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  • Lockheed to Install Electronic Warfare Pods on Navy MH-60 Helicopters
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    Lockheed to Install Electronic Warfare Pods on Navy MH-60 Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin has secured a contract to equip the U.S Navy‘s fleet of MH-60 helicopters with electronic warfare pods designed to help the military service detect and respond to anti-ship missile threats. The company said Thursday its Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare Active Mission Payload AN/ALQ-248 system works to deter incoming ASM threats with the use of radio frequency countermeasure techniques. The […] More

  • IndraSoft Chosen for Air Force Software Group Cyber, Systems Engineering Support Contract
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    IndraSoft Chosen for Air Force Software Group Cyber, Systems Engineering Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force‘s 402nd Software Maintenance Group has awarded IndraSoft a five-year, $38 million task order for software sustainment and development, laboratory, cybersecurity and systems engineering services. The company said Wednesday it will provide support services for SMXG’s operational flight programs, test program sets, mission support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business lines at Robins […] More

  • Telephonics Lands Navy Contract for NAWCAD Engineering, Technical Support
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    Telephonics Lands Navy Contract for NAWCAD Engineering, Technical Support

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Telephonics a five-year, $9.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering and technical services to the Naval Air Warfare Center‘s aircraft division. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will implement and manage a program that covers hardware systems development, maintenance, training and repair services for NAWCAD’s air traffic control and landing systems unit. […] More

  • Army Taps DynCorp for Aircraft Component Repair, Mobile Radio Support Services
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    Army Taps DynCorp for Aircraft Component Repair, Mobile Radio Support Services

    The U.S. Army has awarded DynCorp International a potential five-year, $5.12 million task order to repair aircraft components deployed worldwide and a separate $955,000 contract to maintain land mobile radio systems in support of Kosovo’s military forces. DynCorp said Tuesday that it will perform the aircraft parts repair work at Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas as part of the […] More

  • Textron Starts USV On-Water Tests Under Navy Program
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    Textron Starts USV On-Water Tests Under Navy Program

    Textron Systems has kicked off on-water tests for the company-built Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Influence Sweep System program. Textron said Wednesday the on-water maneuverability test is part of the program’s system-level integration and test phase that will also involve demonstrations of the CUSV’s integrated generators, engines and […] More

  • DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments
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    DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments

    Vencore’s research arm has received a 17-month, $2.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to modernize airborne systems and networks as part of an effort to facilitate uninterrupted communication in adverse environments. Vencore Labs will develop technologies to help protect network and radio communications from jamming systems as part of DARPA’s Dynamic Network Adaptation […] More

  • Navy Eyes Delivery of Huntington Ingalls-Built USS Ford Carrier in April
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    Navy Eyes Delivery of Huntington Ingalls-Built USS Ford Carrier in April

    A U.S. Navy official has said the service branch expects Huntington Ingalls Industries to deliver the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in April after “first-of-class issues” have been addressed in recent months, The Virginian-Pilot reported Thursday. Capt. Thurraya Kent, a spokeswoman for the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, said in an […] More

  • CAE to Extend Operations Support for Canada’s NATO Flight Training Program; Joe Armstrong Comments
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    CAE to Extend Operations Support for Canada’s NATO Flight Training Program; Joe Armstrong Comments

    CAE will continue to support a Canadian air force-run military flight training program for NATO and allied air forces under a potential $228 million contract modification from Canada’s government. CAE said Thursday the modification extends the performance period of the company’s NATO Flying Training in Canada support contract to 2023 and includes an option that could further extend work through 2024. “Since acquiring the NFTC […] More

  • Liteye, Tribalco Partner to Deliver Counter-Drone Systems to US Military
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    Liteye, Tribalco Partner to Deliver Counter-Drone Systems to US Military

    Liteye and Tribalco have collaborated to deliver the former’s anti-unmanned aerial vehicle defense systems to U.S. military customers. Centennial, Colorado-based Liteye said Thursday its AUDS system is designed with a radar, precision thermal and daylight cameras, video tracking and multiple non-kinetic defeat functions. U.S. military and government organizations have tested the platform that works to detect, track, […] More

  • Army Vet Rhett Hernandez Named Thycotic Adviser on Public Sector Cybersecurity
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    Army Vet Rhett Hernandez Named Thycotic Adviser on Public Sector Cybersecurity

    Rhett Hernandez, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former commander of the Army Cyber Command, has joined Washington-based privileged account management technology provider Thycotic as strategic adviser for the public sector on cybersecurity matters. Thycotic said Thursday the 39-year veteran helped grow the service branch’s cyber force with nearly 17,000 personnel and led various initiatives to optimize operations and defense across Army networks. […] More

  • Carahsoft, TransUnion Partner to Offer Govt Clients Risk Mgmt, Authentication Tools
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    Carahsoft, TransUnion Partner to Offer Govt Clients Risk Mgmt, Authentication Tools

    Carahsoft Technology will offer TransUnion‘s investigative and risk management, identity authentication and verification systems to the public sector through the contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. TransUnion said Wednesday its TLOxp product offering will be available to government agencies via the GSA Schedule 70 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contracts. TLOxp will work to help agencies authenticate […] More

  • Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans’ Training Institute Under DOL Contract
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    Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans’ Training Institute Under DOL Contract

    The Labor Department has awarded Management Concepts a contract for classroom, virtual and online training support services to the National Veterans’ Training Institute. Management Concepts said Tuesday it will provide professional training and administrative support to workforce development professionals and supervisors of the State Workforce Agency under the NVTI program. The company will also train federal employees who represent the departments of Veterans Affairs, Justice, […] More