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  • Air Force Research Lab, Intelligent Automation Develop Aircraft Damage Characterization Tool
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    Air Force Research Lab, Intelligent Automation Develop Aircraft Damage Characterization Tool

    The Air Force Research Laboratory and Intelligent Automation Inc. have developed and tested a sensor that works to automate the inspection of aircraft inlet and exhaust damage under a $4 million contract. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Wednesday the Auto-Scan: Inlet and Exhaust Damage Registration Sensor is designed to characterize, localize and register aircraft damage then transfer the information to […] More

  • ManTech to Support Navy Ship Maintenance, Logistics Info Systems
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    ManTech to Support Navy Ship Maintenance, Logistics Info Systems

    ManTech International has been awarded a potential $47 million bridge contract modification to provide sustainment and operation support services for the U.S. Navy‘s Ship Maintenance and Logistics Information Systems program. The company said Friday the modification was awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command and contains an option that could extend contract work through July 2017. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s mission solutions […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021
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    Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021

    A Frost & Sullivan analysis forecasts the market for cybersecurity platforms fielded by U.S. hospitals to experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent from 2016 through 2021. Healthcare organizations that seek to address the rising cases of data breaches and other cyber attacks amid the widespread adoption of electronic health records will drive the demand […] More

  • Lockheed Martin to Feature F-35 at Abbotsford Airshow in Canada
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    Lockheed Martin to Feature F-35 at Abbotsford Airshow in Canada

    Lockheed Martin will fly its F-35 Lightning II aircraft in Canada as a participant at the 2016 Abbotsford International Airshow from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14. The aircraft’s participation at the airshow will be its debut in Canada, Lockheed’s F-35 program office said Sunday. “We are always thrilled to connect people with airplanes, and certainly we are ecstatic to […] More

  • Fidelity Technologies Gets Accreditation for Joint Fire Training Product Line
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    Fidelity Technologies Gets Accreditation for Joint Fire Training Product Line

    Fidelity Technologies has received a memorandum of agreement certification for its virtual simulation product line designed for use in joint terminal attack controller training. The company said Friday the joint fire support executive steering committee granted the MOA accreditation after the Fidelity Fires product line met the 2015 JTAC Joint Mission Essential Task List training […] More

  • Boeing Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy P-8A Aircraft Design Review
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    Boeing Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy P-8A Aircraft Design Review

    Boeing has secured a $60.8 million delivery order modification to perform preliminary and critical design reviews intended to help mature the Increment 3 Block 2 update of the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing will review P-8A wideband satellite communications, computing and security architecture, automated digital network system, common data link, anti-surface […] More

  • HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army
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    HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army

    HDT Expeditionary Systems has received a $9.3 million contract to manufacture heaters for the U.S. Army‘s combat vehicles. The contract contains a 21-month base period and one 10-month option period, the Defense Department said Friday. HDT Expeditionary will carry out work in Ohio through May 15, 2018. The Defense Logistics Agency used its fiscal 2016 through […] More

  • NASA Seeks Academic Concepts for Spacecraft Assembly Methods in Space
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    NASA Seeks Academic Concepts for Spacecraft Assembly Methods in Space

    NASA wants ideas from teams of undergraduate and graduate students in fields related to human space exploration as part of the agency’s 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing Idea challenge. The agency said the competition seeks concepts on how to assemble spacecraft as they are in space and in particular tugs that use solar electric propulsion to transfer payloads from low-earth orbit to […] More

  • Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS
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    Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS

    Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

  • DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments
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    DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biopharmaceutical production system meant to create treatments in the battlefield, Biopharma Reporter reported Tuesday. Melissa Fassbender writes the system comprises a biologics expression system that produces therapeutic proteins and a microfluidic platform. Tyler McQuade, program manager for DARPA’s battlefield medicine program, […] More

  • DCS Receives Air Force Delivery Order for KC-46A Tanker Software Devt & Integration Support
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    DCS Receives Air Force Delivery Order for KC-46A Tanker Software Devt & Integration Support

    DCS Corp. has secured a $7.9 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force to provide software development and integration services to help create a joint mission planning system for the service branch’s KC-46A tanker aircraft. The company said Thursday the delivery order was awarded through the Air Force’s Mission Planning Enterprise Contract II that covers aircraft mission planning systems for […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy’s Super Hornet Fleet
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    Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy’s Super Hornet Fleet

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $23.7 million contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce spares for company-built sensor technology installed on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F aircraft fleet. The IRST21 sensor works to detect and monitor airborne threats with the use of infrared search and track technology and displays high-resolution imagery of multiple targets visible to pilots, Lockheed said Thursday. Paul […] More