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Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a $21.7 million contract to develop an automated technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to retrieve foreign language information. The Defense Department said Wednesday BBN will build the platform to support cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, automatic speech recognition and surprise language summarization. Work will occur in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Nov. […] More

Salient CRGT has received a subcontract to help Technica perform support work on the U.S. Air Force‘s Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System. Salient CRGT said Thursday it will also support the Air Combat Command’s JWICS program management office and intelligence directorate, 25th Air Force and 625th Air and Space Communications Squadron. The Air Force awarded Technica the potential […] More

Avaya has opened a new office in Bahrain as the company aims to offer communication and collaboration tools in support of digital transformation projects there. The company said Tuesday some Bahrain-based public and private sector organizations seek to adopt cloud, artificial intelligence, analytics and internet-of-things technologies with the goal to contribute to the country’s economy. The Kingdom’s […] More

Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems unit will deliver Mk 54 lightweight torpedo common parts kits to the U.S. Navy and U.K. and Thailand under a $35 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification also covers Mk 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo kits, exercise fuel tanks, spares, production support material and various related engineering and […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army have demonstrated a prototype laser weapon system equipped with sensors, software and specialized optics built to engage adversarial unmanned aerial vehicles. The Advanced Test High Energy Asset system worked to eliminate five Outlaw unmanned aerial systems during a test that took place at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, […] More

Boeing has received a five-year, $23.3 million initial task order to help the U.S. Air Force operate and maintain the service branch’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system for nuclear deterrence. The company will also provide technical data on the land-based weapon system as part of the order that falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, […] More

Vexterra Group has won a potential five-year, $16.1 million contract to provide operational laboratory support and other services to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Media Exploitation Center. The company will support digital forensics, content processing and analytical functions at NMEC’s Science and Technology Integration Lab, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Seven offers were submitted to the Virginia Contracting Activity […] More