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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
Cubic‘s mission solutions business has established an office located close to AT&T‘s Dallas headquarters. Both companies started to collaborate last year to develop an interoperability platform and have formalized a partnership to create an interagency communications offering based on the Vocality RoIP gateway, Cubic said Thursday. “We take pride in our ability to provide exceptional service to our […] More
Ionic Security has completed the testing phase of a video surveillance data security tool developed through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Silicon Valley Innovation Program. DHS said Monday the company Data Trust Platform works to protect feeds against targeted attacks without requiring the use of additional encryption, proxies and new technology. The platform is designed to comply with the Open Network […] 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
CACI International CEO Ken Asbury has said the company’s effort to strike a “transformational transaction†is not based on scale but on the need to address gaps in capabilities across the 12 markets it serves, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “We are an organization that is not consumed by the notion of scale,â€Â Asbury told […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment, has said the company is “on the cusp of delivery†of the first 18 KC-46 air refueling tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force this year, the Seattle Times reported Thursday. “We have an entire fleet of tankers here and as we get […] 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
General Electric‘s technology development unit has received a four-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a framework to validate and certify 3D-printed spare parts for military ships, aircraft and other platforms. The company said Wednesday GE Global Research will collaborate with GE Aviation, GE Additive, Honeywell, Pennsylvania State University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Navy […] More
