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  • Lockheed Subsidiary to Update Chilean Frigate Combat Mgmt System
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    Lockheed Subsidiary to Update Chilean Frigate Combat Mgmt System

    Lockheed Martin‘s Canadian arm has secured a contract to update the combat management system and subsystems on three Type 23 frigates of the Chilean navy. The company said Tuesday its CMS 330 system was chosen to replace the current system used on Chile’s Type 23 frigates after a worldwide competitive tender process. Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president of rotary and mission systems at Lockheed […] More

  • BAE Subsidiary to Update Maritime SATCOM Terminals for Australian Navy
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    BAE Subsidiary to Update Maritime SATCOM Terminals for Australian Navy

    BAE Systems‘ Australian subsidiary has landed a four-year, $30 million contract to help the Australian navy update its maritime satellite communications terminals. The company said Thursday upgrade work on the Maritime element of the Advanced SATCOM Terrestrial Infrastructure System terminals will take place at BAE facilities in South Australia and Sydney. MASTIS is equipped with two antennas that work to simultaneously process data in X– and […] More

  • Speedcast, COMSAT Team to Offer Ku-Band Network Services in Govt, Maritime Markets
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    Speedcast, COMSAT Team to Offer Ku-Band Network Services in Govt, Maritime Markets

    COMSAT and Speedcast International have entered into a partnership agreement to offer global network services to government and maritime customers. The joint offering will combine Speedcast’s 8+ gigahertz of global satellite capacity with COMSAT’s U.S.-based teleports to provide Ku-band very small aperture terminal services for customers that need resilient connectivity, Speedcast said Thursday. COMSAT will also deliver hosting services as well […] More

  • Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum
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    Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum

    Mark Holloway, an associate at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, will lead a roundtable discussion on technology companies at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Summer Forum on June 13 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in Virginia. The roundtable will focus on ways to successfully build, sell and acquire technology companies. Panelists include: Carolyn Parent, […] More

  • Northrop to Help Sustain Navy’s Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator Under $65M Contract Option
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    Northrop to Help Sustain Navy’s Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator Under $65M Contract Option

    Northrop Grumman has received a $64.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to help operate and maintain the service branch’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop will also provide sustainment engineering and logistics services for RQ-4 Global Hawk peculiar items, support equipment and technical publications under the BAMS-D program. The company […] More

  • COMSAT Gets DoD BPA for Inmarsat Global Xpress, BGAN Mobile Satcom Services
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    COMSAT Gets DoD BPA for Inmarsat Global Xpress, BGAN Mobile Satcom Services

    COMSAT has received a blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Department to provide internet protocol-based mobile satellite communications services through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band network and Broadband Global Area Network. COMSAT will work to deliver voice, video and data services to uniformed personnel through portable satellite terminals and help DoD meet its global mobile communications requirements, […] More

  • Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service
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    Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service

    Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web Services cloud regions and the […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Drops Plans to Join Navy Over-the-Horizon Missile Devt Competition
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    Report: Lockheed Drops Plans to Join Navy Over-the-Horizon Missile Devt Competition

    Lockheed Martin has decided not to bid on a U.S. Navy contract to develop an over-the-horizon missile for the service branch’s frigates and littoral combat ships, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lockheed’s decision came after Boeing decided to withdraw from the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System competition earlier this month. “As the current OTH-WS request for proposal process refined […] More

  • Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud
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    Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud

    Genius SIS has launched its training management system on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region in an effort to help U.S. government agencies register, track and report on their training programs. Plantation, Florida-based Genius SIS said Wednesday the addition of its Student Information System on GovCloud will support customers’ compliance with government security requirements. AWS meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management […] More

  • DARPA, Boeing Partner to Develop Reusable Hypersonic Aircraft for Satellite Launches
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    DARPA, Boeing Partner to Develop Reusable Hypersonic Aircraft for Satellite Launches

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Boeing to design, develop and test a demonstration space vehicle under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program. The XS-1 program seeks to build and launch a new set of hypersonic aircraft designed to provide less-expensive access to space at short notice in support of national security missions, DARPA said Wednesday. […] More

  • CGI Offers Cloud ERP Platform Through Multi-State Procurement Initiative
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    CGI Offers Cloud ERP Platform Through Multi-State Procurement Initiative

    CGI has begun to offer a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform to state and local government entities that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative procurement program. The company said Wednesday it offers the CGI Advantage360 software-as-a-service ERP platform to NASPO ValuePoint participants under a master agreement with the state of Utah. CGI Advantage consists of software, business process services and […] More

  • Army Orders $76M in Orbital ATK Small Caliber Ammo; Jim Nichols Comments
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    Army Orders $76M in Orbital ATK Small Caliber Ammo; Jim Nichols Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a $76 million order to produce and deliver an undisclosed number of .50 caliber ammunition to the U.S. Army. The Army placed the order for small-caliber ammunition under a supply contract with Orbital ATK, the company said Wednesday Jim Nichols, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s small caliber systems division, said that company-made […] More