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  • Capgemini Continues App Dev’t Support to UK Revenue & Customs Agency
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    Capgemini Continues App Dev’t Support to UK Revenue & Customs Agency

    Capgemini will continue to serve as the supplier of application development and management services in support of the U.K.’s revenue and customs agency’s digital modernization effort. The company will transition several agency applications and services through June 2017 under the Aspire contract, Capgemini said Wednesday. Capgemini will remain as service supplier in areas such as analytics and testing […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Gets $618M Modification on Destroyer Shipbuilding Contract with Navy
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    Huntington Ingalls Gets $618M Modification on Destroyer Shipbuilding Contract with Navy

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $618 million contract modification for work on DDG 123, the fourth Arleigh Burke-class that the company will build under a five-ship contract it won in June 2013. HII said Wednesday its received about $55 million in funds from the Navy prior to the award of the modification that will extend the […] More

  • Lockheed-Serco-Jacobs JV Lands Updated UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Mgmt Support Contract
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    Lockheed-Serco-Jacobs JV Lands Updated UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Mgmt Support Contract

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Serco Group and Jacobs Engineering Group has received an updated contract to manage operations of the U.K. defense ministry’s atomic weapons establishment after a completed a review of the program. AWE Management Ltd. will operate the AWE sites built to develop, maintain and produce warheads in support of the U.K. government’s nuclear […] More

  • Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes
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    Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes

    Tom Bussing, Raytheon’s head of advanced missile systems, has said the company is looking at the additive manufacturing process method for its plan to increase the size of weapon systems, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Bussing told several defense journalists in a briefing the company already invested in a machine that is designed to build “big structures,” Sydney Freedberg […] More

  • Lockheed Commits to Airbus Engine MRO Contract With Frontier Airlines
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    Lockheed Commits to Airbus Engine MRO Contract With Frontier Airlines

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial engine development and distribution unit has received an eight-year exclusive contract from Frontier Airlines for CFM56-5 engine repair and maintenance services on the Airbus-built A319 and A320ceo aircraft. Lockheed Martin Commercial Engine Solutions will perform work in Montreal and receive initial delivery orders from the first quarter of this year through 2023, Lockheed said Wednesday. Prior to the agreement, […] More

  • Northrop, HTC Form Smartphone Security Standard Devt Team; Ian Irving Comments
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    Northrop, HTC Form Smartphone Security Standard Devt Team; Ian Irving Comments

    A Northrop Grumman Australian subsidiary has partnered with HTC Corp. to develop smartphone security offerings and set up a new mobile device data security standard. Northrop Grumman M5 Network Security has started to work on several Android-based platform offers as part of its secure communications mobile program, the company said Wednesday. Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop […] More

  • Vasco, Project Hosts to Offer E-Signature Service on FedRAMP Compliant Cloud Network
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    Vasco, Project Hosts to Offer E-Signature Service on FedRAMP Compliant Cloud Network

    Vasco Data Security International has teamed up with Project Hosts to use the former company’s ‘s electronic signature service in a cloud network that is certified under the U.S. General Services Administration‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for cloud computing services. ESignLive will work to help GSA, U.S. Army and Agriculture Department to sign documents through a secure cloud electronically with the use of a personal […] More

  • LRAD Receives Navy Acoustic Hailing Device Order
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    LRAD Receives Navy Acoustic Hailing Device Order

    LRAD Corp. has received a five-year, $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver an acoustic hailing device system that works to facilitate situational awareness for naval forces. The Navy will use the device to support situational monitoring and anti-terrorism activities aboard Military Sealift Command vessels and other Navy and Coast Guard ships, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Kitron to Build IF Receiver Tech for Northrop’s F-35 Radars
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    Kitron to Build IF Receiver Tech for Northrop’s F-35 Radars

    Northrop Grumman has ordered about $60.4 million in intermediate-frequency receivers from Kitron for the radar systems of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Kitron said Thursday it will also provide technical know-know, create IF radar receiver prototypes and manufacture sub-assembly testing equipment under a manufacturing license agreement  with Northrop. Northrop builds radar technology for integration into F-35s. Norway-based Kitron provides electronic circuit boards manufacturing, prototyping, […] More

  • Visualant, Intellicheck Mobilisa Sign Exclusivity Rights Agreement for ChromaID
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    Visualant, Intellicheck Mobilisa Sign Exclusivity Rights Agreement for ChromaID

    Visualant and Intellicheck Mobilisa have signed an agreement for the latter company to have exclusive rights to the former’s patented ChromaID platform. Visualant said Thursday that the ChromaID approach aims to help Intellicheck update its products with photonic technology for threat detection and document verification purposes. ChromaID works to detect machine-readable chromatic identifiers with the use of Visualant’s developed Spectral Pattern Matching technology. Ron […] More

  • Capstone Lands Navy Mobile Training IDIQ
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    Capstone Lands Navy Mobile Training IDIQ

    Capstone Corp. has been selected to deliver training services and formal courses for the Commander, Navy Installations Command and installation security and emergency management personnel under a new task order. The company will manage the curriculum, provide professional instruction, provide courseware and administer the staff, Capstone said Tuesday. Richard White, Capstone CEO, said the company […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Special Operations Command Lifecycle Contract for Electro-Optical Sensor Systems
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    Raytheon Lands Special Operations Command Lifecycle Contract for Electro-Optical Sensor Systems

    Raytheon has been awarded a $47 million lifecycle support contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command to work on AN/ZSQ-2 forward looking infrared and electro-optical sensor systems. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract requires support for Socom’s technology applications program office through March 31, 2021 with five one-year ordering periods. Socom will obligate $9 million at the time of […] More