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Harris Corp. will provide the National Weather Service with a digital tool in an effort to help NWS study weather information at a local level. The company will provide the Helios platform to the agency through a contract with Global Science and Technology, Harris said Tuesday. Helios is a ground-based analytics tool that works to provide localized environmental […] More

A CSRA subsidiary has been awarded a $7.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop new approaches for analyses of the trust calibration process to facilitate human-machine collaborations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes SRA International will develop concepts to help aircraft pilots, intelligence analysts and maintenance technicians build trust with robots. The Air […] More

DigitalGlobe and Esri have reached an agreement to expand a world imagery map for  Esri customers as part of an effort to help connect users through geographic information systems. The companies aim to provide users of Esri’s ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Data Appliance products access to high-resolution satellite imagery via a multi-year subscription service, DigitalGlobe said Monday. DigitalGlobe […] More

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar’s unmanned aerial systems tracking and identification functions designed to support information relay to a command and control node. The company built Q-53 to detect, classify, track and locate indirect fire from enemies in 36o- and 90- degree modes, as well as deliver multi-mission radar functions through its rockets, […] More

Air Industries Group has received $2.3 million in subcontract awards from Helicopter Tech to develop landing gear component made from forged aluminum for the KC-135 aircraft. Nassau Tool Works, Air Industries’ subsidiary, will produce the part over a period of two years with the start of deliveries slated for early 2018, Air Industries said Monday. Dan Godin, Air Industries Group president […] More

Austal USA formally turned over the USS Montgomery littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The Navy said Friday Montgomery, which is scheduled to be commissioned in September,  will be the military branch’s seventh LCS and fourth ship of its Independence class. Capt. Tom Anderson, the Navy’s LCS program manager, said the service […] More

ViaSat has reached the 500-unit production milestone for its KOR-24A small tactical terminal under a rate that works to roll out more than 20 terminals per month. The company said Monday STT two-channel radios have worked to provide direct Link 16 network interoperability for U.S. and international military users through more than 1,000,000 operational flight hours. “We produced and delivered over 210 STTs to customers over […] More

RKF Engineering Solutions has won a one-year, $19.7 million contract to support a Defense Information Systems Agency organization’s electromagnetic environmental effects engineering and analysis activities. The Washington, D.C.-based company will perform the contract work in Annapolis, Maryland, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, through June 26, 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. RKF Engineering Solutions will collaborate with […] More

Parsons has secured a contract to provide management services for a tolling system design and installation project within a 10-mile segment of Interstate 66 in Virginia. The company said Monday the project encompasses work to install an all-lane system for toll collections from I-495 in the Capital Beltway to U.S. Route 29 in Rosslyn to help address traffic congestion in and out of Washington, […] More

Georgia Tech has purchased four buildings and 52 acres from Lockheed Martin‘s south campus in Marietta to function as additional applied research facilities for the university. Lockheed said Monday that the new facilities will help to manage crowding in Georgia Tech’s other five buildings in Cobb County as its research enterprise expands. Tim Lee, Cobb County commission chairman, said the […] More

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded American Systems a five-year, $10 million task order to extend its integrated test, evaluation and analytical support services to the U.S. Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland. American Systems said Monday its serviecs will include program management, operational tests and market research-early acquisition program test support to the Defense Department‘s Operational Medicine […] More

The Naval Sea Systems Command has started to transition a new suite of “Wide Field of View” night vision goggles to personnel within the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. The U.S. Navy said Friday the WFOV NVG units are designed to double view fields of traditional night vision models and support, depth perception, situational awareness and movement speed for warfighters through 80-degree […] More