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The U.S. Army has awarded Phoenix Nuclear Labs multiple contracts worth a total of $3.6 million to create a neutron radiography system that will work to detect defective munitions and explosive threats. PNL said Tuesday it will supply a pilot-production neutron radiography system to the Army that is designed to produce a higher neutron yield while mitigating safety […] More

AM General‘s Mobility Ventures subsidiary has received an order from the Department of Veteran Affairs for five wheelchair-accessible vehicles through bus distributor Master’s Transportation. Mobility Ventures said Tuesday VA will use the MV-1 vehicles at medical centers in Colorado, Florida and Tennessee. MV-1 was added to Master’s Transportation’s General Services Administration Schedule contract in 2015 and the purchase marks the […] More

Sierra Nevada Corporation has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to provide an electrical power system for the former’s Dream Chaser commercial spacecraft designated by NASA to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday it will design, create, test and install the electrical power system onto Dream Chaser as well as provide power conversion and […] More

Lockheed Martin has tested its missile interceptor that is designed to engage rocket, artillery and mortar targets during an exercise held Friday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Tuesday it fired the Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor as part of the Extended Area Protection and Survivability program run by the U.S. Army‘s Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. This engineering demonstration […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $23 million cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to General Dynamics‘ NASSCO-Norfolk business unit for support services during a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier’s fiscal 2016 planned incremental availability. General Dynamics said Tuesday it will perform depot-level maintenance, modifications and ship repairs to update the USS Harry S. Truman‘s military and technical capacity. The company noted it […] More

The Miami-Dade County’s department of transportation and public works has awarded a Cubic business unit a $33 million contract to update the county’s EASY Card revenue management system and deliver back-office cloud computing and support services over 10 years. The company said Tuesday its transportation systems business will provide its contactless bankcard and a near-field communications mobile open payment […] More

America Makes has received a $10 million grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a new five-year cooperative agreement to refine manufacturing techniques for aircraft replacement parts. America Makes will collaborate with the University of Dayton Research Institute, Youngstown State University, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force Reserve Command’s 910th Airlift […] More

The National Science Foundation has awarded UbiQD a 12-month, $225,000 grant to advance research and development on luminescent solar-concentrating glass windows with quantum dot coatings under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program. The Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy originally helped create the solar energy technology, and UbiQD included the technology’s proof-of-concept […] More

Irving Burton Associates has unveiled a cloud-based service that is built on open source technology and designed to accelerate the delivery of native, hybrid and web-based mobile applications. The Federal Mobile Services Platform works to supply rapid prototypes to Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry devices and comply with federal customer security requirements and policies, IBA said Thursday. Cleveland Cooke, IBA’s […] More

A team led by Esri has received a task order from the U.S. Navy to provide geographic information system support services under the service branch’s SeaPort Enhanced contract vehicle. Esri said Monday it will work with nine small businesses to provide GIS services under the Navy’s SeaPort-e indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Those companies include Aerial Information Systems, APEX Expert […] More

Draeger Medical and Nobel Biocare have received separate awards from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide medical and dental supplies for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The Defense Department said Monday Draeger secured a potential $57.3 million modification that exercises the second of nine one-year option periods of a contract that covers patient monitoring […] More