Tag Archives: Arctic

Battelle has secured a 10-year, $260 million Research Support and Logistics Services contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide infrastructure and logistics support to academic researchers conducting NSF-funded studies in Alaska, Greenland, Canada and other Arctic areas, the nonprofit company announced Thursday. 

BAE Systems looks to compete for a proposed program to replace the U.S. Army’s small unit support vehicles in Alaska and other areas in the Arctic region, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. Keith Klemmer, director of business development for the National Guard for combat vehicles at BAE, said the company plans to offer its Beowulf and BvS10 vehicles as potential replacements for the SUSV, an amphibious platform built to travel through snow, swamps, mud and other rough terrain environments.

The U.S. Coast Guard uses sensor technologies and satellites to perform communications, situational awareness, navigation and remote sensing operations in the Arctic region, National Defense reported Tuesday. A 2018 report by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center says some of the technologies the Coast Guard uses for navigation and domain awareness …

Advanced IT Concepts has received a seven-year subcontract to support the U.S. Army‘s Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations Maintenance Program. AITC said Monday it will work with an industry team led by Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business, the ATMP’s prime contractor. Under the subcontract, AITC will provide technical expertise …

Ball Aerospace and Spire Global will collaborate to support a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project that seeks to increase maritime domain awareness in the Arctic region through the use of technology. Both companies aim to develop a data collection and analysis platform that will work to help the agency monitor the activity of vessels …

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency unveiled a new collection of digital elevation models of the Arctic at Esri’s two-day Federal GIS conference that kicked off Monday in Washington. NGA presented the new collection as part of the ArcticDEM project – a public-private partnership between NGA, Esri and the Polar Geospatial Center …

Esri and the ArcticDEM project have unveiled new elevation models and updated previously released systems to offer a resource for adaptation and planning to groups in the Arctic region that face potential climate change concerns. Esri said Tuesday that accessibility to its online platform will help ArcticDEM address a requirement elevation …

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a request for information on potential contractors that can build new icebreakers intended to perform missions in the Arctic, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes the service branch issued notional requirements and a notional schedule for the Polar Icebreaker Replacement Program through …

Raytheon has developed a new line of systems, satellite sensors and radars to facilitate communication and monitoring at the northernmost points of the Earth, the company said Saturday. In May, Canada awarded the company a five-year contract to operate radar systems and new tools to help Arctic ships with navigation and communication for …

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. has partnered with NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in an agreement to develop and test the new command and control satellite link capabilities on a MQ-9 Predator B unmanned aircraft system, according to a company statement. As part of a no-cost Space Act agreement signed in …