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A U.K. aircraft carrier built by a BAE Systems–Babcock–Thales Group alliance has arrived at its homeport in Portsmouth, England for the first time. The British defense ministry said Wednesday sailors and a flypast from the Fleet Air Arm welcomed the Aircraft Carrier Alliance-built HMS Queen Elizabeth ship that will support F-35 trial flights beginning next year. “When she enters […] More
A Lockheed Martin-built radar warning receiver component of the tactical mission platform for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program has completed technical readiness level 6 review. The AN/APR-52 RWR system achieved TRL 6 after the U.S. Air Force demonstrated the platform at its integrated demonstrations and applications laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Lockheed said Wednesday. […] More
Revolution Lighting Technologies has been selected by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce 2,300 military standard light-emitting diode tubes for the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday it will supply the service branch with T8 LED tubes designed with Buy American Act- and Trade Agreements Act-compliant components. The Navy certified the T8 LED tube’s compliance with the military standard as well as […] More
ICF has received a potential five-year, $20.8 million contract to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s education and preparedness programs designed to protect communities near nuclear power plants. The company said Wednesday it has supported the Radiological Emergency Preparedness program since 2000 through the delivery of policy analysis, program management, training and exercise evaluation services to FEMA and […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has demonstrated the performance of a dual-mode undersea vehicle through autonomous contested battlespace missions that took place at the U.S. Navy-hosted Advanced Naval Technology Exercise. The Proteus vehicle delivered and launched three smaller unmanned undersea platforms during the underwater mission segment of the event, HII said Wednesday. HII’s technical solutions division and Battelle jointly […] More
Vectrus‘ systems business has received a $49.5 million contract modification to help manage U.S. Army base operations in Qatar. The Defense Department said Wednesday Vectrus will perform work in Doha, Qatar, through Sept. 29, 2018. The Army Contracting Command obligated the full modification amount at the time of award from the service branch’s fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds. Vectrus […] More
Globecomm has supplied multiple communications and entertainment technologies for use on board the U.S. Navy‘s USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier as a subcontractor to shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries. Hauppauge, New York-based Globecomm said Wednesday its internet protocol video system and satellite and fiber optic-based communications distribution infrastructure will provide media live streaming, at-sea multimedia programming and pier-side […] More
The U.S. Army‘s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center seeks information on potential industry and government sources of light detection and ranging technologies that can detect chemical vapors and biological aerosols. ECBC is surveying commercial and government off-the-shelf longwave infrared LIDAR tools that can perform chemical and biological standoff detection in mobile or fixed sites at ranges of up […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $39 million task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide engineering services to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Combat Operations Center. SAIC said Wednesday it will also help COC develop, integrate and security software as well as provide information assurance, logistics and […] More
A Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built supercomputer took off aboard a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of SpaceX’s 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer is part of a one-year experiment that HPE will conduct with NASA to […] More
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have delivered the 4,000th unit of the company’s cruise missile platform, built to perform precision strike missions, to the naval fleet. The company said Tuesday that the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles have a capacity to circle around a target for hours, shift course while in flight as well as engage […] More
Air Marshal Leo Davies, chief of Australia’s air force, took his first flight of a trainer aircraft from a team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Pilatus Aircraft and Hawker Pacific. Lockheed said Tuesday the PC-21 in-service flight represents a milestone for the Australian defense forces’ AIR 5428 Pilot Training System. In late 2015, the Lockheed-led consortium won a contract valued at $946 […] More
