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  • Irving Burton Associates Receives Marketing Strategy Contract from US Army; Julie Olson Comments
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    Irving Burton Associates Receives Marketing Strategy Contract from US Army; Julie Olson Comments

    The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity has selected Irving Burton Associates to develop and perform marketing strategies to assist in the migration of a skin treatment product to a commercial partner. IBA will work to design brand and message elements, develop marketing products and implement communication strategy to support the Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Topical Cream’s transition, […] More

  • Global Technical Systems to Build Open Architecture Computer Processor for Navy
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    Global Technical Systems to Build Open Architecture Computer Processor for Navy

    Global Technical Systems has received a $9.8 million delivery order to develop open architecture-based common processing systems that will work to help the U.S. Navy address computer requirements for the military branch’s combat platforms. GTS will produce 14 pieces of Technical Insertion 12 Hybrid CPS water-cooled advanced production units and eight commercial air-cooled APUs under the delivery order, the Defense Department […] More

  • Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility
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    Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has awarded A&D General Contracting a $9.6 million task order to build a combat service support facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. The facility will be built in Camp Pendleton, California and will have operational, maintenance and administrative offices for the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion’s West Coast-based combat service support organization units, NAVFAC said Friday. […] More

  • Inventor David Findley Gets US Patent for 3D Printing-Based Diamond Formation Process
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    Inventor David Findley Gets US Patent for 3D Printing-Based Diamond Formation Process

    Inventor David Findley has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a three-dimensional printing method that works to produce a diamond object through the use of a pre-ceramic polymer with a nanoparticle filler. USPTO said Lockheed Martin serves as the patent’s assignee. The method involves the placement of alternating layers of […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Update USS Truman Shipboard Systems
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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Update USS Truman Shipboard Systems

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has landed a $52.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to support modernization work for the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier’s fiscal 2016 planned incremental availability. The Defense Department said Friday Newport News will help the Navy modernize, replace or repair nuclear propulsion systems and specialized systems on the USS Truman. Work covers planning, material procurement, […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Self-Defense System of Navy Aircraft Carriers, Amphibious Ships
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    Lockheed to Update Self-Defense System of Navy Aircraft Carriers, Amphibious Ships

    Lockheed Martin has won a four-year, $38.6 million contract design and produce technical insertion hardware for the self-defense systems installed aboard various aircraft carriers and amphibious ships of the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed will perform SSDS hardware updates in an effort to increase the performance and sustainability of the weapons equipment. DoD added the […] More

  • MDA Taps General Atomics Subsidiary to Build, Test MQ-9 Precision Laser Tracking System
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    MDA Taps General Atomics Subsidiary to Build, Test MQ-9 Precision Laser Tracking System

    A General Atomics subsidiary has secured a $9.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to design, build and test precision tracking laser subsystems for the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will work to develop and demonstrate a flight representative laser technology with beam train optics needed to update the drone’s […] More

  • Jaswinder Matharu, Richard Roth Join Sevatec Advisory Board
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    Jaswinder Matharu, Richard Roth Join Sevatec Advisory Board

    Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec has appointed industry veterans Jaswinder Matharu and Richard Roth to the company’s board of advisers. Matharu, a 20-year federal market veteran, led data warehousing and analytics firm Agilis International as president and CEO before its acquisition by Infogix in 2014, Sevatec said Wednesday. He also previously held the roles of CEO, chief […] More

  • Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota
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    Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota

    A subsidiary of Airbus‘ defense and space business will supply the VESTA 9-1-1 call handling service to 11 of 22 public safety answering points in North Dakota under a collective contract through the state’s information technology department. The company said Wednesday Airbus DS Communications will provide the VESTA 9-1-1 system as part of the PSAPs’ effort to deploy a geodiverse regional system […] More

  • ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites
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    ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites

    The United Launch Alliance has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Space Wing to launch the third and fourth Orbital ATK-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites aboard a Delta IV rocket. The Air Force said Friday the launch of the two GSSAP satellites is part of the AFSPC-6 mission to advance space situational awareness. The Air Force Space Command-operated […] More

  • DOE to Help Fund NRECA’s Utility Cybersecurity Project
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    DOE to Help Fund NRECA’s Utility Cybersecurity Project

    The Energy Department has chosen the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association to receive grant funds to develop and commercialize a tool for utilities to detect cyber attacks and compromised systems in near real-time. NRECA said Thursday its React project is based on the DoE-funded Essence prototype platform that NRECA built in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Honeywell and Carnegie Mellon University. Jim […] More

  • Lockheed Subcontracts UltiSat for Army Airborne ISR Program Support
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    Lockheed Subcontracts UltiSat for Army Airborne ISR Program Support

    UltiSat has received a subcontract from Lockheed Martin to provide aerial data collection, ground-based processing, exploitation and dissemination support services to the U.S. Army. The two companies will collaborate to support the Army’s Sensor Systems-Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance program under a potential $733 million task order the military branch awarded in June, UltiSat said Thursday. UltiSat noted its ISR […] More