Products & Service

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Metro Productions Government Services a $26.9 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide advisory and assistance support for the agency’s visual information and production centers. Metro Productions will deliver technical, engineering, advisory and management support to the MDA chief of staff directorate and locations that follows the VIPC requirements, the Defense Department said […] More

Norsat International has secured orders for 24 compact solid-state power amplifiers worth $3.8 million from Harris to replace the latter company’s nine large racks of legacy equipment. Norsat said Monday it will provide an array of 100W Ku-band ATOM series SSPAs for a Harris system designed to upconvert and amplify L-band composite signals. “Norsat and Harris have worked closely together over the past […] More

Seyer Industries has won a potential five-year, $27.3 million contract to provide  support equipment for the V-22 Osprey multirole combat planes of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday that Seyer Industries will also supply spare parts, assorted adapters, kits and assemblies under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will perform work in St. Peters, Missouri through […] More

Orbital ATK has partnered with Sweden-based space propulsion systems provider ECAPS to build and market a liquid green propulsion platform intended for government and commercial use. Orbital ATK will use the ECAPS-developed LMP-103S monopropellant as an alternative to hydrazine-based propulsion systems under the agreement, Orbital ATK said Monday. LMP-103S is designed to have low toxicity levels […] More

Lockheed Martin is set to begin the assembly, test and evaluation for the VH-92A presidential helicopter replacement program after the company completed the program’s critical design review stage. The VH-92A is designed to transport the U.S. president and vice president and other officials and a team comprised of Sikorsky and the Naval Air Systems Command conducted the […] More

Unisys has received approval from the National Security Agency and NSA’s partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to make a company-made enterprise information technology security platform available to government agencies. The company said Monday it received certification under the NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified program that allows federal agencies to buy and implement the Stealth software to help secure classified systems and […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has given Inmarsat’s U.S. federal government subsidiary notice to proceed on multiband satellite communications services under a potential five-year, $450 million contract after DISA lifted a prior stop-work order on the award. DISA revoked the stop-work order issued on Inmarsat Government through a contract modification, the Defense Department said Friday. The agency selected Inmarsat Government in […] More

Optex Systems has received a five-year, $5.99 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver laser-protected periscopes across the U.S. military. The optical sighting systems manufacturer said Friday its glass and plastic periscopes work to support a range of vehicle platforms. Optex CEO Danny Schoening said the award builds on the company’s efforts to grow its footprint in the armored vehicle […] More

Lockheed Martin has received an $8.34 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver a cybersecurity update for the fleet ballistic missile information technology applications and systems and a high-voltage detonator refresh. The Defense Department said Friday the project is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 31, 2018. The Strategic Systems Programs office obligated $7 million from the Navy’s fiscal […] More

Researchers at the University of South Australia have created simulation software intended to help soldiers change combat strategies with the use of an automated document analysis feature, The Lead reported Monday. Caleb Radford writes the software is designed to interpret text descriptions of various real-world scenarios and develop procedures after it registers text understanding methods. […] More

Airbus Group has received a contract from Germany’s defense procurement agency to operate Israel Aerospace Industries-built Heron 1 unmanned aerial systems in support of German forces’ missions in Mali. Airbus’ defense and space business will begin UAS operations in Mali in November through February 2018, Airbus said Thursday. Thomas Reinartz, head of sales for unmanned […] More