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Oracle has secured a six-month, $11.2 million task order to support the development of an integrated technology platform for the U.S. Marine Corps to manage the service branch’s logistics operation. The Defense Department said Monday the company will also provide sustainment and maintenance services for the Global Combat Support System – Marine Corps Logistics Chain Management. GCSS-MC/LCM is […] More
Lockheed Martin has chosen Harris to update mission system avionics systems used on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft in support of a program that aims to boost the platform’s data storage, display processing and throughput capacity. Harris said Monday that it will offer Aircraft Memory System and Panoramic Cockpit Display Electronic Units based on open […] More
ECS Federal has secured a $68.4 million blanket purchase agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide a range of services for the office of marine and aviation operations. The BPA adds aircraft and unmanned systems services to ECS’ area of support, which previously included mostly maritime-related activities, the company said Friday. ECS added […] More
Global, a 1st Flagship subsidiary, has received a potential five-year, $32 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support vessels assigned to the Naval Sea Systems Command Inactive Ship Maintenance Office and the Guided-Missile Cruiser/Dock Landing Ship Modernization Detachment. The Defense Department said Friday that Global will help inspect, survey, maintain and dispose of vessels at […] More
Centra Technology has won a potential $61.8 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to assess the survivability of U.S. military assets. The Defense Department said Friday the company will evaluate U.S. and allied national/theater mission systems, networks, architectures, infrastructures and assets from DTRA’s headquarters at Fort Belvoir in Virginia through Aug. 11, 2022. The Balanced Survivability […] More
Australia’s defense department accepted its first Hobart-class air warfare destroyer equipped with the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis combat system during a ceremony held Friday in Adelaide. Australia has become the sixth allied country to receive a destroyer ship with the Aegis system, Lockheed said Friday. Vince Di Pietro, CEO of Lockheed’s Australian arm, said the company […] More
Andrew Rodgers, program manager for light tactical vehicles at PEO Land Systems Marine Corps, said the U.S. Marine Corps plans to increase the number of joint light tactical vehicles it intends to buy from 5,500 to 9,092 units, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Rodgers told reporters Wednesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia that the […] More
Rockwell Collins has delivered the 770th global positioning system receiver built for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center as part of a contract awarded in 2012. The company said Thursday that the Military-Code GPS receivers were ordered under the Military GPS User Equipment program which works to boost GPS capacities for the military in […] More
A new report from Deloitte says that global aerospace and defense revenue increased by 2.4 percent to $674.4 billion during 2016. The 2017 Global A&D Sector Financial Performance Study is based on an analysis of top 100 A&D companies worldwide that recorded more than $500 million in revenues last year, the company said Thursday. The report found that A&D […] More
An Earth observation platform developed by a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has been installed on the International Space Station to host imaging, technology demonstration and space qualification payloads. The Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform from Teledyne Brown Engineering launched with SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket in early June and has completed an initial operational assessment at the space station, Teledyne said Tuesday. MUSES, which orbits approximately 250 miles […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on current products and services that can help increase the detection rate for weapons of mass destruction via networked sensors. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday it aims to explore new technologies to help defend metropolitan- and city-sized environments from radiological and nuclear-based threats under the SIGMA program. The program looks […] More
Orbital ATK has worked with NASA and Lockheed Martin to test-fire a motor technology for the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system. The Qualification Motor-1 test was conducted at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah, and evaluated if the motor could activate within milliseconds and operate as designed under high temperatures, Orbital ATK said Thursday. Lockheed awarded Orbital ATK a $98 million subcontract […] More
