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India is expected to release a request for information to Saab and Lockheed Martin this month for the production of single-engine fighter aircraft in partnership with a domestic private company as part of the Make in India program, Defense News reported Monday. The South Asian country’s defense ministry expects Lockheed and Saab to respond to the […] More
The U.S. Air Force has entered final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ahead of its scheduled Sept. 7 deployment aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket. The service branch said Thursday the Boeing-built X-37B OTV spaceplane will carry ride-sharing small satellites and perform on-orbit tests of new space technologies. X-37B will also demonstrate experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe […] More
Leidos has received a potential five-year, $31.4 million contract to provide scientific, technical and programmatic support for tactical signature guidance systems of U.S. Navy ships, airborne and undersea platforms. The company said Thursday it will also develop, update, integrate and test software and systems for signature guidance and tactical decision tools. The contract was awarded by the Naval […] More
L3 Technologies will develop manned-unmanned teaming hardware to aid the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache multirole helicopters as part of a one-year, $69.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract also covers technical and engineering support services. The Army Contracting Command will solicited and received one bid for the procurement effort. AH-64 helicopters are manufactured by Boeing and […] More
General Dynamics has awarded Universal Switching a contract to provide data distribution for satellite command and control systems that will help connect Canada’s military to the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation. Universal Switching said Aug. 22 it will supply its S64530 Digital RS-530 switching system to aid Canada’s participation in the WGS constellation, called the Mercury Global project. In […] More
Georgia Power has selected Bechtel to perform construction work on a two-reactor expansion project at a nuclear power plant located in Georgia. Bechtel said Thursday it will build the third and fourth units of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant under the supervision of Southern Nuclear. Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 will also be the first reactors […] More
ManTech International has secured a potential $39.6 million contract to help the Naval Air Systems Command integrate, diagnose and test safety hazards associated with aircraft systems. The company said Thursday it will provide reliability, maintainability and system safety services for US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and subsystems under the contract. Work covers the full life cycle of naval […] More
Leidos will serve as a presenting sponsor of the 42nd Marine Corps Marathon to be held on Oct. 22 in Arlington, Virginia. Approximately 30,000 runners participate each year in the 26.2-mile journey, also known as the People’s Marathon, coordinated by the MCM Organization and the U.S. Marine Corps, Leidos said Wednesday. “The Marine Corps Marathon […] More
“Readiness is our Number 1 priority–there is no other Number 1–Readiness is what deters and wins wars.” POC 2017 ARMY FORUM, AUG. 30–Among the current issues facing our nation’s military, the U.S. Army is taking a closer look at modernization, especially that of information technology capabilities on and off the battlefield. With new developments in […] More
Cybersecurity firm ESET has uncovered an advanced system backdoor dubbed Gazer that it says Russia-linked cyber espionage group Turla has used since 2016 to attack European government institutions. ESET reported Wednesday the backdoor tool has been used on computers located around the world but primarily in Europe. “The tactics, techniques and procedures we’ve seen here are in […] More
The American Technology Council wants feedback on the targeted vision and proposed implementation plan of a draft report on federal information technology modernization. ATC is tasked with coordinating an IT modernization report that the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration must submit to President Donald Trump in accordance […] More
DigitalGlobe and NTT Data have agreed to extend their partnership to develop datasets of 3D vector building, bridge and vegetation models. The expanded partnership will combine DigitalGlobe’s imagery and Geospatial Big Data platform with NTT Data’s elevation experience and algorithms to create 3D building datasets called AW3D Metro, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. GBDX is a DigitalGlobe-built […] More
