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Cubic has received a three-year, $15 million task order to conduct preparation, execution, assessment and analytical integration work for the U.S. Army’s future study plan and unified quest events. The Army intends for the FSP/UQ events to identify strategic and operational challenges, issues and solutions to existing and future development, Cubic said Monday. Bill Toti, […] More
Microsoft has announced the company will begin to notify users of state-sponsored attacks that target their account details in addition to the software maker’s current reporting measures. Scott Charney, Microsoft corporate vice president for trustworthy computing, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that the company is taking this step to inform customers if an attack is state-sponsored […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a $42.2 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy to exercise options for support to the Phalanx weapon systems designed to counter anti-ship missile threats. Raytheon will perform design agent engineering and technical support services on Phalanx and SeaRAM for the U.S. as well as Turkey, Australia, Japan, Canada, U.K., South Korea, Bahrain, Pakistan and […] More
Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary Protonex has been awarded a $2.8 million contract to produce portable power management devices for the U.S. Army. The Army will deploy more than 400 squad power manager special operations kits with special operations Forces for battlefield operations, Ballard Power Systems said Tuesday. “Our squad power manager and vest power manager […] More
Harris Corp. has installed the ninth flight mirror onto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope structure at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The installation marks the progress of the telescope’s segmented primary mirror halfway to completion, which is scheduled for 2016, NASA said Tuesday. The engineering team used a robotic arm to lift and lower the […] More
Serco Inc. has been awarded a potential $47.7 million contract to produce hazardous material support for the U.S. Navy’s southwest regional hazardous material centers. The contract contains a one-year base period and four one-year option periods, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Serco Inc. will perform work at the Naval Base San Diego, Naval Air Station […] More
A joint venture of Thales and Raytheon has been awarded a $17.04 million contract to provide sentinel lifecycle contractor support to the U.S. Army from 2016 to 2018. The Defense Department said Tuesday Thales Raytheon Systems will perform depot maintenance, overhaul, contingency operations, repair, transportation, procurement, software and firmware sustainment and technical data package maintenance, The business will […] More
Telesat has selected Space Systems Loral, a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, to produce a communications satellite for the satellite operator’s infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region. The Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite will incorporate C- and Ku-band transponders and combine broad regional beams and high-throughput spot beams to help expand the company’s Asia Pacific […] More
Eric Chiu, president of HyTrust, believes 2016 will be the year of encryption as organizations have encountered what he calls “avoidable damage†due to lack of encryption this year, Infosecurity Magazine reported Dec. 22. Chiu told the magazine’s Tara Seals he expects the “Internet of attack surface†to expand in the coming year. “As more […] More
Precise Biometrics has received a $131,842 follow-up order for its Tactivo mobile smart card reader from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA placed the order through Precise Biometrics’ partner TX Systems and the company will produce Tactivo for iPhone devices, Precise Biometrics said Tuesday. “We are pleased to see that DLA continues to scale up their usage of […] More
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that projects the Internet of Things security market to reach $28.90 billion by 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 33.2 percent from 2015. Reportlinker said Monday the growing security concerns for critical infrastructures and security regulations have driven the IoT security market in recent years. The report also […] More
An Aerojet Rocketdyne subsidiary has tested a five-kilowatt Hall Thruster in the U.K. with a Thales Alenia Space-built power processing unit. European Space Propulsion will next transfer the production capability of the XR-5 thruster from Aerojet Rocketdyne and develop the XR-5E, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday. Paul Sinton, managing director of European Space Propulsion, said the […] More
