ATK (NYSE: ATK) addressed complexity and cost issues in its latest avionics and control test for a NASA program aimed at sending astronauts and cargo beyond Earth’s orbit. Flight Control Test 2, the second in a series of development tests for the Space Launch System, occurred Jan. 30 at ATK’s testing laboratory in Promontory, Utah, [...]
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L-3 Communications‘ KEO subsidiary is producing a system to lift sensors aboard the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class submarines. The Defense Department said Kollmorgen Electro-Optical will produce 16 Universal Modular Masts and provide 142,000 hours of engineering services under a $27,473,565 contract. L-3 acquired KEO in February from Danaher Corp. for $210 million (our sister site GovCon Wire [...]
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A Raytheon-led team will develop unmanned aerial vehicle sensors for detecting ground objects not visible to the human eye, Military Aerospace reports. Under a sole-source contract from the Air Force, the team will equip the General Atomics-made MQ-1 Predator with hyperspectral sensors between 2012 and 2016 under the Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System-Hyperspectral program. Team [...]
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L-3 Communications and Virginia Tech are opening a new cybersecurity research center at the company’s Arlington, Va.-based research center, the Washington Post reports. According to Marjorie Censer, the center will occupy 7 floors within Virginia Tech’s Ballston research center and function as a point of convergence between L-3 personnel and Virginia Tech’s faculty and student [...]
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L-3 Communications has won a $24 million contract to deliver communications units and parts for NASA’s Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles program for the International Space Station. According to a company release, the contract calls for the design and delivery of four S-Band flight units and associated flight equivalent units, spares, ground support equipment and [...]
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The U.S. Navy has awarded L-3 Services a potential $82 million indefinite delivery and quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and technical support services for command, control, communications and computer exercise planning. Under the contract, L-3 will provide integration, systems integration, operational systems, training, logistics, software engineering, quality assurance and life-cycle sustainment management support. L-3 will perform [...]
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Following last week’s media reports that Google, Lockheed Martin, L-3 and Northrop Grumman had recently been targeted by hackers, aerospace giant Boeing has now admitted to being under “continuous” cyber attack, although it has been spared from database breaches, a senior executive said. “We, as are other global enterprises, are under a continuous state of [...]
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Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more attacks of increasing sophistication. Here, 10 industry insiders offer their insight into what they believe are the most dangerous cyber threats, ranging from social engineering to [...]
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Alex Miller is a retired Navy cryptologic officer, who spent more than 33 years in the Navy. He retired in 2005 as a rear admiral while serving as the chief of staff at the National Security Agency. He joined Titan Corporation, which was subsequently bought by L-3 Corporation where he now serves as senior vice [...]
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