Products & Service

Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary Comtech PST has been awarded a $1.3 million contract by an international customer to provide broadband radio-frequency microwave amplifiers for a communications jamming system. The communications products and services company said Wednesday the amplifiers work to provide broad frequency coverage for jamming systems through broadband solid-state switching and transistor technology. Stanton Sloane, Comtech president and CEO, said Comtech PST’s broadband amplifiers […] More

Leidos has been awarded a $10.4 million contract by the Washington Headquarters Services to provide labor support for the Office of Military Commissions’ case preparations for hearings and trials. The Defense Department said Wednesday the labor-hour contract requires linguists, interpreters, translators, stenographers and court reporters for enemy combatant trials at the U.S. naval station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DoD said […] More

NASA has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a potential five-year, $33.9 million contract to provide operations and maintenance services for the agency’s aviation and railroad incident reporting programs. Booz Allen will support the Aviation Safety Reporting System and the Confidential Close Call Reporting System for the agency as well as help research and develop similar systems, NASA said Thursday. The company will […] More

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new facility at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas to provide engine repair support for the T-45 trainer jet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday the service delivery center will also provide service operations support for the Rolls-Royce-built F405 Adour engines of the aircraft. A BAE Systems–Boeing partnership […] More

Airbus has selected Flatirons Solutions to provide software for work to produce and maintain the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for Denmark. Flatirons’ CORENA software will be incorporated into the Danish Fighter Replacement Program to fulfill the requirements for full content lifecycle management, Flatiron said Thursday. Geoffrey Godet, Flatirons CEO, said the company will extend its partnership with Airbus […] More

Alfresco Software has updated its records management platform offering in an effort to help customer agencies simplify and secure access to classified information. The Records Management 2.4 module is designed to allow government users to view content that is classified up to the security level they have been cleared to access, Alfresco said Wednesday. The company developed the […] More

Drone Aviation has concluded a nighttime flight test of its commercial tethered unmanned aircraft system under approval by the Federal Aviation Administration. The company collaborated with The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech and Aviation Systems Engineering Company for the WATT-300 flight test, Drone Aviation said Wednesday. Jay Nussbaum, chairman of Drone Aviation, said the WATT-300 tethered drone is built to […] More

The National Archives and Records Administration agency has awarded a potential five-year, $17.3 million contract to Project Performance Company for operations and maintenance work on two NARA systems built to manage large amounts of data. PPC said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s efforts to develop, modernize and update its Description and Authority Service and National Archives Catalog systems that work to […] More

Sotera Defense Solutions has been awarded a three-year, $16 million task order from the U.S. Army for technical, engineering and management services to the branch’s Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center. The company said Tuesday it will support the Defense Readiness Reporting System-Army and also carry out design, development, integration, test and documentation work. Herndon, Va.-based Sotera will also provide logistics, […] More

NASA will test a Bigelow Aerospace-developed human-rated expandable habitat to collect data for deep space habitat designs after the structure is installed on the International Space Station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be attached to the space station’s Tranquility node using the Canadarm2 robotic arm on April 16 during an estimated four-hour attachment period, NASA said […] More