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Raytheon has received an 18-month, $45.4 million delivery order to supply repaired and new units of the Phalanx close-in-weapon system to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Navy issued the order as a bridge action under a previously awarded contract for performance-based logistics support of Phalanx to procure line-item units in compliance with the service branch’s fleet […] More
Dragos has obtained $1.2 million in a seed funding round backed by cybersecurity startup accelerator DataTribe. Dragos will use the funds to establish a threat operations facility that will work to provide cyber threat detection services for industrial control systems and supervisory control and data acquisition platforms as well as develop technologies intended for ICS networks, the […] More
A business unit of QinetiQ has been awarded a potential $31.7 million contract perform post-production support work on the Man Transportable Robotic System MK2 for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract carries a one-year base value of $10.3 million and work could extend through August 2019 if all options are exercised. QinetiQ unit Foster Miller will perform […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded an L-3 Communications subsidiary a $21.9 million modification to exercise the first option on a previously awarded contract for contractor-owned and operated business jet training services. L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace will provide the training services to support the Navy’s maritime air patrol, low/slow terrorist aircraft, air interdiction and air intercept/anti-submarine missions, the Defense […] More
Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. has received a two-year, $12.4 million order from the U.S. Navy to develop and test intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for current maritime platforms of the military service branch. The Navy plans to integrate the sensors into naval platforms to support various operations of the Special Operations Command, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima two contracts worth $667,000 combined to expand the functionality of an information fusion platform designed to integrate data from various sources. Aptima and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to equip the TID-BIT system with additional functions that will work to help intelligence analysts determine the source […] More
Boeing has secured a $36 million contract to update the underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology on the New Zealand air force’s six P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft. Gerry Brownlee, New Zealand’s defense minister, has said he believes that underwater ISR technology will help deter interference with sea lines of communication that the country and its allies use […] More
Purdue University has received more than $3.6 million in total grants from the National Science Foundation to equip the Department of Entomology’s facilities with new drawers and expand its specimen database. Purdue will also use the funds to provide researchers access to collections-based data in order to help them trace the history of insect-borne diseases, […] More
The U.S. Army has exercised the second option of a contract with ChemImage Sensor Systems for the development of final prototype sensors that work to identify and locate chemical warfare agents. CISS said Thursday it will design, produce and test the sensors to support CWA detection on environmental surfaces under the option in the Next Generation Chemical Detector contract. Charles […] More
The Department of Health and Human Services‘s Idea Lab seeks public comment on a plan to address new areas of open government development that will be published in the fall. Greg Downing, HHS’ executive director for innovation in the immediate office of the secretary, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the agency invites the public to provide responses […] More
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a potential $16.6 million contract to Orasure Technologies to develop a Zika virus test that will work to show results within 30 minutes and can be conducted at a doctor’s office. HHS said Tuesday OraSure will design its lateral flow serological test to look for Zika antibodies in drops of blood to detect […] More
Iridium CEO Matt Desch has said prospective customers of the company’s next-generation satellites want to see quality of data that the new constellation could provide before making commitments through contracts, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Andy Pasztor writes Desch told the publication in an interview that customers such as the Federal Aviation Administration are running a cost-benefit […] More
