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Harris Corp. will produce and deliver electronic warfare jamming systems for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 fighter jets under an $88 million modification to a contract the military service awarded in July last year. The Navy asked the company to provide 48 EW jammers as part of the service branch’s Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures initiative, Harris said […] More
Battelle has tested a new building safety technology the nonprofit science organization designed to help law enforcement agents respond to shooting incidents in short spans of time. SiteGuard Active Shooter Response uses indoor gunshot detection sensors and cameras to locate and track gunshots then alert the public to an active shooting incident via public address systems, 911 calls, […] More
Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corp. has been awarded $75,000 in funds by the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to create a deployable cryptographic protocol for an Internet of Things security initiative. DHS said Thursday that M2Mi will work to develop an open-source version of the lightweight block cipher SPECK that users can run on connected devices. The effort is part of the department’s Homeland Security Innovation Program for […] More
An Airbus Defense and Space subsidiary has collaborated with communication services provider West to support the adoption of a streamlined text-to-911 system across public safety agencies. Airbus DS Communications said Tuesday the collaboration aims to bring together Airbus DS Communications’ VESTA SMS application and the West Text Control Center TXT2-9-1-1 service in efforts to establish one hub for public safety answering points to coordinate […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential $67 million contract to develop an electric propulsion system for integration with NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion space vehicles. The company said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded under the Advanced Electric Propulsion System program and covers development and qualification work on five 12.5-kilowatt Hall thruster subsystems for the Solar Electric […] More
Reston, Virginia-based reseller Carahsoft Technology has been awarded a potential seven-year contract of an undisclosed value by a nation-wide state and local government consortium to provide Google for Work products and services for more than 90,000 public sector customers in the U.S. Fairfax County, Virginia awarded the contract and acted as the lead public agency over the competitive procurement process, […] More
Harris has acquired two orders worth an estimated $29 million combined from an undisclosed European customer to provide Falcon tactical radios. The company will supply its Falcon product line, including AN/PRC-152A wideband networking handheld radios, AN/PRC-117G multiband networking manpack radios and AN/PRC-150C HF/VHF tactical radios as part of a standardization program that seeks to address interoperability challenges during coalition operations, […] More
Northrop Grumman has received component parts from Korea Jig and Fixture and Firstec for integration with South Korea’s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Thursday it received deliveries of KJF-built aerospace-grade machine parts after Firstec handed the wire harnesses designed to transmit electrical signals for the UAS early this year. Firstec and KJF started producing […] More
Serco Group subsidiary DMS Maritime has landed an estimated $234 million contract from Australia’s environment department to lead efforts to design, build, operate and maintain an icebreaker ship for research work in the Antarctic region. Serco said Thursday the contract includes four years of design and construction work, 10 years of full operations and maintenance as well as […] More
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $74.6 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to help the service branch conduct special studies, reviews and analyses of the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship development initiative. The Defense Department said Thursday that Lockheed will evaluate production and engineering challenges and cost and schedule risks associated with the Freedom-class LCS program. The company will also provide LCS engineering and […] More
The U.S. Air Force looks for industry partners to take part in a potential $12 million program that seeks to develop power sources and antennas for aerospace and defense uses, Military & Aerospace reported Wednesday. John Keller writes that the Air Force Research Laboratory released a solicitation Tuesday seeking partners to aid the development of the High-Powered Electromagnetics program […] More
Salesforce has introduced a technology platform that seeks to help public-sector organizations build applications intended to connect agencies with their employees, partners, suppliers and customers. Government Cloud Lightning has been developed as part of the company’s multitenant public cloud infrastructure and is designed for organizations at all levels of government as well as federally funded research-and-development centers and contractors, Salesforce said Thursday. Vivek Kundra, […] More
