Products & Service

STS Systems Integration has secured an $8.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide supply chain labor support services at a U.S. Air Force base in Texas. The 8(a) Alaska Native Tribal Indian sole-source contract covers receiving and processing, inventory, packing, packaging, transportation, repair cycle, cargo movement and planning, communications security and account management services, the Defense Department said Friday. Work […] More

MEADS International, a joint venture between MBDA‘s German and Italian units and Lockheed Martin, has proposed a customized partnership with Turkey to develop the country’s first long-range air and missile defense system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes MEADS representatives have visited Turkey in previous months for preliminary talks and anticipate formal contract negotiations […] More

A National Institutes of Health division has awarded MRIGlobal a potential $ 13.7 million contract to provide evaluation services in support of research initiatives on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The company said Feb. 1 it will work to analyze Mtb tools and specimen processes for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clinical investigations under the Mtb Quality Assessment requirement. […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s directed energy directorate and Advanced Optical Technologies have signed a five-year agreement that will allow the latter to use AFRL instrumentation at its Sandia Science & Technology Park facility. AFRL said Sunday the cooperative research and development agreement will help transition and introduce AOT’s laser sensors and metrology products to the aerospace, […] More

CH2M has been selected by New York city’s department of design and construction to develop preliminary and final designs for a coastal protection system that will work to mitigate floods and facilitate access to the waterfront. The East Side Coast Resiliency project is designed to encompass Lower Manhattan in an effort to bolster resilience against flood […] More

A joint venture of Qbase, Geocent and the Newberry Group has secured a contract for technology service desk support to Customs and Border Protection employees, contractors, trade partners and participating government agencies that access CBP software applications. The contract was awarded to 360 IT Integrated Solutions through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II vehicle, Qbase said Monday. Steve […] More

A Textron subsidiary will continue to provide maintenance and training support services for Afghanistan’s Cessna C-208B Caravan aircraft under a potential five-year, $50 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. Textron Systems Support Solutions will train Afghan air force personnel on how to maintain the branch’s C-208Bs designed for military transport and training activities, the company said Tuesday. The follow-on Afghan Trainer Contractor […] More

General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has delivered its first Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy under the service branch’s restarted development program for this ship class. The military branch said Monday the future USS Rafael Peralta underwent a series of at-sea and pier-side trials to check its operational readiness prior to delivery. “As the 65th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer […] More

A team that includes the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have conducted the first shipboard demonstration of the latest version of a Lockheed-produced  ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Monday the Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) combat system underwent the developmental test onboard the USS John Paul Jones and worked to detect, track and intercept a medium-range ballistic […] More

Accenture has supported the Australian defense department in the development and implementation of a cloud-based supply codification system that works to receive updated supply chain codification data and link with the systems of other NATO nations. The software-as-a-service program is also designed to facilitate new supply chain processes for the Australian DoD and manage defense logistics, […] More