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  • Reuters: Canada Evaluates Info From 5 Potential Fighter Aircraft Contractors
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    Reuters: Canada Evaluates Info From 5 Potential Fighter Aircraft Contractors

    Marc Allen, president of Boeing’s international business, has said Canada is evaluating data from five potential contractors that could help replace the country’s fleet of CF-18 aircraft, Reuters reported Monday. Leah Schnurr writes Canada requested information such as aircraft features and economic factors from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Saab, Dassault Aviation and the Eurofighter Typhoon consortium comprised of BAE Systems, Leonardo-Finmeccanica and Airbus Group. […] More

  • BrainScope Gets FDA Approval for Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Tech; Michael Singer Comments
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    BrainScope Gets FDA Approval for Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Tech; Michael Singer Comments

    BrainScope has received marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a medical device the neurotechnology company designed to help clinicians examine traumatic brain injury cases. Bethesda, Maryland-based BrainScope said Monday it developed the Ahead 300 multi-modal device in collaboration with the Defense Department. “FDA clearance of the Ahead 300 is a bellwether moment in our company’s […] More

  • DynCorp to Extend Counter-Narcotics Aircraft Support for State Dept; Joe Dunaway Comments
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    DynCorp to Extend Counter-Narcotics Aircraft Support for State Dept; Joe Dunaway Comments

    DynCorp International has received a one-year extension on the company’s contract with the State Department to support the aviation office within the agency’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. DynCorp said Tuesday it will continue to provide pilots and aircraft maintenance, logistics, search-and-rescue, security and administrative services for INL Air Wing’s drug eradication efforts in Afghanistan, Colombia, Cypress, Iraq, […] More

  • Harris Completes 4th Baseline Imaging Tool for NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments
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    Harris Completes 4th Baseline Imaging Tool for NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments

    Harris Corp. will hand over the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager for integration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite after the company completed a pre-ship assessment of ABI with NASA and NOAA. Harris said Tuesday the ABI instrument is scheduled to fly aboard the GOES-U spacecraft in 2024 and will work to […] More

  • Navy Exercises $50M BAE Contract Option for Destroyer Ship Gun Updates
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    Navy Exercises $50M BAE Contract Option for Destroyer Ship Gun Updates

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems has secured a $50 million contract option to incorporate the Mod 4 configuration into an additional four Mk 45 naval gun systems onboard U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers. The company said Tuesday the exercised option brings the full value of BAE Systems Inc.‘s Mk 45 modernization contract with the service branch to $130 million. The Mod 4 configuration will […] More

  • California Power Utility Taps Vencore Labs for Cyber Services Contract
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    California Power Utility Taps Vencore Labs for Cyber Services Contract

    The internal research arm of Vencore has been selected to deploy managed cybersecurity offerings to a publicly-owned power utility headquartered in Sacramento, California in order to help secure the organizations metering infrastructure. Vencore Labs said Tuesday the Sacramento Municipal Utility District will use the business’ updated SecureSmart cybersecurity tool to validate security and privacy controls for the utility’s smart meter […] More

  • Raytheon Picks CPI Aerostructures for Jammer Pod Air Mgmt System Components Contract
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    Raytheon Picks CPI Aerostructures for Jammer Pod Air Mgmt System Components Contract

    Raytheon has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $2.7 million contract to produce air management system components for the former company’s jammer pods. CPI Aero said Tuesday it will manufacture AMS door and duct assemblies through 2018 in support of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Increment 1 Pod program with the […] More

  • Sevatec Wins Recompete for NOAA Cybersecurity Center Support
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    Sevatec Wins Recompete for NOAA Cybersecurity Center Support

    Sevatec has won a potential two-year, $19 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide support services to NOAA’s Cyber Security Center. The technology services firm said Tuesday the recompeted contract covers support for NCSC’s security operations facility as well as its computer incident response, system administration support and enterprise security solutions teams. Sevatec will also provide cybersecurity monitoring and […] More

  • NeoSystems Launches Business Health Diagnostic Survey for GovCon Companies
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    NeoSystems Launches Business Health Diagnostic Survey for GovCon Companies

    Managed services provider NeoSystems has launched a free diagnostic survey that is designed to help government contractors evaluate their business systems and operational health. Tysons Corner, Virginia-based NeoSystems said Tuesday the company’s GovCon personnel developed the GovCon Business Systems Diagnostic Survey that will provide diagnostic grades and advice. Federal Publications Seminars and NeoSystems will also host the “Business Systems Health Check” webinar […] More

  • General Atomics Demos Network Centric Communications Pod Capacity at Marine Corps Exercise
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    General Atomics Demos Network Centric Communications Pod Capacity at Marine Corps Exercise

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business unit has demonstrated its network centric communications pod offering’s function to facilitate communications data links between U.S. Marine Corps ground and air forces and unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Tuesday it has integrated the system aboard a Predator B Block 5 and operated using a Block 30 ground control station during an exercise in July […] More

  • Smiths Detection Chosen to Supply Berlin Airport Baggage Screening Equipment
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    Smiths Detection Chosen to Supply Berlin Airport Baggage Screening Equipment

    The procurement agency of Germany’s national interior ministry has tasked Smiths Detection to provide hold baggage screening equipment at Berlin Brandenburg Airport that comply with the federal police agency’s EDS Standard 3 regulation. Smiths Detection said Wednesday the HI-SCAN 10080 XCT systems use x-ray technology, computed tomography and detection algorithms to provide levels of security and meet threat identification and false […] More

  • Sierra Nevada-UN Partnership Targets 2021 Launch of Multicountry Microgravity Mission
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    Sierra Nevada-UN Partnership Targets 2021 Launch of Multicountry Microgravity Mission

    A partnership between Sierra Nevada Corp. and the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs aims to launch microgravity payloads from UN member states aboard the company-built Dream Chaser spacecraft by 2021. The U.N. said Tuesday the collaborative effort aims to give developing nations an opportunity to build and deploy payloads into orbit and that all member nations will have the chance to propose payloads […] More