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Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $28.5 million contract to repair weapons replaceable assemblies for the U.S. Navy‘s Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures initiative. The firm-fixed-price contract has an initial value of $7.6 million and contains a two-year base performance period that will run through December 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. Exelis, a subsidiary of Harris […] More
SRA, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, has won a potential three-year, $35 million contract to manage and maintain the weapon system architecture of the processing, exploitation and dissemination facility of the U.S. Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System. The service branch awarded the time-and-materials, firm-fixed-price contract through competitive procurement with four bids received, the […] More
Bill Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, has joined educational technology firm Blackboard as its chairman, president and chief executive. He replaces Jay Bhatt, who will remain with the company as a special adviser to the chairman, Blackboard said Monday. “I am excited to join Blackboard and continue its progress in helping millions of […] More
Laura Jolley, a 12-year veteran at Sterling Global Operations, has been appointed as vice president of human resources at the Knoxville, Tenn.-based stability operations services provider. Jolley previously served as SGO recruiter, human resources generalist, human resources business partner, HR manager and director of human resources, the company said Monday. “As SGO has continued to […] More
Ray Duquette, president and general manager of CAE‘s U.S. arm, has said the company builds simulation technology to replicate what the company believes will happen to pilots during military or commercial aircraft flights, the Tampa Tribune reported Saturday. “We do both training and mission rehearsal with multiple simulators networked,” Duquette told Tribune reporter Yvette Hammett in an interview. “We […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies will manufacture the second Operational Land Imager instrument for NASA‘s Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite under a potential six-year, $19.3 million sole-source letter contract. The company said Thursday it will build Operational Land Imager-2, which works to generate satellite imagery that will support studies on the impact of natural and man-induced activities on Earth’s surface. […] More
JR Reagan, global chief information security officer at Deloitte, has said some computer security researchers experiment with biomimicry principles in a bid to develop new data protection tools based on defense mechanisms seen in nature. He wrote in a Deloitte Insights piece published Monday the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has studied the potential application of ant colonies’  behavior for continuous monitoring […] More
Cubic has received a three-year, $15 million task order to conduct preparation, execution, assessment and analytical integration work for the U.S. Army’s future study plan and unified quest events. The Army intends for the FSP/UQ events to identify strategic and operational challenges, issues and solutions to existing and future development, Cubic said Monday. Bill Toti, […] More
Sohail Aman, air chief marshal and head of Pakistan’s air force, has said that Pakistan is in discussions with the U.S. government to buy new F-16 planes as replacements for older generation aircraft by 2020, Defense News reported Wednesday. Usman Ansari writes Aman said at an event that “it may take some time†before the […] More
The Defense Department has asked industry to submit proposals for a three-phase contract that aims to research and develop wearable antenna systems for integration with soldiers’ multi-frequency band radios. DoD issued the solicitation for the Multi-Band Body Wearable Antenna initiative as part of the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Innovation Research program, according to a […] More
Microsoft has announced the company will begin to notify users of state-sponsored attacks that target their account details in addition to the software maker’s current reporting measures. Scott Charney, Microsoft corporate vice president for trustworthy computing, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that the company is taking this step to inform customers if an attack is state-sponsored […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a $42.2 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy to exercise options for support to the Phalanx weapon systems designed to counter anti-ship missile threats. Raytheon will perform design agent engineering and technical support services on Phalanx and SeaRAM for the U.S. as well as Turkey, Australia, Japan, Canada, U.K., South Korea, Bahrain, Pakistan and […] More
