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A National Defense Industrial Association survey shows that clear information from the Department of Defense, access to capital and revenue expectations are the areas where small businesses in the defense sector continue to experience the highest level of continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A survey by the National Defense Industrial Association says small businesses in the defense sector expect the coronavirus pandemic to have the biggest impact on their revenue expectations, access to capital and ability to meet contract obligations.

Cherokee Nation Businesses' portfolio of government contracting and professional services companies has adopted the name Cherokee Federal. “Throughout the past decade, we've had the honor and opportunity to work with many outstanding federal partners,“ Steven Bilby, president of Cherokee Federal, said in a statement published Monday. “In an effort to better align our current and future endeavors with our esteemed government customers, I am pleased to announce Cherokee Federal as our new brand.“

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for space business at Lockheed Martin and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the company is conducting research-and-development work on a satellite servicing concept to replace or repair computer systems and other electronics on orbit, Breaking Defense reported Monday.

The aerospace and defense industry in the U.S. saw a significant growth in jobs and exports in 2018, which contributed more than $374B to the country's gross domestic product, Rotor & Wing International reported Friday.

The Department of Energy plans to release a funding opportunity for an institute to develop methods and tools to secure manufacturing processes in the energy sector.

Made in Space has landed a NASA contract to continue developing a new machine that would manufacture products using a variety of base materials in space, Space.com reported Tuesday. The Vulcan manufacturing system is being designed to produce items out of various feedstock materials such as metal, in contrast to the International …

Boeing's Tapestry Solutions subsidiary has rolled out its Enterprise Sensor Integration software system at BAE Systems' facility in Nashua, New Hampshire, to help the British firm modernize its manufacturing infrastructure. Boeing said Monday it integrated Impinj Speedway radio frequency identification readers, Mojix STAR wide-area RFID sensors and other enterprise resource planning …

A new survey by cybersecurity company BitSight says botnets have become widespread among government contractors specifically for manufacturing and health care firms, e-End reported Friday. BitSight polled at least 1,200 federal government contractors and found that health care firms have recorded a data breach incidence rate of 8.2 percent since …

Lockheed Martin has licensed an industrial internet-of-things platform from Ubisense as part of efforts to increase F-35 manufacturing efficiency at Lockheed’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility. Ubisense said Wednesday it designed the SmartSpace system to help manufacturers address schedule, budget requirements for aircraft production, as well as boost transparency on the manufacturing process with location …

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of space systems segment at Lockheed Martin, told Via Satellite in an interview published Tuesday the company has made multi-year investments across its production processes in order to compete with “NewSpace“ startups and meet mission demands. “What we're really concentrating on now is designing in …

SecurityMatters will collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to develop guidance for manufacturers to secure industrial control systems against cyber threats. NCCoE plans to include SecurityMatters’ SilentDefense anomaly detection technology along with other cyber tools in the “Capabilities Assessment for Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems” guide to demonstrate ICS security …

Boeing has invested in Gamma Alloys to help the Valencia, California-based firm further develop advanced metal-matrix composites for various applications within the automotive, aerospace and other industries. Boeing said Wednesday it made the investment via its HorizonX ventures arm and collaborated with Gamma Alloys to develop advanced materials and machining …

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has obtained a patent for a technology that works to create a seal to remove leakage in flow batteries. The “Self-sealing Flow Frame for Flow Battery Stack“ design also works to streamline the process of assembling flow batteries designed to address the need for electric grid-level energy …

Raytheon has unveiled a new engineering facility at the Sandia Science and Technology Park in  Albuquerque, New Mexico, to support the production of monitoring and telemetry systems for U.S. and allied forces. The company said Monday it expects to create up to 60 high-technology manufacturing positions at the new 72,000-square-foot engineering facility over the …