Month: October 2024
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Nuclear ModernizationAfter Merger With Jacobs’ Government Business, Amentum Eyes Areas of Nuclear Growth
Amentum, which last week absorbed Jacobs Solutions’ government service business, is eyeing business opportunities at U.S. nuclear-weapon sites and in nuclear energy, its CEO told the ExchangeMonitor Tuesday. Before Friday’s […]
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SpaceULA Prepares for Second Vulcan Launch and Ramps Up for 2025
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is finalizing preparations for the second Vulcan mission, set to lift off early on Oct. 4. This is the second of two test flights required for […]
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ArmyArmy Releases RFI To Inform Prototyping Plans For New Next-Gen C2 Initiative
The Army is seeking industry’s input to inform “experimentation, pilots and prototyping” plans for its new Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative to build out a data-centric architecture with […]
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Navy/USMCGAO: Columbia-Class Schedule And Cost Growth Likely To Increase, Navy Should Revise Cost Estimates
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) latest audit of the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine program estimated the first new boat has cost overruns several times higher than the shipbuilder and […]
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Unmanned SystemsOceaneering To Build Autonomous Underwater Vehicle For Navy Following Success Testing Effort
Oceaneering International [OII] on Tuesday said it has received a contract to build and deliver to the Navy a variant of its Freedom robotic submarine after successful tests this year […]
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SpaceCSIS Report Notes Chinese ‘Commercial’ Remote Sensing Leads in Some Areas
A new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) commercial satellite remote sensing “Olympics” report notes Chinese leads in electro-optical (EO), synthetic aperture radar (SAR) C-band, and long-wave infrared (LWIR) […]
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Business/FinancialCACI Cloud-Centric Federal Services Provider Buys Applied Insight
CACI International [CACI] on Tuesday said it acquired Applied Insight, a cloud-centric business serving the defense, intelligence, and public sectors. CACI did not disclose deal terms but said it was […]
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Air ForcePratt & Whitney Opens 845,000 Square Foot Engine Work Site in Oklahoma City
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney said on Tuesday that it has opened its largest engine work site–845,000 square feet of space in Oklahoma City next to the U.S. Air Force […]
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ArmyBush Doesn’t Foresee Three-Month CR Impacting Army’s ‘Lots Of Bets’ On UAS Tech
The Army’s acquisition chief said recently he doesn’t foresee the current three-month continuing resolution having a significant impact on specific projects in the near-term, to include unmanned aircraft system (UAS) […]
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Nuclear ModernizationJudge Rules for Antis in Lawsuit Over Environmental Study of Plutonium Pit Production
The Department of Energy did not adequately study the environmental effects of producing nuclear-weapon cores in two states, a federal judge ruled Monday in a three year-old lawsuit. But the […]
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