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CAES, Raytheon Partner to Connect Military Aircraft, Commercial Satellite Internet; Mike Kahn Quoted

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has teamed up with CAES to develop a connectivity platform for U.S. Air Force aircraft to access commercial satellite internet services. CAES said Monday it will build a radio frequency signal converter for integration into a phased array antenna Raytheon is developing to support the Air Force Research Laboratory-led Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program.

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2021, 9:16 am
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General Dynamics to Produce Missile Seeker Components for Raytheon SM-3 Interceptor

Raytheon Technologies has awarded General Dynamics a pair of contracts worth $43 million combined to manufacture seeker components for two new variants of the Standard Missile-3 system. General Dynamics said Monday its mission systems unit will provide optical hardware to Raytheon's missiles and defense business for integration into the SM-3 Block IB and IIA interceptors.

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2021, 9:07 am
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CGI Awarded Spot on Potential $12.6B DIA Contract for IT Services; Stephanie Mango Quoted

CGI announced on Tuesday that it has secured a position on the Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) III contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the delivery of information technology (IT) mission support services. The contract has a 10-year period and a potential ceiling value of $12.6 billion.

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by Noah Chelednik May 11, 2021, 9:05 am
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DOD Officials Consider Other Alternatives to Move Forward Amid JEDI Cloud Litigation

Department of Defense officials are considering ending the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract amid the ongoing litigation and are assessing other options to go forward. In late April, a federal judge turned down motions by DOD and Microsoft to dismiss Amazon’s lawsuit challenging the award of the JEDI cloud contract.

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by Jane Edwards May 11, 2021, 5:30 am
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Robert Lech: LMI to Continue, Expand Support to USMC’s Logistics Command

LMI has received a one-year contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to continue providing Logistics Command with strategic support that could help enhance the service branch's inventory management. The company will provide software and tools in support of LOGCOM’s mission.

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by Christine Thropp May 11, 2021, 4:23 am
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Akima Subsidiary Awarded FEMA Task Order for Grant Data Analytics Services

Akima announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary, RiverTech, has been awarded a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD) task order to provide support to enhance its data analysis and reporting. The potential five-year task order is made under the One Acquisition Solutions for Integrated Services (OASIS) small business contract vehicle.

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by Noah Chelednik May 10, 2021, 9:59 am
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Virgin Orbit’s New LauncherOne Mission to Send DOD, International Satellites to Space in June

Virgin Orbit announced on Thursday that its LauncherOne rocket is fully assembled and will soon be shipped to Mojave Air and Space Port in California for pre-launch operations. The rocket’s upcoming mission is called Tubular Bells, Part One, which will launch CubeSat satellites for the Department of Defense (DOD) and Royal Netherlands Air Force, as well as two optical satellites for SatRevolution. The launch is scheduled for June of this year.

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by Noah Chelednik May 10, 2021, 9:11 am
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Air Force Selects Eclypsium for Enterprise Device Security Research Project

Eclypsium has received a contract to examine the feasibility of using company-built technology to monitor and secure devices across the U.S. Air Force. The company said Friday it aims to show the potential use of an enterprise device security platform to the Department of Defense under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract from the Air Force's AFWERX organization.

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by Carol Collins May 10, 2021, 8:22 am
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Harris Miller Miller & Hanson to Support NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Demonstrator Flight Test

Massachusetts-based company Harris Miller Miller & Hanson has received a potential eight-year, $29 million contract to help NASA plan, implement and document community overflight tests of an experimental supersonic aircraft fitted with noise reduction technology.

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by Carol Collins May 10, 2021, 7:56 am
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Keysight to Deliver Kits for USAF’s Automatic Test Station

Keysight Technologies has secured a five-year, $39.8 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with tools needed to support automatic testing. USAF will gain access to Keysight's test and measurement products for Versatile Diagnostic Automatic Test Station updates and production activities.

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by Nichols Martin May 7, 2021, 8:26 am
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Kratos Books Multiple Space Domain Awareness Contracts; Phil Carrai Quoted

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured over $46 million in several awards to support various space domain awareness programs. Kratos' OpenSpace software is designed to facilitate adjustments of satellite ground systems to environmental or operational changes.

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by Nichols Martin May 7, 2021, 8:03 am
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REI to Offer Grant Management Software on GSA Schedule

REI Systems has secured a software licenses award under the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule contract that allows the company to offer its software-as-a-service product governmentwide. GovGrants is a management software designed by REI to handle customers' full lifecycle grants and loans business processes.

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by Christine Thropp May 7, 2021, 5:41 am