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Saalex Solutions has won a potential $87.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide nearly 1.2 million direct labor hours of engineering support to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help NAWCWD’s research and engineering department develop, test, evaluate, produce and operate multiple weapons systems across the […] More

The Australian government has selected Germany-based shipbuilding company Lurssen as the prime contractor on a potential $3 billion contract to design and build up to 12 offshore patrol vessels. Australia’s defense department said Friday the OPV construction project will be performed by Australian workers in the country’s shipyards using locally-sourced steel. The first two vessels will […] More

Louis Berger has secured a $1.7 million contract to manage the construction of a two-lane bridge designed to link Cameroon and Nigeria. The company said Thursday the project will use a balanced cantilever method to build a box girder bridge over the Cross River between Ekok, Cameroon and Mfum, Nigeria. Louis Berger will also provide bridge construction management training and […] More

QinetiQ has opened a center of excellence at the company’s headquarters in  Farnborough, England, to facilitate development and test of high-energy lasers. The Dragonworks CoE is built to serve as a testing platform for military and commercial laser technology platforms, the company said Friday. The facility includes a clean-room wherein personnel can work on sensitive optical equipment and offers access […] More

Australia’s defense department plans to invest $659 million in funds to support the operations of Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. The Australian government will spend $250 million on a Boeing training simulator system at the country’s air force base in Edinburgh as well as $409 million to upgrade base facilities, with an early 2019 completion date, Australia’s defense department said […] More

General Dynamics has landed a three-year, $14.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to produce machine gun barrels for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s ordnance and tactical systems business will perform contract work in Vermont through Dec. 24, 2021. The Army will fund the procurement of machine gun barrels using […] More

Cloud application and service provider Technomile has moved its corporate headquarters from Vienna to Mclean, Virginia, in an effort to accommodate additional employees to fill key positions across the organization. The company said Wednesday its main office is now located at 1861 International Drive Suite 270 in McLean. “We intend to continue adding talented well rounded developers as well […] More

WidePoint Corporation has received a one-year, $4.4 million task order option to provide managed wireless services to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company said Nov. 20 the exercised option falls under the Department of Homeland Security‘s Cellular Wireless Management Services Blanket Purchase Agreement. Jin Kang, CEO of WidePoint, said the company designed its Trusted Mobility Management platform to […] More

Accenture’s federal services business and the Partnership for Public Service have released an issue brief that calls on government agencies to adopt three strategies in order to change the way they deliver services to citizens. Kathy Conrad, director of digital government at Accenture Federal Services, wrote in a guest piece posted Wednesday on Government Executive that […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a request for information on potential concepts for novel technology platforms designed to navigate and map urban underground infrastructure, manmade tunnels, natural cave networks and other subterranean environments. DARPA said Tuesday it is interested in platforms that can help locate trapped survivors and other objects of interest […] More

An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a $19.8 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Navy manage a facility that provides lifecycle support for the service branch’s towed arrays. L3 Unidyne will perform services at the Naval Array Technical Support Center in Newport, Rhode Island, through July 2018 under the modification, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Undersea […] More

BAE Systems plans to collaborate with the U.K. government to transfer shipbuilding data worth approximately $1.1 billion to Australia if the company wins the latter country’s frigate construction project. The intellectual property transfer is meant to support the Australian industry’s efforts to build, modernize and support the fleet of nine future frigates under Australia’s SEA […] More