JHU-APL to Support DARPA’s Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium Project

The Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory will provide lunar science and technology expertise to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project designed to identify and propose lunar critical infrastructure standards. JHU-APL will manage and deliver expert insights for the Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium, an initiative designed to accelerate the development of interoperability standards […]
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AFRL Tasks Northrop Grumman to Enable Satellite-Based Internet on Aircraft

Defense and aerospace company Northrop Grumman has received an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to integrate commercial space internet connectivity on airborne platforms. Through the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program, the Department of Defense aims to procure systems that can connect with low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary orbit networks, Northrop […]
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Outerlink Global Solutions to Equip B-52 Stratofortress With Satcom Capability

Outerlink Global Solutions will outfit the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress long-range, heavy bomber with the Iris communications equipment powered by Iridium satellites. Work will be performed under a four-year, $26 million Strategic Funding Increase contract award. Iris offers the Iridium Short Burst Data service, two-way messaging and asset tracking and monitoring, even in remote […]
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L3Harris Joins Forces With Leidos, MAG Aerospace to Support Army’s HADES Program

Defense and aerospace company L3Harris Technologies has announced that it will work with MAG Aerospace and Leidos to develop the U.S. Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System. HADES is a Bombardier Global 6500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program of record to support U.S. combatant commands and advance the Army’s long-range precision fires modernization efforts, […]
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US Army Awards $544M Satcom, Engineering Support Contract to Comtech

The U.S. Army has selected Comtech to provide satellite communications and professional engineering services under a potential $544 million task order.  Comtech will supply satellite and terrestrial networking communications technologies in support of the Global Field Service Representative program, which provides communications and IT infrastructure services to the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and […]
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Parsons Secures $53M DRTA Contract for Anti-WMD Proliferation Support

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Parsons a potential five-year, $53 million task order to support the organization’s counter-weapons of mass destruction proliferation efforts. Parsons will provide solutions that would help DTRA improve its anti-WMD proliferation capabilities. According to Parsons, its technologies can help customers detect, interdict and recover WMDs and related items at […]
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US Army Eyes Suppliers of Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Radios

The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical unit is planning to publish toward year-end a request for proposals on low-cost and user-friendly single-channel radios.  The planned radio communications kit purchase is in line with the service’s shift to division-centric fighting from a brigade-centric one and its related communication network revamp.  According to […]
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Sentar to Help DOD Improve Cybersecurity Test, Evaluation Under Multimillion-Dollar Contract

Cyber intelligence solutions provider Sentar announced that it has won a potential four-year, $6.7 million contract to support the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity test and evaluation, training and certification missions. Under the National Cyber Range Complex Event Planning, Operations and Support IT Service Management Support contract, Sentar will directly work with the Pentagon on configuration […]
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Curtiss-Wright to Supply Data Recorders for US Navy Manned, Unmanned Aircraft

Curtiss-Wright has announced that it will deliver airborne data recorder solutions to the Naval Surface Warfare Center under a five-year, $34 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. U.S. and Australian crewed and uncrewed maritime aircraft will carry the technology, Curtiss-Wright said Thursday. The company is expected to produce and maintain its Keyed Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Airborne […]
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