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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s information innovation office has begun to seek research concepts in the areas of cyber, analytics and symbiosis that aim to provide the U.S. and its allies information advantage. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps says I2O is interested in unconventional research approaches that seek to make technology advancements […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has announced the inclusion of five additional companies to an industry team that will support Australia’s Project Air 7003 that seeks to build a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft platform. Rockwell Collins‘ Australian arm, Airspeed, Ultra Electronics Australia, Quickstep Holdings and TAE Aerospace have joined Team Reaper Australia, General Atomics said Wednesday. Linden Blue, CEO […] More

Orbital ATK has finished a qualification test on the avionics system of solid rocket boosters that the company is producing for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The test series validated the avionics system’s performance in expected and abnormal conditions as well as the platform’s capacity to start booster ignition, control the booster during flight and terminate the flight, […] More

Salient CRGT has received a potential five-year, $11.5 million contract for information technology and operational support to the Defense Commissary Agency‘s Enterprise Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence system. The company said Wednesday it will provide big data, cybersecurity, data analytics and management and life cycle  services as well as help DeCA sustain the EDW/BI environment. “We are pleased to […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a Leidos–Ensco partnership to support the second and third phases of a project that aims to create a backup positioning, navigation and timing system. Ensco said Tuesday Phases II and III of DARPA’s Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Information in Contested Environments program will focus on the development of a detailed design and a real-time demonstration […] More

Ball Aerospace has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar orbiting weather satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the platform’s scheduled launch on Nov. 10. The company said Tuesday it delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 following a pre-ship review at Ball’s Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturing facility. JPSS-1 is part of the JPSS series of […] More

Matteo Genna, chief technology officer and vice president for product strategy and development at Space Systems Loral, has said SSL partnered with NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory and Deployable Space Systems to develop and test a scalable solar array platform on the International Space Station. Genna wrote in SatMagazine’s September issue the ISS demonstration conducted in […] More

MBDA and the U.K. navy have completed the first firings of a new air missile defense system designed to intercept and engage adversarial missiles that travel at supersonic speeds. The Sea Ceptor weapon system was test-fired from the HMS Argyll Type 23 frigate off the coast of Scotland, the U.K. ministry of defense said Monday. Sea Ceptor […] More

Enlogica Solutions and nLogic have signed an agreement to facilitate collaboration on business development efforts under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege program. Enlogica said Tuesday nLogic will serve as a mentor and provide contracting, technology transfer, technical and managerial support to help Enlogica expand its client base. “We are looking forward to adopting nLogic’s business […] More

Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

VSE received multiple orders worth a combined $57.4 million from the Naval Sea Systems Command’s International Fleet Support Program Officer during the months of July and August to provide maritime services for 11 foreign military sales clients. The orders cover procurement, repair and maintenance management, planning, logistics, training, engineering and technical assistance support, VSE said Tuesday. VSE […] More