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Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has offered its aerial remote sensing services professionals along with a suite of tools to aid disaster recovery and fire suppression missions in California, Oregon and Texas. Insitu said Tuesday the INEXA Solutions suite, which covered the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle as well as manned aircraft equipped with scanning payloads and sensors, assisted […] More

ECS Federal has received a potential $9.1 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deliver environmental and professional support services to NOAA’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries. The company said Tuesday contract work covers data analysis, policy development, strategic planning and outreach, training and meeting facilitation, web content management and grant administrative support. The services […] More

SpaceX has delayed the scheduled first test launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket from December to January, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. The company expects to field the rocket to its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the static fire test of the space vehicle’s 27 Merlin 1D engines in December. […] More

Rockwell Collins has received a contract to provide a new helmet mounted display platform for integration with the U.S. Army‘s Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer systems. The company said Tuesday it will update 332 SimEye HMD units for the military branch and expects to complete the upgrades by October 2019. SimEye will be equipped with new display and optical […] More

Honeywel International has won a potential $10.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop an acceleration measurement device. The Defense Department said Tuesday Honeywell support research and development of a low noise, high sensitivity vibrating beam accelerometer under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Work  will occur in Glendale, Arizona, through Feb. 20, 2025 and […] More

M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery services across multiple industries and […] More

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Oshkosh Defense a potential five-year, $71.7 million contract to produce motor vehicle parts and accessories for the U.S. Marine Corps. The firm-fixed-price contract has three base years along with two option years, the  Defense Department said Tuesday. Oshkosh Defense will perform work at a company facility in Wisconsin and is scheduled to finish by Nov. […] More

NASA has started to checkout and commission a small satellite that is designed to demonstrate the capacity of CubeSats to gather scientific data. The agency said Tuesday its ground controllers began checking out the Dellingr CubeSat a few hours after the spacecraft was launched into low-Earth orbit by a NanoRacks-built CubeSat deployer aboard the International Space Station on Nov. 20. […] More

Lockheed Martin and five other defense contractors have formed a consortium to offer a warship design for a program that seeks to replace the Canadian navy’s fleet of surface combatants. The Canada’s Combat Ship Team composed of Lockheed’s Canadian arm, CAE, BAE Systems, L3 Technologies, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates – now called Maxar Technologies – and […] More

Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies group has received contract worth more than $8 million to source and test spacecraft components for use in a NASA program. An unnamed U.S. space contractor awarded the contract and initially obligated $4 million, Comtech said Tuesday. “We are pleased that this customer has placed their confidence in our space-level parts supply chain management […] More

Applied Technology Associates has received a potential $7.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to support a research and development program that seeks to increase the resiliency of space structures. The company will provide R&D services required by the service branch’s integrated structural systems program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work will occur at Kirtland Air Force Base […] More