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  • DoD’s Finance Org Taps immixGroup Subsidiary for Business Activity Monitoring Services
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    DoD’s Finance Org Taps immixGroup Subsidiary for Business Activity Monitoring Services

    ImmixTechnology, a subsidiary of immixGroup, has received a potential $39 million contract to provide business activity monitoring support to the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour, firm-fixed-price contract covers the identification of improper payments in legacy payment platforms and reconciliation services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s audit assertion efforts with regard to its funds balance with the Treasury, the […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne for $67M Solar Electric Propulsion System Devt Contract; Julie Van Kleeck Comments
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    NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne for $67M Solar Electric Propulsion System Devt Contract; Julie Van Kleeck Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential $67 million contract to develop an electric propulsion system for integration with NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion space vehicles. The company said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded under the Advanced Electric Propulsion System program and covers development and qualification work on five 12.5-kilowatt Hall thruster subsystems for the Solar Electric […] More

  • Firstec, KJF Deliver Components to Northrop for South Korea’s Global Hawk
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    Firstec, KJF Deliver Components to Northrop for South Korea’s Global Hawk

    Northrop Grumman has received component parts from Korea Jig and Fixture and Firstec for integration with South Korea’s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Thursday it received deliveries of KJF-built aerospace-grade machine parts after Firstec handed the wire harnesses designed to transmit electrical signals for the UAS early this year. Firstec and KJF started producing […] More

  • HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments
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    HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

  • General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps

    Chris Pehrson, a senior executive at General Atomics, has told Bloomberg Government that the vast amounts of intelligence data that remotely piloted aircraft’s sensors collect pose a challenge to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. Pehrson said in an interview published Thursday that General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business seeks to address that challenge through […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Gets Int’l Defense Agency Letter of Intent for WorldView-4 Access; Jeffrey Tarr Comments
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    DigitalGlobe Gets Int’l Defense Agency Letter of Intent for WorldView-4 Access; Jeffrey Tarr Comments

    DigitalGlobe has entered into a tentative agreement to provide an unidentified international defense and intelligence agency with direct access to a commercial Earth observation satellite with the receipt of a letter of intent. The company said Wednesday the agreement will cover access to high-resolution Earth imagery from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite for a period of three […] More

  • SpaceX Eyes 2018 for Unmanned Mission to Mars
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    SpaceX Eyes 2018 for Unmanned Mission to Mars

    SpaceX has announced plans to fly an unmanned space vehicle to Mars by 2018 as part of its Red Dragon Mars mission, Reuters reported Wednesday. Irene Klotz writes NASA will offer technical support to SpaceX on its mission to land Dragon 2 spacecraft in Mars in exchange for entry, descent and landing information that the […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Follow-On Contract for Fire Scout UAS Software Update
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Follow-On Contract for Fire Scout UAS Software Update

    Raytheon has received a potential $21.6 million contract to continue to provide software updates in support of the 2016 tactical control system Linux cyber baseline of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system. The company will perform work in Dulles, Virginia, through October 2018 under the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Thales-Finmeccanica JV-Led Team Gets French Govt Support on Stratobus Airship Development Project
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    Thales-Finmeccanica JV-Led Team Gets French Govt Support on Stratobus Airship Development Project

    A team led by a joint venture of Thales Group and Finmeccanica has received approximately $19.2 million in funds from the French government to conduct research and development work over two years on an autonomous airship. Thales Alenia Space will collaborate with French companies CNIM, Solutions F, Airstar Aerospace and Tronico-Alcen on the structure, electric propulsion system […] More

  • Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments
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    Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has received four contracts worth approximately $102 million combined from the Intelligence Community during the first quarter of 2016. Intelligence agencies made the awards in the form of recompete, sole-source and new contracts, Engility said Wednesday. The contracts are in addition to a potential five-year, $82 million contract awarded by the Defense Department to Engility in […] More

  • Ericsson, Brazilian Agency to Collaborate on Internet of Things Projects; Ulf Ewaldsson Comments
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    Ericsson, Brazilian Agency to Collaborate on Internet of Things Projects; Ulf Ewaldsson Comments

    Ericsson and the Brazilian communications ministry have partnered to establish a laboratory to explore the potential applications of Internet of Things technology in agriculture, rainforest protection, disaster monitoring and prevention and energy production. The company said Monday the Networked Security Lab will be part of the Ericsson Innovation Center that aims to drive IoT innovation across Brazil and other Latin American […] More

  • AF Taps LinQuest for $68M Remote Sensing Systems Directorate Technical Support Task Order
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    AF Taps LinQuest for $68M Remote Sensing Systems Directorate Technical Support Task Order

    LinQuest has received a potential five-year, $67.8 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical support services to the space and missile systems center’s remote sensing systems directorate. The service branch received three offers for the task order that was awarded under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business contract […] More