Ramona Adams

The U.S. Air Force plans to procure 22 lightly armed variants of the Cessna Caravan aircraft to deliver to allied governments for use in surveillance missions, FlightGlobal reported Monday. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps states that the Air Force wants potential vendors to supply AC-208 planes that are equipped with various weapons and sensors. Interested companies […] More

Amazon.com has secured a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to react to human gestures, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The patent supports Amazon’s plans to develop a fleet of UAVs that will work to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes. The UAV will use various […] More

A team led by BAE Systems has secured a $227.5 million contract from the British defense ministry to update the power and propulsion systems of the U.K. navy’s fleet of Type 45 destroyers. The defense ministry said Wednesday the Power Improvement Project will replace two generators of all six Type 45 ships with three larger units that will […] More

Orbital ATK will establish a new 47-acre campus in Chandler, Arizona to accommodate the expansion of the company’s launch vehicle operations. The new campus will include 617,000 square feet of space for two buildings as well as 261,000 square feet for manufacturing, Orbital ATK said Friday. Rich Straka, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s launch vehicles division, […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is supporting the Federal Communications Commission‘s plan to facilitate the sharing of a 150-megahertz radio frequency spectrum band between U.S. military and private sector users. NIST said Thursday it has helped develop standards, test procedures and certification tools that will authorize broadband service providers and other entities to share […] More

Artificial intelligence company BullFrog AI has licensed a data analysis tool developed by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Transition to Practice Program. The licensing agreement grants BullFrog exclusive rights to use the Socrates data analysis platform for biopharmaceutical applications, DHS said Thursday. Socrates is built to determine patterns and relationships in large-scale and complex data sets […] More

NASA‘s Stennis Space Center and launch vehicle provider Relativity have entered an agreement that authorizes the startup to use one of Stennis’ test stands exclusively, Space News reported Wednesday. The Commercial Space Launch Act agreement grants the exclusive use of the E-4 Test Complex to Relativity for 20 years. The complex features four cells for engine […] More

The Informatics Applications Group has obtained separate certifications for services and quality management systems from the CMMI Institute and the International Organization for Standardization. Tiag said Wednesday it received a Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3 rating for services, validating that the company performs at a “defined” level based on its standards, procedures, processes, tools and methods. […] More

The U.S. Army expects its future Oshkosh-built medium tactical vehicles to complete development by the second quarter of 2021, National Defense reported Wednesday. Alvin Bing, product director of the Army’s medium tactical vehicles program, told the publication that Oshkosh will initially produce 41 copies of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles A2 variant and four trailers […] More

Dynetics and its industry partners have cleared a preliminary design review of a Universal Stage Adapter that will work to support cargo transportation aboard NASA‘s Space Launch System rocket. The USA will be used to carry cargo during the first crewed flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft, dubbed Exploration Mission-2, which is scheduled for launch by […] More