The Herndon, Va.-based subsidiary of Airbus Group has received a contract of an undisclosed value to develop a satellite bus intended for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstration program.

Harris has secured a $75M task order to update a tactical radio platform for the U.S. Marine Corps to access an ultra-high frequency satellite communications system.

Christopher Sharpley, a former acting inspector general of the CIA, has been named managing director of federal practice at Next Phase Solutions.

Dave Reichert, a former congressman who represented Washington's eighth district and a 33-year law enforcement veteran, has been appointed a vice president at Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs.

Managed mobility services contractor WidePoint has moved its headquarters from McLean, Va., to a Fairfax site as part of the company's long-term strategy.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a funding opportunity for industry proposals to build an autonomous undersea robotic platform that would transit large distances and handle objects on the ocean floor without human intervention or use of communications technology.

The seventh Freedom-variant littoral combat ship constructed by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team has entered into active service with the U.S. Navy.

The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on industry's ability to develop a technology platform for the Department of Defense's satellite communications system controllers and users to transmit and secure messages in real time.

Triumph Group's integrated systems business will produce digital electronic control units for two U.S. Army aircraft types under a potential $77M contract extension from the Defense Logistics Agency.

Bombardier Transportation has landed a potential $669M contract to provide New Jersey Transit with rail cars designed for commuter usage.

Washington Headquarters Services has awarded Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory an $8.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to evaluate and develop alternatives of multidomain offensive tools.

Northrop Grumman plans to establish a new facility and create additional jobs in Albuquerque, N.M., as part of an aerospace market growth push, Albuquerque Journal reported Wednesday.

Sparton has obtained two patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a switching mode power amplifier design and a method to shield circuits from electromagnetic radiation.

U.S. Transportation Command has issued a request for information on industry sources of on-premise and government cloud-based information technology services to a software-defined data center.

AT&T has added more than 50K square miles of LTE coverage area in a move to facilitate communications for nationwide first-responder network subscribers.