The U.S. Army and Marine Corps could issue a request for proposals for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program in mid-November and award low-rate initial production contracts by summer 2015, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes Lockheed Martin, AM General and Oshkosh lead three industry teams that have built 22 JLTVs each under engineering […] More

Dan Dougherty has led EMC‘s work in the federal market for close to four years in his role as vice president of the data storage and technology provider’s federal division. His more than two-decade career at the company has included service as a VP for the company’s APJ sales strategy and as an area sales […] More

NASA demonstrated a 170-foot welding platform for the Space Launch System at a ceremony held Friday at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The Vertical Assembly Center is designed to weld large cryogenic tanks that would power the rocket’s four-engine core stage, which is being constructed by Boeing, NASA said Friday. “This rocket […] More

Lockheed Martin will perform the final testing phase on its fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite following the completion of the acoustic tests. That MUOS satellite will undergo thermal vacuum testing, as well as environmental and final system trials over the next few months before its scheduled launch in the summer of 2015, Lockheed Martin said […] More

Debbie Thurman serves as vice president of contracts and procurement at URS’ federal services division, headquartered in Germantown, MD. Thurman’s organization is responsible for all phases of contracting and procurement actions and includes approximately 300 professional staff members company-wide. She spoke with our sister site ExecutiveBiz to discuss the evolving budget environment and how she aims to […] More

Bechtel‘s research partners from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have received multiple 2014 R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine for their national security, energy and health technology inventions. The awards recognize the year’s top 100 scientific and engineering technology products or inventions that also have commercial potential, Bechtel said Wednesday. “The work of these […] More

The Thales and MBDA team and Raytheon have been named in the shortlist to provide Poland with a midrange missile defense system as the country responds to the recent tensions in Ukraine, E&T magazine reported Tuesday. Tereza Pultarova writes the contract is estimated to be worth $5.1 billion and requires technology that is already operational and used in another NATO member country. The chosen contractor […] More

URS has been tapped to set up an integrated engineering environment for LNG Canada‘s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia as the project’s main information contractor. “LNG Canada has chosen us as a partner to ensure coordinated, consistent, complete and accurate data for the entire project life cycle,” Mark Costello, general manager of URS’ industrial […] More

Lockheed Martin has finished constructing the propulsion structure of a U.S. Air Force satellite that the company has designed to provide government, intelligence and military agencies with early missile warnings. The fourth Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit spacecraft is set to enter the assembly, integration and testing phases, Lockheed said Tuesday. SBIRS propulsion modules […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop a propulsion system for NASA‘s CubeSat miniature satellites under a contract from the Armstrong Flight Test Center’s flight opportunities. The company said Tuesday the two-phased contract involves hot-fire testing on the MPS-120 CubeSat High-Impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System and flight demonstration if the agency selects Aerojet Rocketdyne’s chemical propulsion system. “We’re honored that NASA has selected us […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has started to power the Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft bus, kicking off a nine-month integration and testing phase as the company prepares to deliver the spacecraft to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the continuous power on-off cycle involves operating the satellite system with the electrical power and distribution and command and data handling subsystems. “Following […] More

Northrop Grumman has started to integrate two downlink phased array antennas into the payload of a fourth advanced extremely high frequency military communications satellite being built by Lockheed Martin. The companies are working together to integrate the AEHF satellite payload under a hybrid integration framework, Northrop said Tuesday. Northrop designed the AEHF antennas to operate […] More