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  • Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA
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    Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA

    Orbital ATK will supply medium-range ballistic missile target rockets to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential four-year, $182 million contract awarded in July. The company will provide the rockets to support tests of missile defense platforms under the MDA contract that covers the production of the third type of configuration for the agency’s medium-range […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Produce Military Test Range Instrumentation System Under DoD Contract
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    Rockwell Collins to Produce Military Test Range Instrumentation System Under DoD Contract

    Rockwell Collins has received a $31 million contract from the Defense Department to build a test range instrumentation system for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The company said Monday it will build the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System to replace the Advanced Range Data System currently used at the three military  branches’ test ranges as the prime contractor and system integrator on […] More

  • Northrop-Built System Links Virtual F-22s With Live F-16s in Air Force Training
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    Northrop-Built System Links Virtual F-22s With Live F-16s in Air Force Training

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force have integrated two virtual fifth-generation F-22 Raptor aircraft with four fourth-generation F-16 Fighting Falcons during a live, virtual and constructive training exercise. The company said Monday its LVC Experimentation, Integration and Operations Suite system worked to provide networked simulators where virtual aircraft operated by aircrew members can participate in the same airspace as […] More

  • Raytheon to Modify Israel-Developed Interceptor for US Army Defense Program
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    Raytheon to Modify Israel-Developed Interceptor for US Army Defense Program

    Raytheon will offer an Americanized version of an interceptor platform designed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems that will be used to support a U.S. Army program that seeks to defend against a threat spectrum, Defense News reported Monday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Raytheon looks to locally produce and transform the Iron Dome platform’s Tamir interceptors to meet U.S. standards […] More

  • Atkins North America Lands Army, Air National Guard Architect-Engineer Services Contract
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    Atkins North America Lands Army, Air National Guard Architect-Engineer Services Contract

    Atkins North America Inc. has been awarded a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army and Air National Guard. Atkins will work to design programs and perform construction support to the Army and ANG in the continental U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and Virgin Islands, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

  • Triple-i to Sponsor Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal DevOps Summit
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    Triple-i to Sponsor Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal DevOps Summit

    Information Innovators Inc. will sponsor a one-day symposium by the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center that will discuss the potential impact of DevOps and Agile methodology on the federal government. The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will feature Pramod Malhotra, Triple-i’s software engineering and technical solutions director, as host for the second session of the Mitre-ATARC Collaboration Symposium segment, Triple-i said Monday. The event will […] More

  • LMI Employees Receive DHS ‘Building Partnerships Award’ With National Urban Security Tech Lab Teammates
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    LMI Employees Receive DHS ‘Building Partnerships Award’ With National Urban Security Tech Lab Teammates

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a government-industry team that includes Kris Dooley, Abby Hooper and Steve Vargas of LMI the Building Partnerships Award. The LMI acquisition and financial management professionals are part of a group that worked with the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory within the DHS science and technology directorate’s office of national laboratories, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Airbus Names John Kefaliotis as Metron Aviation Subsidiary President; Allan McArtor Comments
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    Airbus Names John Kefaliotis as Metron Aviation Subsidiary President; Allan McArtor Comments

    John Kefaliotis, formerly Exelis vice president of international strategy and business development, has been appointed as president of Airbus Group‘s air traffic management subsidiary. Airbus said Monday Kefaliotis provides more than 40 years of air traffic management experience in operational air traffic control, government services and systems contracting to support Metron Aviation‘s mission. “With air traffic doubling […] More

  • CSRA, Docker Form Federal Cloud Migration & IT Management Partnership
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    CSRA, Docker Form Federal Cloud Migration & IT Management Partnership

    CSRA has partnered with open container platform provider Docker to help the former’s federal government clients migrate to the cloud and manage information technology applications across multiple environments. The collaboration also works to support efforts to update legacy applications and facilitate IT operational flexibility for government agencies, CSRA said Monday. Larry Prior, CSRA president and CEO, said the […] More

  • DISA Seeks $12M in Rapid Innovation Project Funds
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    DISA Seeks $12M in Rapid Innovation Project Funds

    The Defense Systems Information Agency is working to obtain a maximum $12 million in funds for its rapid innovation projects, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes DISA will use the funds to advance its merit-based research and development program meant to deploy innovative technologies. DISA is seeking solicitations via FedBizOpps in four areas that include a transport […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Proposals for Radiation Detector Repair Services
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    Air Force Seeks Proposals for Radiation Detector Repair Services

    The U.S. Air Force looks to issue a sole-source contract for repair work on the military branch’s radiation detector equipment. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated the Air Force seeks a contractor to inspect and fix three Cryo-Pulse 5 detectors as well as provide one coaxial field effect transistor for detector. Responses to the solicitation are due Aug. 9. Canberra, the original equipment manufacturer of the Cryo-Pulse 5 technology, […] More

  • Navy Conducts Final Tests on ARA, Chevron Lummus Co-Developed Renewable Diesel
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    Navy Conducts Final Tests on ARA, Chevron Lummus Co-Developed Renewable Diesel

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division has completed final phase tests of an Applied Research Associates and Chevron Lummus Global co-developed 100 percent drop-in renewable diesel fuel on a U.S. Navy Self Defense Test Ship. ARA said Friday the ReadiDiesel 100-percent renewable biofuel was designed to serve as a drop-in replacement for petroleum F-76 marine diesel in […] More