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Northrop Awarded $83M Army Contract for PPB Business Operating System

Northrop Grumman has won a four-year, $82.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Army for services in support of the Planning Programming Budgeting Business Operating System. The Army Contracting Command selected Northrop following an online solicitation that gathered two proposals, the Department of Defense said Friday. Northrop will conduct work in Washington, D.C., through Sept. […] More

September 20, 2021, 11:33 am
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Marine Corps Receives Additional Bell Textron-Made AH-1Z Viper Aircraft

A Textron subsidiary has handed over additional AH-1Z aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps, marking the 100th consecutive on-time delivery of the twin-engine attack helicopter under a production contract with the service branch. Bell Textron started the aircraft delivery almost four years ago and is expected to manufacture the H-1 helicopter series consisting of AH-1Z […] More

September 16, 2021, 11:36 am
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Alpha Omega to Help NOAA Comply With FISMA, Ensure Info Security
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TransUnion to Acquire Neustar for $3.1B in Expanded Portfolio Push

TransUnion seeks to expand its portfolio of digital identity capabilities, increase market reach and accelerate growth strategy with the proposed acquisition of Neustar, an information services and technology company, for $3.1 billion in cash. The two parties signed a definitive agreement for the transaction, which covers the addition of Neustar’s data and analytics to TransUnion’s […] More

September 13, 2021, 11:41 am
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NetImpact-Attain JV to Deliver IT Support to USDA Client Experience Center

A joint venture between Attain and NetImpact Strategies will help the Department of Agriculture’s Client Experience Center provide information technology customer support, and manage IT infrastructure delivery under the End User Support Services Tier II contract. At-Impact said Wednesday it will work with its teaming partner NuAxis Innovations and CEC to consolidate the center’s infrastructure […] More

September 10, 2021, 11:56 am
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L3Harris Launches Hawkeye 4 Lite Portable Satcom Terminal

L3Harris Technologies has expanded its very small aperture terminal offerings with the introduction of a new portable satellite communications terminal developed to provide warfighters with internet, command and control, communications, computers, cyber. defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and video transfer capabilities across the globe. The Hawkeye 4 Lite VSAT has a carbon fiber 1.3m segmented […] More

September 9, 2021, 11:37 am
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Peraton to Offer OneWeb’s LEO Satellite Network Services; Mike King Quoted

Peraton has included OneWeb‘s low Earth orbit satellite services in its global communications portfolio in an effort to provide customers with open architecture and high throughput network in support if their mission sets. The company said Thursday it will deliver capabilities from OneWeb’s secure and low latency satellite network under a distribution partnership agreement, which […] More

September 9, 2021, 11:32 am
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Viasat’s Craig Miller: SDA’s Transport Layer Discussion Should Highlight Network, System Interoperability

Craig Miller, president of government systems at Viasat, said that discussions about the Space Development Agency’s upcoming satellite network should focus on how spacecraft from different manufacturers could be interoperable and support a “highly complex, multi-band and multi-network system” together. In an opinion piece SpaceNews published Friday, Miller noted that the Transport Layer’s network and […] More

September 8, 2021, 11:54 am
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Dell’s Cameron Chehreh Calls on Agencies to Create Digital Workplace, Launch Employee Reskilling Programs
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Raft, Space Force’s Software Factory to Engineer Platform for Space Operations Command

Raft will collaborate with a software factory within the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation on a platform development effort as part of a prime contract the U.S. Space Force awarded to the Reston, Virginia-based technology consulting firm. The company and USSF’s Space Camp will engineer a continuous integration/continuous delivery platform to provide Space Operations […] More

September 7, 2021, 11:36 am
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ManTech Secures $476M USSF Engineering & Integration Contract for Space Launch Programs; Andrew Twomey Quoted

Mantech International has secured a 10-year, $476 million prime contract award to support the space launch programs of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, formerly the Space and Missile Center. The company said Tuesday it will provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certification and other engineering services in support of space and missile […] More

September 7, 2021, 11:31 am
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Navy Taps Leidos to Work on Multi-Domain Radar Effort

The U.S. Navy has selected Leidos for an effort that seeks to provide the Marines with a multi-domain radar for a contested environment as the current radio frequency radar assets are limited in mobility and prone to detection and attacks. Leidos will work under a potential $49.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the MuDRaCE effort during […] More

September 7, 2021, 11:31 am