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A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon has secured a $56.8 million contract modification to supply containerized rounds, electronics, command launch units for the U.S. Army‘s Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile system. Javelin Joint Venture will also provide non-recurring engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Friday. The JV developed the system to offer fire-and-forget and medium-range […] More

Amazon Web Services has granted certification to Fairfax County, Virginia-based InfoReliance for the latter company’s capacity to help customers migrate, deploy or manage Microsoft workloads to an AWS platform. InfoReliance said Friday it demonstrated technical expertise to support Microsoft-based Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server platforms through customer case studies under the AWS Partner Competency Program. John Sankovich, executive vice president of InfoReliance’s […] More

QinetiQ and the U.K. ministry of defense have agreed to invest a combined $21.7 million to replace a pair of instrumentation radar systems at MOD Hebrides range facility with BAE Systems-built tracking radars. The installation of new radar technology will support data and safety monitoring activities as well as demonstration, evaluation, experimentation and rehearsals of […] More

An Independence-variant littoral combat ship built by Austal USA for the U.S. Navy has completed a maiden voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to a naval base in San Diego, California. USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) underwent combat ship qualification trials, crew certification training and scheduled equipment and system checks during the vessel’s expedition, the Navy said Thursday. Austal USA […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests on a power processing unit for an electric propulsion system that the company currently developed for NASA. The company said Thursday it tested the Advanced Electric Propulsion System‘s power processing unit at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, together with the agency’s technology development unit thruster and a xenon flow […] More

A new IBM study says 73 percent of global CEOs said they believe cognitive computing will play a role in the future of their businesses. The company said Thursday it surveyed at least 6,000 CEOs across industries worldwide and found that 50 percent of respondents said they plan to implement cognitive computing systems by 2019. […] More