The U.S. Navy has awarded Mikros Systems an initial $3 million task and delivery order to support the development, logistics and production of a condition-based maintenance technology for combat system sensors on Littoral Combat Ships. It marks the first order under a potential five-year, $48 million contract Mikros received earlier this month for work on the Navy’s Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support […] More

Mikros Systems will provide logistics and future development support to the U.S. Navy as part of a potential $48 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the company received for the delivery of its condition-based maintenance system. The Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support Sensor Suite will work to support the first eight of the Navy’s 28 littoral combat ships, Mikros said Tuesday. The Navy will announce work […] More

Mikros Systems has received a five-year, $48 million contract to supply Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support Sensor Suite units and spare parts to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also perform engineering work on ADSSS units under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur in various locations across the continental U.S. through September 2021. ADSSS is designed to integrate […] More

NASA has chosen 21 innovation proposals from 41 U.S. small businesses and research institutions that aim to help the space agency develop adaptive space robotic technologies and other exploration systems. The selectees will have an opportunity to enter negotiations with NASA for phase 2 contracts under the Small Business Technology Transfer program, with each contract valued at up to $750,000 over […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a potential two-year, $1 million follow-on contract to update the sensor fusion systems on MDA’s ballistic missile defense platforms. Brian Ruttenberg, a senior scientist at Charles River Analytics, said in a statement released Monday the company will work to assess at the architectural level the “impact of uncertainty” on sensor […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a potential $36.4 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to integrate, test and install the Aegis Ashore platform onboard a deckhouse and support facility. MDA awarded the fixed-price-incentive contract through a competitive procurement process and will obligate the full contract amount from fiscal 2015 defense procurement funds at the time of […] More

Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has won a potential three-year, $9 million contract to design, prototype and test an integrated threat characterization system for the Missile Defense Agency. The cost-reimbursement contract covers data verification, environmental and contextual classification, data exploitation and association, and cognitive fusion framework in support of the development of the Robust Adaptive Threat […] More

The Agriculture Department will purchase AINS-developed employee relations and labor relations applications under a five-year, $92 million blanket purchase agreement USDA uses to acquire non-core human resource tools for the agency’s National Finance Center systems. AINS said Tuesday the company will offer the eCase HR ER/LR applications to all federal government agencies under the agreement and provide NFC customers a platform […] More

A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has received funds from the Thirty Meter Telescope organization to continue support work on a narrow field infrared adaptive optics system for the TMT astronomical observatory construction initiative. Northrop said Tuesday its subsidiary AOA Xinetics will design and build a functional actuator mirror equipped with nearly 400 channels as well as test the mirror against TMT operational requirements. An […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have collaborated to demonstrate a cognitive electronic warfare system that is designed to detect, characterize and counter wireless communication threats. Lockheed said Monday that Raytheon‘s Silencer EW technology hosted machine-learning software for the Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare system onboard a modified Piper Navajo aircraft during a series of flight tests. The Lockheed-Raytheon team flew the aircraft to […] More

Parsons has been awarded a contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the facilities, military construction, and environmental management directorate of the Missile Defense Agency. Parsons said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s European Phased Adaptive Approach site activation efforts in Romania, initial design work on the Long Range Discrimination Radar system and construction award activities in Poland. “Parsons recognizes the critical […] More

JEFF YU DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, ADVANCED CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY NORTHROP GRUMMAN MISSION SYSTEMS Jeff Yu is director of Technology, Advanced Concepts & Technology, assigned to the Cyber and Intelligence Mission Solutions division for Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector, a leading global provider, manufacturer and integrator of advanced, secure and agile software-defined systems and solutions. ExecutiveBiz: […] More