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The U.S. Navy plans to update its MH-60 Seahawk helicopters in order to extend the service life of the aircraft through 2035, Navy Times reported Tuesday. Meghann Myers writes the Naval Air Systems Command must first assess the service life of the airframes in order to look into the extent of wear prior to extending the aircraft’s […] More
The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Pacific […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched an employee exchange initiative that will work to facilitate partnerships with industry and academia to share new technologies and methodologies. NGA said Tuesday the eNGAge program looks to send its middle management and senior executive employees to U.S. companies or universities in efforts to share geospatial knowledge and gain insights on business processes. Placements under eNGAge will […] More
Lockheed Martin plans to introduce a concept for a spacecraft that would be manned by six astronauts and would establish and operate a laboratory in Mars orbit by 2028, Popular Science reported Wednesday. Sarah Fecht writes Lockheed plans to launch the “Mars Base Camp†concept at the Humans to Mars conference in support of NASA’s plan to […] More
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services looks to procure commercial software that can be modified to help the agency implement a workers compensation case management system. USCIS is looking for potential sources of a web-based platform that will work to process, analyze, compile and generate reports for the agency’s Workers’ Compensation Program, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice posted […] More
Planned Systems International Inc. has completed a global deployment of the company’s blood donor management system for the Defense Department‘s Armed Services Blood Program. The system employs a centralized database built to manage and monitor blood donor registration, screening and blood products for U.S. military and civilian personnel, PSI said May 12. PSI CEO Terry Lin said the […] More
General Dynamics will collaborate with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop GPS satellite digital waveform generation technology under a potential $10.1 million contract the company has won from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will also perform analyses as well as help the AFRL researchers to refine algorithms and assess implementation methods […] More
COMSAT has supported an annual military exercise between U.S. soldiers, armed forces of the Philippines and other multinational participants. The company worked with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific to integrate Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress for the Balikatan 2016 exercises that tackled a number of missions such as humanitarian assistance, maritime law enforcement and environmental protection, COMSAT said […] More
Warren King, former chief executive officer of the Australian Defense Materiel Organization, has joined the international advisory board of Northrop Grumman. King was recently responsible for the organization’s projects and commercial programs that include maintenance and supply initiatives for Australia’s military, Northrop said Wednesday. David Perry, vice president and chief global business development officer at Northrop, said the company […] More
Melissa Chapman, a former chief information officer and deputy assistant secretary from the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Springfield, Virginia-based information technology services company Information Innovators Inc. as new vice president of the business development and capture unit. Chapman joined the company in May and has since led its HHS market growth strategy through subject matter and technical […] More
Christina Back, General Atomics vice president for nuclear technologies and materials, has said the U.S. needs to develop new nuclear reactor technologies rather update current platforms in order to meet cost, safety, proliferation and waste objectives. General Atomics said May 5 Back wrote a testimony for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for a hearing on the status […] More
NASA has awarded Boston-based agriculture technology company Freight Farms a Small Business Technology Transfer grant to explore methods for the development of a self-sustaining crop production unit. Freight Farms said Tuesday it will collaborate with Clemson University in an effort to help NASA develop a crop production system for the agency’s future manned deep-space missions. Jon Friedman, co-founder and president of Freight […] More
