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Drone Delivery Canada has announced its plan to begin tests of a cargo delivery unmanned aerial system within the first quarter of 2018. Raven X1400 is designed to fly approximately 37.3 miles and accommodate payloads of up to 25 pounds, DDC said Thursday. The drone is also built with a capacity to withstand austere weather conditions observed in […] More
A BAE Systems business unit has received a potential $35 million delivery order to help the U.S. Navy update military and technical systems on a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser. BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair will conduct depot-level maintenance, alteration and modification of the USS Cape St. George (CG 71) ship as part of a special selected restricted availability effort, the Defense Department said […] More
The federal business of Accenture has secured a potential five-year, $62 million contract to configure and update the Veterans Benefits Administration‘s information technology infrastructure. Accenture Federal Services will render user-centered design, project management, requirements identification, configuration, content creation, testing and training support for Salesforce-based IT applications that VBA personnel, military veterans and their families use, Accenture […] More
A new Research and Markets report predicts that U.S. spending on defense programs will grow 5.7 percent year-over-year to reach nearly $798 billion by 2022. The U.S. spent about $586.7 billion on defense during 2017 and is projected to have the largest defense expenditure in the world over the next four years, Research and Markets said Wednesday. The report also […] More
A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has collaborated with U.K.-based National Air Traffic Services to modernize a ground-to-air radio communications system at London’s Heathrow Airport. Park Air Systems deployed new Park Air T6 radios for the airport’s Sapphire air traffic control system that works to help pilots and ATC personnel communicate with each other, Northrop said Wednesday. T6 is designed to comply […] More
IBM and Maersk have announced plans to create a joint venture that will aim to develop a blockchain technology-based platform to help digitize and secure global trade operations. The IBM-Maersk JV will be headquartered in New York and will offer a global trade digitization system based on open standards that can support the entire global shipping […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $7.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to transfer an F-35 aircraft reprogramming laboratory system to a U.S. Air Force base in Florida. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s aeronautics business will transition the F-35 Australia, Canada, U.K. Reprogramming Laboratory system from a Lockheed facility in Fort Worth, Texas to Eglin Air Force […] More
NASA has performed a certification test on a flight controller for a future Space Launch System deep space rocket as part of a series of tests on components built using advanced manufacturing approaches. The space agency said Wednesday the flight controller was integrated on the RS-25 developmental engine for a 365-second full-duration test held at the […] More
Galois has received a $2 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to build an integrated suite of tools that will work to analyze cryptographic algorithms. The company said Wednesday it will develop the Cryptographic Analysis, Verification, Exploration, and Synthesis workbench in an effort to help cryptographers address performance requirements for encryption software. CAVES will be designed […] More
U.K.-based spacecraft technology developer Effective Space has received a contract to perform in-orbit satellite servicing support for an unnamed regional operator, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. Effective Space will launch two Space Drone servicing spacecraft in 2020 to conduct station-keeping and attitude control support for two communications satellites. Daniel Campbell, managing director at Effective Space, told Via Satellite that […] More
Orbital ATK demonstrated its anti-unmanned aerial system defense system at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment held at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in an effort to gather feedback and address short-range air defense capability gaps. The company said Wednesday the AUDS platform worked to help soldiers detect, track and target hostile UAS during the demonstration. AUDS […] More
CSRA will work with Supermicro Computer and Edge Solutions & Consulting to expand the computing capacity at NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation under a contract with the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. CSRA said Wednesday it will update NASA’s Discover supercomputer to increase the system’s high-performance computing capacity to approximately 5 petaFLOPS as part of the […] More
