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BAE Systems‘ Southeast Shipyard Mayport business in Jacksonville, Florida, has won a potential $68.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide facilities and human resources for the modernization, repair and maintenance of the USS Roosevelt guided missile destroyer. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy obligated $51.4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to propose methods to find speech and text content in low-resource languages relevant to domain-contextualized English queries. IARPA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice the Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language program seeks an end-to-end system that can support monolingual triage of multilingual datasets. The agency added it wants […] More
Root9B has partnered with Chiron Technology Services to deliver cyber operational training to the Defense Department under the team’s potential five-year, $50 million contract. Root9B will provide cyber operations, incident response, threat emulation and network defense training that will work to prepare cybersecurity teams to defend against evolving cyber threats, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm said Thursday. The […] More
Researchers at BAE Systems have developed a laser-based atmospheric lens platform designed to help military commanders perform long-range surveillance operations on adversaries. The Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens system works to create lens-like structures through the use of high-power pulsed lasers and manipulation of the Earth’s atmosphere through ionization or reversal reheating process, BAE said Jan. […] More
A business unit of L3 Technologies has been awarded a $33.1 million contract modification to supply 96 hydro-mechanically propelled transmission systems to the U.S. Army. L3’s combat propulsion systems business will also provide 800-horsepower transmissions, associated ancillary hardware and operational reliability support under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursday Work will occur in Muskegon, Michigan, through Oct. 18, 2018. The […] More
A third Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite launched atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V evolved expendable launch vehicle Friday evening from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite is designed to provide battlespace awareness efforts of U.S. combatant commanders, intelligence organizations and allies globally, the U.S. Air Force said Friday. […] More
Galois has secured a $750,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory to support the development of a cyber deception technology that will look to mislead potential attackers that monitor network activities. The company said Thursday it received the funds under Phase II of a Small Business Innovation Research program effort for the Prattle cyber deception technology. Prattle […] More
The Defense Department has begun to solicit proposals for the development of a missile-launched payload comprised of multiple quadcopters. DoD said in a notice posted Nov. 30 on the Small Business Innovation Research program’s website the project aims to produce a swarm of smart quadcopters that will work to deliver explosively formed penetrators to various targets in support of the […] More
The Aerospace Industries Association expects President Donald Trump to continue the Obama administration’s efforts to accelerate the approval process for weapons exports, Defense News reported Friday. Valerie Insinna writes the previous administration worked to transfer defense items from the State Department‘s control under the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Department‘s Commerce Control List to streamline transactions. The State […] More
A Frost & Sullivan report, released by Research and Markets, forecasts the U.S. government and military satellite market will reach an average of $53.78 million in value at a compound annual growth rate of 3.6 percent over the next five years. Research and Markets said Friday the U.S. government accounted for approximately $1.34 billion of the overall global spending on commercial satellite […] More
NASA expects SpaceX to deliver supplies, equipment and science investigations to the International Space Station no earlier than February as part of the company’s 10th cargo resupply mission. The space agency said Friday it is still reviewing a possible date launch and time for the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center […] More
James Kowakski, former deputy commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, has joined been named vice president of government relations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and corporate lead executive for the company’s office in Louisiana. The 35-year U.S. Air Force veteran will report to Timothy Jones, vice president of Northrop’s aviation and ISR business in his new position, the […] More
