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Serco to Support Navy USV Development Efforts Under $68M Contract Award; Tom Watson Quoted

Serco Group's North American business arm has been awarded the Autonomy and Vehicle Control Systems / Testing and Evaluations contract by the U.S. Navy. The IT service management company said Thursday that, under the three-year, $68 million contract, Serco Inc. will support the Naval Architecture and Engineering Department within Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division in developing unmanned surface vessel autonomy.

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December 8, 2023, 7:48 am
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Reuben Maher Joins A-TEK as Chief Strategy & Growth Officer

Science and technology company A-TEK has appointed Reuben Maher as chief strategy and growth officer. A-TEK said Tuesday that in this capacity, Maher will work to implement the company's growth strategy by expanding its offerings and its presence in select federal agencies.

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December 7, 2023, 8:52 am
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Former CENTCOM Chief Joseph Votel Joins AeroVironment Board

Defense contractor AeroVironment has added retired four-star U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel to its board of directors. Votel served in the Army for almost four decades, holding a variety of leadership positions, most notably head of the U.S. Special Operations Command and, prior to his retirement in 2019, head of U.S. Central Command, AeroVironment said Monday.

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December 6, 2023, 7:11 am
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Splunk VP Bill Rowan Discusses Benefits of Modern Data Platforms

Modern data platforms enable organizations to work with any kind of data regardless of where it is stored, Splunk's Bill Rowan said in an interview. Rowan, the vice president of public sector at Splunk and a Wash100 winner, discussed the benefits users can gain from modern data platforms, which he described as "key to enabling enterprise resilience and innovation."

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December 5, 2023, 8:30 am
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Raytheon BBN Technologies Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Supply Demand Network Simulator

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded RTX's Raytheon BBN Technologies the Resilient Supply-and-Demand Networks contract. The RSDN contract calls for the development of a modeling and simulation tool that will work to predict how supply demand networks might be impacted by shocks and formulate mitigations to address those effects, RTX said Monday.

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December 5, 2023, 8:28 am
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Amazon Secures Contract With SpaceX for Additional Launch Capacity for Upcoming Satellite Broadband Network

SpaceX has entered into a contract to help Amazon deploy Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, by providing launch services using the Falcon 9 vehicle beginning mid-2025. Amazon said Saturday that the contract involves the provision of three Falcon 9 launches to augment a total of 77 heavy-lift rocket launches already secured from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance.

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December 4, 2023, 9:14 am
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Anduril Announces New VTOL-Capable Autonomous Air Vehicle & Airborne Threat Interceptor Variant

Anduril has unveiled Roadrunner, a vertical takeoff and landing-capable autonomous air vehicle, and its ground-based air defense variant, Roadrunner-Munition. Roadrunner features a twin-jet engine and a modular payload system while Roadrunner-M features target interception capabilities and reusability if it is not used to destroy the target, Anduril said Frida.

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December 4, 2023, 9:11 am
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Precise Systems Acquires Research & Engineering Services Provider Excet

Precise Systems on Nov. 10 closed the transaction to acquire Excet, a provider of scientific research and engineering services to Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Excet's areas of expertise include alternative energy, biotechnology, synthetic biology and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threat assessment, and many of its employees are holders of advanced degrees in various disciplines, Precise Systems said.

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December 1, 2023, 10:35 am
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Carahsoft to Provide Public Sector Access to Interos Supply Chain Visibility Technology

Carahsoft will serve as public sector distributor for the products of Interos under a new partnership between the two companies. The technology offered by Interos works to provide supply chain intelligence by aggregating data — including threats and vulnerabilities — from millions of global entities in real time, enabling due diligence, monitoring and reporting, Carahsoft said Wednesday.

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December 1, 2023, 9:28 am
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Government Eyes Continued Collaboration With Pratt & Whitney on F-35 Engine Upgrade Program

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office plans to award multiple contract actions to RTX business Pratt & Whitney to continue the work started under the F135 Engine Enhancement Program, now called F135 Engine Core Upgrade. Pratt & Whitney had been working on the EEP as the sole-source awardee of the Engine Enhancement Preliminary Design contract, which was issued in 2022 and is set to conclude by February 2024, according to a notice posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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November 30, 2023, 8:07 am
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nLIGHT, Kord Technologies Partner to Provide Army With High Energy Laser Weapon

Semiconductor and fiber lasers provider nLIGHT will work as a subcontractor to Kord Technologies on a $34.5 million U.S. Army contract for the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense prototyping effort. DE M-SHORAD aims to install 50kW-class high energy laser weapon systems on Stryker vehicles, improving their defenses against a variety of threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, nLIGHT said Monday.

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November 28, 2023, 7:07 am
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Satellogic Receives Remote Sensing License From NOAA Amid Efforts to Expand US Business

Geospatial company Satellogic has received a remote sensing license from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, resulting in the company becoming subject to oversight by the agency. Satellogic said Tuesday that it had applied for the license for its Aleph-1 Constellation, with the aim of expanding support for customers with NOAA-related requirements. An interagency review of Satellogic's constellation subsequently took place, resulting in the award of the license.

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November 22, 2023, 9:39 am