Frontier Technology Inc. has kicked off a $10 million project to expand its Huntsville, Alabama-located cyber operations facilities and further support customers in the defense and intelligence communities. The company said Tuesday the construction is underway for the FTI Huntsville Analysis and Cyber Security Center, which is expected to grow the cyber operations footprint to 40,000 square feet and generate additional 140 jobs in the area over the next three years.

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Allen Williams has assumed the role of vice president for the Air Force division at Astrion, a services provider supporting the defense, government, homeland, intelligence, science and space sectors. He announced his move on LinkedIn Monday, signaling his transition from his more than seven-year tenure at Oasis Systems.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential industry sources that could provide a user interface for the Traffic Coordination System for Space. Responses are due Oct. 31, according to a request for information posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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Comtech has secured a potential $544 million contract to provide professional engineering services and assistance with the company’s satellite and terrestrial networking communications technologies for the U.S. Army. Awarded under the $5.1 billion Global Tactical Communications Systems II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle, the contract will support the Project Manager Tactical Network for the Global Field Service Representative initiative, Comtech announced from Melville, New York, on Monday.

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Wireless threat monitoring company LOCH Technologies has acquired software company Avirtek. With the transaction complete, LOCH said Monday it would work to enable a data detection and response capability by integrating Avirtek's autonomic cybersecurity technology into its AirShield platform.

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Microsoft, Micron Technology and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are partnering on the two-year Transferring Exascale Computational Chemistry to Cloud Computing Environment and Emerging Hardware Technologies project. TEC4 aims to make computational chemistry more accessible to greater numbers of researchers and practitioners, effectively providing computational chemistry as a service. More

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Curtiss-Wright’s defense solutions arm has modernized its suite of unified communications network management products to provide operators with more insight into network configuration and performance. The company said Tuesday IQ-Core Software v5.1.16 updates include installer enhancements for domain environments, a new custom URL monitor for service alerts, a configurable display for multiple interface viewing and […] More

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Curtiss-Wright‘s defense solutions business and Cog Systems will work together to address the critical need for secure communications and National Security Agency-cleared Commercial Solutions for Classified technology for remote federal workers.  Under the collaborative effort, Curtiss-Wright will serve as the distributor for Cog Systems’ Aegis R51 enhanced retransmission device to support the former’s PacStar tactical […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to build more solid rocket engines and control systems for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense program. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday the deal includes manufacturing lots 13 and 14 propulsion hardware to power the Missile Defense Agency’s THAAD interceptors. The weapon system is designed to help U.S. […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, said the company launched a new unit, dubbed Ignite, to promote innovation and facilitate the maturation of technologies to accelerate the delivery of on-orbit capabilities to government agency customers, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. “What we’ve heard from the traditional customers is: ‘we need better technical […] More