Aviation Week: Boeing, Lockheed Bid for Air Force GPS III Production Contract Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted proposals to the U.S. Air Force to build the next batch of GPS III satellites for the service branch, Aviation Week reported Tuesday. Jen DiMascio writes Northrop Grumman also submitted a bid to compete for the satellite production contract…

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Stratcom, UAE Forge Space Data Sharing Agreement; Adm. Cecil Haney Comments U.S. Strategic Command and United Arab Emirates’ national space agency have agreed to exchange space services and data in a joint effort to ensure the safety of operations in low-Earth orbit. Stratcom said Monday that U…

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Peter Kane Appointed COO at Altamira Peter Kane, formerly a vice president at McLean, Virginia-based technology services contractor Altamira Technologies, has been appointed to the role of chief operating office and will handle all of the company’s contract and program-related functions…

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Project Performance Company to Operate, Maintain National Archives Big Data Systems The National Archives and Records Administration agency has awarded a potential five-year, $17.3 million contract to Project Performance Company for operations and maintenance work on two NARA systems built to manage large amounts of data…

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DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies DLT Solutions has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure company SimpliVity in an effort to help federal agencies manage and operate their data centers. The alliance will work to unite all IT infrastructure and services below the hypervisor level and help organizations take control of their networks through virtualized workload protection, DLT said Tuesday…

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WSJ CIO Journal: Kristin Seaver Named US Postal Service CIO Kristin Seaver, formerly vice president of operations for the U.S. Postal Service’s Capital Metro area, has been named executive vice president and chief information officer of USPS, the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal reported Monday…

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GSA Seeks New Drug Enforcement Administration HQ in Northern Virginia The General Services Administration wants to move the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters to a new location in Northern Virginia. GSA said in a presolicitation notice posted Tuesday that it seeks anew office space in the region with a minimum office area of 478,607 square feet…

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State Dept Approves France’s $90M Request of Lockheed-Made Unitary Rocket Pods The State Department has approved a request by France to purchase Lockheed Martin-built unitary rocket pods and other related resources from the U.S. government under a $90 million foreign military sales agreement between both countries…

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Sotera Receives Readiness Reporting System Software Support Task Order From Army Sotera Defense Solutions has been awarded a three-year, $16 million task order from the U.S. Army for technical, engineering and management services to the branch’s Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center…

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UMass Lowell Completes PICTURE-B Exoplanet Research Mission Using Northrop-Built Mirror The University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology has concluded its Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base exoplanet research mission following its return from space…

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Ellen Williams: ARPA-E to Back Vehicle Energy Mgmt, Carbon Sequestration Projects The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy will aggregate as much as $60 million to fund two technology research and development programs that aim to facilitate energy conservation in vehicles and carbon dioxide storage in plants…

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