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DigitalGlobe has awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates a contract to develop a ground infrastructure for an international user of DigitalGlobe’s Earth observation satellites. MDA said Tuesday the ground station platform will work to help the customer access data and imagery from the WorldView constellation. The ground station will be using an MDA multi-satellite architecture, according […] More

IronPlanet has unveiled an online marketplace for users to buy and sell surplus Defense Department assets. The first online auction of surplus trucks, trailers, generators, wheel loaders, cranes, crawler tractors and other government equipment on the GovPlanet marketplace is scheduled for Nov. 19, IronPlanet said Wednesday. “GovPlanet is a compelling new platform for fast and efficient disposal of government surplus equipment […] More

Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems […] More

Boeing has leased office and laboratory space in North Charleston, South Carolina for a planned research and technology center the company plans to open within its current quarter, the Charleston Regional Business Journal reported Tuesday. Liz Segrist writes that the future Boeing Research & Technology – South Carolina facility covers an area of 100,000 square feet […] More

Pepco Holdings‘ stockholders have approved the power provider’s proposed merger with Exelon Corp. The merger would combine Pepco Holdings’ Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco electric and gas utilities and Exelon’s BGE, ComEd and PECO utilities,  Exelon said Tuesday. Exelon said the transaction is scheduled to complete in the second or third quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and […] More