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  • Shield AI Chosen for Pentagon’s Autonomous Tactical Airborne Prototyping Project
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    Shield AI Chosen for Pentagon’s Autonomous Tactical Airborne Prototyping Project

    Shield AI has received a nine-month, $1 million “other transaction” agreement from the U.S. Army to develop an autonomous tactical airborne drone prototype. The Army’s Contracting Command-New Jersey awarded the OTA on behalf of  the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and the Naval Special Warfare Command, according to a notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps. San Diego, California-based Shield AI develops artificially intelligent robots […] More

  • Alphaport Lands NASA Mission Assurance, Safety Support Contract
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    Alphaport Lands NASA Mission Assurance, Safety Support Contract

    Alphaport has received a potential five-year, $47.5 million contract to provide mission assurance and safety support services to NASA. The company will provide such services under the Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services III contract through risk evaluation, investigations, engineering analyses, inspections and assessment of work done by other NASA institutions and contractors, NASA said Wednesday. […] More

  • Air Force Demos Boeing-Built Minuteman III ICBM with Test Re-Entry Vehicle
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    Air Force Demos Boeing-Built Minuteman III ICBM with Test Re-Entry Vehicle

    The U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command tested a Boeing-built Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system Monday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The military branch said Monday 341st Missile Wing airmen launched the unarmed Minuteman III with a test re-entry vehicle that contained a telemetry package during the operational test, the Air Force said Monday. The re-entry vehicle traveled nearly 4,200 […] More

  • Wisconsin Business Group Gets $500K Grant to Clean Up Property for Maritime Facility
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    Wisconsin Business Group Gets $500K Grant to Clean Up Property for Maritime Facility

    The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has awarded a $500,000 grant to a business group to perform environmental remediation work on a property in Marinette, Wisconsin, to facilitate the construction of a 23,000-square-foot maritime facility, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday. Rick Barrett writes the Marinette County Association for Business and Industry will use the grant to clean […] More

  • ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities
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    ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities

    ATAC has been awarded a potential five-year, $8 million contract to develop and update a naval aviation simulation model system at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps installations as well as Defense Department facilities worldwide. DoD said Tuesday the project will support airfield, airspace and range analyses of existing or proposed operations and activities. The company will also compile information on mission changes to […] More

  • DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order
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    DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order

    Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch’s fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work in Indiana through June 30, […] More

  • Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares
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    Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares

    Boeing has received a $9.6 million contract modification to provide Combat Network Communications Technology full-rate production spares as well as modify low-rate initial production spares for the U.S. Air Force‘s B-52 bomber fleet. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will supply replaceable units for FRP-configured bomber aircraft and retrofit field-deployed, LRIP-configured bombers with with FRP line replaceable units. Work will occur in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma through […] More

  • Lockheed Receives Navy Delivery Order to Develop, Maintain Presidential Helicopter Avionics
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    Lockheed Receives Navy Delivery Order to Develop, Maintain Presidential Helicopter Avionics

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a two-year, $8.2 million delivery order to design, build and maintain avionics systems for the Presidential Helicopter Program. The order falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers avionics hardware and software development, testing, fabrication, installation and maintenance services, the Defense Department said Monday. Lockheed’s logistics services unit will perform […] More

  • Air Force Taps Raytheon to Retrofit, Maintain F-16 Center Display Units
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    Air Force Taps Raytheon to Retrofit, Maintain F-16 Center Display Units

    Raytheon has secured an $8.8 million contract to equip the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15 multirole fighter aircraft with center display units. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will retrofit 130 F-16 CDUs as well as provide organic depot maintenance stand-up services under the firm-fixed-price contract. DoD noted the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will obligate the full contract […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy’s Counter-IED Program
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    Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy’s Counter-IED Program

    Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. has received a $7.4 million contract modification to produce universal test sets for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program. AAI will also provide UTS  system engineering and program and configuration management services to the Navy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the modification exercises the second option […] More

  • PKL Services to Provide Singapore Aircraft Operation Support Under Air Force Contract Modification
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    PKL Services to Provide Singapore Aircraft Operation Support Under Air Force Contract Modification

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded PKL Services an $11.9 million contract modification for aircraft maintenance and operation services to Singapore. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform contract work at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho through Sept. 30, 2017. The 366th Contracting Squadron is the contracting activity for the foreign military sales contract. […] More

  • Former Sierra Nevada VP John Olson Joins Polaris Industries to Head Defense Division
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    Former Sierra Nevada VP John Olson Joins Polaris Industries to Head Defense Division

    John Olson, formerly vice president of Sierra Nevada‘s space systems group, has joined Polaris Industries as vice president and general manager of the defense division at the Minnesota-based motorized products manufacturing company. The 28-year public and private sector veteran will oversee the division’s profit-and-loss functions as well as help develop the company’s long-term growth strategy in defense market, Polaris said […] More