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The European Maritime Safety Agency has awarded the team of ORBCOMM and LuxSpace Sarl a potential four-year, $11.4 million contract to provide satellite-based automatic identification system data services. LuxSpace and ORBCOMM will work to provide global satellite AIS data feed to EMSA, other European Union agencies and member states to help them track ships as […] More

A joint venture of Ultra Electronics Holdings and Sparton has secured $19.2 million in contracts to manufacture underwater acoustics technology for multiple foreign customers. The ERAPSCO/SonobuoyTech Systems JV will distribute contract funds to the Ultra Electronics USSI and Sparton De Leon Springs business units for the production of active and passive sonabuoys, Sparton said Monday. Sonobuoys are designed to detect, classify and localize adversary submarines during […] More

Pentek has added a new signal recording and playback system to the company’s Talon family of products designed for military, security and government intelligence-gathering missions. The RTS 2620 Sentinel Intelligent Signal Scanning rackmount is the first recorder to incorporate the Talon recording system, signal scanner and radio frequency tuner and upconverter, Pentek said June 27. RTS 2620 is also designed […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential $26.4 million task order to exercise the first option year of a potential $66 million contract to provide enterprise management and technical support to the U.S. Navy information force’s shore modernization and integration directorate. The Defense Department said July 25 the company will support the directorate’s work in enterprise architecture […] More

The U.S. Air Force has selected Radiance Technologies to design, develop and test multiple high-fidelity sensor models and associated communication links and command-and-control nodes under a $17.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract. Radiance Technologies will perform work for the contract at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through July 28, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a second RS-25 engine technology the company developed for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The company said Friday it conducted the evaluation at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where the 0528 engine was switched on for 650 seconds. Aerojet Rocketdyne restarted the RS-25 engine testing process in 2015 to check the upgraded controllers’ compliance with the requirements of SLS […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Excet a $48.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide research and development services for various Naval Research Laboratory projects in support of the service branch’s corrosion mitigation, coatings, environmental and prevention programs. The Defense Department said Friday that Excet will perform scientific, engineering and technical R&D in Virginia, Florida and Washington D.C. through July 28, 2021, […] More

Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $71.4 million contract to perform sustainment work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, consumable spares replenishment, repair, sustaining engineering support, technical data and depot activation services for the aircraft’s weapon system, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under […] More

SpaceX has received its second task order from NASA to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract worth approximately $2.6 billion. The task order was awarded after the company completed internal design evaluation and interim developmental milestones for its Crew Dragon space vehicle, Falcon 9 rocket and related ground systems, NASA said […] More

BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has won a potential four-year, $8.7 million from the U.S. Air Force to research, build and demonstrate a software system for first responders. The Defense Department said Friday that BAE Systems Inc.‘s information and electronic systems integration unit will help the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a PHOENIX platform for first responders to disconnect […] More

Raytheon has entered into a five-year deal with RUAG Switzerland to service an airborne digital radar warning receiver built for the Swiss government. Raytheon said Friday it will maintain Switzerland’s ALR-67(V)3 receivers that work to alert F-18 pilots of potential hostile threats under the commercial performance-based logistics contract. “Our two key metrics for this PBL are availability and reliability,” said Michael Baladjanian, director of Raytheon’s space and […] More

ICF International has received a two-year, $4.8 million task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in support of the agency’s communications campaign for opioid abuse risk awareness. The company said Thursday it will manage the development and placement of the campaign’s digital and social media advertisements, create social media […] More