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  • CTC Named in Military Times 2016 ‘Best for Vets’ List; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC Named in Military Times 2016 ‘Best for Vets’ List; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has been included in Military Times’ “Best for Vets” employer list for 2016 in recognition of the company’s efforts to connect with current and potential veteran employees. CTC ranked 22nd out of 75 companies in the 2016 list, up by three spots from 2015, CTC said Monday. The ranking was based on an assessment […] More

  • Carahsoft Receives Splunk Global Partner Awards
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    Carahsoft Receives Splunk Global Partner Awards

    Carahsoft has received two awards in the 2016 installment of Splunk‘s Global Partner Awards. The company was chosen for the Global Award for Marketing Excellence and the Regional Award for Public Sector Distribution Partner of the Year for its performance under Splunk’s Partner+ program, Carahsoft said March 15. “Carahsoft has grown from a federal government-focused reseller into a distributor supporting […] More

  • MBDA, Boeing Eyes Brimstone Missile/Apache Helicopter Integration Under UK Defense Contract
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    MBDA, Boeing Eyes Brimstone Missile/Apache Helicopter Integration Under UK Defense Contract

    MBDA and Boeing have partnered to study the potential integration of MBDA’s Brimstone air-to-surface missile with Boeing’s AH-64E Apache helicopter under a U.K. defense ministry contract, Flightglobal reported Friday. Beth Stevenson writes MBDA U.K. Managing Director David Armstrong said the one-year contract requires a live test fire by the third quarter of 2016. The U.K. army air corps seeks […] More

  • NASA to Launch Orbital ATK Spacecraft for 5th Resupply Mission to ISS
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    NASA to Launch Orbital ATK Spacecraft for 5th Resupply Mission to ISS

    Orbital ATK and NASA are set to launch a company-built Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday to transport approximately 7,900 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The cargo spaceship, nicknamed S.S. Rick Husband, is scheduled to take off Tuesday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA said […] More

  • US Army Begins Market Research for Intell Command Site Services
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    US Army Begins Market Research for Intell Command Site Services

    The U.S. Army has kicked off its search for industry input on the design of secure and no-secure facilities for the Army Intelligence Command and other Defense Department agencies. The Army said in a notice posted Saturday it plans to award a five-year multi-discipline indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract based on the market research. Work under the planned contract […] More

  • Minuteman Security Solutions Lands Army Detection System Contract
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    Minuteman Security Solutions Lands Army Detection System Contract

    Andover, Massachusetts-based security system supplier Minuteman Security Solutions has landed a potential six-year, $24 million contract with options from the U.S. Army to deliver the Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System. The Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an Internet solicitation process, the Defense Department said Friday. TICIDS is a standardized intrusion detection system designed to […] More

  • Lockheed’s Rob Weiss: US Military Should Develop Fighter Aircraft Modernization Roadmap
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    Lockheed’s Rob Weiss: US Military Should Develop Fighter Aircraft Modernization Roadmap

    Rob Weiss, executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business, believes that the Defense Department should explore strategies to accelerate the pace of upgrades to the U.S. military’s F-22 and F-35 fleets, Flightglobal reported Friday. James Drew writes Weiss made the remarks as the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy eye a next-generation air dominance program. “As we look at F-22s and […] More

  • HHS to Hold Contract Writing System Industry Day
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    HHS to Hold Contract Writing System Industry Day

    The Department of Health and Human Services plans to hold an industry day event on April 6 to examine and discuss commercial contract writing systems with companies. HHS and industry will jointly explore contract writing products focused on purchase requests, solicitations, awards, modifications, invoices and receipts during the event to be held at the National […] More

  • Research and Markets: 51% CAGR for Exoskeleton Robots Market By 2020
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    Research and Markets: 51% CAGR for Exoskeleton Robots Market By 2020

    Research and Markets has predicted a 50-percent compound annual growth rate for the global exoskeleton robots market over a four-year period ending 2020. The market research firm said Friday the market has seen increased commercial sale of exoskeleton robots built for the military and industry beyond the use of the technology for physical rehabilitation. A new Research and Markets report indicated that the […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Collaboration Key in DoD’s Adoption of Commercial Satcom-as-a-Service Model
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Collaboration Key in DoD’s Adoption of Commercial Satcom-as-a-Service Model

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at  Inmarsat‘s U.S. government segment, has said she believes partnerships could help usher in a new model for the Defense Department to procure satellite communications technology from industry. She wrote in a blog article published Friday that some government and industry executives provided their insights on […] More

  • 3D-Printed Lockheed Martin Trident Missile Components Complete Test Flights
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    3D-Printed Lockheed Martin Trident Missile Components Complete Test Flights

    Lockheed Martin-built ballistic missiles with 3D-printed components have completed U.S. Navy-led test flights in support of efforts to accelerate the missile manufacturing process. Lockheed Martin engineers built the connector backshell component with an aluminum alloy that works to protect cable connectors in the Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles, Lockheed said Friday. Eric Scherff, vice president of fleet […] More

  • Spyrus to Launch New Hardware Product Line for ‘Internet of Things’ Use; Tom Dickens Comments
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    Spyrus to Launch New Hardware Product Line for ‘Internet of Things’ Use; Tom Dickens Comments

    Spyrus will launch a new product line the company designed to incorporate what it calls “military strength cryptography” to the Internet of Things and related applications. The company said Monday it will roll out a family of hardware, software, and supporting development kits that include the Rosetta microSDHC, a self-encrypting storage device with public key infrastructure functionality, and the Rosetta Micro, […] More