Draper Advances Tech Development Efforts in Support of NASA’s Lunar Missions
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA’s robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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Allied Systems to Deliver Aircraft Salvage Cranes Under $70M Navy IDIQ
Allied Systems has secured a potential five-year, $70.6M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build and deliver two aircraft salvage cranes to the U.S. Navy.
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LinQuest Offers Model-Based Systems Engineering Support to Air Force Under Military Satcom Contract
LinQuest provides engineering and integration support services for the U.S. Air Force’s satellite communications architecture under a potential seven-year, $562M contract awarded in June, C4ISRNET reported Friday.
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Textron CEO Scott Donnelly Expects Navy Ship-to-Shore Connector Contract Award by Year’s End
Scott Donnelly, CEO of Textron, said the company is halfway done with builder's trials of the Ship-to-Shore Connector platform it developed for the U.S. Navy and expects to receive a contract by the end of the year to commence production of the air cushion vehicle, USNI News reported Thursday. Textron won the SSC design and construction project in 2012. Both parties are in discussions about moving the program from the development phase to the manufacturing stage.
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Air Force Research Lab Unveils Two-Pronged Contracting Approach for Production Tech Projects
The Air Force Research Laboratory has introduced a two-part strategy to collect proposals on research and development of technology platforms intended to address defense manufacturing challenges. AFRL said Tuesday the hybrid funding opportunity announcement approach offers an alternative contracting method for the Defense Production Act Title III Program, which aims to help industry manage the supply of goods and materials needed to produce military systems.
Semantic AI, Bluescape Named Finalists for AFWERX Multi-Domain Challenge
Semantic AI and Bluescape’s multi-domain operation technologies have entered the final round of the U.S. Air Force’s competition, the AFWERX Fusion Xperience 2019 event, which will be held on July 23 to 24 in Las Vegas, Nev.
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HII to Carry Out Final Stages of USS Delaware Submarine Construction
Huntington Ingalls Industries is closer to deploying the future USS Delaware submarine vessel, SSN 791, which is currently is stationed pierside at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding business’ facility and is set to enter the final phase of testing and construction efforts.
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Lockheed Lands $78M Navy Modification to Deliver F-35 Long Lead Parts, Software Data Loads
Lockheed Martin has received a four-year, $77.7M contract modification to deliver long lead materials, parts and software data loads to support low-rate initial production efforts for lots 12, 13 and 14 of the U.S. Navy’s F-35 Lightning II aircraft fleet.