Jane Edwards

Lockheed Martin has handed a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Thursday the service branch received on Aug. 18 its 50th Lockheed-built KC-130J aircraft, will be assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California. The KC-130J tanker is designed to perform aerial refueling operations for helicopters, tactical and tiltrotor aircraft […] More

Motorola Solutions has received a potential five-year, $9.1 million contract to install and maintain land mobile radio systems at two NASA-run facilities. NASA said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract has a base term of one year and four option years worth approximately $1.8 million and contains indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity components valued at approximately $7.3 million. The company will field and […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima two contracts worth $667,000 combined to expand the functionality of an information fusion platform designed to integrate data from various sources. Aptima and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to equip the TID-BIT system with additional functions that will work to help intelligence analysts determine the source […] More

The Defense Department has given Battelle and an Astrotech subsidiary the go-ahead to develop the final prototype of a chemical detection tool as part of the third phase of DoD’s Next Generation Chemical Detector Multi-Sample Identifier Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction Program. DoD awarded a phase 3 contract to the team of Astrotech’s 1st Detect and Battelle after […] More