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Boeing has commenced new workforce development efforts valued at $100 million and funded by savings the company said it generated due to U.S. tax reform. The new programs are part of a $300 million planned investment in its employees, infrastructure and local communities and were derived from an online survey of over 40,000 ideas from across the […] More

QinetiQ‘s North American segment has completed negotiations under a contract that General Atomics awarded in 2017 for control hardware and software. The equipment will function to control the electromagnetic aircraft launch system and advanced arresting gear of CVN 80 or the future USS Enterprise, the third U.S. Navy Ford-class aircraft carrier, the company said Monday. The multi-year contract provides for the […] More

Adam Marks, recently appointed chief strategy officer at Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, told Via Satellite in an interview published Monday he believes in-orbit satellite servicing could transform the nature of the space infrastructure. “In the near-term, servicing provides satellite operators with the flexibility to delay capex decisions and get more life out of existing spacecraft,” he said. […] More

A Koniag subsidiary has secured a task order to help the Defense Health Agency maintain an enterprise resource planning system used to monitor the U.S. military’s medical logistics activity. Koniag Services Inc. will provide DevOps support to DHA’s Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center in efforts to sustain hardware and software of the Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics System, […] More

DynCorp International has received a potential two-year, $46.2 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force maintain A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft stationed at Davis-Monthan AF Base in Tucson, Ariz. The company said Monday it will continue to support the 357th Aircraft Maintenance Unit’s ground attack jets under the Davis-Monthan Contract Field Team order. Connie Green, contracts manager at DynCorp’s […] More

General Dynamics has completed sea acceptance tests of a surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle the company developed for the U.S. Navy. The Knifefish UUV was tested across operational MCM scenarios that took place in  simulated mine fields off Boston’s coast, General Dynamics said Monday. Carlo Zaffanella, vice president and general manager of maritime and strategic systems at General Dynamics’ […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $14.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to determine if the current F-35 air system can address future operational requirements. The company will also help the service branch explore cost and weight reduction strategies as well as conduct modeling and simulation efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work also includes additional analysis efforts to […] More

Boeing and France-based Safran have formed a new joint venture that will develop and service auxiliary power units or onboard engines used to power aircraft while on the ground. Boeing said Monday both firms will own a 50 percent stake in the U.S.-based joint venture and that it expects the transaction to close in the […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, will deliver a keynote address at the two-day AWS Public Sector Summit that will kick off on June 20 in Washington, D.C. Carlson, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, will discuss how public sector organizations act as “builders” on behalf of citizens, AWS said Monday. Rob Meyerson, […] More

Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, has said the company looks at the potential use of geospatial data to support artificial intelligence-based training efforts in the public sector, SpaceNews reported Saturday. He told the publication in an interview increasing the access to public data can help developers create open-source machine learning algorithms designed to recognize […] More