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  • Centrus to Help Update American Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Tech
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    Centrus to Help Update American Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Tech

    Centrus Energy has received a one-year, $25 million contract from a Battelle-University of Tennessee partnership to support the advancement of U.S. gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology. Centrus said Thursday it will engineer and test the American Centrifuge technology under the follow-on contract with UT-Battelle in efforts to help address the country’s future national and energy security requirements. UT-Battelle runs the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More

  • Phacil Named to Washington Business Journal 100 Largest Private Firms List; Mehdi Cherqaoui Comments
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    Phacil Named to Washington Business Journal 100 Largest Private Firms List; Mehdi Cherqaoui Comments

    Federal technology platforms provider Phacil has been named to the Washington Business Journal’s list of 100 largest private firms in the Greater Washington area for five consecutive years. The company secured the 74th spot on WBJ’s list that is based on private companies’ 2015 revenue, Phacil said Thursday. Mehdi Cherqaoui, senior vice president and chief financial officer […] More

  • INADEV Names Jana Richards Taylor Business Development VP
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    INADEV Names Jana Richards Taylor Business Development VP

    Federal technology services contractor INADEV Corp. has appointed Jana Richards Taylor, former business development vice president at Tribalco, to the same role with responsibility over work to create and establish strategic public sector market BD initiatives. McLean, Virginia-based INADEV said Friday it sought Taylor for her knowledge of small business’ role in the economy and how socio-economic factors affect both acquisition strategies and […] More

  • Sean DuGuay Named Federal BD Director at Excella Consulting; Dave Neumann Comments
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    Sean DuGuay Named Federal BD Director at Excella Consulting; Dave Neumann Comments

    Sean DuGuay, former chief revenue officer at Visionary Integration Professionals, has joined software development services provider Excella Consulting as business development director for the company’s federal business division. Arlington, Virginia-based Excella said Thursday DuGuay holds 20 years of experience in information technology product sales and will oversee the company’s pursuit of strategic opportunities in the defense, civilian and healthcare […] More

  • BAE to Ship First Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle; John Swift Comments
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    BAE to Ship First Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle; John Swift Comments

    BAE Systems U.S. subsidiary plans to transport to Marine Corps Base Quantico the first Amphibious Combat Vehicle produced under a $104 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps, USNI News reported Wednesday. Megan Eckstein writes the vehicle is the first unit BAE Systems Inc. manufactured in a production environment and the ACV incorporates a new engine. In November 2015, the […] More

  • Space News: US, Canada to Collaborate on Space-Based Space Surveillance Mission Proposal
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    Space News: US, Canada to Collaborate on Space-Based Space Surveillance Mission Proposal

    The U.S. Air Force will collaborate with its counterpart in Canada on a proposal for the upcoming Space Based Space Surveillance follow-on mission that will work to monitor the geosynchronous-orbit belt, Space News reported Wednesday. The proposal will be designed to help the program stay within the Defense Department‘s $400 million price threshold by allowing Canada to contribute additional satellites or sensors, […] More

  • Sikorsky to Open New S-92 Helicopter Forward Stocking Location in Scotland
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    Sikorsky to Open New S-92 Helicopter Forward Stocking Location in Scotland

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will open a new forward stocking location for the S-92 helicopter at the Aberdeen International Airport in Scotland as part of efforts to position inventory closer to commercial helicopter operators. Lockheed said Tuesday Sikorsky will begin operations on the new FSL by the close of the third quarter and also expand an existing S-92 FSL […] More

  • Navy Receives Initial Batch of Northrop Mine-Hunting Sonar Upgrade Kits
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    Navy Receives Initial Batch of Northrop Mine-Hunting Sonar Upgrade Kits

    Northrop Grumman has produced the first of three batches of tools for the U.S. Navy to modernize the service branch’s current mine-hunting countermeasure technology. The tools have been delivered to the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City division  in Florida and are designed to update 27 AQS-24A mine-hunting devices into the AQS-24B configuration, Northrop said Wednesday. The Navy’s HM-12, -14 and -15 Mine Countermeasures […] More

  • Marine Corps Tests General Dynamics-Made Aviation C2 System; Larry Grove Comments
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    Marine Corps Tests General Dynamics-Made Aviation C2 System; Larry Grove Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational test on the General Dynamics-built Common Aviation Command and Control System at a Marine Corps weapons and tactics instructor course in Arizona. General Dynamics said Wednesday the service branch’s Marine Air-Ground Task Force uses the CAC2S platform that visually integrates C2 data collected from aerial and ground-based radar systems […] More

  • Defense News: US, India Near Close of Javelin Missile Joint Production Deal
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    Defense News: US, India Near Close of Javelin Missile Joint Production Deal

    The U.S. and Indian governments are close to completing a joint production deal for the Javelin anti-tank guided missile, Defense News reported Wednesday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes the U.S. and India have been in talks for several years to co-produce weapons and equipment in efforts to build on their defense relationship. Tata Group’s Tata Power Strategic […] More

  • Saab’s US Subsidiary to Develop Shipboard Air Traffic Radar Tech for Navy
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    Saab’s US Subsidiary to Develop Shipboard Air Traffic Radar Tech for Navy

    A Saab Group subsidiary will provide three shipboard air traffic radar systems to the U.S. Navy over a four-year period under an initial engineering and manufacturing development contract. The Navy will deploy AN/SPN-50 (V)1 radars from Saab Defense and Security USA on the military branch’s aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships to replace the current AN/SPN-43C model, the company said Wednesday. The SPN-50 system is […] More