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Iridium Books L3Harris Contract for Satellite Time and Location Service

Iridium Communications has secured a five-year contract from L3Harris Technologies to deliver timing sync services to U.S. data centers, crucial for safeguarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s infrastructure. Under the contract, Iridium will supply its satellite time and location service to over 36 L3Harris-operated communications network backbone nodes and a similar number of FAA facilities.

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by Kacey Roberts April 10, 2024, 11:30 am
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HII Awarded Navy Vertical Launching System Support Task Order; Todd Gentry Quoted

HII's Mission Technologies division will conduct research, analyze and build capabilities for the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems on the U.S. Navy's surface ships under a potential five-year, $75 million task order. HII said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the Department of Defense's Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract.

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by Jane Edwards April 10, 2024, 11:18 am
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Fluor to Support Airfield on Tinian Island Under $409M USAF Task Order; Tom D’Agostino Quoted

Fluor has booked a five-year, $409 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide pavement and transportation support for North Field on Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The cost-plus, fixed-fee task order was issued by the USAF Installation Contracting Agency through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V, Fluor announced from Irving, Texas on Wednesday.

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by Ireland Degges April 10, 2024, 11:02 am
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Hughes Network Systems Books GA-ASI Production Contract for Modems to Enhance Gray Eagle ISR Capability

Hughes Network Systems has secured a contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to produce the initial units of an advanced modem designed to enhance the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft system. The EchoStar company said Monday it received the contract after completing the development phase and is set to commence deliveries of the HM400T modems in the spring.

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by Kacey Roberts April 9, 2024, 11:23 am
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Rocket Lab Awarded Space Force Task Order for Space Test Program-S30 Mission; Peter Beck Quoted

Rocket Lab USA will launch an Electron vehicle to support the Space Test Program-S30 mission under a task order awarded by the U.S. Space Force. STP-S30 will deploy to orbit technology demonstrations and research experiments for the Department of Defense and support future development of space systems, Rocket Lab said Monday.

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by Jane Edwards April 9, 2024, 11:21 am
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BlueHalo Receives Army P-HEL Logistics Support Contract; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted

BlueHalo has secured a four-year logistics support contract to help the U.S. Army manage and maintain its laser weapon system designed to defend forces and critical infrastructure against threats from small unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Monday it will serve as the full-cycle lead system integrator overseeing preventative and corrective maintenance and operator and maintenance team training for the Army's Palletized High Energy Laser system.

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by Naomi Cooper April 9, 2024, 11:10 am
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HPE Lands DISA Distributed Hybrid Multi Cloud Prototype Development OTA

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has secured an other transaction authority agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to build a prototype capability as part of a program that seeks to modernize the x86 server architecture to “achieve a unified operating experience” while supporting secure hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments. DISA announced the OTA award in a LinkedIn post published Friday.

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by Jane Edwards April 8, 2024, 10:30 am
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Akamai Secures Army OTA for Zero Trust Software Prototype Production

Akamai Technologies has received an other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army to develop zero trust software prototypes in support of the service branch's Tactical-Identity Credential and Access Management project. The company will create T-ICAM prototypes to provide a zero trust network security architecture to secure access to Army networks used by combat units in contested operational environments, the military service said Friday.

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by Naomi Cooper April 8, 2024, 9:45 am
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Jacobs Receives $571M FEMA Disaster Response, Recovery Support Contract; Susannah Kerr Quoted

Jacobs Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $570.5 million contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency repair and restore disaster-damaged, publicly-owned facilities in the West Zone regions. The company said it will partner with CDM Smith to provide site inspection, field support, technical evaluation and cost analysis services to FEMA under the Public Assistance Technical Assistance Contract V contract vehicle.

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by Naomi Cooper April 5, 2024, 9:11 am
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VivSoft to Extend Work on Air Force Platform One Under New Contract; Tapasvi Kaza Quoted

VivSoft Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Cryptologic and Cyber System Division to extend its work on Platform One, or P1. Issued through the Small Business Innovation Research program, this award is VivSoft's second contract under the P1 initiative and aims to solve enterprise-wide digital identity challenges, the Fairfax, Virginia-based organization told ExecutiveBiz on Thursday.

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by Ireland Degges April 4, 2024, 11:14 am
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Army, DIU Tap 8 Vendors for Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways Project

The U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit have selected eight companies to prototype autonomous software and processes to advance the use of uncrewed vehicles in challenging military operations as part of the Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways project. DIU said Wednesday the GVAP project seeks to provide a technical pipeline to support rapid modeling, development, testing and fielding of autonomous features.

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by Jane Edwards April 4, 2024, 10:58 am
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Raytheon Awarded Navy Contract to Enhance CADRE Capability

An RTX subsidiary has secured a $40.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to enhance the technology readiness of the Controlled, Advanced, Distributed Radio Frequency Effects initiative. The competitively procured contract is in support of the potential integration of CADRE into the Next Generation Jammer program, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

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by Kacey Roberts April 4, 2024, 8:02 am