Intelsat and L3 Technologies have teamed up to bring a satellite-based broadband service to U.S. government aviation users. L3 will integrate Intelsat’s FlexAir broadband service into its portfolio to provide in-flight communications capab... Read more
Saudi Aramco and Raytheon’s Saudi Arabian arm have agreed to set up a joint venture firm focused on cybersecurity through a memorandum of understanding. The new JV will build and offer cyber defense hardware and software platforms, advance resea... Read more
The U.S. Army is evaluating a vertical takeoff and landing drone Northrop Grumman designed with MartinUAV as the military service considers replacing its RQ-7 Shadow fleet, C4ISRnet reported Sunday. Both companies developed the V-BAT unmanned ae... Read more
Tracy McKibben, a former official at the White House’s National Security Council, has joined the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries. She is the founder investment and consulting firm MAC Energy Advisors, which she also lea... Read more
Peraton has secured a potential five-year, $65.6M order from the U.S. Air Force to provide programmatic, engineering and technical support for a cross-domain information platform. Tasks include research, requirements analysis and definition, sys... Read more
United Launch Alliance rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 18, the launch of a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-71 mission will still lift off from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in C... Read more
A Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the U.S. Navy‘s 19th littoral combat ship into the Menominee River in Wisconsin during a ceremony held Saturday. Barbara Broadhurst Taylor, the ship’s sponsor and daughter of a decorated p... Read more
Virgin Galactic has completed a flight test of a company-built manned space vehicle carrying four NASA technology experiments to suborbital space. The agency said Thursday SpaceShipTwo‘s payloads were designed to examine the behavior of du... Read more
Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform... Read more
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a presolicitation to lay out its technical reachback operational support needs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says DTRA wants potential contractors that could help develop weapons of mass dest... Read more
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has partnered with DXC Technology on a multiyear effort to field a new enterprise asset management system designed to plan, monitor and facilitate public transit maintenance operations. The Tyso... Read more
Charles River Analytics has developed an open-source interface that employs a hybrid reality approach to military medical training and education. Virtuoso is based on a multimodal interface to allow natural human interactions within virtual and... Read more
Intelsat and satellite communications services provider COMSAT have partnered to market a broadband connectivity offering to U.S. government aircraft operators and coalition partners. COMSAT will add the FlexAir managed service to the company... Read more
Recorded Future has been authorized to offer its threat intelligence platform to support the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. The Somerville, Mass.-based firm said Thursday its machine learning-bas... Read more
Raytheon Gets Two Navy Contracts for FY 2019 Evolved Seasparrow Production Support
Raytheon has secured two contracts worth $56.9M combined from the U.S. Navy to support low-rate initial production of Evolved Seasparrow Missile systems during fiscal 2019. The company will obtain long lead materials required to manufacture ESSM... Read more