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  • PARC Receives DARPA Funds to Develop Autonomous ‘Vanishing’ Air Delivery Tech
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    PARC Receives DARPA Funds to Develop Autonomous ‘Vanishing’ Air Delivery Tech

    Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support a program designed to develop a prototype autonomous air vehicle that delivers small payloads and “vanishes” upon completing the mission. PARC said Monday it will work with AeroVironment to create specialized materials for an autonomous air delivery system under a project within DARPA’s Inbound, Controlled, Air‐Releasable, […] More

  • Textron, Thales Launch ‘Fury’ Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test
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    Textron, Thales Launch ‘Fury’ Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test

    Textron‘s weapon and sensor systems business and Thales have launched a Fury guided glide weapon from a tactical unmanned aircraft system to engage static vehicle targets as part of a test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground. The team released Fury from a Textron-built Shadow TUAS, after which the weapon performed a global positioning system guided fly-out maneuver, transitioned […] More

  • FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger
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    FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger

    General Atomics has received an experimental certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft. The FAA certificate would allow the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems-built Avenger system to operate in the U.S. National Airspace System, the company said Monday. The Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle has an electro-optical/infrared sensor, Lynx radar […] More

  • Boeing, Embraer to Jointly Market KC-390 Aircraft & Support Services
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    Boeing, Embraer to Jointly Market KC-390 Aircraft & Support Services

    Boeing has signed an collaborative agreement with Embraer to jointly market and discover new business opportunities for the Embraer KC-390 transport and aerial refueling aircraft, plus sustainment and support services. Embraer will supply the aircraft while Boeing will take charge of in-service support under the agreement, Boeing said Monday. Jackson Schneider, Embraer’s defense and security president and CEO, […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments
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    Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton’s systems delivery organization has achieved Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The CMMI ML 5 status was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated Booz Allen’s implementation of process-based methods in software development, the company said Monday. Gary Labovich, executive vice president at Booz Allen, said the […] More

  • SWIFT Unveils Security Team, Engages BAE & Fox-IT to Support Financial Community Investigations
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    SWIFT Unveils Security Team, Engages BAE & Fox-IT to Support Financial Community Investigations

    The worldwide cooperative Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has employed the help of BAE Systems and Fox-IT and established a team of information technology and cyber experts to support security investigations within SWIFT’s global user community. SWIFT said Monday its new Customer Security Intelligence team will work alongside BAE and Fox-IT to foster customer information exchanges in support of SWIFT’s Customer […] More

  • Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract
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    Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $52.7 million recompete contract to Northrop Grumman to provide technical services for the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Northrop said Monday it will help the NCCDPHP’s Office of Informatics and Information Resource Management to manage information technology services, applications, tools and procedures related to the Chronic Disease […] More

  • ICF Lands Contract to Help Maintain SSA’s Automated Security Platform
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    ICF Lands Contract to Help Maintain SSA’s Automated Security Platform

    ICF International has received a potential five-year, $9.6 million contract to maintain a suite of web-based security applications for the Social Security Administration‘s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. ICF said Monday it will support OSEP’s security processes and nationwide oversight with the Security Automated Features and Enhancements platform powered by the company’s GroupAssure compliance automation software. The contract covers project management, onsite […] More

  • UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments
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    UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a contract to United Technologies Corp. to integrate a sensor system with the U.S. Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection and processing infrastructure. UTC said Monday its aerospace systems unit will perform a study on the integration of the MS-177 sensor system into the Distributed Common Ground System to help provide image processing tools, command […] More

  • DoD, Lockheed Eye F-35 Program Savings Through 2 Cost Reduction Strategies
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    DoD, Lockheed Eye F-35 Program Savings Through 2 Cost Reduction Strategies

    The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin have unveiled a pair of initiatives that aim to reduce the costs of producing and sustaining the F-35 Lightning II aircraft and weapon system. Lockheed, the primary F–35 contractor, and its principal industry partners BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman will invest an additional $170 million over the next two years in an effort to generate further […] More

  • Army Research Lab, Raytheon to Collaborate on Radar Tech Development
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    Army Research Lab, Raytheon to Collaborate on Radar Tech Development

    Raytheon will collaborate with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop modular building blocks for the service branch’s Next Generation Radar program under a two-year, $1.1 million cooperative research agreement. The partnership aims to explore approaches to design and fabricate modular components for integration into the NGR’s open architecture and address flexibility, agility and efficiency requirements across radar bands, Raytheon said Monday. Colin Whelan, Raytheon […] More

  • US Navy Halts Transfer Maneuver for Fifth MUOS Satellite
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    US Navy Halts Transfer Maneuver for Fifth MUOS Satellite

    The U.S. Navy has temporarily halted the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite’s transfer maneuver to its test location on geosynchronous Earth orbit following discovery of an anomaly in the process. The Navy said Friday its Program Executive Office for Space Systems has moved the satellite into an intermediate orbit from orbital transfer […] More