Products & Service

Orbital ATK has signed a teaming agreement with IMI Systems to produce and offer a bomb technology to the U.S. defense market. The partnership seeks to manufacture a variant of IMI’s Multi-Purpose Rigid Bomb weapon designed with precision, collateral damage reduction and penetration capacities, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. Pat Nolan, vice president and general manager of missile products at Orbital […] More

Boeing has secured a $41.3 million advance acquisition contract from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials needed to build additional Super Hornet combat aircraft. The company will produce 20 F/A-18Es and four F/A-18Fs under full-rate production lot 43, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The service branch will use fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement funds to cover […] More

SimiGon has received a contract to provide a technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to train the service branch’s technicians to de-ice airplanes. The company said Tuesday its SIMbox-based virtual reality aircraft de-icing simulator will help USAF conduct training that includes playback and after-action review, scoring, feedback reports and a multiuser mode. Military and commercial […] More

A business unit of United Technologies Corp. will update the building systems of the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ facilities across the VA’s Great Lakes Health Care System under a $97 million contract. NORESCO said Monday it aims to increase the energy and water efficiency of facilities at six sites of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 under the Energy […] More

Telephonics will supply radar systems for integration onto U.S. Coast Guard surveillance aircraft under a potential $31.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract covers the purchase of 19 multimode radar systems for the Coast Guard’s HC-27J aircraft and the required logistics support and engineering technical services, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will run […] More

Advanced IT Concepts has received a seven-year subcontract to support the U.S. Army‘s Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations Maintenance Program. AITC said Monday it will work with an industry team led by Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business, the ATMP’s prime contractor. Under the subcontract, AITC will provide technical expertise and services in a variety […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Raytheon a contract modification to update software used to manage GEOINT data sources. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the modification falls under the GEOINT Data Transformation Services II contract and covers software design, code, integration and test services. Raytheon will support the file-based upgrade of the GDTS software’s three […] More

KBR‘s global government services business will continue to provide logistics and prepositioning support services to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Blount Island Command under a two-part contract modification. The company said Monday the modification represents the ninth year of its work performance under the original contract and covers organic, supply and information technology support; inventory management; preservation and […] More

Red Hat has been named a leader in Gartner‘s latest magic quadrant for vendors that offer application programming interface management platforms. The market research firm included Red Hat’s 3scale platform in the April 2018 edition of the “Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management,” the software company said Friday. The platform is designed with security management, access […] More

Planet and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have partnered in an effort to increase the process for NGA to extract and analyze commercial imagery. Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager, said in a statement published Thursday both parties signed a cooperative research and development agreement that could yield change detection services such as object monitoring, broad area search and baseline and […] More