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SES Government Solutions will host a Federal Aviation Administration payload on the company’s satellite under a 14-year contract with Raytheon. SES will construct the wide area augmentation systems payload, launch the SES-15 satellite and operate the spacecraft for 11 years in orbit, SES said Wednesday. The SES-15 satellite is scheduled for launch in 2017. The […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has invested $991,557 in new funds for LiquidPiston’s effort to further the development of a rotary internal combustion system for small engines. LiquidPiston said Thursday the project’s goal is to reduce fuel usage by half and increase power density by three times through a demonstration of a pathway towards a rotary jet […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have completed an autonomous aerial refueling test on the Northrop-built X-47B unmanned combat air system aircraft. The X-47B system received more than 4,000 pounds of fuel from an Omega K-707 tanker using the Navy’s probe-and-drogue method during the demonstration off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, Northrop said Wednesday. […] More
General Dynamics has deployed its air traffic control radios in Floyd W. Jones Lebanon Airport in Missouri as part of the Federal Aviation Administration air-ground communications modernization program. The CM300/350 V2 VHF and UHF voice over Internet protocol radios are the first to go into operation at the airport, the company said Monday. Chris Marzilli, president of […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has selected Ritchie-Curbow Construction to construct its planned health center for employees at the Newport News Shipbuilding division. The health facility will comprise exam rooms, physical therapy sections, X-ray and chemistry laboratories, and other rooms for education and meetings, Huntington Ingalls said Monday. Scheduled to open in the fall, the 21,894-square-foot facility on […] More
A Versar Inc. subsidiary has been selected to maintain and repair the U.S. Army Reserve’s facilities based in the country’s northwest region under a $23 million contract. J.M. Waller Associates will perform the support services for the Reserve’s 88th regional support command, Versar said Tuesday. The contract, awarded by the General Services Administration, contains a […] More
Rockwell Collins has completed the ground and live flight testing for its targeting system on board an F-35 aircraft in collaboration with the U.K.’s F-35 office. The FireStorm integrated targeting system worked to control the aircraft using an air strike mission thread during the tests at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Rockwell Collins said Tuesday. […] More
NASA has completed flight tests on technology onboard the Boeing-developed ecoDemonstrator 757 airplane that are designed to cut fuel consumption and emissions. NASA researchers installed sweeping jet actuators on the aircraft’s vertical tail to  evaluate its contribution to stability during takeoffs and landings, the space agency said Monday. “If we can control the flow of air over the vertical […] More
RSA and A10 Networks have moved to further help their joint clients detect threats in encrypted traffic by adding A10’s SSL inspection feature to RSA’s security analytics platform. RSA has verified the interoperability of A10 Thunder Application Delivery Controller‘s SSL Insight feature with its security analytics offering through RSA’s Ready Technology Partner Program, A10 Networks said Monday. Chad Loeven, director of partnerships at […] More
Xerox Corp. has been awarded a five-year, $564.9 million contract to modernize New York’s Medicaid claims processing system in an effort to help fulfill the specific requirements of Medicaid members and providers. Xerox’s team will manage Medicaid programs such as healthcare delivery and coordination in compliance with the Affordable Care Act using its health enterprise […] More
Northrop Grumman has agreed to invest $17.5 million into a three-year space solar power research program the company initiated with California Institute of Technology. The initiative is meant to produce technologies applicable to the ultralight photovoltaics, ultralight deployable space structures and phased array and power transmission areas, Northrop said Monday. “The potential breakthroughs from this research could […] More
FireEye President Kevin Mandia has recommended enterprises emphasize training of employees in order to build up the human aspects of cyber threat detection efforts, CNBC reported Sunday. The goal is for 10 percent of a tainted email’s recipient to alert security staff to a potential threat, Mandia told CNBC. He told the network one factor that helps hackers […] More
