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Jacobs Engineering Group will collaborate with Akima Support Operations to help maintain facilities at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center as part of a potential  $131.7 million contract. Jacobs said Wednesday it will serve as Akima’s strategic contract partner to support GSFC’s Facilities Operations and Maintenance Division. NASA awarded the five-year Facilities Operations and Maintenance Services III contract in February. Under […] More

Raytheon and France-based military electronics maker Safran have partnered to develop sighting systems intended for combat vehicles. Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate their electro-optical and inertial measurement unit technologies to produce a forward-looking infrared sighting device, Raytheon said Wednesday. Kim Ernzen, vice president of Raytheon’s land warfare systems business, the integrated technology will work to […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and Spry Methods have won positions on a five-year, $45 million contract to help the Interior Department address potential information technology risks to the country’s dam industrial control systems, Nextgov reported Monday. Both companies can vie for task orders to provide technical and professional services, Federal Information Security Management Act compliance and ICS security support to DOI’s Bureau […] More

Harris has received two contracts worth a combined $26 million to update communications systems that support Customs and Border Protection missions. The company said Tuesday it will supply CBP with XL-200P public safety radios that feature active noise cancellation, Bluetooth technology, global positioning system and a customizable user interface. XL-200P is equipped with a software-based architecture and designed to comply […] More

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have delivered the 300th F-35 aircraft. The 300th Lightning II unit is an F-35A variant assigned to the U.S. Air Force‘s Hill AF Base, the company said Monday. At present, 197 conventional takeoff and landing variants, 75 short takeoff/vertical landing variants and 28 carrier variants compose the combined F-35 fleet. Over 620 pilots and […] More

Rockwell Collins has received a contract to extend avionics support services for the Australian army’s CH-47F Chinook helicopters. The company said Monday it will deliver field service engineering, program management, logistics, repair and overhaul services for the Common Avionics Architecture System onboard the helicopters and the Transportable Flight Proficiency Simulators. “We’ve been supporting the Australian Army since they […] More

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force‘s 418th Flight Test Squadron will collaborate to test the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft. The service branch said Thursday it seeks to determine the tanker’s ability to receive fuel from a KC-10 Extender or a KC-135 Stratotanker platform. One Pegasus unit arrived May 23 at the Edwards AF Base in California and will stay […] More