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Textron has announced it will offer an Overwatch Imaging-built precision survey sensor technology as part of the Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system. Overwatch Imaging designed its TK-7 Firewatch multispectrum survey payload with color focal plane array and co-boresighted infrared sensors that Textron will integrate with the UAS’ onboard image processing system to facilitate precision mapping and aerial photography, Textron said Monday. […] More

3M‘s Ceradyne subsidiary has received two contracts worth $43 million combined to produce helmet systems and hard body armor inserts to act as components of the U.S. Army‘s Soldier Protection System. 3M said Tuesday Ceradyne secured a $7 million contract to deliver more than 5,300 helmet systems for SPS’ Integrated Head Protection System component. IHPS is designed give soldiers a lighter ballistic helmet […] More

Turkey’s defense procurement authority has agreed to purchase a second batch of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jets, Defense News reported Monday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes the country’s procurement and military officials expect to complete a dual-fighter jet fleet comprised of the F-35 and an indigenous aircraft called TFX by 2023. Turkey has committed to buy a […] More

Global Technical Systems has secured an $18.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce and test 36 common processing system units that will work to help address the computer requirements of various Navy combat systems. The open architecture-based Technical Insertion Twelve Hybrid CPS will comprise an enclosure assembly as well as processing, storage/extraction and input/output subsystems, the […] More

Lockheed Martin has landed a $60.9 million contract modification to integrate and test the Aegis weapon system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 class ships under the third option year of a previously awarded contract. The company will perform Aegis shipboard integration engineering, support the Ballistic Missile Defense test team and assess AWS elements  through Advanced Capability Build 12, the […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a series of hot-fire tests on two launch abort engines that include new propellant valves for the propulsion system of Boeing‘s Crew Space Transportation-100 Starliner service module. The tests were conducted in Mojave Desert, California to validate the fuel valve and oxidizer valve’s capacity to regulate propellant flow and peak LAE thrust in case of […] More

Honeywell and Inmarsat have forged a partnership to provide satellite communications offerings intended to help military users connect anywhere in the world. Inmarsat combines its Global Xpress SATCOM as a service in-flight broadband service with Honeywell’s JetWave satellite communications hardware in efforts to provide high-bandwidth connectivity for military customers, Honeywell said Monday. Carey Smith, president of […] More

General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has won an $18.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design and develop an acoustic path exploitation system. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers hardware delivery, design and construction services for the Deep Reliable Acoustic Path Exploitation System dummy array. The contractor will also help the service branch create deployment procedures as […] More

Virginia Electric and Power Co. has been awarded a $23.4 million contract to perform electricity distribution and supply services for the Pentagon and other government facilities located in Northern Virginia. The company will carry out work in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, through Aug. 21, 2018, the Defense Department said Friday. The Washington Headquarters Services obligated fiscal 2017 […] More

The Office of Naval Research has awarded Decisive Analytics Corp. a $1.5 million contract to develop a system that will work to carry out analytics functions and utilize disparate, multi-modal data to support warfighters and decision-makers. The SEMantic Powered Event Reasoning system works to tag, identify and provide users information through an intelligent-natural language query mechanism, Decisive […] More

ICF has received a potential five-year, $11 million task order from professional services firm Mendez England & Associates to provide support services for a U.S. government program that seeks to advance food security efforts in partner countries. ICF will collaborate with ME&A to provide technical support for the Global Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning […] More

The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have awarded a Chemring Group subsidiary $17.6 million in contracts to produce and deliver MJU-61A/B flares and M2o6 and M211 infrared decoy flares. Chemring Countermeasures will produce the MJU-61A/B and m206 flares at its Kilgore facility in Toone, Tennessee and the M211 at its Alloy Surfaces facility in Chester Township, […] More