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QinetiQ North America has demonstrated a full-duplex communications system built to receive and transmit undersea acoustic data. QinetiQ NA said Tuesday it collaborated with Optimal Systems Laboratory to develop the Dolphin underwater platform equipped with patented cancellation technology in an effort to help U.S. Navy and commercial clients address wireless communications challenges. Dolphin is designed to increase the performance of acoustic […] More

Leidos has secured a $16 million contract for command, control, communications, computers and information management services to the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will also provide C4IM support for  Army G2 military intelligence staff based within and outside the contiguous U.S. The service branch received one bid for the firm-fixed-price […] More

Parsons‘ government services business has won a potential five-year, $15 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support the Housing Condition Assessment program of the Commander Navy Installations Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Parsons Government Services will independently assess the conditions, configuration and quality of military family and unaccompanied housing assets within the Naval Facilities […] More

Northrop Grumman has helped the U.S. Navy train a detachment of air vehicle operators from the service branch’s helicopter sea combat squadron 23 to perform a two-part flight demonstration of the Northrop-built MQ-8B Fire Scout autonomous helicopter. The Navy conducted in May the first part of the demonstration in which AVOs at a naval auxiliary landing […] More

Senior Aerospace SSP and Lockheed Martin‘s Derco subsidiary have renewed an agreement that designates the latter as an international military aftermarket distributor of SSP. Lockheed said Monday the agreement will provide quantity break pricing benefits and will make SSP products immediately available to Derco customers. Kaan Tuncel, Derco director of strategic partnerships, said the renewed agreement will allow […] More

NASA and Lockheed Martin have powered up the company-built Orion crew module at the space agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time. Engineers installed and tested vehicle management computers, power and data units and flight software on the spacecraft as part of the initial power-up event, Lockheed said Tuesday. “Orion was designed from the beginning to […] More