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Lockheed Martin has completed the encapsulation of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth imaging satellite into a launch vehicle fairing platform. WorldView-4 is scheduled to take off Sept. 16 onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket, Lockheed said Thursday. Lockheed will now transport the satellite to the Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for integration with the […] More

An L-3 Communications subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $13.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide logistics, repair and maintenance support services for the Chief of Naval Air Training. The indefinite-delivery, firm-fixed-price modification awarded to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers direct and indirect material, equipment, […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $49.2 million contract modification for the production of Lot 2 Small Diameter Bomb Increment II weapons and containers. Raytheon’s missile systems business will perform work in Tucson, Arizona through Sept. 30, 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded fixed-price incentive firm contract. The Air […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $10.02 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to purchase additional diminishing manufacturing sources electronic components for the F-35 fighter aircraft. The award exercises an option to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract and Lockheed will perform work in Fort Worth, Texas, through December 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Navy obligated the full […] More

USmax has received a contract modification to exercise the five-year option period on its General Services Administration STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology service offerings to federal government clients. The company said Wednesday it will continue to provide its cybersecurity, technical and physical security, IT infrastructure management and enterprise application services via the STARS II contract through Aug. 30, […] More

NASA and video services company Harmonic have unveiled a 360-degree, virtual reality video on NASA TV’s Youtube channel to show three different perspectives of astronauts in space-walk training. Harmonic said Wednesday the video was taken at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston where astronauts train for future missions through an indoor pool of water and a life-size replica of the […] More