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Kirk Herdman: KeyW to Support Army Training Systems Through Lockheed Partnership

KeyW has secured a six-year multimillion dollar task order to support the U.S. Army‘sÂ training systems as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin under a potential $3.53 billion contract. Hanover, Md.-based KeyW said TuesdayÂ it will assist the Army program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation in efforts to sustain the reliability of Soldier Systems Constructive […] More

by Joanna Crews July 5, 2018, 7:29 am
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Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract

Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Forceâ€™s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company willÂ help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts atÂ Wright-Patterson AF […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers July 3, 2018, 7:09 am
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Raytheon to Design Tactical Vehicle Laser Weapon System for Army

Raytheon has received a $10 million contract to design a 100-kilowatt laser weapon system potential integration onto theÂ U.S. Army‘s fleet of medium tactical vehicles. The company said MondayÂ it will conduct preliminary design work as part of theÂ High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program. Roy Azevedo, vice president of intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems at Raytheon’s […] More

by Joanna Crews July 3, 2018, 6:40 am
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Northrop Continues Polar Satcom Ground System Support Under Follow-On Contract

Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Forceâ€™s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning SegmentÂ platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More

by Jane Edwards July 3, 2018, 5:16 am
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Inmarsat Governmentâ€™s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom Terminals Key to Space Capability Access

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy forÂ Inmarsat Government, has said the Defense Departmentâ€™s â€œanalysis of alternativesâ€ study suggests that â€œcommercial is really hard, and you have to follow the terminals,â€ SpaceNews reported Thursday. DoD’s 18-month-long study looked at how services could leverage commercial innovations to support video conferencing, live drone streaming […] More

by Jane Edwards June 29, 2018, 6:32 am
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Microwave Ranging Instruments on GRACE-FO Satellites Contain SSL-Built Components

Maxar Technologiesâ€™ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSLâ€™s space infrastructure and civil space, wrote […] More

by Jane Edwards June 28, 2018, 6:39 am
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Raytheon Gets Navy Contract to Develop Naval UAV Swarming Tech Prototype

Raytheon has secured a potential two-year, $29.7 million contract to develop a naval prototype for the U.S. Navyâ€™s Low Cost UAV Swarming Technology program. The Navy will obligate $7.1 million inÂ fiscal 2018Â research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award,Â the Defense Department said Tuesday. LOCUST prototyping work will occur at the company’s […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers June 27, 2018, 10:49 am
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KippsDeSanto: 75% of Dealmakers Expect Govt Services M&As to Rise by 5% in 2018

A new KippsDeSanto report has found that approximately 75 percent of dealmakers said they expect the number of mergers and acquisitions in the government services sector to climb by at least 5 percent this year. KippsDeSanto said Tuesday it polled 168 strategic buyers and executives from private equity groups who are interested in defense, government […] More

by Jane Edwards June 27, 2018, 7:07 am
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Boeing Invests in California-Based Autonomous Logistics Platform Maker

Boeing‘sÂ venture capital armÂ has invested in Matternet, a company developing an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for urban logistics use. TheÂ California-based startup raisedÂ $16 million through a recentÂ Series A funding round led byÂ HorizonX Ventures,Â Boeing said Tuesday. Matternet received authorization last year to operate a UAV platform over Switzerland’s densely populated areas andÂ has delivered medical samples to Swiss hospitals […] More

by Nichols Martin June 27, 2018, 5:38 am
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Inmarsatâ€™s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Govt Should Leverage Commercial Tech for Satcom Architecture Integration

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy forÂ Inmarsat Government, has saidÂ the government should direct appropriations toward efforts that leverage commercial satellite communication platforms to establish an integrated satcom architecture. â€œFor 2019, a strong leadership is needed to apply funding resources to take full advantage of the forward-looking architecture that commercial satellite operators […] More

by Jane Edwards June 27, 2018, 5:00 am
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Northrop Tech Offers Stabilization Support to Lockheed-Built GOES-17 Weather Satellite

A Lockheed Martin-built weather satellite that launched in March is equipped with Northrop Grummanâ€™s Scalable Space Inertial Reference UnitsÂ that work to provide attitude control and sensor pointing capabilities for the spacecraft. Dean Ebert, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northropâ€™s mission systems business, said in a statement published Monday the Scalable SIRU is […] More

by Jane Edwards June 26, 2018, 11:25 am
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Report: Boeing-Built ‘Echo Voyager’ AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests

Boeing has conducted a second round of at-sea tests for an autonomous vehicle the company built in pursuit of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone program,Â Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The service branchÂ awarded separate contracts to a Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Industries team and Lockheed MartinÂ to conduct design efforts under the first phase of theÂ Orca Extra LargeÂ Unmanned […] More

by Joanna Crews June 25, 2018, 4:11 am