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LRAD Corp. has received a five-year, $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver an acoustic hailing device system that works to facilitate situational awareness for naval forces. The Navy will use the device to support situational monitoring and anti-terrorism activities aboard Military Sealift Command vessels and other Navy and Coast Guard ships, the Defense Department said […] More
Northrop Grumman has ordered about $60.4 million in intermediate-frequency receivers from Kitron for the radar systems of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Kitron said Thursday it will also provide technical know-know, create IF radar receiver prototypes and manufacture sub-assembly testing equipment under a manufacturing license agreement with Northrop. Northrop builds radar technology for integration into F-35s. Norway-based Kitron provides electronic circuit boards manufacturing, prototyping, […] More
Visualant and Intellicheck Mobilisa have signed an agreement for the latter company to have exclusive rights to the former’s patented ChromaID platform. Visualant said Thursday that the ChromaID approach aims to help Intellicheck update its products with photonic technology for threat detection and document verification purposes. ChromaID works to detect machine-readable chromatic identifiers with the use of Visualant’s developed Spectral Pattern Matching technology. Ron […] More
Capstone Corp. has been selected to deliver training services and formal courses for the Commander, Navy Installations Command and installation security and emergency management personnel under a new task order. The company will manage the curriculum, provide professional instruction, provide courseware and administer the staff, Capstone said Tuesday. Richard White, Capstone CEO, said the company […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a $47 million lifecycle support contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command to work on AN/ZSQ-2 forward looking infrared and electro-optical sensor systems. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract requires support for Socom’s technology applications program office through March 31, 2021 with five one-year ordering periods. Socom will obligate $9 million at the time of […] More
World Wide Technology has partnered with computer security company Tanium to help deliver latter’s cybersecurity platform across the U.S. Air Force‘s network under a previously awarded automated remediation and asset discovery contract. St. Louis-based WWT said Wednesday the Tanium platform works to help reduce work to add and maintain servers that are built to protect millions of endpoints or devices from cyber threats. WWT […] More
General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries have received additional funds from the U.S. Navy to help build two more Arleigh Burke-class missile guided destroyers, USNI News reported Wednesday. Megan Eckstein writes the obligated funds are for the seventh and eighth DDG 51 ships under two separate contracts the military service awarded to General Dynamics unit Bath Iron Works and HII division Ingalls Shipbuilding in […] More
Lockheed Martin reseller partner Hybrid Enterprises has received a letter of intent from Straightline Aviation for the purchase of 12 Lockheed-built Hybrid Airships worth an estimated $480 million. Hybrid Enterprises has started negotiations with SLA regarding the purchase agreement and works to finalize the sales of the cargo and passenger transport aircraft, Lockheed said Wednesday. Lockheed selected Hybrid Enterprises in June 2015 […] More
Interoperable communications systems provider Mutualink has named PMC Associates as a distribution partner for New Jersey in an interoperability and multimedia collaboration for public safety efforts. Mutualink said Wednesday its technology is used for the state government-funded public safety network JerseyNet, under which PMC serves as a prime contractor. PMC offers wireless two-way communications integration and radio systems for […] More
Sunnyvale, California-based computer storage and data management company NetApp has appointed former Altera Chief Financial Officer Ron Pasek to the roles of executive vice president and CFO. The three-decade financial leadership veteran will join the company on April 11 to replace interim CFO Jeffrey Bergmann, NetApp said Wednesday. Prior to Altera, he spent 20 years in finance positions at […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle co-sponsored a data science competition that has challenged participants to produce algorithms to enable automated analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging scans. More than 993 people of different genders and ages submitted approximately 1,392 algorithms for Kaggle’s second annual Data Science Bowl contest, Booz Allen said Wednesday. “This particular challenge was one that the medical community […] More
Joseph Teixeira, Inmarsat aviation safety and cybersecurity vice president, has received the James L. Oberstar Sentinel of Safety Award from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association for his leadership in the field of aviation safety. Inmarsat said Thursday the award is given annually to recognize a non-NATCA member who has significantly contributed to aviation safety efforts. NATCA presented the award to Teixeira […] More
