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  • Hughes’ Rick Lober: Space Launch Backlog a Concern for Commercial Satellite Industry
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    Hughes’ Rick Lober: Space Launch Backlog a Concern for Commercial Satellite Industry

    Hughes Network Systems’ Rick Lober has said the backlog of launches faced by space launch service providers has raised concerns among commercial satellite operators that work to provide global communications support to military clients, National Defense reported Wednesday. “There are more [satellites] going up so that is fueling demand and there have been a few […] More

  • Brazil Orders Saab RBS 70 Air Defense Systems
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    Brazil Orders Saab RBS 70 Air Defense Systems

    Saab has received a potential $11.6 million contract to deliver RBS 70 very short-range air defense systems to the Brazilian army. The company will also supply man-portable launchers, training simulators, night vision tools, multispectral camouflage for the air defense systems and related equipment for maintainers and operators, Saab said Monday. Saab will perform deliveries through […] More

  • ManTech Gets Air Force Contract to Support Stratcom, NASA Human Spaceflight Programs
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    ManTech Gets Air Force Contract to Support Stratcom, NASA Human Spaceflight Programs

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded ManTech International a four-year, $8.7 million contract to support the U.S. Strategic Command’s Human Space Flight Support program as well as NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program and Orion requirements. The military branch received two bids for the contract via a competitive solicitation under the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle, the Defense Department […] More

  • Report: Germany to Purchase Northrop-Built Triton UAVs from US Navy
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    Report: Germany to Purchase Northrop-Built Triton UAVs from US Navy

    Germany plans to buy three Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aerial vehicles from the U.S. Navy for use in signal intelligence operations of its armed forces, Defense News reported Wednesday. The inspector general with Germany’s armed forces Bundeswehr said the country’s military aims to procure the first Triton UAV in 2025 and the other two drones by […] More

  • DoD Picks 160 University Researchers to Receive Instrumentation Acquisition Funds
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    DoD Picks 160 University Researchers to Receive Instrumentation Acquisition Funds

    The Defense Department has awarded $47 million in total grants to 160 university researchers at 84 institutions to help them purchase equipment for defense research and student research training. DoD said Thursday its service research offices received 685 proposals for the fiscal 2017 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program and selected meritorious submissions that tackle science and engineering research to support national defense efforts. Dale […] More

  • NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments
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    NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT Data has secured a potential five-year, $62 million contract to provide a range of information technology services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The company said Thursday it will host applications, manage cloud systems, store files, monitor operations and perform data center support for CDC under the contract. The IT services are intended to help […] More

  • CSRA Subsidary’s Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation
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    CSRA Subsidary’s Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation

    A plague vaccine being developed by a CSRA subsidiary has received orphan drug status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for pre-exposure prophlaxis of Yersinia pestis infection. CSRA said Wednesday its DynPort Vaccine Company works with the Defense Department on the development of the recombinant rF1V plague vaccine that will be added to the DoD’s medical countermeasures portfolio […] More

  • Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems
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    Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems

    Rockwell Collins has been chosen to provide integrated flight displays, communications, navigation, surveillance, networking and flight control systems for KC-46A tankers that Boeing will build for the U.S. Air Force. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins said Wednesday its Remote Vision System  comprises two- and three-dimensional vision technologies that will work to aid the KC-46A aircraft’s refueling function. RVS is designed to […] More

  • Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract
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    Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract

    Sierra Nevada has received a one-year, $31 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue to supply and support countermeasure transmitters designed for explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises option year six and extend the ordering period of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AN/PLT-5 electronic jamming systems. Sierra Nevada will produce the systems as […] More

  • CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems
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    CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems

    CGI has secured a potential 20-year, $66.2 million contract from the Colorado government to update payroll systems across 21 state agencies and departments in support of efforts to overhaul the existing enterprise resource planning system. The company said Wednesday it will offer information technology services to transform manual payroll processes into a unified human resource […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force
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    QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded a $3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force design and build an airborne wind profiling portable radar prototype. QNA said Wednesday the WiPPR unit will be designed to demonstrate wind measurement in near real-time. The Air Force will use the radar to help the service branch’s C-130 and C-17 aircrews drop supplies accurately to […] More

  • 4 Firms Win Navy Cyberspace Support Contracts
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    4 Firms Win Navy Cyberspace Support Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies separate five-year contracts that cover cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration support services. Avanti Technologies, Millennium, Sentar and Vector Planning and Services can vie for task orders to perform technology assessment and development; rapid software development and prototyping; training; security engineering; and cybersecurity risk management services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Avanti won […] More