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The U.K. government has issued a National Shipbuilding Strategy that calls for the procurement of new general purpose frigates. The first five Type 31e frigates would cost less than $329 million each and are slated to enter service by 2023, the British government said in a press release posted Wednesday. Type 31e vessels will be built in […] More
A KeyW subsidiary has secured an $18 million task order to provide software engineering and sustainment, business consulting, information technology infrastructure and procurement management support for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. The three-year task order awarded to Sotera Defense Solutions is part of a $7 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designated for software and systems engineering services, KeyW reported Thursday. Sotera […] More
The Internal Revenue Service has begun its search for potential sources of software-as-a-service applications designed to run on a Microsoft-built cloud platform. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps says IRS plans to buy several SaaS cloud offerings that include PowerBI, Project Online, Office applications, SharePoint Online, Cloud Private Branch Exchange, Skype for Business, Visio, […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a contract to assemble and deliver a pair of baseline configuration S-70i Black Hawk helicopters to the Los Angeles County fire department. S-70i is equipped with wide chord rotor blades, an updated airframe, a digital glass cockpit, a cockpit voice and flight data recorder and an integrated vehicle health management […] More
Greg Souchack, partner for managed services and cloud solutions at IBM’s global business services unit, has said the U.S. Army could leverage the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform to help analyze spending on the transportation of spare parts and other shipment, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “The Army would like to see if Watson could look at all of […] More
Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, has told a House subcommittee the space agency plans to issue a request for proposals on commercial payload transportation systems for a lunar mission, Space News reported Thursday. Crusan said at the subcommittee hearing Thursday that NASA would issue the RFP after it completes evaluation of […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a new concept that seeks to develop an armed unmanned aerial system designed to carry and launch air-to-air missiles and that can be produced through on-demand rapid manufacturing process, Popular Mechanics reported Thursday. Air Force Lt. Col. Jimmy Jones, a program manager at DARPA’s strategic technology office, said […] More
Elbit Systems has released a tracking system for dismounted soldiers, first responders and special forces to gain situational awareness in places with poor or no access to GPS signal. SmarTrack is built with radio frequency technology that will work to help commanders locate and track force members in GPS-denied indoor, underground or urban areas, Elbit Systems said Thursday. The […] More
BAE Systems has unveiled a new strategy that will open recruitment to more than 1,000 graduates and apprentices in Australia as the company pursues a contract under the SEA 5000 Future Frigate program. The Early Careers Program will serve to help BAE establish a pipeline of talent who will support potential work related to SEA […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Aviation Training Consulting a potential four-year, $43.7 million contract to provide aircrew and maintenance training products for Kuwait’s KC-130J tanker aircraft as part of a foreign military sales deal. Aviation Training Consulting will also support L-100 transport aircraft transition training of the Kuwaiti air force under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD added that […] More
Space Nation and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to administer a training program that will allow participants to experience space training through a smartphone application. The Astronaut Experience Program will feature an educational documentary and make use of multiple media platforms such as active experience training and app games in which users can compete for a chance […] More
Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has completed the prototype build of a tiltrotor aircraft platform designed for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program under the U.S. Army‘s Future Vertical Lift initiative. Bell said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate its V-280 Valor offering this fall through a maiden flight test. Lockheed Martin built V-280’s cockpit, avionics, distributed aperture system […] More
