Scott Nicholas

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential $468 million contract from General Dynamics to support integrated product and process development work on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of Columbia-class submarines. HII said Tuesday it will help complete the design of the Navy Columbia-class submarines as well as provide component development, detail planning and technical support services. […] More

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to enlist a private sector consultant to help the agency recruit almost 26,000 workers in the next several years, GovExec reported Monday. ICE sought information on potential industry sources of human resources and operational staffing services in an effort to address President Donald Trump’s requirements for the immigration enforcement workforce. The agency […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to host a proposers day on Jan. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks new radio technology for military operational environments. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday the Network Universal Persistence program looks to prototype a radio system that will work to help military […] More

Boeing‘s Australia-based defense business unit has delivered a next-generation battlespace communications platform to the Australian defense force. The Australian defence department said in a report published Tuesday the LAND 2072 Phase 2B project was built to offer data, video and voice services as well as help secure communications between the country’s deployed land units and […] More

Lockheed Martin has reached the joint government and industry delivery goal of 66 F-35 aircraft units for 2017, an increase of approximately 40 percent from the previous year. The company said Monday it has supplied approximately 265 F-35 aircraft to U.S. and international clients and more than 5,500 pilots and maintenance personnel have been trained […] More

The Australian government has established the first Defense Cooperative Research Center for Trusted Autonomous Systems which will aim to supply smart-machine and defense technologies through human-machine teaming strategies. BAE Systems, RMIT University, DefendTex and the Australian defense science and technology group are the inaugural members of CRC, the country’s defense department said Monday. The center’s initial three projects will […] More

L3 Technologies has received a $10.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract contract from the U.S. Navy to update and integrate software for a Canadian operational flight program as part of a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Monday the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division selected the contractor to support Canada’s CF-18 C21X-B2.0 program. The […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology unit has secured a $13.3 million contract to help operate and maintain the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command‘s information technology networks. The Army obligated $82,894 at the time of award from its fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds, the Defense Department said Monday. GDIT will perform contract work at Fort Belvoir […] More

NASA has begun to integrate and test equipment for a mission that will transition operations from the use of radio to laser communications at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The space agency said Saturday the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration mission aims to boost the connection between astronauts and spacecraft at 10 to 100 times […] More

Lockheed Martin has fully integrated a Harris-built satellite navigation payload on the fourth U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle slated for launch in 2018. Harris said Friday the navigation payloads for GPS III SV02, SV03 and SV04 have been fully integrated while the fifth payload for SV05 currently undergoes environmental testing. The satellite navigation payload […] More