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  • Doug O’Brien Named Executive VP for Programs at National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA; Judy Ziewacz Comments
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    Doug O’Brien Named Executive VP for Programs at National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA; Judy Ziewacz Comments

    Doug O’Brien, formerly senior adviser for rural affairs at the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, has joined the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International as executive vice president for programs, effective Nov. 1. Judy Ziewacz, president and CEO of NCBA CLUSA, said in a statement released Monday O’Brien’s experience in international development, domestic affairs and cooperative […] More

  • CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments
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    CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    CSRA has been awarded a four-year, $73 million contract to handle enterprise cloud computing services for the Department of Veterans Affairs in a move to help facilitate veteran health benefits and service delivery programs. The company will identify, consolidate and manage cloud computing services across several vendors and internal VA offerings under the Enterprise Cloud Services […] More

  • Susan Eustis: Global Military Drone Market to Reach $8.6B by 2022
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    Susan Eustis: Global Military Drone Market to Reach $8.6B by 2022

    Susan Eustis, lead author of the “Military Drones: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts Worldwide, 2016 to 2022” report, has said the global market for military drones will increase to $8.6 billion by 2022 from $4.4 billion recorded in 2015, Inside Unmanned Systems reported Monday. Eustis told the publication the U.S. accounts for 73 percent of the worldwide […] More

  • EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft
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    EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has selected EaglePicher to provide a power source for the NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft launched in September. EaglePicher said Monday it has provided 8-cell lithium batteries, the main spacecraft battery and two identical 28-volt, 30-ampere-hour batteries to power the return capsule as well as integrated battery […] More

  • Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship
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    Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship

    The U.S. Navy will conduct developmental and operational tests of seven Lockheed Martin-built F-35B Lightning II aircraft aboard an amphibious assault ship. Five of the seven F-35B short take-off and vertical-landing variant are scheduled to enter the operational testing phase onboard the USS America (LHA-6) vessel while the remaining two fighter jets will begin the third phase of the shipboard […] More

  • NASA Reschedules NOAA GOES-R Satellite Launch to Nov. 16
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    NASA Reschedules NOAA GOES-R Satellite Launch to Nov. 16

    NASA has moved from Nov. 4 to Nov. 16 the launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites. The space agency said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the geostationary orbit and will work to capture images of weather patterns […] More

  • Northrop Receives Final NeXolve-Built Sunshield Layer for Webb Space Observatory
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    Northrop Receives Final NeXolve-Built Sunshield Layer for Webb Space Observatory

    NeXolve has built and delivered the fifth sunshield layer for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope to Northrop Grumman‘s aerospace campus in Redondo Beach, California. NASA said Tuesday Northrop will integrate final flight layers into the telescope’s sunshield subsystem to support folding and deployment tests as part of the final system validation process. Northrop designed the telescope’s, optics and spacecraft bus as the […] More

  • Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging’s Precision Survey Sensor
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    Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging’s Precision Survey Sensor

    Textron has announced it will offer an Overwatch Imaging-built precision survey sensor technology as part of the Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system. Overwatch Imaging designed its TK-7 Firewatch multispectrum survey payload with color focal plane array and co-boresighted infrared sensors that Textron will integrate with the UAS’ onboard image processing system to facilitate precision mapping and aerial photography, Textron said Monday. […] More

  • Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments
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    Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments

    Siemens has launched a new digital grid services offering the company designed to help utility sector customers in the U.S. access digital operational environments through cloud and managed service systems. The digital grid services platform offering comprises subscription-based software as a service grid management applications, managed services and cloud-hosted environments hosted in Siemens’ data centers, […] More

  • 3M’s Ceradyne Subsidiary to Build Helmets, Armor Inserts for Army Soldier Protection System
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    3M’s Ceradyne Subsidiary to Build Helmets, Armor Inserts for Army Soldier Protection System

    3M‘s Ceradyne subsidiary has received two contracts worth $43 million combined to produce helmet systems and hard body armor inserts to act as components of the U.S. Army‘s Soldier Protection System. 3M said Tuesday Ceradyne secured a $7 million contract to deliver more than 5,300 helmet systems for SPS’ Integrated Head Protection System component. IHPS is designed give soldiers a lighter ballistic helmet […] More

  • Turkey Moves to Buy Second Lockheed F-35 Batch
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    Turkey Moves to Buy Second Lockheed F-35 Batch

    Turkey’s defense procurement authority has agreed to purchase a second batch of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jets, Defense News reported Monday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes the country’s procurement and military officials expect to complete a dual-fighter jet fleet comprised of the F-35 and an indigenous aircraft called TFX by 2023. Turkey has committed to buy a […] More

  • Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System
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    Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System

    Cobham has secured a contract worth more than $10 million to provide multiple waveguide assemblies and components to support Lockheed Martin‘s production of three-dimensional fixed-phase array radars for the U.S. Navy. Cobham said Monday its electronic integrated solutions business will manufacture AN/SPY-1D waveguide systems at a facility in New Hampshire. The AN/SPY-1D is designed to function as the primary air search radar on […] More