman has supplied its mission computer system to the U.S. Marine Corps in support of the service branch’s H-1 helicopter upgrade program. The company said Thursday the Tech Refresh Mission Computer was fielded onboard the UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft as part of the upgrade program which aims to replace UH-1N and AH-1W helicopters with […] More

  • Swedish Army Orders Additional BAE 155mm Ammo Rounds
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    Swedish Army Orders Additional BAE 155mm Ammo Rounds

    BAE Systems has received a contract from Sweden’s defense and material administration to supply an additional 254 Bofors 155-millimeter ammunition rounds to the Swedish army. The company said Thursday it will produce BONUS munitions at BAE’s manufacturing facility in Karlskoga, Sweden, and expects deliveries to occur during 2019. BONUS is designed to be fired from 155mm artillery launchers […] More

  • Report: Samsung Aims to Help US Military Build 5G Wireless Network
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    Report: Samsung Aims to Help US Military Build 5G Wireless Network

    Samsung collaborates with U.S. military services to develop a fifth-generation wireless network technology as part of efforts to speed up connectivity and support line-of-sight communications, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The report said Samsung uses its pre-commercial wave system and equipment to aid ongoing development trials of the 5G technology. Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer and […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Machine Learning, EW Tech Investments for Intell Market Push
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Machine Learning, EW Tech Investments for Intell Market Push

    Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said the company plans to build up its products through investments in machine learning, electronic warfare and other technology capabilities that he thinks could help expand CACI’s offerings for the intelligence services market, CRN reported Thursday. Asbury said Thursday at the Arlington, Virginia-based defense information technology […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Targeting Systems, Electronic Unit for Navy MQ-4C Triton UAS
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    Raytheon to Produce Targeting Systems, Electronic Unit for Navy MQ-4C Triton UAS

    Raytheon has received a three-year, $7.21 million contract to produce three multi-spectral targeting systems and one electronic unit to the U.S. Navy. The company will provide the MTS “B” AN/DAS-3 systems and electronic unit to support low-rate initial production of lot 2 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted Raytheon will perform work in McKinney, […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Invests in Startups to Back Nanosatellite, Cyber Devt for Defense Applications
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    Report: Lockheed Invests in Startups to Back Nanosatellite, Cyber Devt for Defense Applications

    Lockheed Martin has made approximately $100 million in investments in 22 commercial technology startups since the defense contractor established its venture capital arm in 2007, CNBC reported Thursday. Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested this year in early-stage start-ups that work on technologies in the areas of cybersecurity, autonomous technology and nanosatellites and those companies include […] More

  • NASA to Host Industry Day for UAS Integration in Natl Airspace
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    NASA to Host Industry Day for UAS Integration in Natl Airspace

    NASA plans to host an industry day on Nov. 30 in San Diego, California, to convene and collect input from commercial and academic organizations that support ongoing projects to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system. The space agency said Thursday it aims to demonstrate the systems integration and operationalization of UAS in […] More