Ramona Adams

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to acquire small unmanned aircraft systems that can provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the Legend-class national security cutters, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. USCG issued a draft request for proposals for small UAS in March and the service branch plans to release a full RFP later this year. A potential fiscal year […] More

Poland and the U.S. have signed a memorandum that will allow Poland to buy Raytheon-made Patriot missile defense systems, Reuters reported Thursday. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said in a news conference that the U.S. government agreed to sell Patriot missiles in the latest configuration. The announcement coincides with President Donald Trump’s visit to Warsaw where […] More

NASA has begun to solicit proposals for a light detection and ranging sensor system that will support the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s lander mission to Jupiter’s Europa moon. The agency said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice the LIDAR sensor should feature altimetry and hazard mapping functions to help the spacecraft perform a safe and accurate landing […] More

Unisys has received a five-year contract to help New Zealand’s transport agency update a driver and vehicle registry platform through the use of an “agile” software development approach. The company said Wednesday it will support NZTA’s Registry Suite — a group of systems for vehicle and driver safety programs — and transition to a cloud-based, agile delivery environment. Mark […] More

AWE has selected digital technology firm Atos to support the installation of a supercomputer designed to validate nuclear warheads as part of a nuclear deterrence program in the U.K. Atos said Monday its Bull Sequana supercomputer will work to help AWE assess the safety and reliability of Trident nuclear warheads through a science-based computational program. AWE […] More

NASA has given Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory the go-ahead to start the preliminary design phase of an asteroid deflection mission. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test seeks to shift the orbit of an asteroid within the Didymos asteroid binary system to demonstrate a technique that could protect Earth from a potential asteroid strike, APL said Friday. “DART […] More

CSRA has awarded Woolpert a subcontract to provide a geographic information system, remote sensing data and associated consulting services to the Environmental Protection Agency. Woolpert will perform GIS analysis, metadata generation, application development, help desk support and geospatial information collection services, the company said Thursday. CSRA’s SRA International subsidiary landed a potential five-year, $266 million contract in […] More

Joe Cassady, executive director for space programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne, has said the use of solar electric propulsion (SEP) systems for in-space transportation can help the U.S. government build a sustainable deep space architecture. Cassady told the House of Representatives’ subcommittee on space that SEP platforms can transfer cargo, habitats and payloads to deep space locations ahead […] More