Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has entered agreements with Turkey’s government and aerospace companies in the country to license production of 109 T70 utility helicopters based on Black Hawk aircraft. Sikorsky said Thursday Turkish Aerospace Industries will build and deliver T70 aircraft within the next 10 years as prime contractor for the $3.5 billion Turkish Utility Helicopter …

BlackBerry‘s AtHoc division has updated its crisis management platform in an effort to address market trends. BlackBerry said Monday the updates include an option to create rules for forwarding alerts received from external organizations and sources, automated staff mustering, management alerting and severity-codified notifications. “Critical events are inherently complex, and our customers have been …

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received an $85 million modification to a foreign military sale contract from the U.S. Army to restore Mexico’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to full operations. Sikorsky will conduct the retrofitting of the helicopters in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a planned end date of April 2019, the Defense …

Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the …

A joint venture of Schneider Electric‘s U.S. subsidiary and infrastructure development company Black & Veatch has won a potential two-year, $21.9 million contract to design and build an energy security microgrid system for a San Diego-based U.S. Marine Corps air base. The U.S. Navy asked Schneider Electric USA““Black & Veatch JV to construct …

Accela and OpenGov have formed a partnership to provide financial intelligence to customer agencies and their constituents through an integrated technology platform. An integration of Accela’s Finance and Administration and OpenGov technologies will transition financial data to OpenGov’s cloud platform and allow public officials and citizens to gain insights on government spending and performance, OpenGov said …

A BlackBerry business unit has expanded its networked crisis communications platform in Europe in an effort to support public safety. AtHoc has made its platform available in Europe to address the need for secure communications for the cloud-based exchange of data in support of life safety and business continuity, the company said Tuesday. …

A unit of the U.S. Marine Corps has expanded unmanned aircraft system flight operations over airspace that regularly accommodates military and commercial air traffic. During the flight, Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 integrated RQ-21A Blackjack operations with manned aircraft in the Class D airspace at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, …

Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $10 million U.S. Navy contract to provide logistics, training, field service and other interim contractor support services for the Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the cost-reimbursable contract has a scheduled completion date of October 2018. Work will occur in Cherry Point, …

Systems Made Simple has been awarded a five-year task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs process disability claims and streamline the delivery of benefits to retired service personnel. The Lockheed Martin-owned company won the task order through the Transformation Twenty One Total Technology contract worth approximately $262 million, …

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a bid to expand the company’s data security, integration and interoperability roles for the Million Veteran Program. MVP is a voluntary research initiative that seeks to study the association of genes with health and diseases through the creation …

Northrop Grumman and several partners have completed a critical design review of the UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter as part of a program to update the rotorcraft. The company said Monday it worked with the U.S. Army, Prototype Integration Facility and Redstone Defense Systems to assess the helicopter's design, software architecture, technical data package, navigation system and portability …

The Department of Homeland Security has collaborated with Blackstone Technology Group to develop a shared service platform for agency information technology professionals to build, test and implement mobile applications. Blackstone Technology said Wednesday the DHS’s Office of the Chief Information Officer has featured the development-and-operations platform Carwash as an innovation project model …

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps' Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system will kick off its initial operation after the program received a go signal. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps' deputy commandant for aviation, said the first Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron has been confirmed for deployment with …

BlackMesh's platform-as-a-service cloud offering has received a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification. BlackMesh's SecureCloud PaaS product is based on Red Hat-built OpenShift cloud platform, BlackMesh said Tuesday. Red Hat's OpenShift works to help developers build, run, manage and deploy cloud services and other applications. “Achieving FedRAMP certification for SecureCloud …