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Verizon Builds 5G-Based Disaster Response Vehicle Prototype ‘THOR’ for Marine Corps

Verizon and the U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated the former’s 5G-based Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response prototype vehicle at the service’s installation in California, Nextgov reported Friday. “At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar this week, we demonstrated THOR’s ability to enable a fully-operational 5G network that allowed: autonomous robot communication to a self-driving battery delivery vehicle, video […] More

by Jane Edwards June 28, 2021, 11:59 am
in Contract Awards, Industry News, News

Unissant to Provide Services for CMS Medical Record Submission Platform; Manish Malhotra Quoted

Unissant has received a $37.4 million contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ online medical record transfer system used in payment reviews. The digital company said Friday it will provide software development, testing, cloud migration and hosting support as well as software maintenance services in support of the Electronic Submission of Medical […] More

by Angeline Leishman June 28, 2021, 11:58 am
in Contract Awards, Industry News, News

Jacobs to Provide Architecture & Engineering Services for USAF B-21 Program; Tim Byers Quoted

Jacobs will design and build facilities for the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 bomber aircraft under a potential seven-year, $200 million multiple-award task order contract with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Kansas City District. The company said Thursday it will perform architecture and engineering services primarily for B-21 facilities at Ellsworth, Dyess and Whiteman air force […] More

by Nichols Martin June 25, 2021, 12:13 pm
in Contract Awards, Industry News, News

Northrop Receives $146M Air Force Order for Laser-Based Missile Countermeasure Systems

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $146 million order to equip domestic and international military aircraft with a system designed to automatically detect and defeat emerging missile threats. Northrop said Friday it will install Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems on fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms, as part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with USAF. […] More

by Christine Thropp June 25, 2021, 11:35 am
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AeroVironment-NASA Team Explores New Mars Helicopter Concept

AeroVironment and NASA plan to design a hexacopter for using data from demonstrations of the Ingenuity robotic helicopter on Mars, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The partnership is exploring a new six-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle concept, dubbed Mars Science Helicopter, with a maximum payload capacity of 5 kilograms. “We’re trying to look at the science applications: what […] More

by Carol Collins June 25, 2021, 10:21 am
in Government Technology, Industry News, News

Bell Concludes Flight Testing of V-280 Valor, Shifts Focus on Army’s Future Assault Aircraft Competition

Bell Textron is now shifting focus to an upcoming U.S. Army aircraft program of record competition in summer after ending the three-year flight testing of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft. The Textron subsidiary said Thursday that it would start working on the weapons system and subsystem designs of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft candidate. Bell […] More

by Angeline Leishman June 25, 2021, 10:19 am
in Government Technology, Industry News, News

FACE Consortium Certifies 2 Collins Aerospace-Made Flight Software Tools

Two flight software products from Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, now conform to standards of the Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment, also known as the FACE Consortium. Collins said Thursday its Mission Flight Management Software and Localizer Performance and Vertical Guidance Calculator have been FACE-certified following the completion of an independent verification and […] More

by Nichols Martin June 25, 2021, 9:31 am
in Industry News, News

Estes Industries Spins Out New Company for Small Solid Rocket Motors; Karl Kulling Quoted

Estes Industries has launched a new company that will market small solid rocket motors and provide a wide range of engineering services for the said the offerings. Estes Energetics, the newly established spin-off company, said Thursday it will offer research and development, prototyping, manufacturing, integration and testing services to aerospace customers in need of solid […] More

by Nichols Martin June 25, 2021, 9:07 am
in Cybersecurity News, Government Technology, Industry News, News

New Merlin Resource Center Aims to Help Agencies Meet Cybersecurity EO Objectives; Miguel Sian Quoted

Merlin Cyber has made a new online resource available to federal agencies in an effort to help them comply with an executive order focused on improving defense against hackers. The EO Resource Center will detail the requirements outlined in the White House directive and recommend various commercial technologies that can help agencies meet them, the […] More

by Angeline Leishman June 25, 2021, 8:23 am
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Zoom for Government Gets Air Force Impact Level 4 Authorization; Rick Drum Quoted

A Zoom Video Communications platform has achieved a Department of the Air Force authorization to operate with conditions to support the service’s communication and collaboration activities at Department of Defense Impact Level 4. The ATO-C approval will enable the Air Force to conduct IL4 meetings with contractors, system integrators and federal agencies through Zoom for […] More

by Jane Edwards June 25, 2021, 8:11 am
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Dewberry Secures Federal Prison Design Contract

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has chosen Dewberry to provide architectural and engineering services required for the construction, repair or renovation of correctional facilities throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Dewberry said Tuesday the potential five-year contract encompasses planning and design work at 16 BOP-operated correctional facilities in Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. […] More

by Angeline Leishman June 25, 2021, 7:03 am
in M&A Activity, Industry News, News

CEO Stu Shea Talks Hybrid Work as Peraton Integrates Northrop IT, Perspecta Acquisitions

Stu Shea, president, CEO and board chairman of Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the plan to maintain a remote or hybrid work environment will likely guide Peraton’s decisions on office footprint as it works to integrate Perspecta and Northrop Grumman’s federal information technology and mission support business, the Washington Business Journal reported […] More

by Jane Edwards June 25, 2021, 6:33 am