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The General Services Administration has asked potential vendors to submit letters of interest to provide construction management services for the new consolidated FBI headquarters in Washington. GSA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Thursday CM support for the bureau’s future 2.1 million-square-foot facility includes consulting and professional services, budget and finance, contracting documentation, design reviews, cost […] More

DigitalGlobe has unveiled the first public image from the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite that carries a Harris-made imaging payload. The image was taken on Nov. 26 and features the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo which will host Olympic events in 2020, DigitalGlobe said Friday. Lockheed’s commercial launch services segment provided a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to […] More

Compass Systems has received a potential five-year, $27.4 million contract to support the U.S. Navy‘s new technology development and aircraft procurement and sustainment efforts. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide non-technical management and materials and non-materials engineering support services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Naval Air Warafer Center Aircraft Division is the […] More

Member countries in the European Space Agency have pledged $11 billion to support  various space-related projects that include a mission to launch a life-seeking rover to Mars by 2020, Deutsche Welle reported Friday. DW reported that about $465 million of the ESA’s new space funding commitment will go to the ExoMars rover mission and the remaining money will be for Earth […] More

PepperBall, a division of United Tactical Systems, has entered into a partnership agreement with the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, to create non-lethal training course for global police, military and security forces. The course will contain a three-day weapons, tactics and armorers’ training program as well as training on PepperBall’s […] More

BAE Systems has received a contract to help NFU Mutual develop a system for the insurance company to protect customers against fraud and financial crimes. The partnership seeks to utilize external and internal data sources to identify fraudsters at the point of sale, BAE said Friday. Work under the contract is scheduled to begin in 2017. “We will be working with NFU […] More