Raytheon, RIT Partner to Build NASA Infrared Detectors; Donald Figer Comments
Raytheon and Rochester Institute of Technology are partnering to make a new class of infrared detectors for NASA, Laser World Focus reported Friday. John Wallace writes RIT’s center for detectors won a $1.1 million contract to design, produce and test detectors that are grown on silicon wafer substrates, a process developed by Raytheon. Raytheon’s vision systems [...]
Lockheed Martin has won a $12 million contract to update radars the U.S. Army uses in Afghanistan, Syracuse.com reports. The Q-53 radars are designed to detect and destroy approaching mortar and rocket fire, Mark Weiner writes. Under the contract, the company will service eight Q-53 radars deployed in Afghanistan and 24 radars located in Germany [...]
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Northrop Providing Army Helicopter Missile Defense Systems; Jeffrey Palombo Comments
February 1, 2013 1 CommentNorthrop Grumman holds a $31.4 million contract to develop infrared countermeasures for the U.S. Army to use in defending helicopters against missiles, the company said Thursday. The company recently delivered the first of eight Common Infrared Countermeasures and a hardware system to the Army for reliability testing. SELEX Galileo and Daylight Solutions worked with Northrop to [...]
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InfoReliance has won a $50 million contract to move the Labor Department‘s email system to a cloud-based Microsoft email platform, Nextgov reports. InfoReliance will also provide the department with a web-based e-discovery record and other software-as-a-service tools, according to the report. For the project announced in August, InforReliance will combine the department’s nine major divisions’ [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security is asking vendors to submit ideas on how it can implement new security technology at border checkpoints and other domestic locations on a two-year schedule, NextGov reports. Aliya Sternstein writes DHS’ science and technology directorate wants the two-year innovation cycle to cover project inception through operational testing in order for [...]
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Auditors at the Transportation Department found lower rates of safety incidents occurred at contract towers compared to towers run by the Federal Aviation Administration, Fierce Government reports. The department’s office of the inspector general compared 240 contract towers and 92 similar FAA towers for its report. Pilots, flight instructors, airport officials and other aviation stakeholders [...]
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will launch apps next year for employees to access patient information through mobile devices, AOL Government reports. In September, the VA awarded FirstView Federal TS with a $9.3 million contract to develop apps for use by 100,000 VA employees. Jerry Ambrosh, FirstView’s senior vice president for health solutions, told AOL [...]
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Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) will modify aircraft management software infrastructure and other flight crew operations systems for NASA, NASA announced Friday. The company won a potential five-year contract worth up to $46.1 million if all options are exercised. The three-year base period occurs between Nov. 19, 2012 and Nov. 18, 2015, with two [...]
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Alion Modeling, Developing Software for Navy Threat Simulation; Terri Spoonhour Comments
October 25, 2012 No CommentAlion Science and Technology will provide modeling and simulation software development services to the Navy Warfare Development Command under a $63 million contract. The company said it received this award to continue support of the Navy Continuous Training Environment under the Software, Networks, Information, Modeling and Simulation contract vehicle. Work will also include helping build [...]
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Cubic Team Developing Sniper Crosswind Measuring System for DARPA; Steve Sampson Comments
October 23, 2012 No CommentCubic Corp. has won a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new One Shot crosswind and range measurement system, the company announced Tuesday. In partnership with Trex Enterprises, Cubic will develop and test a prototype system for providing ballistic aim point offsets in the shooter’s riflescope sight. “One [...]
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