ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/27/2022

A Leonardo subsidiary has secured a $110.5 million contract modification to produce 26 additional TH-73A training helicopters for the U.S. Navy.  The firm-fixed-price award exercises an option for the lot IV production of the AgustaWestland Philadelphia-built advanced helicopter training system, Leonardo said Saturday.  Eighty percent of contract work will take place in Philadelphia and the […]

Sabre Systems will research, develop, evaluate and field advanced radio frequency platforms under a phase three Small Business Innovative Research award from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said the contract is worth $73.5 million over a five-year period and covers efforts to ensure the manufacturability and capability of a high-frequency antenna system Sabre […]

The Catalyst Accelerator looks to help the U.S. Space Force boost defensive cyber operations through commercial capabilities, and plans to launch its 11th cohort focused on identifying and automating cyber terrain mapping of complex platforms. The organization said topics of interest for the CADCO Accelerator are complex cyber network mapping, sensor placement optimization, network mission […]

Oshkosh‘s defense business has secured a $103 million award from the U.S. Army for bilateral modification work on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Family of Vehicles in support of Foreign Military Sales customers. The Department of Defense said Friday Oshkosh Defense will perform contract efforts at its Wisconsin location through June 30, 2024. Army Contracting […]

L3Harris Technologies has received a $46.6 million U.S. Navy contract modification, which exercises options for producing, testing and conducting the technical review of two shallow-water training ranges to support Undersea Warfare Training Range Increment II and Increment III requirements. Under the firm-fixed-price modification, the company will also be responsible for delivering various products to the […]

Lithuania’s national defense ministry will purchase AeroVironment-built Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones from the U.S. government under an agreement valued at approximately $48 million. The procurement contract also includes the delivery of launching and control equipment, maintenance package, personnel training and simulation system and seeks to help the Lithuanian government strengthen security and stability in the […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared the automated benchmark for a security technical implementation guide that provides cybersecurity requirements for Microsoft’s Windows Server. A notice posted Friday on the DOD Cyber Exchange said the benchmark is effective immediately upon release and available for Department of Defense personnel with a common access card.  The Windows […]

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has started soliciting information on potential offerors that could provide commercial capabilities to reboost the orbit of satellites and other space technologies. The space agency considers using the Hubble Space Telescope for a demonstration over the next few years and expects potential partners to provide the launch vehicle, spacecraft and […]

Four more years of high-resolution imagery has been added to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s ArcticDEM, a digital elevation model mapping the entire Arctic region. NGA said Wednesday that it collaborated with academic and private sector institutions to gather data, which increases the database by more than 50 percent compared to previous representations. The ArcticDEM provides […]