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ManTech International has landed a potential five-year, $35.9 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services to a U.S. Navy division focused on ship and shore combat identification systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will help the Navy’s Combat Integrated and Identification Systems Division engineer systems, assess technology, analyze risks and develop a testbed. Work also covers […] More

General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems unit has received a $9.1 million delivery order to manufacture helicopter gun turrets for the U.S. Marine Corps and the government of Pakistan. The order is for 41 A/A49E-7 (V4) gun turrets for integration onto AH-1Z attack helicopters, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the order comprises nearly $6 […] More

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have jointly demonstrated new functions and technologies of the MQ-8B and MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters. Northrop said Wednesday Fire Scout showcased its manned/unmanned teaming features through station-to-station hand offs of two Fire Scouts and the streaming of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting data to an Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit. The […] More

Boeing has received a $46.3 million contract modification for upgrade work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of airborne warning and control system aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification will definitize a previous undefinitized contract action for the low-rate initial production of the AWACS Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation […] More

NASA has awarded three companies $10.2 million in total grants to develop ground-based prototypes of a multimaterial fabrication laboratory. Interlog, Techshot and Tethers Unlimited will aim to deliver the prototypes within an 18-month period as part of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships  initiative, NASA said Friday. The agency plans to select partners to further mature resulting […] More

A Raytheon subsidiary has been selected to develop tools for military planners to examine and address causal factors that trigger conflict situations as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-led program. Raytheon BBN Technologies aims to use artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to produce a modeling platform for DARPA’s Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program, […] More

A new report from Australia’s national audit office says IBM received the highest number of information technology contracts from the Australian government during the 2012 to 2013 through 2016 to 2017 period, ZDNet reported Thursday. Australia spent $27 billion on IT contracts over the five-year period, including $1.8 billion for 692 government contracts that went to IBM, […] More

Raytheon has created an aerospace and defense subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates to mark its 30th year of partnership with the country’s government. John Brauneis, formerly vice president for supply chain management at Raytheon, will serve as chief executive of the Abu Dhabi-based Raytheon Emirates business, the company said Wednesday. Brauneis said the subsidiary aims […] More

Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, has said venture capital firms have made “consistent” investments in space companies amid the lack of “megadeals” involving space startups in 2017, Space News reported Tuesday. Christensen said Tuesday at the SpaceCom Expo in Houston, Texas, that the previous two years each recorded approximately $3 billion in total […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a potential five-year, $47 million to develop combat simulation hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday it will also help the military service build and maintain a supplementary network infrastructure as well as integrate a live, virtual and constructive combat environment into warfighter training. Dan […] More

Lockheed Martin has licensed an industrial internet-of-things platform from Ubisense as part of efforts to increase F-35 manufacturing efficiency at Lockheed’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility. Ubisense said Wednesday it designed the SmartSpace system to help manufacturers address schedule, budget requirements for aircraft production, as well as boost transparency on the manufacturing process with location technology. SmartSpace employs an indoor […] More

Vencore has booked multiple contracts worth up to $375 million combined during the third quarter of 2017 to help several U.S. government customers engineer and integrate systems. The company said Wednesday it will perform work under the contracts over a span of more than seven years. Chantilly, Virginia-based Vencore offers a range of software, cyber and […] More