Iridium Communications has secured a five-year contract from L3Harris Technologies to deliver timing sync services to U.S. data centers, crucial for safeguarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s infrastructure. Under the contract, Iridium will supply its satellite time and location service to over 36 L3Harris-operated communications network backbone nodes and a similar number of FAA facilities.

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HII's Mission Technologies division will conduct research, analyze and build capabilities for the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems on the U.S. Navy's surface ships under a potential five-year, $75 million task order. HII said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the Department of Defense's Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract.

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A Riverbed Technology study has found that 90 percent of public sector leaders consider investing in digital employee experience technology a top priority in the next five years while 80 percent intend to advance DEX tech adoption and implementation.

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Fluor has booked a five-year, $409 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide pavement and transportation support for North Field on Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The cost-plus, fixed-fee task order was issued by the USAF Installation Contracting Agency through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V, Fluor announced from Irving, Texas on Wednesday.

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Google Distributed Cloud Hosted has received authorization to host Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense and Secret and Top Secret missions for the intelligence community. GDC Hosted is an air-gapped cloud offering from Google Public Sector that features data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and zero trust security, according to a Wednesday post on the Google Cloud blog.

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The Air Force Materiel Command has issued a request for information for the follow-on to the North American Aerospace Defense Command Cheyenne Mountain Complex – Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment and Space Support Contract II, or NISSC II. The government intends to move the contract from a single engineering sustainment model to one "that supports tailored work efforts focused on software development, security, and operations; integration; and lifecycle sustainment," according to the RFI posted Tuesday on SAM.gov.

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SMX and Torchlight AI have partnered to equip the former's operational, service-based commercial offering with the latter's behavior based intelligence platform to boost client mission support. Through the addition of the Torchlight AI platform, the SMX Elevate ISR now offers enhanced delivery of analytics, operational insights and contextualized indicators and warnings in support of customer efforts to identify emerging threats, SMX said Tuesday.

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The U.S. Department of State has approved a request by the Ukrainian government to acquire articles and services related to the sustainment of the HAWK Phase III missile system. The $138 million foreign military sale covers spare parts, test and support equipment, tool kits, missile recertification components, engineering and integration, refurbishment and system overhaul, logistics and program support and contractor technical and field office support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday.

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Edgewater Federal Solutions has announced that Shaun Poulton will be its next chief technology officer and head the company’s technology innovation organization. Edgewater said Monday that in his new position, Poulton will work to drive growth and identify and deliver IT solutions to customers.

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William Scott, formerly deputy vice president of range systems at General Dynamics' Mission Systems business, announced on LinkedIn Friday that he has joined Ultra as vice president of programs at the company's maritime division. Scott first joined GDMS in 2007 and stayed with the company until 2016. During that period, he held multiple roles, including systems engineering technical manager, Littoral Combat Ship program manager, and later, LCS senior program manager.

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Hughes Network Systems has secured a contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to produce the initial units of an advanced modem designed to enhance the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft system. The EchoStar company said Monday it received the contract after completing the development phase and is set to commence deliveries of the HM400T modems in the spring.

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