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The state of New York is considering establishing an umbrella contract for state and local governments’ information technology procurement, a move that could streamline the state’s procurement process and consolidate contracting opportunities, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Deltek‘s Derek Johnson, a general government services analyst at the firm, reports that New York’s Office of General Services has issued a request for information […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a $23.5 million contract to develop an amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy in compliance with the service’s cost-saving plan. Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s engineers and planners will work to design and construct the Navy’s amphibious assault ship LHA 8, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said […] More

NASA is poised to test an engine for the Space Launch System, a rocket the agency and Boeing are building to send the Orion manned spacecraft into deep space. Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi positioned the RS-25 rocket engine on a testing platform Thursday for developmental and certification flight tests, the agency […] More

MBDA has started to produce Brimstone 2 missile for the British air force to use on its fleet of Tornado GR4 aircraft. The Brimstone 2 missile is built to help the Tornado in guidance against targets and work through both safety methods and potential logistical issues, MBDA said Brimstone 2 enters the series production phase after a qualification of the Brimstone 2 IM rocket […] More

Orbital Sciences‘ Cygnus cargo spacecraft has delivered science, supplies and spacewalking payloads to the International Space Station under a $1.9 billion NASA resupply services contract. SS Janice Voss was launched aboard an Orbital Sciences-built rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and the Expedition 40 crew received the nearly 3,300 pounds of supplies at […] More

Verizon Enterprise Solutions plans to expand its channel program into Europe in tandem with an initiative to grow its U.S. program in order to help channel members offer the company’s products to a wider range of customers. The telecommunications company said Wednesday that this is the first time that channel partners in Europe can team up with Verizon to […] More

Exelis has licensed patented manufacturing technology from Belgium-based Bodair S.A. to produce a new product line and expand upon the company’s aerostructures offerings in the aerospace industry, Exelis said Tuesday. The new Exelis STaR product line is a selection of technologies that are intended to help with development and reconfigurations of product design that can achieve […] More

Northrop Grumman has broken ground on its new $20 million Maryland Space Assembly and Test facility, which is based on the company’s Baltimore campus that is next to Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The company said Thursday that officials who attended the opening of the 25,000-square-foot building were Sen. Ben Cardin, Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger and John Sarbanes and Gloria Flach, […] More

Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $32 million contract by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe to maintain government-owned family housing facilities in the Kaiserslautern Military Community based in Germany. The contract calls on Exelis to provide support to approximately 2,000 family housing units at Landstuhl, Ramstein Air Base and Vogelweh Military Housing Complex, the company said […] More

ViON Corp., a veteran-owned information technology company based in Herndon, Virginia, has opened a support and services facility in Utah as part of the company’s series of infrastructure, facilities and personnel investments. Tom Frana, president and CEO of ViON, said Thursday the company aims to bolster clients’ business and missions through this round-the-clock service and support coverage. ViON designs, delivers and maintains IT […] More

Boeing will collaborate with Africa’s Paramount Group in developing defense and security products for the international market as part of an agreement signed by both companies at the Farnborough Airshow. The companies said Tuesday they will leverage Boeing’s rotorcraft and unmanned aerial systems technology and Paramount’s land and aerospace systems to deliver offerings for areas such as border security, heavy airlift, anti-piracy and […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded more than $14 million in subcontracts to Australia-based companies through a global supply chain program run by the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation. To date, Northrop has collaborated with more than 15 Australian small and medium businesses to deliver cybersecurity, space research, logistics support work to government and military customers, Northrop said […] More