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Alaska Communications has secured a potential 10-year, $197 million order from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy broadband to rural locations in Alaska. The company said Tuesday it will provide internet service to 31,500 locations across the state including approximately 26,000 unserved areas as part of FCC’s Connect America Fund Phase II program. FCC will issue $19.7 million in funds every […] More
NeXolve has built and delivered the fifth sunshield layer for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope to Northrop Grumman‘s aerospace campus in Redondo Beach, California. NASA said Tuesday Northrop will integrate final flight layers into the telescope’s sunshield subsystem to support folding and deployment tests as part of the final system validation process. Northrop designed the telescope’s, optics and spacecraft bus as the […] More
3M‘s Ceradyne subsidiary has received two contracts worth $43 million combined to produce helmet systems and hard body armor inserts to act as components of the U.S. Army‘s Soldier Protection System. 3M said Tuesday Ceradyne secured a $7 million contract to deliver more than 5,300 helmet systems for SPS’ Integrated Head Protection System component. IHPS is designed give soldiers a lighter ballistic helmet […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a series of hot-fire tests on two launch abort engines that include new propellant valves for the propulsion system of Boeing‘s Crew Space Transportation-100 Starliner service module. The tests were conducted in Mojave Desert, California to validate the fuel valve and oxidizer valve’s capacity to regulate propellant flow and peak LAE thrust in case of […] More
General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has won an $18.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design and develop an acoustic path exploitation system. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers hardware delivery, design and construction services for the Deep Reliable Acoustic Path Exploitation System dummy array. The contractor will also help the service branch create deployment procedures as […] More
Cubic‘s transportation systems segment has received a potential $52 million contract extension that includes options from Atlanta, Georgia’s public transportation agency to provide maintenance services for an automated fare collection platform. San Diego-based Cubic said Thursday it will continue to maintain the company-built Breeze Card AFC system which currently generates more than 106 million rides for the Metropolitan Atlanta […] More
Iridium has agreed to integrate its asset tracking and monitoring service into vehicle monitoring systems built by Japan-based construction and mining equipment maker Komatsu. McLean, Virginia-based Iridium said Thursday its network will aim to provide real-time vehicle location, health, diagnostics and proactive maintenance data for Komatsu’s KOMTRAX system under the contract. Ichiro Nakano, executive officer and vice president […] More
Matt Simon, habitation lead for NASA’s Evolvable Mars Campaign, has said the agency wants a similar structure for future deep space modules that will serve as transit and surface habitats for Mars and moon explorations, Ars Technica reported Wednesday. Eric Berger writes Simon told the publication deep space habitats from the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership […] More
A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has awarded a contract to Cobham to build an aerial refueling system for the U.S. Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Cobham said Tuesday the V-22 Aerial Refueling System will be based on the company’s FR300 Hose Drum Unit and will support Osprey’s capacity to refuel F-35B Lightning II and F/A-18 […] More
An Orbital ATK-produced 60-millimeter mortar cartridge has obtained full materiel release approval from the U.S. Joint Munitions Command that designates the munition as safe and operationally suitable for use. Orbital ATK said Thursday it has manufactured more than 12,000 M1061 mortar cartridges for the U.S. Army and other customers and 1,000 were deployed ahead of the FMR. M1061 was […] More
Engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have visited two aviation companies in Philadelphia to explore opportunities for potential small business partnerships. ARL engineers toured DPI UAV Systems and Piasecki Aircraft Corp. respectively run by Michael Piasecki and his brother John, the U.S. Army said Oct. 19. Rajneesh Singh, a team lead at ARL’s vehicle technology […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded Cray and Silicon Graphics International‘s federal business contract modifications worth $26.6 million each to support the Defense Department‘s high-performance computing modernization program. DoD said Wednesday Cray and SGI Federal will provide HPC systems as well as administration and maintenance services. Work will occur through Apr. 24, 2021 in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland for SGI Federal […] More
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