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The U.S. Air Force has selected Radiance Technologies to design, develop and test multiple high-fidelity sensor models and associated communication links and command-and-control nodes under a $17.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract. Radiance Technologies will perform work for the contract at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through July 28, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. […] More
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on behalf of the Unified Shared Services Management organization about new systems that can help modernize the delivery of the federal payroll. GSA said Friday USSM and the Office of Personnel Management seek industry partners that can provide information on payroll delivery systems in support of the government’s ongoing ePayroll […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a second RS-25 engine technology the company developed for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The company said Friday it conducted the evaluation at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where the 0528 engine was switched on for 650 seconds. Aerojet Rocketdyne restarted the RS-25 engine testing process in 2015 to check the upgraded controllers’ compliance with the requirements of SLS […] More
A U.S. Marine Corps official has said he believes the service branch’s future vertical lift program should operate as an optionally piloted helicopter designed to perform some missions, Flight Global reported Friday. “Especially for a high reliability airplane, we view that airplane as a manned platform,†Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, told […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Excet a $48.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide research and development services for various Naval Research Laboratory projects in support of the service branch’s corrosion mitigation, coatings, environmental and prevention programs. The Defense Department said Friday that Excet will perform scientific, engineering and technical R&D in Virginia, Florida and Washington D.C. through July 28, 2021, […] More
A Vencore subsidiary has won a four-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software that will work to localize and characterize cyber weapons that have entered the country’s power grid infrastructure. Vencore Labs will research, create and demonstrate the Scalable and Holistic Energy CybeR-weapon Localization and Characterization platform under the contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The SHERLOC […] More
SRI International has received a potential four-year, $7.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to develop systems designed to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the power grid. The company will perform software development work through the Threat Intelligence for Grid […] More
Matthew Schneider, senior director for the U.S. public sector at VMware, has said government agencies and companies should adopt the software-defined networking model in order to meet the requirements of applications and manage big data workloads amid the use of cloud platforms. Schneider wrote that the implementation of an SDN model should be combined with […] More
Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $71.4 million contract to perform sustainment work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, consumable spares replenishment, repair, sustaining engineering support, technical data and depot activation services for the aircraft’s weapon system, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under […] More
SpaceX has received its second task order from NASA to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract worth approximately $2.6 billion. The task order was awarded after the company completed internal design evaluation and interim developmental milestones for its Crew Dragon space vehicle, Falcon 9 rocket and related ground systems, NASA said […] More
BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has won a potential four-year, $8.7 million from the U.S. Air Force to research, build and demonstrate a software system for first responders. The Defense Department said Friday that BAE Systems Inc.‘s information and electronic systems integration unit will help the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a PHOENIX platform for first responders to disconnect […] More
The U.S. Navy has selected five small businesses to provide remedial action services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility under a potential five-year, $40 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday Cape Environmental Management, EATC JV, Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Insight-ESI and CKY will compete for task orders to perform remedial and removal actions, soil excavation and closure or replacement of underground or […] More
