Products & Service

A Mission Ready Services subsidiary has received a contract from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center to develop a safety vest for sailors working aboard submarines and surface ships. Protect the Force will use a government-approved design to produce the initial prototype of an Electrician’s Impact Safety Vest for field assessment and […] More

Lockheed Martin has unveiled an analytics platform the company designed to help public and private sector customers protect their space assets. The intelligent Space offering encompasses sensor data processing, space domain awareness, battle management and command-and-control support for defense, civil, commercial and international clients, Lockheed said Tuesday. The company designed iSpace to task, process and correlate data from a global network of government, commercial […] More

Raytheon has tested an updated electric gun that will be integrated on a company-built radar-guided weapon system against ballistic missiles as part of a series of “tech refresh” projects. The company said Tuesday the updates to the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System were implemented to help sailors and soldiers fire weapons at varying rates and consume less ammunition. Phalanx uses […] More

Hughes Network Systems has secured a spot on the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer its satellite-based internet service to federal, local and state government agencies. The company said Thursday the HughesNet Gen5 service works to provide users with 25 megabits per second of download speeds and 3 Mbps of upload speeds as defined […] More

Avaya has obtained Common Criteria certification for a suite of virtual services platform switches. The company said Thursday its portfolio of Virtual Services Platform 4000, 7000 series and 8000 switches was evaluated against Network Device collaborative Protection Profile v1.0 requirements. VSP products are designed to implement cryptographic support, identification and authentication, security management, Target of Evaluation access, protection of TOE security function […] More

Airbus’ defense and space segment has selected a Northrop Grumman subsidiary to supply mesh reflectors for two of Inmarsat‘s communications satellites. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business will provide its AstroMesh reflectors for integration with Inmarsat 6 satellites designed to provide L-band communication services, Northrop said Thursday. John Alvarez, general manager of Astro Aerospace, said the company’s […] More

Malibu, California-based Divine Imaging has won a potential five-year, $60 million contract to supply commercial off-the-shelf items to the Defense Logistics Agency for use by the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and other service branches. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base term and four option years, Divine Imaging said Wednesday. DLA received 24 proposals for the contract […] More

HighPoint Global has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70  contract vehicle to offer professional services for federal government agencies. The company said Tuesday it received a potential 20-year contract to provide support under the IT professional services and health IT professional services special item numbers. HighPoint CEO Ben Lanius said the company now holds […] More

Riverbed Technology has obtained the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification for a wide-area network optimization technology designed to help federal customers address network security challenges. The company said Wednesday its SteelHead CX version 9.1.4. will work to help federal government clients mitigate traffic across their respective networks, manage end-to-end user experience and strengthen cybersecurity posture. “As the federal government adopts innovative […] More

GENBAND and Polycom have expanded their unified communications offerings with Defense Department-approved voice and video communications platforms. GENBAND said Tuesday its Application Server was added to the DoD Information Network’s Approved Products List as an Enterprise Session Controller, which authorizes the platform to support enterprise-wide DoD deployments in the cloud. Polycom also added its RealPresence Collaboration Server and RealPresence […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data Solutions‘ relational database management platform. DISA’s STIG for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL database seeks to guide agencies on how to field the database platform in government-run networks in compliance with the Defense Department’s security requirements, the company said Thursday. PostgreSQL is an open-source database that comes with the […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems subsidiary has supplied Saab with a combat electromagnetic environment simulator to aid in testing of the Gripen JAS 39 fighter aircraft in Sweden. Northrop said Wednesday the CEESIM system is equipped with an advanced pulse generator and designed to generate digital models of active electronically scanned array antennas. Saab will use the simulator to test the company’s Gripen multirole […] More