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A consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies intends to start exclusive further negotiations with Lockheed Martin on the development of a mobile artillery missile launcher system for Poland’s armed forces. The Polish Armament Group selected Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System offering as the basis of the country’s Homar program, the company said Friday. The program […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a value-added reseller of CompassCom Software’s fleet management platforms to the public sector through Carahsoft’s spot on the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Carahsoft said Friday it will offer CompassCom’s Geographic Information System, Global Navigation Satellite System, Mobile Resource Management tool and other wireless platforms to federal customers under […] More

Lockheed Martin and French shipbuilding company Naval Group, formerly DCNS, have opened an office in Cherbourg, France, to accommodate submarine designers and naval engineers who will support Australia’s Future Submarine Program. Lockheed said Sunday its Australian arm and Naval Group will collaborate with Australia’s defense department to produce a fleet of 12 submarines for the Royal Australian […] More

Pixelligent Technologies has received $2.15 million in total funds from the departments of Defense and Energy to further develop new applications based on the company’s nanocomposite technology. The company said Monday it will create an organic light emitting diode under two Phase I and Phase IIB grants awarded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program. DoD also seeks […] More

A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon has secured a $56.8 million contract modification to supply containerized rounds, electronics, command launch units for the U.S. Army‘s Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile system. Javelin Joint Venture will also provide non-recurring engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Friday. The JV developed the system to offer fire-and-forget and medium-range […] More

Amazon Web Services has granted certification to Fairfax County, Virginia-based InfoReliance for the latter company’s capacity to help customers migrate, deploy or manage Microsoft workloads to an AWS platform. InfoReliance said Friday it demonstrated technical expertise to support Microsoft-based Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server platforms through customer case studies under the AWS Partner Competency Program. John Sankovich, executive vice president of InfoReliance’s […] More

QinetiQ and the U.K. ministry of defense have agreed to invest a combined $21.7 million to replace a pair of instrumentation radar systems at MOD Hebrides range facility with BAE Systems-built tracking radars. The installation of new radar technology will support data and safety monitoring activities as well as demonstration, evaluation, experimentation and rehearsals of […] More