Press Releases

HeroX, the leading platform and open marketplace for crowdsourced solutions, with Epic Games and Buendea, today launched the crowdsourcing competition, NASA MarsXR Challenge. The Challenge seeks contributions to a Virtual Reality (XR) testbed environment that replicates the experiences and situations astronauts may encounter on Mars. To facilitate research, development, and testing using virtual reality, NASA, in collaboration with Buendea, is developing the Mars XR Operations Suppo

BAE Systems has unveiled a new lightweight, compact Head-Up Display (HUD) for use in commercial and military aircraft. LiteWave is a laptop sized HUD mounted above the pilot’s head which presents critical information, such as direction, altitude and speed, directly in their line of sight. Being 70% smaller and lighter than a traditional HUD, LiteWave can be fitted in aircraft with even the most limited cockpit space. It’s also up to 80% faster to install and its simple d

Luna Innovations Incorporated, a global leader in advanced fiber optic-based technology, today announced that it secured an incremental, multi-unit purchase order for the OBR 6200, portable backscatter reflectometer, through a continued relationship with Lockheed Martin. Core to Luna’s strategy is moving from single unit sales to multi-unit sales. In 2020, Luna announced a $6.2 million deal with Lockheed Martin to supply optical measurement products to support the global fleet

SOLUTE, a Sigma Defense company, today announced that it was awarded a new Task Order to continue work for the United States Navy's PEO C4I and PMW 150 to develop, deliver, and demonstrate its Surface Search Coordination Planner (SSCP) capability in support of enhanced coordination of fleet operations. The SSCP will employ analytics tools capable of ingesting multiple data points to include drones, meteorological sensors, weather reports, sea conditions and ship specifications, providing

Truyo, the leader in truly automated consent and data privacy rights management, and Egnyte, a leader in cloud content security and governance, today announced the release of their CMMC 2.0 Compliance Solution. This tool is intended to help the hundreds of thousands of contract and sub-contract organizations that provide services directly and indirectly to the Department of Defense (DoD) to simplify the process of becoming audit ready. The solution, which aligns to NIST standards, allows thos

Criteria Labs, an industry leader in high-reliability RF components and semiconductor engineering solutions has partnered with CAES, a leading provider of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, to consult on systems development and production of die carrier assemblies in support of the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Offboard Electronic Warfare program (AOEW). "This new partnership reflects the confidence and trust that our defense industry partners place in Criteri

BAE Systems has opened its new engineering and production facility in Manchester, N.H. as the latest step in a series of strategic facility investments across the country – including in Austin, Texas; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Huntsville, Ala. The 200,000-square-foot Manchester facility includes engineering design space, modern laboratories, and office space, providing the company with additional capacity to support the design and development of electronic warfare (EW) systems f

Turner Innovations (Turner), a company focused on research and development of advanced X-ray imaging technologies, announced today it was awarded an Air Force SBIR Phase II contract of $749,872. The objective is to develop an operationally deployable dual-use (Rad/Fluoro) X-ray imaging device for diagnosis/treatment of the modern warfighter. Turner Imaging Systems, a spinoff of Turner, has commercialized the Smart-C, the world’s first hyper-portable battery-powered fluoroscopic mini C-a

USNC Advanced Technologies, a division of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), announces it has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR contract to develop a proposed ultra-high temperature material testing facility. The specialized equipment could provide an essential terrestrial environment for testing the performance of materials planned for use in space-based nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems. The demanding requirements for NTP systems necessitate development o

BAE Systems has been awarded a $2.8 million, three-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a new approach to defeat adversaries: by overwhelming them with complexity. As part of the Complexity Modeling in Multiple Domains (COMMAND) program, BAE Systems will develop highly complex models to capture the “decision calculus” of an adversary, provide an estimate of how different attacks will affect their ability to respond, and ultimately drive them to

CAES, a leading provider of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, announced today that it has been awarded a Low Rate Initial Production Phase 1 (LRIP1) Contract by Lockheed Martin Corporation for Phased Array Antennas to support its Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare (AOEW) system. The AOEW program delivers persistent electronic surveillance and attack capabilities against potential threats such as anti-ship missiles, thereby allowing naval warfighters to not only see in

Hughey & Phillips (H&P), a global leader in the airfield and obstruction lighting industry, announces a new award from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst in support of the Navy's Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) program.  The five-year IDIQ contract has options totaling $37M.  The contract is estimated to create about 20 jobs initially in Florida and Ohio, with the potential to add up to 50 jobs. This contract was awarded for an advan

AT&T* was awarded a task order to modernize GuardNet, the command and control network that allows Army National Guard soldiers to access the Internet, connect with other networks and databases, and support training and mission planning and execution. The task order, awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency's Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization is valued at $15 million over 11 years if all options are exercised. It was awarded via the General Serv

The U.S. Marine Corps declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter, validating the platform's operational readiness to forward deploy Marines and equipment across the globe. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company (NYSE: LMT) designed and manufactures the CH-53K, which enables the U.S. Marine Corps and international militaries to move troops and equipment from ship to shore, and to higher altitude terrain, more quickly and effectively than ever before.

Maxar Technologies, provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, today announced it was awarded U.S. Government mission support contracts in Q1 2022 worth up to $202 million over a six-year period. The total includes 27 awards across nine U.S. government customers—eight of which are Department of Defense or Intelligence Community organizations—for work including artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, advanced