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Engineers at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding business have started using laser scanners and other digital technologies to develop blueprints of aircraft carriers, submarines and other vessels to speed up ship design, construction and maintenance work, Defense One reported Sunday. Chris Miner, vice president of in-service carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding, said digital data will help the company achieve business transformation.

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Spire Global will provide BAE Systems with automatic identification systems data that the latter firm would use for geospatial applications. BAE will integrate the data into the Geospatial eXploitation Products, a software line designed to help users discover, exploit and disseminate digital geospatial intelligence, Spire said Wednesday.

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Lockheed Martin plans to deliver the first set of new electronic warfare pods developed for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters by end of 2019 or in early 2020, Rotor and Wing International reported Thursday.

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GetSAT has received type approval from Inmarsat to deploy rugged satellite communications terminals for use with the Global Xpress broadband network.

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Thirty-five NASA microgravity payloads launched aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft from a remote flight test facility in Texas, CBS News reported Thursday. The spacecraft reached a maximum altitude of 65.5 miles and released three parachutes before descending back to the Earth's surface.

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FBI has approved the use of Verogen's forensic technology for DNA profiling at federal, state and municipal laboratories. The agency intends to upload resulting DNA profiles into the National DNA Index System, a platform designed to facilitate DNA comparison, Verogen said Thursday. The company's MiSeq FGx forensic genomics system is the first platform authorized for use with NDIS.

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Nerdery has been accepted as a public sector partner of Amazon Web Services to help customer agencies manage workloads on the AWS cloud platform.

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Leidos will present cyber, machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology platforms the company developed to support U.S. Navy programs during the Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Md.

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Jacobs Engineering Group assisted the Missile Defense Agency in the demonstration of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system's ability to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile target.

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Lockheed Martin officials said the company considers equipping a sixth-generation fighter aircraft with a laser weapon built to counter aerial drones and sensors and disrupt enemies’ electronic equipment, USNI News reported Wednesday.

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Maxar Technologies has seen growth in the number of customers subscribing to its line of cloud-based geospatial data products. The line includes EarthWatch, SecureWatch, GBDX and Spatial on Demand, the company said Thursday.

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