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  • Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments
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    Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and the agency sent final commands to […] More

  • InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets
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    InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets

    InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More

  • SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project
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    SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project

    SRI International and a Polish research-and-development agency have formed a partnership with the goal to foster technological innovation and establish a community of scientists and researchers in Poland. The Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development to design and carry out a series of challenges and an advanced research projects initiative. Leszek Grabarczyk, NCBR deputy director, […] More

  • General Atomics, Cobham Expand Reaper UAV Maintenance Support Partnership in U.K.
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    General Atomics, Cobham Expand Reaper UAV Maintenance Support Partnership in U.K.

    Cobham has agreed to support maintenance of a ground control station for the British air force’s MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system under a contract with General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business. Cobham said Friday it will help maintain the Reaper GCS and the Sentry Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition system at RAF Waddington as well as the rear crew training platform at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose. “Technicians have completed […] More

  • Navy, Applied Technology Associates to Collaborate on Electro-Optical IR Sensing Tech R&D
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    Navy, Applied Technology Associates to Collaborate on Electro-Optical IR Sensing Tech R&D

    Applied Technology Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Navy research and develop electro-optical and infrared sensing technology. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is scheduled to finish by June 29, 2021. The Naval Research Laboratory obligated $2.3 million from the Navy’s fiscal […] More

  • DHS Taps USC Information Sciences Institute to Develop Internet Outage Detection Tool
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    DHS Taps USC Information Sciences Institute to Develop Internet Outage Detection Tool

    The University of Southern California’s information sciences institute has received a potential $800,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security to research and develop new platforms that work to detect and report internet outages. The cybersecurity division under DHS’ science and technology directorate awarded the contract as part of the Internet Measurement and Attack Modeling project […] More

  • TDA Research Receives DHS Funds to Build New Firefighter Respiration System
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    TDA Research Receives DHS Funds to Build New Firefighter Respiration System

    TDA Research has received $980,531 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to develop a respiration system for firefighters to protect themselves against chemical vapors and hazards on overhaul missions. DHS said Friday that the company will create a lightweight filtration system that will support work to support firefighters during overhaul efforts with respiratory protection […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Fields Communication Tools at Panama Canal Expansion Events; Mike Devente Comments
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    Motorola Solutions Fields Communication Tools at Panama Canal Expansion Events; Mike Devente Comments

    Motorola Solutions deployed its communication systems in an effort to facilitate communication among public agency officials during the inaugural events held at the Panama Canal’s Pacific and Atlantic locks to mark the waterway’s expansion. At least 11,500 public officers from 20 agencies used Motorola’s ASTRO 25 and TETRA radio platforms to transmit voice and data communications, the company said […] More

  • Centerra to Support US Navy Base Operations in Singapore
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    Centerra to Support US Navy Base Operations in Singapore

    Centerra Group has been awarded an eight-year, $72 million contract to support the base operations of the U.S. Navy in Singapore. The company said Thursday it will help the service branch to operate airfield, maintain aircraft, manage supply chain and logistics activities and maintain military family housing and facilities located at Sembawang Harbor and Paya Lebar Air Base. The […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary Demos Record-Breaking Pulsed Power Capacitor; Nick Bucci Comments
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    General Atomics Subsidiary Demos Record-Breaking Pulsed Power Capacitor; Nick Bucci Comments

    A General Atomics subsidiary has developed and demonstrated new pulsed power capacitors that broke a previous energy content world record by more than 20 percent. The company said Thursday two of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ power capacitor model demonstrated a capacity to fire 500 shots at 0.115 kilowatts per hour in repetitive fire mode and continues to test the model’s […] More

  • BAE, University of Glasgow Conceptualize System to Build UAVs Through Chemistry
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    BAE, University of Glasgow Conceptualize System to Build UAVs Through Chemistry

    BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow have conceptualized a machine that would work to produce small unmanned air vehicles through chemical processes. The company said Sunday the Chemputer machine could be developed to support military operations and build parts of large manned aircraft. “We have been developing routes to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry and at some point in […] More

  • DHA Taps ProSource360 for Military Pharmaceutical Services Contract
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    DHA Taps ProSource360 for Military Pharmaceutical Services Contract

    ProSource360 Consulting Services has secured a prime contract of an undisclosed value to help the Defense Health Agency and the Air Force Medical Support Agency develop clinical and administrative management strategies and policies. The company said Friday it will provide analytical, conceptual, technical and project management services for the Air Force Pharmacy as well as monitor forecast requirements related […] More