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is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.
Stephen Townsend, a retired U.S. Army general and former commander of U.S. Africa Command, has been appointed to the board of directors at Phoenix Defense. The four-decade Army veteran brings extensive military leadership experience to the board, having served in and led combat units at platoon, corps and joint task force levels, Phoenix Defense said Monday.
ICF has secured a $36 million task order to help the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement modernize its human resources technology systems in support of a governmentwide initiative to recruit and retain more women in law enforcement.
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The Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground is seeking proposals from industry sources capable of supporting a suite of web-based cost estimation and analysis models and database tools. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov states that the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for cost and economics requires support to maintain and update the Force Organization Cost Estimating System, which provides cost estimates of the U.S. Army's organization structure and capabilities.
The U.S. Air Force's B-21 Raider, built by Northrop Grumman, has taken its first flight at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, where it has been under development as the sixth-generation nuclear-capable stealth bomber. The Air Force plans to order 100 B-21 bomber aircraft with long-range and mid-air refueling capabilities to bring conventional and nuclear weapons to U.S. forces worldwide.
BlueHalo has secured a contract from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to develop a high-energy laser technology prototype for integration onto the U.S. Marine Corps’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. The company said it will adapt its Locust laser weapon platform to equip the JLTVs with laser-powered counter-unmanned aerial systems capabilities that will work to identify, engage and disable drone targets.
The first test version of the U.S. Air Force's T-7A Red Hawk has arrived at Edwards Air Force Base in California where developmental flight testing for the Boeing-built advanced pilot training aircraft will begin. The aircraft, dubbed APT-2, traveled from Boeing's production facility in St. Louis, Missouri, and made stops at air bases in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona to refuel, the defense contractor said Thursday.
Four companies have secured other transaction authority agreements from Space Systems Command to develop ground-based command and control system prototypes to support missile warning satellites. Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics and Omni Federal each received a 16-month, $9.75 million Phase 1 contract for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Command and Control prototype project, the National Security Technology Accelerator announced Wednesday.
Leidos has deployed a potable water dispenser to the International Space Station to help astronauts sustain quality water in space and support space exploration research efforts. The Exploration Potable Water Dispenser provides ISS crew members with potable-quality water for hydrating dry food and beverages and features an updated design for transmitting health and status telemetry data to assess system performance and allowing updates through ground commanding, Leidos said Tuesday.
Northrop Grumman has completed thermal vacuum testing on the satellite constellation it is building for a Space Norway-led mission to provide broadband communications across the northern polar region. The Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission comprises two satellites, each carrying an X-Band payload for the Norwegian defense ministry, a Ka-band payload for Viasat and Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payloads for the U.S. Space Force, Northrop said Tuesday.
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals for a cyber tool designed to enable the Department of Defense to conduct cyber hunt operations on various networks to detect and analyze malicious or suspicious activities. DIU said the Advanced Rapid Analysis of Cyber Hunt Network Infrastructure Data program requires a commercially available or viable solution to ingest layer 2 and layer 3 network device configuration files, packet capture files and flow logs.
The U.S. Navy has fielded the RTX-built StormBreaker precision-guided glide bomb on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, providing the multirole fighter aircraft with strike capability against moving targets. RTX said Monday the F/A-18 is the first approved Navy aircraft to carry the air-to-surface weapon system to engage fixed or moving land and maritime targets in all weather conditions.
Christopher Brooks, a U.S. Air Force veteran, has been named vice president of enterprise information technology solutions for the air and space forces business area at General Dynamics' IT division, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Brooks most recently served as chief of the Air Force's network integration division and head of the operations division at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
