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The Baker-Tetra Tech joint venture has landed a potential $50 million contract from the U.S. Navy for design and engineering services for the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Defense Department and other federal agencies. The contract calls for the JV to provide multimedia environmental compliance engineering support services, including the preparation of studies, plans, reports, cost estimates and […] More
NASA has performed a cryogenic test on the cameras and spectrographs of the James Webb Space Telescope in order to determine if the systems could withstand extremely cold temperatures inside a space environment simulator. The Webb telescope’s scientific instruments have been removed from a cylindrical simulation chamber at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland following completion of […] More
Optus and Cisco have signed a letter of intent to allocate funds for a $12 million co-investment toward the development of cybersecurity, cloud and Internet of Things technologies for government agencies and businesses in Australia. Optus said Thursday the three-year investment was established in early March at the Cisco Global Partner Summit in San Diego, where Cisco announced the telecommunications company as […] More
Leidos was named among the employers in the 2016 edition of Military Times’ annual “Best for Vets” list that ranks companies based on hiring and retention programs for military veterans. The company, which ranked 43rd in the list, said Monday its Operation MVP program is designed to hire, train and support veterans and that veterans make up 15 percent […] More
Louis Berger and Ammann & Whitney have been given the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers for the design of the Dragon Bridge of Da Nang, Vietnam. Louis Berger said Friday the 666-meter bridge was among six projects that were previously recognized as finalists for the award. ASCE presented the award during the annual Outstanding Project and […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has been included in Military Times’ “Best for Vets” employer list for 2016 in recognition of the company’s efforts to connect with current and potential veteran employees. CTC ranked 22nd out of 75 companies in the 2016 list, up by three spots from 2015, CTC said Monday. The ranking was based on an assessment […] More
Carahsoft has received two awards in the 2016 installment of Splunk‘s Global Partner Awards. The company was chosen for the Global Award for Marketing Excellence and the Regional Award for Public Sector Distribution Partner of the Year for its performance under Splunk’s Partner+ program, Carahsoft said March 15. “Carahsoft has grown from a federal government-focused reseller into a distributor supporting […] More
MBDA and Boeing have partnered to study the potential integration of MBDA’s Brimstone air-to-surface missile with Boeing’s AH-64E Apache helicopter under a U.K. defense ministry contract, Flightglobal reported Friday. Beth Stevenson writes MBDA U.K. Managing Director David Armstrong said the one-year contract requires a live test fire by the third quarter of 2016. The U.K. army air corps seeks […] More
Orbital ATK and NASA are set to launch a company-built Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday to transport approximately 7,900 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The cargo spaceship, nicknamed S.S. Rick Husband, is scheduled to take off Tuesday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA said […] More
The U.S. Army has kicked off its search for industry input on the design of secure and no-secure facilities for the Army Intelligence Command and other Defense Department agencies. The Army said in a notice posted Saturday it plans to award a five-year multi-discipline indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract based on the market research. Work under the planned contract […] More
Andover, Massachusetts-based security system supplier Minuteman Security Solutions has landed a potential six-year, $24 million contract with options from the U.S. Army to deliver the Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System. The Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an Internet solicitation process, the Defense Department said Friday. TICIDS is a standardized intrusion detection system designed to […] More
Rob Weiss, executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business, believes that the Defense Department should explore strategies to accelerate the pace of upgrades to the U.S. military’s F-22 and F-35 fleets, Flightglobal reported Friday. James Drew writes Weiss made the remarks as the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy eye a next-generation air dominance program. “As we look at F-22s and […] More
