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The sixth Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite established communications with engineers at the company’s Denver Launch and Checkout Operations Center about 83 minutes after it launched Wednesday aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. GPS III Space Vehicle 06 comes with a modular design to facilitate the integration […] More
Northrop Grumman will help the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate update its intelligence information platforms under a potential $406 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will support the service’s Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements program through the contract. InSITE seeks to help AFRL/RI modernize its capabilities to collect, share and analyze intelligence […] More
A National Security Space Launch mission, called U.S. Space Force-67, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off Sunday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to field two satellites into orbit. The USSF-67 mission includes the Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM 2 satellite from Space Systems Command and the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA-3A […] More
Raytheon Technologies hopes to replicate the at-sea trial results of the first version of its SPY-6 radar with other variants of the Air and Missile Defense Radar system once it begins at-sea tests later this year, Defense News reported Monday. SPY-6 V1, which comes with four large radar faces, was integrated with the U.S. Navy’s […] More
Shannon Vaughn, general manager of Virtru Federal, and Ben Minichino, president of Pole Star Defense, said encrypting location data streams, vessel ID and other information could help mitigate maritime piracy threats. “By encrypting the data and making it accessible only to authorized officials, ships can securely transmit information pertaining to their locations, identities, cargo, and […] More
BigBear.ai’s federal business will compete for task orders to support the development of multidomain systems and deliver synthetic environments and related capabilities to the U.S. Air Force through its position on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architectures and Integration Directorate covers support […] More
The Department of Homeland Security is soliciting information on potential industry sources of counter-unmanned aircraft systems that could help detect, identify, classify, track and mitigate threats posed by hostile drones. DHS wants C-UAS platforms with capabilities to receive flight data, intelligence and other historical information, determine the level of threat, identify a detected track of […] More
NetImpact Strategies has received a potential $60 million contract to provide information technology and modernization support services for the Department of Agriculture’s farm production and conservation information solutions division. FPAC ISD runs and maintains IT applications and services backing all systems of USDA’s natural resources conservation service, NetImpact said Wednesday. Under the Cypress contract, the […] More
The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have signed a new coordination agreement to mitigate the potential impact of the company’s Starlink satellite constellation on ground-based radio, infrared and optical astronomy facilities operating between the 10.6 and 10.7 GHz band. Under the agreement, SpaceX committed to examining the impact of astronomical facility lasers on satellites, coordinating […] More
The U.S. Air Force flew for the first time a Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft with the Technology Refresh 3 upgrade on Friday, Jan. 6, at Edwards Air Force Base in California. TR-3 updates the fighter jet’s computational core to support Block 4 capabilities, including new sensors, improved electronic warfare functions, data fusion, long-range precision […] More
The Small Business Administration has started accepting applications for a certification program for veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses competing for sole-source and set-aside federal contracts. SBA assumed the Department of Veterans Affairs’ certification responsibilities for VOSBs and SDVOSBs by creating the Veteran Small Business Certification program in November in compliance with the […] More
Parsons subsidiary Xator will support the U.S. Air Force’s Integrated Base Defense Security System through its position on a task order that could be worth up to $79.5 million. Xator will help the service build the foundational structure of IBDSS by sustaining Defender Multi-Domain Command, Control and Communications equipment and connected security platforms to deliver […] More
