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A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft for NASA‘s Mars mission lifted off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander is scheduled to reach Mars on Nov. 26 and perform scientific investigations through Nov. 24, 2020, NASA said Saturday. The […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said the company had booked contracts for approximately 25 combat ships at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the National Interest reported Saturday. “By the end of 2020, if all goes as planned, we will see a significant amount of contracting activity […] More

AeroVironment has received ISO 9001:2015/AS9100D certification for the quality management system the company uses across its unmanned aircraft, tactical missile, electric vehicle charging and power cycling and test systems businesses. SAI Global issued the certificate that covers AeroVironment’s design, development, operational performance, production and support processes, the UAS manufacturer said Friday. Wahid Nawabi, president and CEO of AeroVironment, […] More

Bloomberg Government has updated its database and dashboard to help companies gain insight into the Defense Department‘s five-year spending plan for procurement and research and development programs. Kevin Brancato, director of government contracts research at BGOV, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the Future Years Defense Program dashboard features a search tool for business developers […] More

Raytheon has been chosen to help the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance design, develop and support an airspace corridor in New York state to facilitate testing of unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Thursday the new airspace corridor will serve as a venue for companies to test drones and platforms designed for air traffic management […] More

Janus Global Operations, under a U.S. State Department effort, has cleared two schools in the Iraqi city of Mosul of explosives stored by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Lenoir, Tenn.-based company said Thursday its deployed teams removed more than 700 tons of rubble from the Al Muthana Boys School and Al-Mansour Boys […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a $1.3 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a tool for U.S. military commanders to understand and address potential space threats. The company said Tuesday it designed PICASSA to help users collect, analyze and interpret space situational awareness data as part of DARPA’s Hallmark program. PICASSA works to integrate SSA data […] More