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  • Space Systems Loral to Build Robotic Arm for DARPA Satellite Servicing Program; Al Tadros Comments
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    Space Systems Loral to Build Robotic Arm for DARPA Satellite Servicing Program; Al Tadros Comments

    Space Systems Loral has been awarded a $20.7 million contract to build a robotic arm for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s servicing program for geosynchronous satellites. The company said Thursday it will design two robotic arm systems to capture and dock with satellites and carry multiple tools to carry out requirements of the Robotic Servicing […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO to Help Navy Repair USS Oak Hill Dock-Landing Ship
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    General Dynamics NASSCO to Help Navy Repair USS Oak Hill Dock-Landing Ship

    General Dynamics has received a $42 million contract modification to conduct repairs and alterations on the USS Oak Hill dock landing ship of the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday its NASSCO subsidiary will provide ballast tank preservation, habitability upgrade, close-in weapons system repairs and engine replacement services under the cost-plus-award-fee contract. NASSCO will perform work in Norfolk, Virginia and is […] More

  • ProSol Associates to Provide Curriculum Services for Marine Corps Communication Electronic School
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    ProSol Associates to Provide Curriculum Services for Marine Corps Communication Electronic School

    ProSol Associates has won a potential five-year, $23 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide curriculum services for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Communication Electronics School. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers course instruction for approximately 57 information technology software programs, certification testing conducted by test administrators and curricula development and management. Work will occur at […] More

  • Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System
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    Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System

    The U.S. Army has awarded a $21 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman to build an enterprise resource planning system for the service branch to manage tactical logistics and financial management functions. The Defense Department said Thursday Northrop will develop, sustain, field and maintain the Global Support System-Army. Army Contracting Command will obligate $1.4 million from fiscal 2014 to […] More

  • Black Knight Gets VA Contract Renewal for Loan Reporting Interface App
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    Black Knight Gets VA Contract Renewal for Loan Reporting Interface App

    The Department of Veterans Affairs and Black Knight Financial Services have renewed their contract to extend VA’s use of a web-based reporting application the company designed to help the department evaluate mortgage loans. The VA Loan Electronic Reporting Interface app works to help department personnel communicate with loan servicers and access reports on delinquent borrowers, loan […] More

  • MDA Seeks IT Management, Analysis Support for Worldwide Data Systems
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    MDA Seeks IT Management, Analysis Support for Worldwide Data Systems

    The Missile Defense Agency plans to award a potential five-year contract to provide information technology management and analysis support services to MDA’s information management and technology operations directorate. MDA said in a presolicitation notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps potential contractors will provide such services under a small business set-aside contract in support of global information systems across all agency […] More

  • AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments
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    AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments

    The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve as executive VP of AFCEA […] More

  • Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group
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    Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group

    Sarah Schacht, a principal consultant at Smarter Civic, has been appointed as operations manager at the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. The private sector-led organization said Thursday Schacht will help grow IDESG’s Identity Ecosystem Framework registry and foster collaborations with companies, government agencies and civil organizations in the areas of privacy, security and identity management. “We are excited to […] More

  • Patrick Binning to Lead Johns Hopkins APL’s Natl Security Space Mission Area
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    Patrick Binning to Lead Johns Hopkins APL’s Natl Security Space Mission Area

    Patrick Binning, formerly a program manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been appointed as mission area executive for national security space at APL. Binning will lead the organization’s efforts to build space-based technologies for the national security sector, APL said Thursday. He is an aerospace industry veteran with 25 years of program management, research,  development, technology transfer, satellite operations and […] More

  • Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments
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    Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Submergence Group to build, integrate and test three undersea transport vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The companies will collaborate to produce Dry Combat Submersibles under a potential five-year, $166 million contract awarded by USSOCOM, Lockheed said Thursday. Erika Marshall, general manager and program director at Lockheed’s Palm Beach site, said the DCS vehicles […] More

  • AirMap Integrates Wildfire Alert Service Into DJI Drone Geofencing System
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    AirMap Integrates Wildfire Alert Service Into DJI Drone Geofencing System

    AirMap and DJI have partnered to add real-time wildfire alerts to the latter company’s geofencing system for unmanned aerial vehicles in an effort to help operators avoid flying UAVs near wildfire-fighting locations, HSToday reported Wednesday. Amanda Vicinanzo writes AirMap works to gather wildfire information from the U.S. Interior Department and transmits the data to DJI’s Geospatial Environment Online platform via the GO flight […] More

  • Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country
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    Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country

    Elbit Systems has received multiple contracts worth approximately $30 million combined from a European country to deliver thermal-imaging observation systems over a one-year period. The company said Wednesday it will provide Long View CR, LOROSS and XACT observation systems to support all of the customers’s army command levels. LVCR is a long-range observation system for dismounted soldiers with day and night target acquisition functions, […] More