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BAE Systems will debut a new infantry fighting vehicle offered in partnership with Patria for the LAND 400 Phase 3 program at the Land Forces 2016 event in Australia. BAE Systems said Tuesday the CV90 family of tracked combat vehicles has supported worldwide UN and NATO operations and provides tactical and strategic mobility, air defense, anti-tank capacity and […] More
ICL‘s advanced additives business unit has landed a $6.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 418,000 gallons of the company’s firefighting foam for firefighting vehicles and fire station foam stocks. The company said Wednesday it has started delivery of its Phos-Chek firefighting foam in August and will continue over a 10-week period. ICL added the Air […] More
CSRA has won a five-year, $53 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance services to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization. The company said Monday it will continue to perform analysis, assessments, technology demonstrations, wargames and exercises meant to help the agency shape concepts, requirements and operational architectures under the recompete contract. “The Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense’s challenge […] More
Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More
Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More
Orbit Logic has updated its Direct Access Facility Collection Planning Systems software that works to help DigitalGlobe‘s international Direct Access Program partners task and receive imagery from WorldView satellites. The DAF CPS platform has been updated to cover WorldView-4 satellite that is scheduled to launch this month as well as the existing GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, WorldView-2 and WorldView-3, Orbit Logic said Wednesday. Orbit Logic has provided collection planning […] More
NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More
SAB Biotherapeutics has received a $1.42 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the production and preclinical testing of an antibody the company designed to treat influenza. The company said Wednesday it teamed up with the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine for the project under the BioSNTR program that works to […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a proposers day on Sept. 30 regarding a program that aims to develop tools that will work to mitigate potential safety risks and advance the potential of gene-editing technologies. DARPA said Wednesday the Safe Genes program aims to address safety gaps in the field of genome editing using biosafety and biosecurity tools. “Gene […] More
XTec has received a potential three-year, $60 million task order to continue to provide project management and technical support services for the State Department‘s enterprise identity management system. XTec said Thursday the order contains one base year and four six-month options and falls under a blanket purchase agreement that was based on the company’s Federal Supply Schedule contract with the General […] More
The federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research has selected Juniper Networks to build the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that scientists will use to forecast climate patterns and analyze the effects of global warming. Juniper said Wednesday the machine will be deployed to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center this fall and is designed to generate 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. Tim Solms, vice president of Juniper […] More
Indonesia’s air force has received a CAE-built C-130H full-mission simulator previously in-service with Australia’s air force as part of a government-to-government agreement signed years ago. CAE said Wednesday that Indonesia bought nine used C-130 Hercules transport planes along with the flight simulator and five of the airlifters were delivered by an Airbus Group subsidiary as the prime contractor for the aircraft […] More
