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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

Gryphon Technologies has won a potential seven-year, $57.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support integration work on the Sea-Based X-Band Radar mission. The Defense Department said Thursday that Gryphon will provide communication operations and support services to MDA’s SBX strategic mission under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. SBX Radar is built as part of the country’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and designed to help […] More

Rick Weiss, a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said Cape Canaveral in Florida will serve as the site for flight tests and launch operations for a hypersonic aircraft to be developed under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. DARPA partnered with Boeing in May to build an unmanned reusable spaceplane – […] More

A team composed of Boeing subsidiaries Tapestry Solutions and Jeppesen has secured a potential five-year, $28 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide  executive airlift flight dispatch services to the Air Mobility Command. Tapestry said Wednesday the team will help AMC transport very important persons such as the U.S. president, vice president, first lady, cabinet leaders, Congress members, senior military leaders […] More

Gigamon has launched its visibility platform on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud environment to help public sector organizations manage and secure sensitive data and regulated workloads. Gigamon said Tuesday the availability of the Visibility offering builds on the company’s push to offer first-to-market services in the AWS Cloud as well as efforts to achieve a public sector […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has posted a request for information on a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system that can provide support in the 2023 timeframe. MDA said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that the UAS should be able to carry a high energy laser system payload to high altitudes to mature boost phase intercept, or the capacity to destroy missiles while […] More

Varley Group has received a $37.5 million contract to collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the design and development of portable ground facilities for U.S. Air Force  personnel deployed overseas to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Varley Group said Thursday it will build ground facilities that can expand thrice the size of a shipping container as well as house the F-35 aircraft’s Autonomic […] More

VSE has received a potential three-year, $22.3 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force repair and maintain aerospace ground and support equipment at the service branch’s Kadena Air Base in Japan. The company said Wednesday it will also work to prevent and treat corrosion on equipment operated by the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Group, […] More

Amazon Web Services has selected 19 winners for its 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge to highlight local and regional governments’ contribution to develop technologies for citizens around the world. The company said Wednesday it named winners across the Best Practices, Dream Big and Partners in Innovation categories during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Teresa […] More

Rockwell Collins‘ simulation and training solutions business has secured a $34.2 million contract to deliver a training system for the U.S. Navy‘s E2-D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform aircraft-to-simulator concurrency updates; implement aircraft change directives/engineering change proposals; and integrate and test software applications under the E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training Systems III […] More