ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/17/2021

LMI has received a one-year contract to transfer military weapon systems and equipment records from a company-built repository to an enterprise data analytics and management system being used by the Department of Defense. The $1.5 million project for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will involve the migration of LMI’s Maintenance and Availability Data Warehouse into […]

Lockheed Martin has secured a $286.5 million contract modification with the Missile Defense Agency to continue helping Saudi Arabia maintain and operate its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The company will provide equipment, spare parts and support services to support ground production, maintenance, software updates, training and logistics of Saudi Arabia’s THAAD under the […]

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary will prototype an electro-optical infrared weather system and demonstrate its operational data delivery ability under a $67 million contract from the U.S. Space Force. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will build a satellite prototype in an effort to help Space Systems Command deliver cloud characterization and weather imagery observations to warfighters, the […]

North American Aerospace Defense Command will again use Verizon‘s communications services in this year’s hotline service to help children track Santa Claus. Verizon said Thursday it added 14,000 new augmentations, including 5G cell sites, network-based virtualization and fiber deployments, to support volunteers in answering children’s calls under the NORAD Tracks Santa program. Almost 600 volunteers […]

L3Harris Technologies has won an other transaction agreement to develop a weapon data link prototype for the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile. The Department of Defense said Thursday the contractor will perform work at its facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is expected to complete the prototyping effort by July […]

NASA will invest $5.5 million in nine projects that will test space technologies with suborbital rocket-powered systems, high-altitude balloons and parabolic aircraft. The space agency said Friday its 2021 TechFlights solicitation will fund technology demonstrations in space-like scenarios without having to launch them into orbit. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate selected the technologies through the […]

D-Fend Solutions has welcomed Charles Bolden, a former NASA administrator, to the counter-drone technology company’s board of advisers. Bolden will help D-Fend boost its posture in the market for counter-small unmanned aerial systems used in sensitive environments, the company said Thursday. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps officer for 34 years, spending more than […]

Spire Global used its  nanosatellite to deploy a U.S-developed novel Lithium-ion battery for in-orbit space testing as part of a U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research Phase II program. The Vienna, Virginia-headquartered space company said Thursday it is currently conducting power system discharge tests on EnerSys’ ZeroVolt 18650 battery cells to gather operational performance […]

The Department of Energy has announced a potential $100 million funding opportunity managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to help commercialize novel clean energy technologies. The ARPA-E Seeding Critical Advanced for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential initiative will task participants to illustrate how their technologies could be deployed to the commercial market and […]

PredaSar has received a contract to help Space Systems Command demonstrate data transmission between commercial and military satellites in low-Earth orbit. The goal of the project is to deploy a hybrid space architecture designed to support interoperability between the company’s small satellite technology and the Blackjack constellation, SSC’s joint effort with the Air Force Research […]