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  • CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed
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    CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed

    Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, says his company has identified several attempted intrusions by China-affiliated threat actors on U.S. companies over the past month. Alperovitch wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that the company used its cloud-based CrowdStrike Falcon technology to detect and combat the attacks, which focused mainly on the technology […] More

  • Lockheed Orders F-35 Aluminum Flat Rolled Material from AMI Metals; Scott Smith Comments
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    Lockheed Orders F-35 Aluminum Flat Rolled Material from AMI Metals; Scott Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a a five-year, $300 million contract to a Reliance Steel & Aluminum subsidiary to produce aluminum flat rolled materials for the F-35 fighter jet. Brentwood, Tennessee-based AMI Metals will supply aluminum plates to Lockheed partner and subcontractor facilities for F-35, Reliance Steel said Monday. AMI Metals will build the materials between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2021. “AMI […] More

  • Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation
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    Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation

    Orbital ATK has opened its new Ramjet Test Facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia to provide a clear-air testing environment that simulates supersonic flight conditions. The company said Monday it has also completed the final validation and tests for the facility, which replicates up to Mach 4.5 in air mass flow and up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit […] More

  • John Bryant: Oshkosh Prepares for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Production
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    John Bryant: Oshkosh Prepares for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Production

    Oshkosh Defense is preparing data and models for the production of U.S. Army and Marine Corps Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes John Bryant, senior vice president of defense programs at Oshkosh, said the company started work on the deliverables while the Government Accountability Office reviews a JLTV contract […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference

    Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have conducted flight tests on the High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile inventory’s HARM Control Section Modification product on an F-16 aircraft. The company said Monday the HARM upgrade works to operate against electronic warfare systems such as enemy radars. Mike Jarrett, vice president of Raytheon’s air warfare systems unit, said the missile features updates that aim […] More

  • CACI Receives $50M Army Intell, Info Warfare Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Receives $50M Army Intell, Info Warfare Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a two-year, $50 million task order to assist the U.S. Army in the service branch’s work to develop tools and applications for human and signals intelligence operations. The company said Monday it will perform end-to-end lifecycle management, training and maintenance under the Alliant contract vehicle for the Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate. Ken Asbury, […] More

  • Amazon Web Services-Accenture Group to Offer Cloud Migration Services; Adam Selipsky Comments
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    Amazon Web Services-Accenture Group to Offer Cloud Migration Services; Adam Selipsky Comments

    Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform. The Accenture AWS Business Group will also provide services for enterprise clients, such as application migration and development, refactoring, architecture and […] More

  • Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract
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    Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract

    Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $49 million contract to build prototype sensors for the U.S. Navy to use during force-protection, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Northrop Grumman, Consolidated Resource Imaging and Manufacturing Techniques will compete for task orders to develop and deliver sensor systems for different clients. The contract has a […] More

  • Kevin Ramundo: Raytheon Implements Measures to Address GPS OCX Program Challenges
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    Kevin Ramundo: Raytheon Implements Measures to Address GPS OCX Program Challenges

    Kevin Ramundo, a Raytheon spokesperson, has said the company took “corrective actions” following an independent review of its development work on operational control systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS satellites, Bloomberg reported Friday. Raytheon was awarded a potential $886 million contract in 2010 to build the GPS ground segment, according to the report by […] More

  • SpaceX to Launch Two Satellites in December
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    SpaceX to Launch Two Satellites in December

    SpaceX will return to flight in December with two scheduled satellite launches onboard the Falcon 9 vehicle, Space News reported Friday. Peter de Selding writes SpaceX plans to send 11 Orbcomm messaging satellites to low Earth orbit in mid-December and later the SES-9 telecommunications satellite into a higher orbit. Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX will test reignition for […] More

  • TOTE Accepts Natural Gas-Fueled Containership From General Dynamics NASSCO; Kevin Graney Comments
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    TOTE Accepts Natural Gas-Fueled Containership From General Dynamics NASSCO; Kevin Graney Comments

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has handed to TOTE Maritime the world’s first Marlin-class cargo ship that runs on liquefied natural gas two months ahead of schedule . General Dynamics said Friday General Dynamics NASSCO collaborated with TOTE, the U.S. Coast Guard and the American Bureau of Shipping to design, build and commission the Isla Bella containership under a […] More

  • GSA Updates Alliant II Contract Vehicle Draft RFP
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    GSA Updates Alliant II Contract Vehicle Draft RFP

    The U.S. General Services Administration has unveiled a second draft request for proposals for the unrestricted portion of its Alliant II information technology services contract vehicle. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it is also seeking public input on what objective performance metrics the agency can include in the governmentwide IT acquisition program’s […] More