Dominique Stump

A team of industry partners led by Lockheed Martin laid the keel for the U.S. Navy‘s 17th littoral combat ship during a ceremony held at a Fincantieri Marinette Marine facility in Wisconsin. The future USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) is the fourth ship to bear the name and is one of the seven ships currently in construction at Marinette […] More

An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $34 million contract to continue to build an expendable acoustic countermeasure for the U.S. Navy. The follow-on contract has a one-year base value of $4 million and covers ADC MK2 countermeasure design enhancements, development, production and support services, Ultra Electronics said Monday. Ultra Electronics’ ocean systems business will produce the ADC MK2 device in […] More

Erickson has received a six-month, $29 million extension to a four-year U.S. government sustainment contract to continue both that work and airlift services. The company said Monday it will continue to provide passenger and cargo airlift services for Fluor and airlift assets and operations supports in Afghanistan. Erickson has also received a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted another acceptance test on the RS-68A, a liquid-fueled booster engine that propels United Launch Alliance‘s Delta IV launch vehicle. The company’s Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and Test administered the three-minute hot-fire test on the engine at NASA‘s Stennis Space Center, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Friday. The test works to assess engine performance […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded World Wide Technology a $7.9 million contract to deliver data storage hardware and software and provide maintenance and professional implementation services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. World Wide Technology will work to replace the obsolete data storage items at all relevant USACE sites, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD added that […] More

NASA‘s Glenn Research Center and Sinclair College’s national training and certification center for unmanned aircraft systems will conduct a study on the algae blooms on Lake Erie as part of their new Space Act Agreement. Sinclair said Wednesday it will work with NASA to perform UAS sensor integration tests and flight operations to study the effects of […] More

KBR has received a pair contract extensions of undisclosed terms for base operational support services from the U.S. Defense Department, as well as a five-year integrated support contractor services contract from the Australian defense department. The company said Monday the awards from DoD cover base operations and maintenance services to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic in Djibouti and work to […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary a three-year, $9.4 million contract to help the service branch develop, integrate and demonstrate a machine learning platform. BAE Systems Inc. will explore latest machine learning advancements to support the Air Force’s efforts to apply analytics to address space situational awareness challenges as well as leverage high-performance computing and […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded MRIGlobal a five-year, $6.2 million contract to lead a team of scientists from the U.S., Canada and Sweden to create a vaccine for Tularemia, a disease that can be contracted by both humans and animals. MRIGlobal said Wednesday the contract seeks to push forward the new vaccine candidate […] More