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Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $8.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide spares, related equipment and other support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system. The Navy awarded the firm-fixed-price delivery contract in support of Iraq’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Insitu will perform work in Bingen, Washington […] More

The Office of Naval Research has awarded Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems a five-year, $35 million grant to lead a team of scientists and engineers from various universities to help the U.S. Navy build an all-electric ship. The team will work on various energy and machinery aspects such as ship architecture, energy storage and power distribution, Florida […] More

PAR Technology subsidiary Rome Research Corp. will provide teleport commercial satellite services to the Global Information Grid facility located in Lago Patria, Italy as well as other remote sites under a five-year, $13.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense uses GIG to receive, manage, store and relay data to military commanders, policymakers and support personnel during national security and intelligence community missions, PAR […] More

Orbital ATK has been awarded a potential $118 million contract to continue its logistics support for missionized Cessna 208 aircraft flown by the Iraqi air force to perform security missions. The company said Tuesday it will also provide maintenance and support training, produce spare parts, repair components, update publications for Iraq’s Armed Caravan program. The contract has an initial $11 million value […] More

NASA has awarded Southern Research a five-year, $10 million contract renewal to continue to support a video imaging system used on the space agency’s WB-57 research aircraft. The Airborne Imaging and Recording System is attached to the WB-57 nose cap and designed to process full motion videos of rockets that ascend into space at a distance of more than 25 miles, Southern Research […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration of the new linear optics, guidance system and control actuation system of its Dual Mode Plus laser-guided bomb during two flight tests held at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in California. The tests featured two Mk-82 inert warheads that were released from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft to engage fixed targets, the company said Monday. Lockheed […] More

The U.S. Air Force will continue tests on two equipment modifications added to the Martin-Baker-developed ejection seat used on the service branch’s F-35 aircraft, Defense Tech reported Monday. Hope Hodge Seck writes the F-35 Joint Program Office has considered the addition of a lightweight crew sequencer switch and a head support panel between ejection seat risers to the US-16E ejection seat designs […] More

Cambridge International Systems Inc. has received a task order to provide maintenance, training and logistics services to U.S. Southern Command for the Colombian Regional Helicopter Training Center. The company will work to maintain the OH-58 and TH-67 helicopter, standardize pilot instruction, train maintenance personnel and support airframe transition, Cambridge International Systems said Friday. Cambridge is […] More

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has received $7.6 million in order from the U.S. Army for a set of very small aperture terminal satellite systems. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and funded orders to Comtech so far have totaled $49.5 million out of the $91.0 million contract ceiling under […] More

A ground system for U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and 460th Space Wing will enter the operational utility evaluation phase upon the completion of integrated test and evaluation work. The Air Force said Friday the Space-Based Infrared Systems Block 10 ground system will consolidate operational command and control of defense support program satellites, SBIRS Geosynchronous Earth […] More

Orbital ATK will supply medium-range ballistic missile target rockets to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential four-year, $182 million contract awarded in July. The company will provide the rockets to support tests of missile defense platforms under the MDA contract that covers the production of the third type of configuration for the agency’s medium-range […] More

Rockwell Collins has received a $31 million contract from the Defense Department to build a test range instrumentation system for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The company said Monday it will build the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System to replace the Advanced Range Data System currently used at the three military  branches’ test ranges as the prime contractor and system integrator on […] More