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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada’s ISS Transportation Spacecraft
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada’s ISS Transportation Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corporation has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to provide an electrical power system for the former’s Dream Chaser commercial spacecraft designated by NASA to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday it will design, create, test and install the electrical power system onto Dream Chaser as well as provide power conversion and […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder
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    NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder

    NASA wants industry information on a solid state data recorder to support a conceptual design of the agency’s future wide field imaging observatory platform. A notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps stated the data recorder will become a component of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope‘s payload command and data handling subsystem. The recorder will work to store science data packets […] More

  • Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site
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    Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site

    Google‘s parent company Alphabet will test an autonomous delivery service at one of six Federal Aviation Administration-approved unmanned aircraft system test sites in the U.S., Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Alan Levin writes the White House said Tuesday that Alphabet’s Project Wing drone delivery demonstration aims to lay the groundwork for the approval of the use of UAS to safely deliver packages. Dave […] More

  • Lockheed Fires Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Interceptor for White Sands Flight Test
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    Lockheed Fires Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Interceptor for White Sands Flight Test

    Lockheed Martin has tested its missile interceptor that is designed to engage rocket, artillery and mortar targets during an exercise held Friday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Tuesday it fired the Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor as part of the Extended Area Protection and Survivability program run by the U.S. Army‘s Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. This engineering demonstration […] More

  • NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1
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    NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1

    NASA has asked industry to submit proposals for the initial phase of a program that seeks to develop novel platforms designed for future aerospace missions. The space agency said Wednesday it will award $125,000 in grants over a nine-month period to selected projects under Phase 1 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. NASA will select up to […] More

  • General Dynamics Business Unit Secures Navy Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Contracts
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    General Dynamics Business Unit Secures Navy Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $23 million cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to General Dynamics‘ NASSCO-Norfolk business unit for support services during a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier’s fiscal 2016 planned incremental availability. General Dynamics said Tuesday it will perform depot-level maintenance, modifications and ship repairs to update the USS Harry S. Truman‘s military and technical capacity. The company noted it […] More

  • Carahsoft’s John Lee: SEWP Contract Vehicle Key to Agencies’ Cloud Tech Adoption
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    Carahsoft’s John Lee: SEWP Contract Vehicle Key to Agencies’ Cloud Tech Adoption

    John Lee, vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft Technology, has said federal agencies should use NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle to buy information technology products and services in order to facilitate their transition to cloud computing environments. Lee wrote in an article published Tuesday that agencies can also leverage SEWP’s statements of work in order to […] More

  • Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract
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    Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract

    Harris has been awarded a potential $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform the first phase of a research and development program. The Defense Department said Tuesday DARPA will obligate $22.3 million in fiscal  year 2015 and fiscal 2016 R&D funds at the time of award. Ninety percent of contract-related work will occur in Palm Bay, Florida and the […] More

  • IBM Forms Global Security Testing Team to Help Businesses Avoid Cyber Attacks
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    IBM Forms Global Security Testing Team to Help Businesses Avoid Cyber Attacks

    IBM has created a team of security professionals and ethical hackers to offer testing services intended to help enterprise clients identify system vulnerabilities and avoid breaches. The company said Tuesday IBM X-Force Red will operate under IBM’s security services unit and be led by Charles Henderson, IBM’s global head of security testing and threats. “Having a machine scan your servers and […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Modification for DDG 51 Destroyer Design Update
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    Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Modification for DDG 51 Destroyer Design Update

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $30.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide design update services for the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The Defense Department said Tuesday the Flight III modernization effort includes the replacement of the Lockheed Martin-built SPY-1D radar technology with the Raytheon-made SPY-6 air and missile defense radar system on DDG 51. […] More

  • Navy Explores Options to Continue MUOS-5 Satellite Transfer Process
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    Navy Explores Options to Continue MUOS-5 Satellite Transfer Process

    The U.S. Navy will consider alternate orbit adjustment options, calculate mission impact and investigate options to address a propulsion system failure that occurred on the service branch’s communications satellite launch, Space News reported Tuesday. Mike Gruss writes the fifth Lockheed Martin-developed Mobile User Objective System has not transferred to geosynchronous orbit as a result of a orbit raising propulsion […] More

  • Grant Thornton Joins HITRUST Network to Implement Healthcare Industry Standards
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    Grant Thornton Joins HITRUST Network to Implement Healthcare Industry Standards

    The nonprofit Health Information Trust Alliance has designated Grant Thornton as a HITRUST CSF Assessor to help promote information security and privacy standards for the healthcare industry. Grant Thornton said Tuesday that designation grants the firm authority to offer services through the HITRUST CSF privacy and security framework designed to help address healthcare organizations’ security, privacy and regulatory challenges. David Reitzel, […] More