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  • Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store
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    Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store

    Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More

  • BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform
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    BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform

    BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries turned over the USS John Finn guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held on the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division signed the DD 250 document that represents the  official transfer of the ship’s custody to the military service, the company said Wednesday. “Years of working with the DDG 51 program has created a team […] More

  • Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England
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    Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England

    Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud
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    eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected consulting firm eGlobalTech to deploy the agency’s information collection system on Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform. EGlobalTech said Wednesday it will work to update, restore, operate and maintain EPA’s Information Collection Request, Review and Approval System under a new task order. The electronic system is used to prepare, monitor, report […] More

  • Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office
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    Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office

    The U.S Air Force has awarded Pelatron Technologies a potential five-year, $22 million contract to support the military branch’s F-16 aircraft-related programs. Pelatron will provide software, systems and interface design, sustainment and intelligence analyst engineering services for the F-16 systems program office, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will also conduct ground test and flight test, information assurance and cybersecurity […] More

  • Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut
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    Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has opened a system testing facility for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters. The Systems Integration Lab is located within Sikorsky’s Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility and has four laboratories that will be used to test avionics, electrical power, electronic flight controls and integrated vehicle diagnostics, […] More

  • Sandia National Lab and Singapore Partner on Energy Storage Test-Bed Project; Dan Borneo Comments
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    Sandia National Lab and Singapore Partner on Energy Storage Test-Bed Project; Dan Borneo Comments

    Sandia National Laboratories and the government of Singapore have inked a four-year cooperative research and development agreement to set up the nation’s first grid energy storage test-bed. Singapore’s Energy Market Authority has tapped Sandia Labs, operated by Lockheed Martin’s subsidiary Sandia Corp., to assess up to three energy storage test-beds at existing electrical substations with […] More

  • NetComm Part of ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab; Louise White Comments
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    NetComm Part of ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab; Louise White Comments

    Cloud-based data analytics provider NetComm has signed up for the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal Big Data Test Lab in a push to help the government address challenges through data and analytics technology. NetComm said Wednesday the ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab program will work to provide preconfigured data and analytics tools to government agencies […] More

  • OneTrust-IAPP Team Unveil US Federal Agency Templates for PIA Platform Members
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    OneTrust-IAPP Team Unveil US Federal Agency Templates for PIA Platform Members

    Atlanta-based privacy management software provider OneTrust and the International Association of Privacy Professionals have partnered to launch the U.S. Federal Agency privacy threshold analysis and privacy impact assessment templates for members via the IAPP-OneTrust comprehensive PIA platform. OneTrust said Wednesday the launch aims to build on existing privacy management systems that the team offers and adds to previous services […] More

  • Airbus Gets H215 Rotorcraft Order From German Police; Wolfgang Schoder Comments
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    Airbus Gets H215 Rotorcraft Order From German Police; Wolfgang Schoder Comments

    Airbus‘ helicopters business has received a purchase order for three H215 multi-role rotorcraft from the German federal police through Germany’s federal ministry of interior. The company will deliver the helicopters in early 2019 and the German federal police will use the aircraft to perform maritime emergency and police missions, Airbus said Wednesday. The twin-engine rotorcraft is part […] More

  • DynCorp to Maintain Air Force’s A-10 Fleet; Mark Mirelez Comments
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    DynCorp to Maintain Air Force’s A-10 Fleet; Mark Mirelez Comments

    DynCorp International has landed a $23 million task order with the U.S. Air Force to maintain the 357th Aircraft Maintenance Unit’s A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. The company said Wednesday it will perform contract work at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona through March 2018 under the Davis-Monthan Contract Field Team task order. Mark Mirelez, DI’s aviation engineering, logistics […] More