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 …

Jason Karp, former senior executive of the First Responder Network Authority, has been appointed to serve as chief legal counsel and board member at Secured Communications. In his tenure with FirstNet, Karp helped determine the complex law that resulted in the organization’s creation and implemented a deployment strategy supporting the public safety broadband …

Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary expects to complete UH-1Y Venom helicopter deliveries to the U.S. Marine Corps before the end of 2018. Bell said Thursday it will also continue delivering the AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter, the Venom’s sister model, to the service branch through 2022. Both helicopters are built on the UH-1 Iroquois and AH-1 Cobra …

Echodyne has been selected to provide radars to the North Dakota Department of Transportation under a federal project that aims to test drone integration into the national airspace. NDDOT will use the Metamaterial Electronically Scanning Array technology for weather detection and tracking as part of the state’s Integration Pilot Program, Echodyne said Thursday. …

PAE has joined a consortium of companies, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions with the goal to develop technology platforms designed to counter weapons of mass destruction. John Heller, PAE CEO, said in a statement published Thursday the company seeks to collaborate with providers and gain access to new technologies as a member …

Aurora Flight Sciences has helped the U.S. Marine Corps deliver cargo through an autonomous flight platform during the service branch’s recent integrated training exercise. A UH-1H helicopter equipped with the Aurora-built Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System delivered 520 pounds of water, gasoline, ready-to-eat meals, communications equipment and a cooler that contained urgent necessities to the California-based …

Woolpert is set to receive a five-year, $2 million contract to provide photogrammetry services for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The company said Thursday it will conduct geodetic survey and photogrammetric mapping for stereo-compliant aerial and mobile lidar collections under the contract. Services will also encompass vertical and oblique aerial photography acquisition, aerial lidar and mobile lidar acquisition, …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected SRI International to construct an artificial intelligence platform with machine learning features to gradually improve task performance. The company said Wednesday it will perform this work under DARPA’s Lifelong Learning Machines Program. Modern AI systems may be prone to catastrophic forgetting that occurs when new …

Alaska-based Alutiiq‘s Advance Security Solutions business has received a potential $75.9 million contract to provide physical security services for multiple NASA sites. The company will work to secure Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Wallops Flight Facility and the Independent Verification and Validation Facility, the space agency said Wednesday. The contract has a base of $18.1 million, …

Sparton will collaborate with Raytheon to design, test and deploy a mine neutralization system as part of the latter company’s potential $363 million contract with the U.S. Navy. De Leon Spring, Fla.-based Sparton said Wednesday it will produce a deployment packaging technology and a wireless communications buoy for Raytheon’s Barracuda  mine neutralizer vehicle. …

The Customs and Border Protection has re-certified a WidePoint technology platform designed to help government customers manage telecommunications systems. WidePoint said Wednesday its ITMS telecommunications life cycle management platform received CBP recertification for compliance with the Section 508 amendment to law mandating that electronic and information technology offerings for the federal government are accessible to people with …

Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has awarded a $2.3 million subcontract to Polaris Alpha for assistance in developing new artificial intelligence tools for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The team aims to develop semantic-based technologies for abductive reasoning under the agency’s Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives program that seeks to construct an adaptive engine that would interpret dynamic, dangerous …