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  • 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

  • ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Sends 8th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Orbit
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    ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Sends 8th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Orbit

    The Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM 8 satellite launched aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Delta IV rocket Wednesday to support global military communications. WGS-8 is equipped with a digital payload technology designed to offer almost twice as much bandwidth capacity as previous WGS satellites, Boeing said Wednesday. ULA said the satellite lifted off Wednesday from Space Launch Complex-37 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at […] More

  • SpaceX Reschedules Iridium NEXT Satellite Constellation Launch to Early January
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    SpaceX Reschedules Iridium NEXT Satellite Constellation Launch to Early January

    SpaceX has moved the launch of the first batch of satellites for Iridium Communications’ NEXT constellation from mid-December to early January as the Elon Musk-owned company works to complete the investigation into the Sept. 1 explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket, Space.com reported Wednesday. Mike Wall writes Musk had previously announced plans to resume flights […] More

  • Chile, Sikorsky Finalize S-70i Black Hawk Helicopter Deal; Adam Schierholz Comments
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    Chile, Sikorsky Finalize S-70i Black Hawk Helicopter Deal; Adam Schierholz Comments

    Chile has finalized a contract to procure six S-70i Black Hawk helicopters from Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary to aid in troop transport, search-and-rescue and disaster relief missions. Sikorsky said Wednesday it aims to complete delivery of the Black Hawks to Chile’s air force in 2018 as part of the service branch’s medium-lift helicopter recapitalization program. The direct commercial sale transaction […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Nabs $67M AF Contract for F-15 Sensor Spares; Paul Lemmo Comments
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    Lockheed Martin Nabs $67M AF Contract for F-15 Sensor Spares; Paul Lemmo Comments

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $67.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the delivery of F-15 sensor suite spare parts for Saudi Arabia’s air force. Lockheed said Wednesday it will supply spares for the Infrared Search and Track, Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night – Extended Range and Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod systems as part […] More

  • Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains
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    Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains

    BAE Systems has secured a $69 million contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture additional propellant grains for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft rockets. The company said Wednesday it will produce MK90 propellants at the BAE-operated Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia through October 2018. Reed McPeak, vice president and general manager of BAE’s ordnance systems business, said the propellants are designed […] More