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The U.S. Navy has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a five-year, $59 million contract to provide professional support services to the military branch’s battlespace awareness and information operations program office, or PMW 120. Booz Allen said Wednesday the contract covers acquisition, program, installation and operations management support for 21 Defense Department programs led by PMW 120. The company will also help manage the […] More

Charles Chase, a program lead at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works unit, has said Lockheed and NASA expect to wrap up the evaluation phase on the preliminary design of a supersonic aircraft by June before the company and the agency begin the critical design review, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. Chase told the publication that NASA and Lockheed […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company aims to reduce the price of the F-35A fighter jet to $85 million or lower per aircraft by 2019 as part of its goal to save over $5 billion on the F-35 program. Hewson said in a speech delivered Tuesday at Lockheed’s media day event in Arlington, Virginia, […] More

InquisIT has secured a five-year, $17.1 million contract to provide information technology management support for a U.S. Agriculture Department organization that works to protect the health of plant and animal resources. The company said Wednesday it will support hardware, software and systems at USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the firm-fixed-price contract. Mike McDermott, president of InquisIT, […] More

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to participate in an experiment that seeks to assess light-attack aircraft platforms in support of the service branch’s future force structure. The live-fly experiment is set to occur at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico in the summer of 2017 as part of the Light Attack Capabilities […] More

Alion Science and Technology and Ireland-based unmanned ground robotic systems developer Reamda have launched a joint venture to offer robotic platforms intended for explosive ordnance disposal and surveillance operations. Realion Robotics said Tuesday it aims to help military, law enforcement and government agencies gain access to unmanned ground robots that can function in harsh environments. Doug King, program manager of Realion […] More

A team led by the Southwest Research Institute has received a $5 million contract to develop tools and methods for NASA to explore the solar system through the space agency’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. The Project for Exploration Science Pathfinder Research for Enhancing Solar System Observations consortium will focus on pathfinding research, techniques and technologies to support missions on airless bodies […] More

Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a five-year, $8 million task order to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and the Missile Defense Agency in efforts to assess kinetic energy weapons designed to counter ballistic missile threats. MTSI said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e contract vehicle and calls for the […] More

John Loughlin, director of business insights at HighPoint Global, has said government agencies should implement a “balanced scorecard” to measure performance in their efforts to build up citizen experience and satisfaction with government services. Loughlin wrote in a Federal News Radio commentary piece published Monday that such a scorecard works to divide “critical performance measures” […] More

BAE Systems has worked with small and medium enterprises, academia and government entities to support the development of emerging and disruptive technologies. Andy Wright, strategic technical director at BAE, wrote in a blog post published Monday that organizations and academic institutions should combine skill-sets and expertise to help create new technologies for military customers and governments. “Bringing […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s technical services business has won a $16.9 million delivery  order from the U.S. Air Force to overhaul engines of the service branch’s KC-10 Extender  tanker and cargo aircraft. The Air Force received two offers for the delivery order through an “adequate price” competition and will use fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds to cover the full […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun its search for potential industry sources of virtual electrodes that will work to facilitate the development of technology platforms designed to use the human body as a means to establish communications among wireless devices. NIST said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday the electrodes will work […] More