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Maxar Ships ‘Psyche’ Spacecraft Tech to NASA Facility; Robert Curbeam Quoted

Maxar Technologies has delivered hardware to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California that will serve as a main component of the Psyche asteroid exploration spacecraft, which the agency expects to launch in August next year. JPL received the Maxar-built solar electric propulsion chassis for the agency's mission to study the metallic asteroid that can be found in a region between Mars and Jupiter, the company said Monday.

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March 30, 2021, 6:15 am
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Clark Construction to Build Wargaming Center at MCB Quantico Under $81M Navy Contract

Clark Construction Group has secured a potential $81.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington to build a two-story wargaming center at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. The service branch said Friday the company will also replace the Cinder City Switching Station under the firm-fixed-price contract.

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March 29, 2021, 9:00 am
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Fortress Information Security Joins Five-Day Virtual Army War Games

Fortress Information Security participated in a virtual war game scenario during a five-day technical support and operational analysis exercise by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. The company said Thursday it used its File Integrity Assurance tool to detect a corrupted presentation file deployed by the opposing team during the mock battle.

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March 29, 2021, 6:07 am
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TrustComm to Bring OneWeb’s Low-Latency Communications Offerings to DOD

OneWeb entered into a product distribution agreement with TrustComm March 16 to deliver beyond line-of-sight and low-latency communications services to the Department of Defense. The two companies will work to implement low-Earth orbit technologies into various areas in the Arctic region in an effort to address poor connectivity levels caused by harsh terrain and high latitude, OneWeb said Friday.

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March 29, 2021, 5:39 am
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Northrop to Build MQ-4C Triton UAV Under $99M Navy Contract Modification

Northrop Grumman has received a $99 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for additional low-rate initial production of a lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The action expands the scope of the previously awarded, fixed-priced incentive contract and the military service will obligate the full value of the modification from fiscal years 2019 through 2021 funds, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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March 29, 2021, 5:17 am
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Carahsoft Brings Proven Optics Financial Management Platform to Public Sector Market

Carahsoft Technology has begun offering Proven Optics' suite of financial management applications to the federal and local government sectors via two contract vehicles managed by NASA and the National Association of State Procurement Officials. As a master government aggregator, Carahsoft made the offering available in the public sector through the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and NASPO ValuePoint programs, the company said Thursday.

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March 26, 2021, 6:41 am
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Sikorsky Books $94M Option on Black Hawk Medevac Helicopter Production Contract

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $94.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce six additional Black Hawk helicopters intended for medical evacuation use. The branch exercised an option under a previously awarded contract to procure lot 45 HH-60M choppers, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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March 26, 2021, 5:29 am
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Former USAF Acquisition Chief Will Roper Appointed to Vita Inclinata Board

Will Roper, former assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force and a three-time Wash100 winner, has been named to Vita Inclinata's board of directors. Caleb Carr, president and CEO of Vita Inclinata, said in a statement published Thursday Roper will work with the company as it works to provide military branches and civilian markets with military-grade safety offerings.

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March 26, 2021, 4:05 am
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Raytheon Completes Delivery of First Navy Tomahawk Block V Missile

The U.S. Navy has received its first Tomahawk Block V missile from Raytheon Technologies' missiles and defense business. Tomahawk missiles are GPS-enabled weapons designed to defeat targets at a distance of 1,000 miles, the company said Thursday.

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March 26, 2021, 3:20 am
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Boeing Investment Supports Space Center Houston’s STEM Education Program; John Mulholland Quoted

A Houston-based space exploration learning center has received more than $2 million from Boeing since 1992 as part of the company's investment in educational programs to promote the science, technology, engineering and math fields to young people. Space Center Houston initiatives have drawn at least 250,000 educators and students worldwide each year, Boeing said Thursday.

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March 26, 2021, 1:13 am
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Sentar to Pursue C4I Engineering, Technical Support Orders via Potential $100M Navy IDIQ

Sentar will compete to provide technical and engineering support for U.S. Navy information warfare systems through a potential six-year, $99.8 million contract vehicle. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific awarded Sentar a position on the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering services to help the service branch engineer command, control, communications, computers and intelligence platforms, the company said.

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March 24, 2021, 7:59 am
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Nokia to Market ClearWorld Smart Poles to Military, Local Government Customers

Nokia has entered into an agreement with ClearWorld to offer the latter's smart poles to U.S. military installations and cities. ClearWorld seeks to enable utility operating and maintenance savings through the use of its solar-wrapped poles, which are designed to operate as backup power sources and maintain network connectivity amid natural disasters and outages, Nokia said Tuesday.

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March 24, 2021, 5:47 am