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  • ICF to Administer National Tobacco Survey Under CDC Task Order
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    ICF to Administer National Tobacco Survey Under CDC Task Order

    ICF has received a potential five-year, $13 million task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to administer a national survey that will collect information about the prevalence of tobacco use among youth. CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health commissioned ICF to help the agency examine  behaviors and attitudes of students in grades six to 12 […] More

  • DynCorp to Deliver Equipment Related Services for Army TACOM Services
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    DynCorp to Deliver Equipment Related Services for Army TACOM Services

    DynCorp International has received a potential $14.5 million contract to deliver equipment related services in support of U.S. Army TACOM Strategic Services Solutions. The contract entails the company to contribute qualified personnel, general mechanics tool kits and site supervision to Army TRADOC training locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia, DynCorp said Monday. The order holds a one-year […] More

  • SSL Lands Comms Satellite Delivery Contract With Embratel Star One
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    SSL Lands Comms Satellite Delivery Contract With Embratel Star One

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL business has received a contract to deliver a communications satellite to Brazil-based Embratel Star One. SSL said Monday the Star One D2 satellite will work to provide broadband coverage and information services to businesses and clients in Central America, Mexico, South America and other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite is […] More

  • Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter
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    Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter

    Orbital ATK has won a potential $34 million contract to provide a secondary payload adapter for the U.S. Air Force‘s long-duration propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The Defense Department said Monday the contract will also extend the Air Force Space Command’s standard rideshare service policy and build on previous development efforts for EELV secondary payload adapter technology. Orbital ATK will perform work […] More

  • DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network
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    DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Service Provider has reached out to industry to gather ideas on how JSP can implement a software-defined network technology to modernize network infrastructure at the Pentagon. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 20 said JSP aims to simplify and update the DoD network infrastructure with the use of orchestration, routing and virtualization tools. The organization […] More

  • Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy
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    Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its navigation platform designed to guide military aircraft and aerial weapon systems to maritime and ground targets without using GPS signals. The company said Monday it teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to test the capability of its All Source Adaptive […] More

  • Lockheed to Design Undersea Vehicle for Navy
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    Lockheed to Design Undersea Vehicle for Navy

    Lockheed Martin has won a potential $43.2 million contract to design an underwater platform as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program. The Navy seeks an XLUUV platform equipped with a reconfigurable payload bay that will work to help the service branch launch, recover, operate and communicate with the system from a home […] More

  • CAE to Lease Space at BAE’s Aviation Training Facility in Australia
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    CAE to Lease Space at BAE’s Aviation Training Facility in Australia

    BAE Systems has signed an agreement to lease a portion of its flight training center in New South Wales, Australia, to CAE‘s Oxford Aviation Training Academy. CAE will use leased space at BAE’s Tamworth facility as a training ground for commercial pilot trainees, BAE said Tuesday. “We are working collaboratively with local community leaders to consider options for the site […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Thales Alenia Space-Built South Korean Comms Satellite
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    SpaceX Launches Thales Alenia Space-Built South Korean Comms Satellite

    SpaceX has deployed a Thales Alenia Space-built communications satellite into orbit for South Korean operator KTSAT using the Falcon 9 rocket. Thales said Monday the KOREASAT-5A satellite is currently positioned at 113 degrees East and designed to provide internet access, multimedia, broadcasting and fixed communications services for KTSAT’s customers in the Middle East and multiple Asian countries. KOREASAT-5A is derived from […] More

  • CTC Gets Patent for Flow Battery Manufacturing Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC Gets Patent for Flow Battery Manufacturing Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has obtained a patent for a technology that works to create a seal to remove leakage in flow batteries. The “Self-sealing Flow Frame for Flow Battery Stack” design also works to streamline the process of assembling flow batteries designed to address the need for electric grid-level energy storage, CTC said Monday. A […] More

  • Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia
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    Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia

    The U.S. Navy has facilitated technology demonstrations of various unmanned systems alongside technology developers from industry and academia during the two-day Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The event dubbed “Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment” kicked off on Aug. 15  at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island and at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More

  • ISOA Adds SOSi SVP Frank Helmick to Advisory Board
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    ISOA Adds SOSi SVP Frank Helmick to Advisory Board

    Frank Helmick, senior vice president of the mission solutions group at SOS International, has been appointed to the International Stability Operations Association’s advisory board. SOSi said Monday Helmick will work with other ISOA advisory council members, executive staff and board of directors in efforts to help formulate and implement the association’s strategic vision. ISOA represents multiple nongovernmental […] More