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SpaceX Preps Crew Dragon Spacecraft for Two Test Flights by Year’s End
SpaceX is preparing two Crew Dragon capsules for separate test flights by the year’s end following a failed in-flight abort test last April, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday.
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Perspecta Lands $75M OTA Award to Modernize DoD Background Investigation System; Mac Curtis Quoted
Perspecta intends to use data analytics, commercial off-the-shelf applications and other emerging technology to help the Department of Defense update its personnel security clearance and adjudication system as part of a $75M other transaction agreement.
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ACT I Receives ‘Virginia Values Veterans’ Certification; Claudio Monticelli Quoted
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has been certified by the Virginia Values Veterans Program for the company’s efforts to improve its veteran employment procedures.
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Dan Schultz on Sikorsky’s CH-53K Production Contract With USMC, Other Helicopter Programs
Dan Schultz, president of Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday about several helicopter projects including a potential $1.1B contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to build 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters.
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Air Force Plans InstantEye Quadcopter Drone Procurement
The U.S. Air Force has announced its intent to acquire a small heavy-lift unmanned aerial system from Andover, Mass.-based research and development firm Physical Sciences, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.
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Northrop Gets $66M Contract Extension for Navy Surveillance System Support
Northrop Grumman has received a $66.2M contract modification to continue support services for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator Program.
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Red Hat’s Adam Clater: Open Source Tech, Freedom of Choice Key to Federal IT Modernization
Adam Clater, chief architect for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that federal agencies should advance information technology modernization and the initial step they need to do is avoiding proprietary or vendor lock-in arrangements when it comes to cloud adoption.
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Air Force Plans $100M in Computational Tech R&D Awards
The U.S. Air Force is seeking white papers for a potential $100M multi-award contract to research and develop computing processor architectures for real-time high performance embedded computing applications.Â