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The U.S. government could soon sell as many as 40 of Boeing‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets to Kuwait as production of the aircraft for the U.S. Navy and Australia nears its end in 2017, Defense News reported Wednesday. Christopher Cavas writes the deal could be worth at least $3 billion. Defense News reports the House Armed Services Committee allotted $1.2 billion […] More
Vencore will continue its software program management work for the General Services Administration‘s Public Buildings Service under a new three-year, $5 million contract. The company said Wednesday it won the contract recompete to oversee and maintain the Reimbursable Work Authorization Entry and Tracking Application, for which Vencore is the incumbent. “We appreciate the confidence of the General Services Administration, […] More
General Dynamics will provide production kits for the Namer (Leopard) heavy armored personnel carriers to Israel’s defense ministry under a six-year, $310 million contract funded through U.S. military assistance, Defense News reported Tuesday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes that General Dynamics’ land systems business will then assemble and install Namer components and subsystems at a facility in Tel Hashomer, Israel. The contract adds […] More
Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason has raised $25 million in Series B capital funds from Spark Capital, Lockheed Martin, CRV and others for the expansion efforts on research and development and sales and marketing. Cybereason said Wednesday the investments also include Lockheed’s integration of the Cybereason Endpoint Detection and Response platform with its cybersecurity portfolio and Spark Capital Founder […] More
Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More
SAP and Hewlett-Packard have partnered to deliver a joint offering that supports the migration of business applications to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA via the HP Helion Managed Cloud. SAP said Tuesday the companies will also provide consulting, software, application migration and implementation services to customers that seek to transition workloads into a digital platform. Michael Kleinemeier, member of SAP’s global […] More
Liteye Systems and Unmanned Experts have partnered to deliver a thermal imaging payload for unmanned aerial vehicles that features DRS Technologies‘ Tamarisk thermal camera core. The companies said Tuesday the Aquila Micro payload has a “Powered by DRS” accreditation and includes a built-in automatic shutter, DRS’ Image Contrast Enhancement tool and three athermalized, all-weather lens options. Aquila Micro is already available for shipping, the […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More
Harris Corp. and ViaSat will increase production of the Small Tactical Terminal for U.S. soldiers under a one-year, $10 million follow-on contract, bringing the total deal value to at least $25 million since the original award in 2010. Harris said Monday it co-developed the product with ViaSat to provide soldiers access to tactical communications using a compact and […] More
Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s government solutions unit and a former chief information officer from the Agriculture Department, has described his outlook on current developments in cyber-related legislation in a Federal News Radio interview. In that conversation posted Monday on Federal News Radio that he sees progress in movement toward legislation of cyber information sharing and the overhaul of […] More
Harris Corp. has completed testing and verification of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series ground segment ahead of the satellite’s delivery to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the tests checked the GOES-R ground system’s capability to generate weather data for NOAA and interface with the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System of the National Weather […] More
The State Department is seeking potential small business sources of support services for the financial management, compensation, travel and budget and planning systems of the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services. In a notice posted April 21 on FedBizOpps, the department said it is looking for system analysis, implementation and support services for […] More
