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Nano Dimension has been chosen to supply U.S. military services with three-dimensional printing systems designed to facilitate electronics prototyping and manufacturing processes. The company said Monday it sold DragonFly Pro 3D Printers to the country’s armed forces via two sales transactions after receiving a “U.S. Government Certified Vendor” designation. TriMech Solutions and Fathom helped Nano Dimension sell the technology as value-added […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected 11 companies to explore airframe and software models for the military service’s proposed unmanned aerial system with a vertical takeoff and landing feature, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. USMC and Naval Air Systems Command officials started to visit factories after the service branch hosted an industry day for the […] More

Science Application International Corp. has received a $95.6M contract modification to provide technical services to help the U.S. Army update computing systems. The Army will initially obligate $9.7M in fiscal 2018 funds to finance the additional work under the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur through Oct. 18, 2021, at various locations in Mississippi, Ohio and Maryland. […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $25.1M contract to supply spares of a medium-range, surface-to-air weapon system built to defend naval vessels against anti-ship missiles. The company will provide life-of-type-buy and assembly-level components for the Navy’s Block I Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile through June 2021 under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Sea Systems Command […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received recognition for contributions in support of the National Guard Education Foundation. Sikorsky garnered NGEF’s BG William W. Spruance Legacy Award at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 140th General Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Lockheed said Saturday. The award recognizes people and firms that have significantly supported NGEF and […] More

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a potential $31.6M “bridge” contract for information technology operations support services. SAIC will continue to help the agency manage IT infrastructure, end-user services, data and test centers, and voice, video and network systems, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The extended contract also covers infrastructure monitoring […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to propose applied research and basic concepts that could help build and maintain systems designed to facilitate automated knowledge curation, discovery and application. A FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 17 says the Artificial Intelligence Exploration  opportunity focuses on two technical areas: machine-assisted curation and machine-assisted inference. The […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has landed a spot on a potential $980M contract to provide support services to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division. SAIC said Thursday it will compete with 21 other contractors for task orders to design, develop, analyze, integrate, modify and deliver training platforms through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Jim […] More

The General Services Administration has awarded IBM a six-month, $16M contract extension to continue helping GSA update and manage the agency’s online registration platform for government contractors and federal assistance requests. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the company has supported the System for Award Management site over the past eight years under the SAM Architecture and Operations Contract […] More