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NASA has selected proposals from Honeywell and UMPQUA Research to develop technology platforms designed to increase oxygen recovery from exhaled carbon dioxide to at least 75 percent and reduce oxygen resupply for future long-duration spaceflight missions. The companies will each receive up to $2 million in funds to develop their technologies over a two-year performance […] More
Australia’s geoscience research agency has teamed up with Lockheed Martin, Inmarsat and GMV to demonstrate how signals from multiple constellations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems can help build up positioning, navigation and timing for various applications. Geoscience Australia and the three companies will demonstrate over a two-year period a new Satellite-Based Augmentation System testbed for applications […] More
Zalenda Cyrille, a program director at Vencore, has been given the Modern Day Technology Leaders Award for her efforts to foster interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers. Vencore said Monday the recognition was given at the 2017 Black Engineer of the Year Award conference held Friday in Washington, D.C. The award commends the recipient’s commitment to […] More
NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has named Aerojet Rocketdyne the “Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year” for the company’s development of the gridded ion thruster system for the Next Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion technology. The aerospace and defense firm said Monday its work on the system is part of an $18 million contract from 2015 for the completion of NEXT-C and […] More
Orbital ATK has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missiles Systems Center to provide integration, test and support services for the primary payload of the Space Test Program – 3 mission. The company said Monday it will fit the STPSat-6 payload onto a modified satellite bus and support launch and on-orbit check-out operations to prepare for the STP-3 mission that […] More
Grant Thornton has opened a new office in Arlington County, Virginia, that works to consolidate staff from across the Washington metropolitan area and facilitate increased collaboration and engagement. The company said Thursday the office can accommodate up to 1,500 people and includes a multipurpose space, modern conference and team rooms as well as audiovisual and collaborative […] More
Poland plans to acquire 16 new helicopters in 2017, including two Sikorsky-made Black Hawk aircraft, to replace the country’s Mil Mi-8, Mi-14 and Mi-17 fleet, Defense News reported Friday. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said the Black Hawks could be delivered in March and the next 14 helicopters will be chosen among offers from Lockheed Martin, Leonardo and Airbus, Jaroslaw […] More
DLT Solutions has received a 10-year contract to provide cloud platforms and services to state and local government agencies that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative purchasing organization. The company said Thursday it will offer its platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service cloud platforms through Amazon Web Services, Google, Akamai and other vendor partners under the […] More
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a multipurpose commercial freighter offering the company derived from its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft platform for military transport operations. The LM-100J is a modernized version of the L-100 Hercules platform and designed to support oversized cargo transport, oil and gas exploration, mining logistics, aerial firefighting, medical evacuation/air ambulance and search-and-rescue operations, Lockheed said Thursday. The […] More
DigitalGlobe, Esri and Harris have formed a partnership to offer ArcGIS customers access to a library of satellite imagery along with analytical and deep learning tools designed to help users gain insights from imagery at scale. The AllAccess+Analytics service combines DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform, Harris’ ENVI remote sensing analytics portfolio and Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 platform, DigitalGlobe said Monday. The […] More
Mythics has been awarded a multiyear contract by the Illinois Department of Central Management Services to provide Oracle products and services to public sector organizations throughout the state. The Oracle Statewide Master Contract will serve as a vehicle for the state’s government agencies to access and procure cloud, technology, applications, support, hardware, engineered systems and professional services, Mythics said Friday. “We are proud to […] More
Black Box has secured a $15 million contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command to provide consolidated area telephone systems support to the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday it will help NAVSUP to modernize and sustain the service branch’s telephone systems within San Diego as well as assist in efforts to increase naval communications capacity in the region. “We […] More
