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The U.S. Navy has selected Communications & Power Industries and Stellant Systems to repair crossed-field amplifiers for the AEGIS Combat System under a five-year, $90.8 million contract. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will involve fixing double-duty, water-cooled vane and single-duty CFA electron tubes, the...
Four companies have received separate contracts worth a combined $103.4 million over five years to support spaceflight and aircraft management systems at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. The Mission Enabling Services Contract consists of five individual contracts that are divided into three work segments, intended to primarily support the...
James Myers, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has joined Applied Research Associates as vice president of program innovation and growth. In this capacity, he will seek defense-related opportunities and programs to enable ARA to deliver novel platforms for national security applications, the company said Tuesday. Myers “is the right person at the right...
The U.S. Navy has ordered an additional two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) under a $248.2 million contract modification. Northrop will build the autonomously operated vehicles as part of the program’s lot five low-rate initial production, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The service branch wil...
Brent Abbott, a three-decade business development strategist in the space industry, has been appointed chief revenue officer at Rogue Space Systems. He will oversee the company’s defense and commercial sales, customer experience and marketing efforts as CRO, Rogue Space said Wednesday. Abbott previously served as CEO of NanoAvionics U.S. and helpe...
Six companies will compete for task orders to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under a potential five-year, $240 million contract. USACE received 30 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet and expects the contractors to complete work by June 21, 2027, the Department of Defense said Tu...
Perkins Technical Services will provide power supplies to the U.S. Army under a potential five-year, $90.1 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency’s land and maritime organization. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract has a base performance period of three years and a pair of one-year options, the Department of Defense said Th...
Vitesse Systems, a portfolio company of venture capital firm Trive Capital, has acquired Custom Microwave Inc., a provider of high-performance antennas designed for ground and space applications, for an undisclosed sum. “The proliferation of military and commercial satellites has resulted in increased demand for high performance antennas,” David...
David Gitlin, former president and chief operating officer of Collins Aerospace, has been elected to the board of directors at Boeing (NYSE: BA). Gitlin is the seventh independent director to join Boeing’s board since April 2019 and will serve on the board’s aerospace safety and finance committees, the company said Tuesday. He has served as...
Forty early-career technologists were named to the U.S. Digital Corps as the first cohort of fellows who will work with 13 federal government agencies to help them in capacity building, cybersecurity, public experience and other impact areas. The fellows who are skilled in cybersecurity, data science and analytics, design, product management and sof...
