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  • Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract
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    Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract

    Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $71.4 million contract to perform sustainment work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, consumable spares replenishment, repair, sustaining engineering support, technical data and depot activation services for the aircraft’s weapon system, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under […] More

  • NASA Awards 2nd ISS Crew Mission Task Order to SpaceX; Gwynne Shotwell, Julie Robinson Comment
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    NASA Awards 2nd ISS Crew Mission Task Order to SpaceX; Gwynne Shotwell, Julie Robinson Comment

    SpaceX has received its second task order from NASA to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract worth approximately $2.6 billion. The task order was awarded after the company completed internal design evaluation and interim developmental milestones for its Crew Dragon space vehicle, Falcon 9 rocket and related ground systems, NASA said […] More

  • BAE to Help Air Force Develop First Responder Software System
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    BAE to Help Air Force Develop First Responder Software System

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has won a potential four-year, $8.7 million from the U.S. Air Force to research, build and demonstrate a software system for first responders. The Defense Department said Friday that BAE Systems Inc.‘s information and electronic systems integration unit will help the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a PHOENIX platform for first responders to disconnect […] More

  • Navy Taps 5 Small Businesses for Remedial Action Services to NAVFAC Pacific
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    Navy Taps 5 Small Businesses for Remedial Action Services to NAVFAC Pacific

    The U.S. Navy has selected five small businesses to provide remedial action services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility under a potential five-year, $40 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday Cape Environmental Management, EATC JV, Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Insight-ESI and CKY will compete for task orders to perform remedial and removal actions, soil excavation and closure or replacement of underground or […] More

  • Report: 5 Firms Respond to Canada’s CF-18 Replacement Program RFI
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    Report: 5 Firms Respond to Canada’s CF-18 Replacement Program RFI

    Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Dassault Aviation, Eurofighter and Saab Group have separately responded to Canada’s call for information on potential new fighter aircraft to replace the country’s aging CF-18 fleet, the Toronto Star reported Saturday. Bruce Campion-Smith writes Friday was the deadline for submission to a questionnaire about the costs and technologies of the respondents’ aircraft offerings. “Government officials are now […] More

  • Avwatch Appoints Homeland Security, Disaster Recovery Vet Larry Gagliano as Field Operations Specialist
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    Avwatch Appoints Homeland Security, Disaster Recovery Vet Larry Gagliano as Field Operations Specialist

    Avwatch has appointed Larry Gagliano, formerly Alpha Omega Change Engineering‘s director of domestic operations and airborne networking, as a field operations specialist based in Washington. Gagliano has worked in the homeland security and disaster recovery industry for nearly 25 years and has handled National Reconnaissance Office programs at Rockwell Collins and systems engineering at BAE Systems, Avwatch said […] More

  • Parsons to Present at Two Info Security Conferences; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Parsons to Present at Two Info Security Conferences; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons is scheduled to present at the Black Hat USA 2016 and DEF CON 24 conferences on information security in Las Vegas during the month of August. At the Black Hat conference scheduled July 30 through August 4, the company will demonstrate its smart city technology designed to help identify cyber vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures, Parsons […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Maintain Switzerland’s Airborne Radar Warning Receiver Tech
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    Raytheon to Help Maintain Switzerland’s Airborne Radar Warning Receiver Tech

    Raytheon has entered into a five-year deal with RUAG Switzerland to service an airborne digital radar warning receiver built for the Swiss government. Raytheon said Friday it will maintain Switzerland’s ALR-67(V)3 receivers that work to alert F-18 pilots of potential hostile threats under the commercial performance-based logistics contract. “Our two key metrics for this PBL are availability and reliability,” said Michael Baladjanian, director of Raytheon’s space and […] More

  • EMC Research Findings Show Economic Impact of Data Loss on Organizations; David Goulden Comments
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    EMC Research Findings Show Economic Impact of Data Loss on Organizations; David Goulden Comments

    A new EMC Corp. study reveals data loss incidents have manifested their economic impact on organizations as enterprises fail to respond to data protection challenges. The Global Data Protection Index 2016 report, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a lack of preparation for new and emerging threats among businesses, EMC said Tuesday. A survey among information […] More

  • ICF to Support CDC Communications Campaign for Opioid Abuse Risk Awareness
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    ICF to Support CDC Communications Campaign for Opioid Abuse Risk Awareness

    ICF International has received a two-year, $4.8 million task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in support of the agency’s communications campaign for opioid abuse risk awareness. The company said Thursday it will manage the development and placement of the campaign’s digital and social media advertisements, create social media […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal
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    Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal

    Lockheed Martin has turned over Australia’s final MH-60R “Romeo” Seahawk multimission helicopter to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held Wednesday at a company facility in Owego, New York. The company built a total of 24 Seahawks for the Australian navy under the foreign military sales program to replace the service branch’s fleet of S-70B-2 helicopters, Lockheed said Thursday. “From aircraft […] More

  • Aware Delivers Biometric Services Platform to Support Marine Corps Identity Operations
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    Aware Delivers Biometric Services Platform to Support Marine Corps Identity Operations

    Bedford, Massachusetts-based biometrics software company Aware has supplied its software and services line to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ in support of the service branch’s identity-related operations. Aware said Tuesday the company has provided its Biometric Services Platform to act as a portable biometric identity management platform that can help update, manage and share identity data between devices and databases in […] More