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PickNik Robotics has secured funding in an investment round led by Cypress Growth Capital and Stellar Ventures and will use the capital to further develop its robotics platform designed to enable engineers and developers to create and field robot arm applications.
DRT Strategies has helped the Food and Drug Administration move its 27 mission-critical applications from an on-premises data center to the Amazon Web Services cloud environment to enable FDA to facilitate food substance review process, accelerate the identification of foodborne pathogens and quickly field new applications.
Relativity Space will use its reusable rocket, Terran R, to bring Intelsat satellites to orbit as early as 2026 under a multiyear launch services agreement with the satellite network operator. The multilaunch deal brings Relativity Space’s total backlog across nine customers to more than $1.8 billion.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will bring together government, industry, academia and international stakeholders through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium to facilitate technical discussions and develop interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure and related technologies. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will oversee LOGIC to help establish an independent, permanent forum that will serve as a venue for various stakeholders to collaborate in support of the lunar community.
Amyx has secured a task order from the Defense Logistics Agency under the J6 Enterprise Technology Services contract to provide support for DLA’s key applications. The task order marks the company’s 52nd award under DLA’s JETS contract and brings its total contract awards booked during the fourth quarter to seven.
A team composed of L3Harris Technologies, Leidos and MAG Aerospace will compete for a U.S. Army program to develop a fleet of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to gather operational intelligence against the country’s adversaries. L3Harris will lead the industry team for the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program, which seeks to equip Bombardier Global 6500 business jets with deep-sensing platforms.
Todd Probert, president of national security and innovative solutions at CACI International, said at the Association of the U.S. Army convention in Washington that the technology company is focusing on “signals of interest” to meet the Army's demand for technology that would enable it to operate in a “more sophisticated peer environment”.
BAE Systems and the U.S. Army fired the XM1155-SC guided projectile from an M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, demonstrating the capability of the round to extend the range of the artillery system. The test fire was conducted at Yuma Providing Ground in Arizona.
Concurrent Technologies Corp. is increasing its investments in three strategic focus areas – digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning and cybersecurity – to develop technological capabilities meant to support the missions of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and federal agency customers.
The Defense Logistics Agency's energy division plans to award a task order under the Department of Energy's fourth-generation Energy Savings Performance Contract to develop and operate a project at Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Annex in Alabama to help the installation achieve net-zero emissions and reduce greenhouse gases through the implementation of energy conservation measures. Responses to the NOO are due no later than Nov. 7.
Rocket Lab USA has unveiled a 144,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California, to support the production of its two rocket engines. The new engine development center will house the development and production of the company’s 3D-printed engine Rutherford for its Electron launch vehicle and the Archimedes engine for its reusable medium-lift rocket, dubbed Neutron.
LMI will further develop its Rapid Analysis and Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency platform in support of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center and the Space Security and Defense Program under two task orders awarded by the U.S. Air Force through the Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract.
LMI is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Homeland Security Summit. Join this important event on Nov. 15 to hear government and industry leaders discuss the latest digital transformation efforts to protect and secure the homeland amid evolving global threats. Register here.
