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Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based weapons manufacturer Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has received a potential $2.8 million contract to deliver weapon systems for New Zealand’s Defence Force (NZDF). NZDF said in a report published Wednesday that the contractor will deliver 40 M107A1 anti-materiel weapons, 42 Multi-Role Adaptive Design sniper rifles, optics, suppressors and ballistic computer auxiliary equipment. Maj. Gen. Peter […] More

Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, U.S. Air Force director of information technology acquisition process development, has said the military branch is interested in using more “other transaction authority” contracts to speed up procurement especially in IT acquisitions, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. OTAs permit the Defense Department and military services to award contracts outside the traditional acquisition process, and […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested an engine for NASA‘s second exploration mission at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine, dubbed as E2063, was fired up for 500 seconds in a move to evaluate the system’s capacity to support the EM-2 exploration mission, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday. RS-25 engines will continuously fire […] More

Qualcomm and SenseTime Group have teamed up to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning features for future mobile and internet of things products. The partnership looks to develop and foster the use of on-device AI through vision and camera-based image processing systems designed to deliver advanced heterogeneous computing services, Qualcomm said Thursday. “We look forward […] More

The U.S. Navy and General Dynamics’ NASSCO subsidiary will christen the military branch’s second expeditionary sea base vessel Saturday at a company shipyard in San Diego. Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, will be the principal speaker at the christening ceremony for the future USNS Hershel “Woody” Williams the Navy said Thursday. The ship, dubbed ESB […] More

The International Organization for Standardization has recertified HumanTouch for maintaining the information technology services contractor’s quality management practices. HumanTouch said Wednesday it obtained ISO 9001:2015 recertification following completion of third-party independent audit process. The certification requires companies to ensure their employees are familiar with quality management systems designed to increase work efficiency HumanTouch CEO Moe Jafari said the company also […] More