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ViaSat has received National Security Agency certification for two encryption platforms the company designed to secure communications networks. The broadband services and technology provider said Wednesday its NSA-certified KG-250XS and IPS-250X encryptors are now available for purchase by government agencies. Jerry Goodwin, chief operating officer of the government systems division at ViaSat, said the certification supports the company’s efforts to grow its cyber […] More

NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to support the technology maturity of a CubeSat “green” propulsion system that works to boost maneuverability, safety and performance compared with systems using traditional hydrazine propellants. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the AF-M315E green propellant for the MPS-130 propulsion system serves to drive CubeSat and SmallSat development in terms of mission life extension, architecture resiliency and ability to perform proximity […] More

An Airbus Group voice encryption technology has been added to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s list of approved products for deployment on Defense Department-run networks. Airbus said Thursday its ECTOCRYP Black device with R1.2.3 software offers voice communications security options not previously seen in legacy Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol systems. The platform is built with a common commercial-off-the-shelf hardware architecture that operators can program to accommodate new features […] More

BAE Systems has secured a potential seven-year, $38.2 million contract to provide logistics support for the U.S. Army‘s tactical signal intelligence payload system. The Defense Department said Thursday work will occur through Aug. 10, 2023 and performance location will be determined with each individual task order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online solicitation, DoD […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for Novartis Pharma‘s estimated $100 million  biotechnology center expansion project in France. Novartis Pharma aims to increase its biotechnology center’s production capacity by 70 percent and build a second line of purification to manufacture multiple drugs at the same time, Jacobs said Thursday. The project is […] More

Rennova Health has entered into an agreement with service-disabled veteran-owned small business Academy Medical to offer the former’s laboratory services to U.S. federal government clients such as the Department of Veterans Affairs. The agreement establishes Rennova’s Riviera Beach Laboratory as an exclusive federal government business channel partner to Academy Medical, Rennova said Thursday. The diagnostics software company added that […] More

Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics now offers an on-campus training program for pilots of fixed-wing and multi-rotor small unmanned aircraft systems. The Federal Aviation Administration‘s regulations on the commercial use of drones work to allow the training program’s students to fly small UAS weighing less than 55 pounds on campus, the university said Tuesday. The […] More

An Australian government-owned company has awarded DigitalGlobe a follow-on contract to provide a geospatial content management platform for a mapping initiative that seeks to host information on more than 15 million buildings across Australia. PSMA Australia will implement DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform to generate geospatial content and location information for PSMA’s Geoscape continent-scale mapping product, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe platform general manager, said Geoscape […] More

Prism has joined a Mitre-administered government-industry information-sharing program funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and will provide its Aviation Risk Management Online Resource to serve as a participating platform for aviation safety report submissions. Prism said Wednesday it will participate in the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program that serves to facilitate safety information exchanges and provide support resources for the aviation industry. “Every […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has demonstrated a radar system on the U.S. Navy‘s Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier with the use of a special-instrumented F-18  Super Hornet. During the test, HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding examined the functionality, alignment and operation of the Precision Aircraft Landing System and its subsystems as the Super Hornet flew within 500 feet of […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s advanced technology center has built an ultra-compact cryocooler system to offer a quick-startup feature for infrared sensors used to support military operations. Lockheed said Wednesday its Fast Cool Down Microcryocooler is designed to quickly activate IR-sensing platforms utilized on space observation and weapons targeting missions. Jeffrey Olson, a research scientist at Lockheed’s advanced technology center, said the technology can help reduce the […] More

Evolva has partnered with the U.S. Navy to develop and test a new type of structural composite material based on a polymer resin matrix derived from the company’s resveratrol product. The company said Wednesday it will collaborate with the Naval Air Systems Command’s  research facility in China Lake, California, to advance development of the composite. Resvetratrol-based prototype materials demonstrated resistance to intense and prolonged […] More