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  • AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office
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    AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office

    AE Strategies has won a potential five-year, $20.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of professional services to the Department of the Navy‘s Office of Civilian Human Resources. The company will help DoN OCHR formulate policy and guidance, oversee services and develop and implement information technology plans under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate
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    Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in fiscal year 2020 to design […] More

  • Lockheed, Saab Partner to Build Army Vehicle Crew Training System for Army
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    Lockheed, Saab Partner to Build Army Vehicle Crew Training System for Army

    Lockheed Martin will work with Saab to build an integrated system for the U.S. Army to train crews of the service branch’s tactical vehicles under a potential $288 million contract awarded in April. The team aims to deliver an Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System equipped with Lockheed’s SciosLive platform, the […] More

  • ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract
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    ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $39 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Combat Direction Systems Activity to help maintain systems on U.S. Navy ships. The company said Friday it will deliver support to NSWCDD’s documentation management function and computer build and installation program under the contract. CDSA works to update and maintain systems on aircraft […] More

  • IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems
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    IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems

    Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM’s federal business, has said the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform works to help the U.S. Army predict mechanical issues in its fleet of Stryker vehicles as part of a pilot program that started in mid-2016. Gordy told FCW in an interview published Friday the Watson supercomputer has helped the service branch […] More

  • Polish Defense Group, Lockheed to Collaborate on Missile Launcher Devt Project
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    Polish Defense Group, Lockheed to Collaborate on Missile Launcher Devt Project

    A consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies intends to start exclusive further negotiations with Lockheed Martin on the development of a mobile artillery missile launcher system for Poland’s armed forces. The Polish Armament Group selected Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System offering as the basis of the country’s Homar program, the company said Friday. The program […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell CompassCom’s Fleet Management Tools to Public Sector
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    Carahsoft to Resell CompassCom’s Fleet Management Tools to Public Sector

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a value-added reseller of CompassCom Software’s fleet management platforms to the public sector through Carahsoft’s spot on the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Carahsoft said Friday it will offer CompassCom’s Geographic Information System, Global Navigation Satellite System, Mobile Resource Management tool and other wireless platforms to federal customers under […] More

  • Lockheed, French Shipbuilder Open Office to Support Australia’s Submarine Devt Program
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    Lockheed, French Shipbuilder Open Office to Support Australia’s Submarine Devt Program

    Lockheed Martin and French shipbuilding company Naval Group, formerly DCNS, have opened an office in Cherbourg, France, to accommodate submarine designers and naval engineers who will support Australia’s Future Submarine Program. Lockheed said Sunday its Australian arm and Naval Group will collaborate with Australia’s defense department to produce a fleet of 12 submarines for the Royal Australian […] More

  • American Systems Receives Navy Air Vehicle Training Support Contract; Peter Smith Comments
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    American Systems Receives Navy Air Vehicle Training Support Contract; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has secured a potential five-year, $30.3 million contract to provide specialized engineering and technical services to help the Naval Air Systems Command develop and operate the U.S. Navy‘s air vehicle dynamic models and simulations. The company said Monday it will support air vehicle dynamic simulations and architecture; collision avoidance systems algorithm design; engineering […] More

  • Pixelligent Gets DoD, DOE Grants for Nanocomposite Tech Development
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    Pixelligent Gets DoD, DOE Grants for Nanocomposite Tech Development

    Pixelligent Technologies has received $2.15 million in total funds from the departments of Defense and Energy to further develop new applications based on the company’s nanocomposite technology. The company said Monday it will create an organic light emitting diode under two Phase I and Phase IIB grants awarded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program. DoD also seeks […] More

  • Lockheed-Raytheon JV to Provide Army Javelin Rounds, Engineering Services
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    Lockheed-Raytheon JV to Provide Army Javelin Rounds, Engineering Services

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon has secured a $56.8 million contract modification to supply containerized rounds, electronics, command launch units for the U.S. Army‘s Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile system. Javelin Joint Venture will also provide non-recurring engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Friday. The JV developed the system to offer fire-and-forget and medium-range […] More

  • InfoReliance Meets AWS Workload Competency Requirements for 3 Microsoft Platforms
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    InfoReliance Meets AWS Workload Competency Requirements for 3 Microsoft Platforms

    Amazon Web Services has granted certification to Fairfax County, Virginia-based InfoReliance for the latter company’s capacity to help customers migrate, deploy or manage Microsoft workloads to an AWS platform. InfoReliance said Friday it demonstrated technical expertise to support Microsoft-based Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server platforms through customer case studies under the AWS Partner Competency Program. John Sankovich, executive vice president of InfoReliance’s […] More