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General Dynamics’ land systems business unit has been awarded a $99.7 million contract from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command to produce Abrams tanks for Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia intends to upgrade the country’s fleet of tanks with the Saudi M1A2 Abrams tanks through the foreign military sales deal, General Dynamics said Tuesday. The award […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed the first flight test for a U.S. Navy Fire Scout system off the Virginia coast. The MQ-8C system flew from the USS Jason Dunham guided-missile destroyer as it was controlled from the ship’s ground control station, the company said Tuesday. “We are on track to validate all of the critical performance parameters […] More
The U.S. Army has deployed a Raytheon-built blimp system over Maryland’s airspace as part of operational tests for the aerostat. The JLENS balloon carried thousands of feet above rural Maryland radar systems that are designed to detect cruise-missiles and drones, Raytheon said Saturday. “JLENS can detect potential threats at extremely long ranges, giving North American […] More
Boeing has demonstrated the company’s 767-2C tanker aircraft designed for use in U.S. Air Force missions. The Boeing 767-2C plane completed the first flight from Paine Field in Washington to Boeing Field as part of the KC-46 tanker test program, Boeing said Sunday. Boeing is set to install military systems in the aircraft following the certification […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout system during a flight test from a guided-missile destroyer off the Virginia coast. The Fire Scout system took its first flight off the USS Jason Dunham destroyer, controlled from the sip’s ground control station, Northrop said Tuesday. “These dynamic interface tests are an essential […] More
Elbit Systems of America has been awarded a $106 million contract to upgrade four Grumman C-1A aircraft for Brazil’s navy. The company will upgrade the aircraft’s engine, avionics, communication and ECS technologies and air-to-air refueling system, Elbit Systems of America said Tuesday. Elbit Systems of America will perform work for five years at the San Antonio, Texas-based […] More
Inmarsat has demonstrated its L-band terminal prototype in a move to meet the requirements of intelligence and media customers. The L-band Advanced Communications Element terminal transmitted 10 megabytes per second of video from the Middle East and Africa regions over the Alphasat satellite during the test, Inmarsat said Friday. Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat’s U.S. […] More
A new IDC report forecasts the global software-as-a-service market to grow to $50.8 billion in value by 2018. The market research firm published this month a study that indicates the SaaS market will grow at a compound annual rate of 17.6 percent for the five-year forecast period. “Demand for SaaS enterprise applications is accelerating and exceeding […] More
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a $72.3 million contract to deliver target drones and technical services to the U.S. Air Force. The company’s Composite Engineering Inc. subsidiary will execute the order for lot 11 aerial targets, non-recurring engineering and support to the client, Kratos said Monday. Kratos’ Micro Systems company will also supply […] More
Deltek has developed a ranking of priorities and technologies based on lists state chief information officers have created for a Washington Post article published Sunday. Derek Johnson, an analyst for Deltek, wrote in an opinion piece for the Post the lists issued by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers were created according to the technologies’ staying […] More
Accenture’s federal services subsidiary has won five task orders worth $19.8 million combined to maintain the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system and train users on the technology. The company will provide financial and supply chain systems support, technical system development and training support for the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania-based business systems center, Accenture said […] More
NASA has discovered the first exoplanet with a repurposed version of the Ball Aerospace-developed Kepler spacecraft. Lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg studied data collected by Kepler in February during a K2 mission test in which the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo’s HARPS-North spectrograph took measurements that confirmed the new find, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. “Kepler may well deliver the first […] More
