Northrop Grumman has received a $7.1 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for reimbursements concerning satellite sensor sustainment services. The increase stems from an exercised option tasking the company to sustain sensors of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbit constellation and raises the contract’s value to $14.1 million, the Defense Department said Wednesday. USAF obligates entire …

United Technologies has announced it will add 35,000 jobs and invest over $15 billion for research and development, as well as well as capital expenditures, in the United States through 2022. The company said Wednesday it also launched a new website www.utcinvestingintheusa.com aimed at highlighting UTC’s U.S. investments. These new investments are intended to …

Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has opened a new advanced vertical lift center intending to provide a site wherein customers may witness new aviation technologies. The facility features demonstrations and expertise on new aviation applications, and is located in the metro area of Washington D.C., Textron said Wednesday. The new center includes …

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army recently upgraded the Joint Tactical Ground Station installation in Japan. JTAGS is a component of the U.S. early missile warning system. During the upgrade, the facility’s software, hardware, communications, cyber defenses and human interfaces were modernized. The facility was also given access to data …

The General Services Administration has posted a request for information needed to modernize the agency’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services. Established in 2016, the HACS consists of four special item numbers that function to distribute cybersecurity services encompassing penetration testing, incident response, cyber hunt and vulnerability assessment across agencies, GSA said in a …

FLIR Systems has released three new detection technologies built for military, government and border patrol applications. These products include airborne drone and ground target detection variants of the Ranger mid-range panel radar and the Recon V UltraLite thermal monocular, the company said Tuesday. The R8SS-3D variant of the Ranger radar is designed to detect …

The Defense Information Systems Agency has announced a $7.8 billion acquisition vehicle aiming to procure a unified enterprise software that would streamline office productivity, messaging, content management and collaboration within the Defense Department. DISA said Monday it will use the potential 10-year Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) single-award contract to acquire a …

NCI has received a five-year, $44 million prime contract to perform payment error rate measurement review services for the Department of Health and Human Services‘ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The company said it will conduct claims review for national-level improper payment rates concerning Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. NCI will also …

NASA has granted its Group Achievement Award to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory personnel and external partners who contributed to a Mercury mission that concluded three years ago. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, mission, which was intended to orbit and examine the planet Mercury, …

A United Technologies subsidiary has released a new optical and laser designation payload system designed for use with small and mid-sized unmanned aerial systems. During the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, UTC Aerospace Systems launched the 10.6-pound TASE400 LD which uses NATO-compliant laser designator technology, UTC said Monday. Laser designator technology provides mid-wave infrared imaging to support …

Axon has opened a new artificial intelligence center that will be used for public safety data training. The center was built in compliance with the FBI‘s Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy and holds capacities to analyze police-specific data, the company said Monday. Agencies may share public safety data that the center will use as …

Carahsoft and Arbola have formed a distribution agreement through which the former will resell the latter’s Salesforce-based enterprise legal management platform across federal, state and local government components. Under the partnership, Arbola’s LegalStratus platform will be available under Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule contract, the latter said Friday. “The addition of LegalStratus to our Salesforce …

Cubic‘s Global Defense business is set to exhibit six training platforms during the U.S. Army Association’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition, which will take place May 22 to 24 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company said Monday it will showcase these technologies during the international event, which seeks to emphasize the Army’s role in the Indo-Asia-Pacific …

General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary commenced the construction of a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer on May 17 in Bath, Maine. The start of DDG 124 or the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr.‘s construction is marked by the cutting of the ship’s first 100 tons and a commemorative ceremony,  the U.S. Navy said Thursday. The destroyer …

Airbus has connected 10,000 lasers in a satellite network made to facilitate large amounts of observation data. The SpaceDataHighway system collects data from low-orbit satellites and transmits at a speed of 1.8 gigabits per second with a total relay of 40 terabytes daily, the company said Friday. The system’s Munich-based mission operation …