Products & Service

A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has been awarded a $1.7 million contract to supply Ka-band power amplifiers to an unidentified U.S. systems integration service provider for use with high-throughput satellite gateways. The 500-watt Ka-band traveling wave tube amplifiers from Comtech Xicom Technology will be used to set up new HTS gateway facilities in Africa and expand existing infrastructures […] More

Boeing has awarded Avcorp Industries a subcontract to produce panoramic camera fairings for the KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft of the U.S. Air Force. Avcorp will assemble metallic components of panoramic camera structures into a fully integrated system for installation on the 767-2C fuselage at Boeing’s facility in Everett, Washington, Avcorp said Monday. The Boeing-built KC-46 works to refuel military planes […] More

The General Services Administration’s 18F has released a new contract to solicit bids from industry as part of its open-source micro-purchasing experiment. David Zvenyach, 18F’s acquisition management director, wrote in a blog post published Monday that 18F has tagged a micro-purchase product from its product backlog for the contract award labor category. Initial bid for […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Canadian arm has completed the design review phase on combat systems for Anzac-class frigates in New Zealand’s naval fleet. The design review process on Combat Management System 330 is part of a contract awarded by New Zealand’s navy to Lockheed in April 2014 to update the combat platforms onboard two Anzac-class ships, Lockheed said Thursday. Lockheed will transition into […] More

Penguin Computing has been awarded a $39 million contract to produce high-performance computing systems for use in stockpile stewardship tasks at the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. Lawrence Livermore picked Penguin Computing to provide more than 7 Petaflops of computing as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s tri-lab advanced simulation and computing […] More

Intel has decided to stop offering its portfolio of McAfee software-as-a-service email security and archiving platforms by Jan. 11, 2016, TechWeekEurope UK reported Friday. Tom Jowitt writes the company’s security unit will continue to provide support services for Email Archiving, Encryption and Protection & Continuity products through Jan. 11, 2019. Intel also set Jan. 11, […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants information on potential contractors that can provide development, engineering, infrastructure and sustainment support for a data discovery service that DISA uses to acquire open source-based information from content providers. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Friday that it is in search for vendors that can provide systems engineering […] More

A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support the research efforts of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions on the asteroid Psyche as an industrial partner on a potential Discovery mission. MDA said Thursday Space Systems/Loral will participate in work on concept design studies with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator on the project and director of Arizona State University’s School […] More

BANC3 has received $15 million in contracts for support services to the U.S. Army‘s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center and Communications-Electronics Command. The company said Thursday it will provide research, software development, engineering and sustainment services in support of CERDEC and CECOM technology programs. “We are honored by the opportunity to continue serving the Army and this important mission, […] More

A team of ICF International and ASI Government will provide training to federal acquisition professionals as part of the Office of Management and Budget‘s Digital Service Contracting Professional Training and Development Program. The companies said Thursday they will work with the U.S. Digital Service and Office of Federal Procurement Policy to support a six-month pilot program that will train an initial group of […] More