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  • Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships
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    Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential one-year, $36.7 million contract modification to provide engineering support and upgrade the Aegis Ballistis Missile Defense system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG-51-class guided missile destroyers and CG57-class cruisers. The company will perform work in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia through September 2016 under the service branch’s Aegis Modernization Advanced Capability […] More

  • Raytheon UK to Open New HQ, Defense Tech CoE; Richard Daniel Comments
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    Raytheon UK to Open New HQ, Defense Tech CoE; Richard Daniel Comments

    Raytheon‘s U.K. business has announced it will invest about $38 million to build a new headquarters and a technology center of excellence in Essex, England, as part of efforts to grow the company’s British market presence. Raytheon said Friday its British arm will move into a 55,000-square-foot office space at Harlow Kao Park Enterprise Zone, which is scheduled for occupancy […] More

  • Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments
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    Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army have completed a flight test on an integrated air and missile defense system built to help soldiers identify and destroy targets. A Patriot Advanced Capability 3 interceptor engaged a cruise missile target through the command-and-control input provided by the IAMD battle command system during the demonstration, Northrop said Monday. “The IBCS gives […] More

  • D-Wave Systems to Add Capacity in Lockheed Quantum Computers
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    D-Wave Systems to Add Capacity in Lockheed Quantum Computers

    Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems will work to double the capacity of computers it has provided to Lockheed Martin since 2010 under a new agreement between both companies. D-Wave said Monday it will aim to update Lockheed’s 512-qubit D-Wave Two computer to the new D-Wave 2X system built with more than 1,000 qubits of storage. Lockheed purchased the […] More

  • NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income
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    NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new report on federal laboratories’ technology transfer efforts in fiscal year 2013 as part of the Obama administration’s Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal. NIST said Tuesday 5,492 active income bearing licenses resulted in approximately $185 million income in fiscal 2013. Other findings of the Federal Laboratory Technology […] More

  • Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System
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    Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System

    Radisys, Octasic and Quortus have introduced a multiradio system designed for use in military and public safety operations. Radisys said Monday the ruggedized radio system is designed as a combination of its small cell software systems with Octasic’s platforms and Quortus’ virtualized evolved packet core service into a complete, network-in-a-box tool. The system is built for military and public safety professionals […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’
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    Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Coast Guard christened the agency’s sixth National Security Cutter ship during a christening ceremony Saturday at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division unveiled the Legend-class NSC ship’s name as Munro at the ceremony attended by nearly 600 guests, HII said Saturday. Munro, a 418-foot-long vessel, is named after Signalman First Class Douglas Munro, […] More

  • Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments
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    Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments

    Raytheon will move to design work on a new airborne electronic attack system after the company and U.S. Navy completed the jammer program’s design review phase. The Navy intends for the jammer system to replace the ALQ-99 jamming pods on board the EA-18G Growler from 2021 onward, Raytheon said Friday. Daniel Theisen, director of airborne electronic attack programs […] More

  • ManTech Receives Navy IT Maintenance, Logistics Contract Modification
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    ManTech Receives Navy IT Maintenance, Logistics Contract Modification

    ManTech International has received a $10,720,438 contract modification to maintain information systems installed in U.S. Navy ships. The company will provide engineering support in IT planning, operations, documentation, program management, and application update and deployment areas, the Defense Department said Friday. ManTech will perform work in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maine, Washington, California, Florida, Maryland […] More

  • Microsoft Plans to Further Expand Mecklenburg County Data Center
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    Microsoft Plans to Further Expand Mecklenburg County Data Center

    Microsoft will invest about $402.4 million for a planned expansion of its Mecklenburg County, Virginia, data center and the technology company expects to create as many as 42 new jobs through the project, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Friday. The Virginia government has offered to provide $7,000 in Opportunity Fund grants and another $1.34 million from the […] More

  • Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries
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    Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries

    Northrop Grumman is talking with countries in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and Asia on potential purchases of the country’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft despite the United Arab Emirates’ decision to not buy that plane, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes the UAE agreed earlier in the week to purchase $1.27 billion in Saab-built early warning planes. Northrop officials told Reuters Japan […] More

  • Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command
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    Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command

    The U.S. Transportation Command wants information on potential contractors that can provide command, control, cyber, communications and collaboration support for the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 9 that it is in search of vendors that can provide cyber defense, life-cycle sustainment, software management, automatic data processing equipment degaussing and disposal […] More