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The State Department approved a possible $31.2 million sale of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System-II laser-guided munitions to the U.K. government. Execution of the contract will be led by BAE Systems, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which notified Congress of the deal on Friday. The U.K. government ordered 768 of single-variant, all-up […] More
Brian Sutterfield, former systems engineering director at Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business, has been named as CEO of Lockheed subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday. ForwardEdge was established in a bid to fortify Lockheed’s design capabilities in application-specific integrated circuit and microelectronics, Sutterfield said. He spent most of his career at […] More
Carahsoft Technology will use its government procurement vehicles and reseller partner network to market Nok Nok‘s multi-factor authentication offering to the public sector. The company said Thursday it will serve as the master government aggregator for the Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite, a passwordless authentication platform designed to support compliance with the National Institute of […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking input from developers of technologies capable of bridging business process logic gaps. In a presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov Thursday, DARPA said the Business Process Logic Program intends to address the issues and vulnerabilities in business systems that control and manage defense-critical processes such as manufacturing, infrastructure and […] More
The National Science Foundation is inviting federal agencies, software companies, and academic and research institutions, to join its research effort to drive new innovations in advanced networking systems. NSF said it intends to invest in new public-private partnerships that can design and investigate the potential of next-generation computing, networking, sensing and communications. The agency published […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. and Israel-based BIRD Aerosystems have agreed to offer airborne missile protection systems to the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign military sales customers and other international commercial clients. BIRD’s family of AMPS platforms complies with the Army’s Modular Open System Approach and works to protect warfighters and aircraft from radar-guided missiles and other […] More
NASA’s Langley Research Center has issued a final request for proposals to conduct research and development efforts under its Reliance Consolidated Models effort, which aims to meet space and aerospace modeling requirements in support of agency missions. RECOM VI calls for capabilities from small businesses to provide mechanical or electrical hardware elements to assist in […] More
Phil Thiel, executive vice president at Dewberry and principal-in-charge of the company’s geospatial contracts, has been named as one of the new members of a committee responsible for making geospatial policy and management recommendations to the federal government. “The National Geospatial Advisory Committee plays a vital role in advancing the nation’s adoption and implementation of geospatial […] More
BlueHalo has turned over and installed its first high-energy laser diagnostic tool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. The Laser Instrumented Diagnostic Suite is among four units that will be delivered to U.S. Navy test sites across the country, BlueHalo said Thursday. The company won the contract to develop LIDS in April […] More
A Department of Homeland Security directorate has selected seven start ups to build software bill of materials-based products to help the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gain visibility into the software supply chain. Under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, the companies will work as a cohort to create a multi-format SBOM translator and a software […] More
The U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm has granted X-Bow Systems a potential $60 million Strategic Funding Increase award to boost its solid rocket motor production capabilities. Through the additional investment from AFWERX, X-Bow will expand its work with the Air Force Research Laboratory to accelerate additive manufacturing of solid rocket motors, the space technology company […] More
A developer of plasma-based satellite propulsion systems for government and commercial aerospace and defense customers has received an investment from Veteran Ventures Capital through the investment firm’s Veteran Fund I. The capital infused into Phase Four marks Veteran Ventures’ fourth investment, the investment firm said Thursday. “Their technology stack and propulsion product lines are aligned […] More
