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Lockheed Martin has secured a $75.4 million contract modification to provide updated sensor kits and spares for the U.S. Army‘s Apache attack helicopters. The Defense Department said Friday the company will supply Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor equipment under the modification. M-TADS/PNVS is a precision engagement and pilotage system equipped with an electro-optical sensor technology that works […] More

Iridium Communications plans to launch the third batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites on Sept. 30 aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The scheduled launch would bring the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in space to 30 as part of a potential $3 billion program to replace an existing constellation with 75 new communications satellites […] More

ARCTEC Alaska, an ASRC Federal Primus–ATCO Structures and Logistics joint venture, will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage a military radar system installed in Alaska under a $37.9 million contract modification. The modification exercises a 12-month option under the company’s Alaska Radar System operations and maintenance contract with the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a potential $61 million contract modification to help manage an aerial platform built to help U.S. and international security assistance forces neutralize improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. Leidos will support operations, sustainment and integration of Saturn Arch quick reaction capability systems through Sept. 16, 2018, under the modification, the Defense […] More