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  • NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace
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    NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Ball Aerospace & Technologies a one-year, sole-source contract to provide design and development support for NGA’s Accelerated Cloud Transition program. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the contract covers data tagging support for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise’s GovCloud platform and commercial cloud services. Contract […] More

  • ULA Makes 2nd Launch in 2016 With NRO Payload Mission
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    ULA Makes 2nd Launch in 2016 With NRO Payload Mission

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Wednesday onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-45 mission in support of national defense. The payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s second launch this year, ULA said Wednesday. The Delta IV rocket used in the mission consists of a composite […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Army Europe Simulation Training Support Contract; Bill Toti Comments
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    Cubic Awarded Army Europe Simulation Training Support Contract; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic’s global defense unit will continue to provide simulation training support to two U.S. Army Europe centers in Germany under a potential five-year, $33.7 million contract. Cubic said Wednesday it will work to help USAREUR’s joint multinational simulation center and joint multinational readiness center perform mission rehearsal exercises through the integration of live, virtual, constructive and gaming simulation systems and mission […] More

  • General Dynamics to Build Prototype Unit for Navy’s Ohio Replacement Submarine
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    General Dynamics to Build Prototype Unit for Navy’s Ohio Replacement Submarine

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has received a $23.6 million contract modification to develop a prototype unit for the U.S. Navy’s Ohio Replacement submarine. General Dynamics Electric Boat will also design an air-conditioning unit and develop technical manuals for the new ballistic missile submarine under the modification, General Dynamics said Tuesday. The award is part of a […] More

  • Jacobs to Provide Transportation Design, Engineering Support in Georgia; Randy Pierce Comments
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    Jacobs to Provide Transportation Design, Engineering Support in Georgia; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide engineering, technical, administrative and professional support services for the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Lower Piedmont region under a three-year contract. The company said Tuesday the contract covers bridge and roadway design, utility coordination, environmental support and traffic engineering services for the region’s districts 2, 3 and 7. Randy Pierce, senior […] More

  • Boeing Subcontracts UTC Subsidiary for C-17, Apache Landing Gear Systems
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    Boeing Subcontracts UTC Subsidiary for C-17, Apache Landing Gear Systems

    A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has won a subcontract from Boeing to continue to produce landing gear systems for integration with the U.S. Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and AH-64E Apache helicopters. UTC Aerospace Systems said Tuesday work on the contract is scheduled to conclude in 2018. The UTC subsidiary secured a contract in 2014 to […] More

  • Elbit Systems Rolls Out Unmanned Surface Vehicle Platform
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    Elbit Systems Rolls Out Unmanned Surface Vehicle Platform

    Elbit Systems has introduced an unmanned surface vehicle platform the company designed for anti-submarine warfare and mine countermeasure missions. The 12-meter Seagull USV works to operate maritime vehicles to detect and neutralize underwater mines, the company said Monday. Seagull has a mission control system, replaceable mission modules, Autonomous Navigation System and command, control, communications, computers and […] More

  • Navy to Test Boeing-Built Fuel Cell Energy Storage System
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    Navy to Test Boeing-Built Fuel Cell Energy Storage System

    Boeing has handed to the U.S. Navy a system the company designed to store fuel cell energy derived from solar, wind and other renewable resources. The service branch will install the system on its microgrid at a Naval Facilities Engineering Command facility in California to test the platform’s capability to supply electricity for military and commercial clients, Boeing […] More

  • MBDA Begins Air-to-Air Missile Delivery for UK’s F-35 Fleet
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    MBDA Begins Air-to-Air Missile Delivery for UK’s F-35 Fleet

    MBDA has begun deliveries of its Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles to the U.K. military for integration with the country’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35B Lightning II aircraft. The U.K. defense ministry will use ASRAAMs in air-launched fire tests and flight trials necessary to achieve initial operating capability for the fighter jets of the country’s air […] More

  • Report: BAE Could Secure New US Contracts for Electromagnetic Railguns
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    Report: BAE Could Secure New US Contracts for Electromagnetic Railguns

    BAE Systems could land new U.S. government contracts for electromagnetic railguns after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter outlined the $582.7 billion defense budget plan for fiscal 2017, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Alan Tovey writes Carter told his audience at a recent Economic Club of Washington event that part of the FY 2017 defense budget would fund research […] More

  • Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office
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    Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office

    The U.S. Navy has issued a solicitation for research and development programs that will work to support the mission of the combating terrorism technical support office. A broad agency announcement published Feb. 2 on FedBizOpps indicated that CTTSO is interested in R&D projects that deal with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives, advanced analytic capabilities […] More

  • NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection
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    NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system to carry out missions that aim to study El Nino-related weather conditions over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA will utilize NASA’s Global Hawk UAV for the Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology missions that will take place starting this month through March, Northrop said Friday. […] More