Airbus‘ defense and space business segment has launched an online basemap that works to provide customers access to homogeneous imagery of the Earth’s landmasses. The One Atlas basemap is designed to facilitate data sharing across teams or partner organizations and help users plan, map and locate personnel, assets or areas of interest, Airbus said Thursday. Bernhard Brenner, head of intelligence […] More

The Information Technology Industry Council has named several executives to lead its public sector, environment and sustainability, and global policy teams in an effort to expand ITI’s advocacy programs within the technology industry. ITI said Wednesday Jonathan Clifford, formerly senior policy adviser to Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-New Jersey), will serve as director of national security at ITI’s […] More

NASA has given the Lockheed Martin-built Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft the go-ahead to launch on Sept. 8 after the space vehicle passed a launch readiness evaluation Tuesday, Space News reported. Jeff Foust writes the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida onboard the United Launch Alliance-developed Atlas […] More

Northrop Grumman will demonstrate a sensor technology designed for mine detection, localization and classification at the Unmanned Warrior exercise to be hosted by the U.K. navy in October. The company said Thursday its AQS-24B mine-hunting system will be towed by an Atlas Electronik UK-built ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel in a simulated environment  during the event to exhibit how the sensor […] More

The U.S. Navy will consider alternate orbit adjustment options, calculate mission impact and investigate options to address a propulsion system failure that occurred on the service branch’s communications satellite launch, Space News reported Tuesday. Mike Gruss writes the fifth Lockheed Martin-developed Mobile User Objective System has not transferred to geosynchronous orbit as a result of a orbit raising propulsion […] More

The U.S. Navy has temporarily halted the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite’s transfer maneuver to its test location on geosynchronous Earth orbit following discovery of an anomaly in the process. The Navy said Friday its Program Executive Office for Space Systems has moved the satellite into an intermediate orbit from orbital transfer […] More

A U.K. subsidiary of General Dynamics has concluded initial air portability tests on the Ajax family of armored fighting vehicles for the British army. General Dynamics land Systems-UK tested how the ARES variant prototype would load into the cargo hold of the British air force’s C-17A Globemaster III and A400M Atlas transport planes during the Ajax program trials, General Dynamics said Tuesday. Kevin Connell, vice president […] More

Visiongain’s new report predicts that the military unmanned maritime vehicles market will be worth $810.9 million by the end of 2016. The company said the growth is due to the increased technological development and crossover between commercial and military needs. “Globally, militaries are turning to UMVs to augment their manned capabilities,” said Sophie Hammond, Visiongain’s […] More

A new report from Research and Markets predicts the global market for unmanned sea platforms to experience a compound annual growth rate of at least 6 percent over the next four years. Military expansion efforts of governments across the world and the increasing adoption of commercial off-the-shelf components are expected to the drive the market from 2016 through 2020, […] More

Johns Hopkins University, Tanner Research and Moog have received research contracts from the U.S. Air Force to study potential engines intended to power United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, Space News reported Tuesday. Mike Gruss writes the move is part of a larger plan to replace the Russian-built RD-180 engine with a U.S.-made rocket engine […] More

Former DynCorp International CEO Paul Lombardi and Stan Soloway, the departing president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, have been inducted into the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards Hall of Fame. Other winning executives and companies at the 13th Annual Greater Washington GovCon Awards were named in a ceremony held Thursday. The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and Professional […] More

The Professional Services Council and Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce have named the finalists for government contracting vendor and executive honors at the 13th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards Nov. 5. PSC said Thursday the awards recognize the leadership, commitment and innovation of businesses and leaders in the Washington metropolitan area’s government contracting community. “Each year we are privileged […] More