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NCI has received an 18-month, $10 million task order from the U.S. Army to perform engineering and integration support services on the military branch’s intelligence and security command systems. The company will work to develop, install and test the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence and information technology systems of the Fort Meade, Maryland-based command, NCI said […] More

Charles River Analytics and 5D Robotics will collaborate to develop a soldier-machine interface for U.S. Army robotic systems under a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract. The companies’ Multi-Modal Interface for Natural Operator Teaming with Autonomous Robots will integrate multiple tracking and robot control systems, Charles River said Nov 1. MINOTAUR is intended to provide an interface to warfighters who operate with autonomous systems […] More

ASRC Federal‘s Vistronix subsidiary has secured a three-year, $14.1 million contract for engineering and technical work on the U.S. Army‘s wideband controls systems. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $1.3 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal 2016 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Friday. Vistronix will perform […] More

A joint venture of Versar and Johnson Controls‘ federal systems subsidiary has received a $15.5 million contract to repair and renovate the three-story Building 1108 at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Versar said Wednesday its engineering construction management group will perform  design, permitting, renovation and construction services under the contract. Work also includes commissioning of an administrative building that will […] More

Intel has unveiled a new unmanned aerial system designed to perform specifically for light shows in a push to redefine entertainment and create new experiences under the night sky. Anil Nanduri, Intel vice president and general manager of unmanned aviation systems for the Perceptual Computing Group, wrote in a blog post published Friday 500 Shooting Star […] More

CSRA has received a three-year, $45 million contract from the Customs and Border Protection to provide advice on equipment options and deployment methods that could help CBP personnel detect and prevent illegal travel and trade activities. Falls Church, Virginia-based CSRA said Monday it will help CBP’s systems engineering, logistics and sustainment, capabilities and requirements divisions to determine towers, […] More

Lockheed Martin is ready to begin pre-operational testing of the Mobile User Objective System constellation’s fifth satellite after the spacecraft reached geosynchronous orbit and deployed its solar arrays and antennas last week. Lockheed said Friday it will conduct on-orbit MOUS-5 tests before the company hands over operations to the U.S. Navy for additional evaluation and commissioning into service. The […] More

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific intends to purchase 12 Curtiss-Wright-built modules along with related embedded computing equipment to aid the center’s C4ISR research efforts, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes SSC Pacific wants to order XMC-120 Switched Mezzanine Card modules that are designed to support space-constrained size, weight and power-sensitive applications. XMC-120 is […] More

United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is scheduled to launch a weather monitoring satellite Nov. 19 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R will lift atop ULA’s  Atlas V 541 configuration rocket from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, ULA said Sunday. […] More