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ST Engineering Celebrates Mobile Aerospace Engineering Facility’s 30th Anniversary

ST Engineering announced on Thursday the 30th anniversary of the company’s commercial aircraft maintenance operations at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley. The Mobile facility, Mobile Aerospace Engineering, was established in 1990 and obtained its Federal Aviation Administration 145 Repair Station Approval for airframe maintenance on Jan. 17, 1991, and operations began the same year. “We […] More

by William McCormick July 1, 2021, 12:03 pm
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Oracle Granted New FedRAMP Approval, DISA IL5 Accreditation for Cloud Products

Oracle has received a new authority to operate for a set of cloud offerings under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, expanding the range of Oracle cloud products available to the federal government. The company said Wednesday the Joint Authorization Board awarded the FedRAMP high provisional ATO while the Defense Information Systems Agency granted […] More

by Nichols Martin July 1, 2021, 12:02 pm
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PAE Subsidiary Partners With Thuraya to Offer Satcom Connectivity Services to Government Agencies
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Draper Designs Analysis Tool for Military Positioning, Navigation & Timing Systems

Draper has designed a modeling and simulation tool to help military analysts understand how a positioning, navigation and timing system would perform in ground, air and naval mission scenarios. Multi-Domain Quantitative Decision Aid is intended to test the effectiveness of PNT sensors in a simulated environment and give researchers insight to potentially determine which offering […] More

by Angeline Leishman July 1, 2021, 12:01 pm
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CGI Director Les Pierce Appointed to National Leased Housing Association’s Board

Les Pierce, director of consulting delivery at CGI, has been appointed to the board of directors of the National Leased Housing Association, a national organization that represents both major public and private participants in the affordable multi-family rental housing industry. Pierce’s NLHA board assignment will run through June 2023, CGI said Thursday. “I look forward […] More

by William McCormick July 1, 2021, 12:00 pm
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Lumen Receives Frost & Sullivan Recognition for 911 Emergency Comms Platform

Frost & Sullivan has presented Lumen Technologies with an award for a system designed to facilitate the information handling of 911 emergency calls. Lumen said Wednesday it received the 2021 Enabling Platform Leadership Award in recognition of the company’s NextGen911 platform, which works to boost the situational awareness and management capacity of operators handling 911 […] More

by Nichols Martin July 1, 2021, 12:00 pm
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Syncopated Engineering Helps Army Develop RF System Emulator to Protect Military Assets

The U.S. Army’s corporate laboratory has worked with Baltimore, Maryland-based technology company Syncopated Engineering to develop an emulator of radio frequency systems in an effort to protect soldiers and military platforms from adversarial threats. The Mockingbird emulation technology is designed to generate radio signals with random traffic patterns to deceive and confuse enemies that could […] More

by Angeline Leishman July 1, 2021, 11:59 am
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General Atomics Lifts Off LINCS Satellites for Space Optical Comms Testing; Scott Forney Quoted

The Laser Interconnect and Networking Communications System developed by the electromagnetic systems unit of General Atomics has completed its launching onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said Wednesday the liftoff of the LINCS satellites to orbit is aimed at conducting experiments and tests of optical communications capabilities in space. The effort […] More

by Carol Collins July 1, 2021, 11:59 am
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USAF Conducts Second Skyborg ACS Flight Test Onboard General Atomics’ MQ-20 Avenger
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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket Delivers 4 DOD Satellites to Orbit

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket deployed four Department of Defense satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday as part of a rideshare mission, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. The company’s carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl lifted off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California and released LauncherOne in midair to enable the rocket to deliver the cubesat payloads into […] More

by Jane Edwards July 1, 2021, 11:58 am
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Collins Aerospace to Deliver E-2D Hawkeye Systems Training Equipment Under $65M Navy Contract

Collins Aerospace‘s simulation and training solutions unit has received a $64.88 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center to provide training equipment for piloting and maintaining an airborne early warning aircraft. The contractor will deliver one E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training Systems IV weapons systems trainer, technical refreshes and updates to readiness […] More

by Angeline Leishman July 1, 2021, 11:57 am
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ECS Federal Wins $69M Contract to Develop New AI Approaches for Army

ECS Federal has secured a three-year, $68.9 million contract from the U.S. Army for the design and development of new ways to approach artificial intelligence algorithms. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will take place in Fairfax, Virginia, through June 30, 2024, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The Army’s contracting arm held an online, competitive […] More

by Nichols Martin July 1, 2021, 11:57 am