Lockheed Martin‘s mission systems and training unit has received a nearly $42 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver TB-37 Multi-Function Towed Array production units, accessories, shipping products and engineering services. The Defense Department said Friday the modification exercises options in a previously awarded contract and includes purchases for the Navy and a foreign military sales […] More

Brad Barker, co-founder of consulting firm 8m Services, has been appointed client executive for the federal civilian business at Array Information Technology. Array said Wednesday Barker will support the Greenbelt, Maryland-based IT contractor’s proposal, business development and delivery functions in the federal civilian marketplace. He aims to build on the company’s efforts to deliver application development and maintenance services to cust agencies’ logistics, […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has selected Ensco to present two independent research and development projects in front of a government intelligence community audience at the INSA Innovators Showcase forum. Ensco said Thursday it showcased the Virtual Phased Array and Low SWaP Software Defined Environments projects to a large group of program managers, engineers and scientists from the U.S. government […] More

Flex Logix has inked an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array technology for use by agencies and companies to design integrated circuits for the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will offer EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node to help users reconfigure register-transfer levels during the digital […] More

Northrop Grumman has shipped a first set of lightweight wide aperture arrays to the U.S. Navy for Block IV of the Virginia class submarine. The new delivery is the 19th shipset Northrop has supplied for the VCS program and the Navy will use the fiber-optic passive hull mounted sensor array to operate its VCS fleet, the company said […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded a potential five-year, $27 million subcontract to an Ultra Electronics subsidiary to engineer and produce MK48 topedo array nose assemblies and spares. Ultra Electronics said Monday its Ocean Systems business will supply integrated array nose assemblies in an effort to increase the inventory of U.S. Navy‘s MK48 torpedoes. The subcontract has an initial base period worth $6.6 million and four […] More

Raytheon has received a $30.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide radar absorbing material-equipped planar array antenna assemblies for the transmission processing sets of the Cooperative Engagement Capability. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract also covers delivery of CEC sensor netting system antennas to Japan under the foreign military sales program. DoD noted the Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate the full […] More

Raytheon has transported an air and missile defense radar array to the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, where the system will undergo an initial light-off later in July. The first AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar array has been installed at the facility and will enter the engineering and manufacturing development phase, Raytheon said […] More

NASA has partnered with Deployable Space Systems and Space Systems Loral to develop solar cell structures designed to power government space vehicles or commercial communications satellites. Roll Out Solar Array will work to convert the sun’s rays into energy that could drive ion thrusters of solar electric propulsion spacecraft for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission and other deep-space exploration programs, the agency said […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to DRS Technologies to update the company’s ultra-small pixel infrared focal plane arrays under DARPA’s Lambda Scale program. The FPAs work to support the functions of cooled infrared sensors to address pilot situational awareness and visibility concerns, DRS said Monday. The company uses thin-film deposition technology and a high-density capacitance […] More

Array Information Technology has secured two contracts to provide budget support services for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will provide database and application management services in support of the secretary of the Air Force for financial management and budget under the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System contract. ABIDES is a tool designed to […] More

Array Information Technology has been selected to develop and maintain software for the U.S. Air Force and Defense Department contracting activities. The company said Tuesday it will provide support to the Contracting Systems Section located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and to the Air Force Materiel Command‘s contracting activities. Brian Knott, defense client […] More