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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded 13 patents to TeleCommunication Systems for a range of public safety, messaging and location-based services during the first quarter of 2014. TCS holds 355 patents globally, has more than 300 pending patent applications and applied for 17 patents in the U.S. this year, the company said Wednesday. USPTO granted […] More
ICF International will help the U.S. Trade and Development Agency plan energy sector projects in areas such as power generation and energy efficiency under a potential five-year, $50 million contract. USTDA intends to respond to U.S. and global business interests and needs in the energy sector through the IDIQ, ICF said Thursday. “We are excited to be part […] More
Leidos has been awarded an $87 million subcontract to produce, integrate and test combatant craft systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The award falls under a potential $400 million Combatant Craft Medium Mk-1 program, for which Oregon Iron Works is the prime contractor, Leidos said Wednesday. John Fratamico, Leidos group president, said the company […] More
Fluor Corp. and Empresas ICA‘s joint venture ICA Fluor has announced a pipeline contract worth $743 million with TAG Pipelines Sur S. de R.L. de C.V., Fluor said Wednesday. The pipeline will funnel gas through the Mexican states of San Luis PotosÃ, Querétaro and Guanajuato, Fluor said. The projects is part of the Los Ramones transportation system and is […] More
Harris Corp. will update the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft’s mission and image processing technology under a two-year, $19-million subcontract from Boeing. Harris will focus its work on the Super Hornet’s avionics components and aim to improve the jet’s target sensing, precision and networking power, Harris said Thursday. “Start of full-rate production is […] More
Biological detection technology maker PositiveID will offer a handheld diagnostics system and airborne threat detector to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency as a partner with Leidos under a potential 10-year, $4 billion research-and-development contract. The companies signed a teaming agreement in 2012 to work together on projects involving systems engineering and integration, and biological detection and diagnostics, PositiveID said Wednesday. Leidos […] More
ATK has developed and tested a photovoltaic array for solar electric propulsion systems that NASA intends to use to power future robotic and manned spacecraft. The company’s MegaFlex solar array wing has a diameter of 32 feet and is designed to generate up to 400 kilowatts of electric power, ATK said Wednesday. “The completion of […] More
The Telecommunications Industry Association has submitted comments to the General Services Administration on a proposal to adopt cybersecurity standards for the federal acquisition and contracting process, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes that the group urged the GSA to allow for more flexibility in its proposed contractor security rules so innovation won’t be stifled. TIA […] More
Leidos, and Major League Soccer club D.C. United have announced that they will celebrate Armed Forces Week by setting up and participating in five days of events leading up to Armed Forces Night, Leidos said Thursday. The events will take place May 12-17 and include an armed forces clinic, first team open training, armed forces […] More
Research and development work in the life sciences fields can yield a large amount of data that can be difficult to consolidate and analyze for specific insights, says Ted Slater, a solutions architect at YarcData. Slater said Tuesday that for such a data environment, using traditional knowledge management tools such as relational databases could be inconvenient as they require a […] More
Exelis has been awarded a $91 million contract to perform full-rate production work on the company’s jamming systems for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft. That contract is for batch 11 of ALQ-214(V)4/5 electronic jammers that work to protect F/A-18 fighters and pilots against radio frequency threats, Exelis said Wednesday. The […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has partnered with rapid prototyping firm RedEye to build two fuel tanks for a satellite simulation project with a three-dimensional printing technology tool. The companies used RedEye’s fused deposition modeling system to develop large satellite fuel tank simulators within a compressed time frame, RedEye said Wednesday. “With RedEye’s machine capacity […] More
