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NASA has directed Boeing to identify approaches to increase the performance and payload capacity of a key structure for the Space Launch System, Space News reported Friday. The company will work to modify SLS’s Exploration Upper Stage to carry an additional one or two tons of co-manifested payload such as NASA’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, […] More
The Washington Headquarters Services has issued a sources sought notice to determine vendors that can offer support services to the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday OASD NCB requires planning, budgeting and implementation assistance related to physical security enterprise and analysis, security policy verification […] More
AT&T has fielded 72 network assets for first responders who intend to use a national public safety communications network. The company said Thursday FirstNet users can leverage the deployable assets in planned events or emergency operations such as shooter situations and natural disasters, among other things, without connecting to commercial power. Subscribers can also request access […] More
Janus Global Operations has cleared the Technical Institute of Mosul in Iraq of various explosive devices planted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The company said Thursday it unearthed in five months 62 explosive hazards, 31 improvised explosive devices and 31 unexploded ordnance that ISIS hid in the school during the group’s two-year […] More
The National Defense Industrial Association has appointed M International CEO Richard McConn and Punaro Group CEO Arnold Punaro to respectively serve as chair and vice chair of NDIA’s board of directors. Both executives will serve for a term of up to two years, the association said Monday. Hawk Carlisle, president and CEO of NDIA, said McConn and Punaro will help ensure the group’s continued […] More
A Northrop Grumman-led team of cybersecurity specialists has won a rapid prototyping event that focused on identifying potentially malicious binaries in a simulated U.S. Cyber Command battlefield. Northrop said Thursday its team developed a malware detection and attribution prototype to send malware signatures back to an offensive team that modified the binaries distributed during The […] More
Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the team […] More
The General Services Administration has awarded separate Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contracts to The Perduco Group and Discovery Machine to support the efforts of two different U.S. Air Force organizations. Under a $150M procurement vehicle, The Perduco Group will assist the service’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office in developing an infrastructure roadmap […] More
Representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency and industry have announced that the first service module for the Orion spacecraft will be delivered to the U.S. in late October, Space News reported Wednesday. Mike Hawes, vice president and Orion program manager at Lockheed Martin, said during the 69th International Astronautical Congress that the European-made service […] More
Raytheon has shipped the first small satellite for the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements program to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for integration onto a Spaceflight Industries payload. The defense contractor said Wednesday it designed the SeeMe satellite to provide real-time tactical imagery to American soldiers deployed in remote and beyond-line-of-sight environments to […] More
Lockheed Martin has introduced at the International Astronautical Congress a reusable lunar lander concept intended to support crewed missions on the moon and future expeditions to Mars. The company said Wednesday the proposed lander would accommodate a four-member crew and carry up to 2K pounds of cargo on the lunar surface for a maximum of […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded separate contracts to five companies to conduct research-and-development projects to support DHS’ nuclear and radiological threat detection efforts. DHS announced the contract awards in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. Contractors will assist DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office in exploratory research into technologies or approaches that can help detect and […] More
