Northrop Grumman has received a potential $11.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s microsystems technology office to develop a miniaturized inertial measurement unit for navigational use. The company said Monday it aims to build a microelectromechanical system-based sensor IMU technology for the detection of angular motion and acceleration under DARPA’s Precise Robust Inertial Guidance for Munitions Navigation-Grade Inertial Measurement Unit project. Alex Fax, program director […] More

PARC has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to build a nanotechnology-enabled printer that uses micrometer-size particles to produce macroscopic objects. The company said Wednesday the contract was awarded as part of DARPA’s Atoms to Product program, which began research efforts in December 2015. PARC said it will employ the help of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland in […] More

BAE Systems has awarded a PAR Technology subsidiary a 31-month, $12.9 million contract to aid in the operation and maintenance of various U.S. Navy communications facilities. PAR said Thursday Rome Research Corp. will support the command, control, telecommunications, computers and intelligence operations across the Pacific theater and Indian Ocean for the Defense Department, National Security Agency, Missile Defense […] More

The U.S. Navy has extended its contract with a PAR Technology subsidiary to operate and maintain the service’s satellite for another year. Rome Research Corp. will deliver telemetry, tracking and satellite control services for FLTSAT, UFO, POLAR EHF and MUOS satellite constellations, PAR said Wednesday. The company will perform work at the Mugu, California-based Naval […] More

Curtiss-Wright has been awarded a potential $75 million contract to provide engineering services and hatch control actuators for installation on the U.S. Army’s Multi-Mission Launcher under the Indirect Fire Protection Capability initiative. The service branch’s MML program is an open system architecture-based aerial defense launcher designed to deploy various interceptors against cruise missile and unmanned […] More

NASA has selected a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary to integrate a hyperspectral imaging technology with the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform. Teledyne Brown Engineering will also provide captured imagery to NASA through the multi-year, $15 million contract, the company said Monday. The German Aerospace Center developed the MUSES spectrometer to collect approximately 27 million square miles of […] More

908 Devices will develop handheld chemical detection tools for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under a potential $11.5 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will work to create a compact chemical analyzer by combining its High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry platform with gas chromatography. The firm will also collaborate with other companies, laboratories and the University of North […] More

Dr. John Evans serves as corporate vice president of technology and innovation at Lockheed Martin and oversees the company’s technical strategies in the cybersecurity, social media analytics, autonomous systems and healthcare markets. His work also includes collaborating with academic, the government and industry to help organizations access technologies and attain industrial participation goals. Dr. Evans […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

Boeing has formally offered the company’s KC-46 tanker to South Korea as the country prepares to acquire four aircraft for its first tanker squadron. South Korea’s defense acquisition agency received the offer after it issued a request for proposals for aerial refueling tankers and the agency aims to finish the competition later this year, Boeing said […] More

United Technologies Corp. and its subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft have pledged a donation of $1 million to establish the Igor Sikorsky Distinguished Professorship in Rotorcraft program at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. As part of UMD’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, the program is intended to bolster rotorcraft technology research and development in areas such as aeromechanics and […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More