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  • DARPA Seeks Radio, Network Architectures and Technologies to Address Data Channel Degradation Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Radio, Network Architectures and Technologies to Address Data Channel Degradation Issues

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals for radio and network architectures and technologies that can sustain the reliability of networks through data channel degradation periods. According to a FedBizOpps report published Jan. 5, the Network Universal Persistence program works to create and showcase radio technologies capable of withstanding signal degradation experienced across military […] More

  • Kraken Robotics Evaluates Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar System on Navy Autonomous Underwater Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kraken Robotics Evaluates Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar System on Navy Autonomous Underwater Tech

    Kraken Robotics has integrated and tested a new real-time synthetic aperture sonar system aboard a U.S. Navy Remus 600 autonomous underwater vehicle in Rhode Island. The company said Thursday its Aquapix miniature SAS technology features capacities to support minehunting operations at ranges up to 10 times more than traditional side scan sonar technologies. The SAS […] More

  • Navy Eyes General Atomics UAS Support for Task Force Southwest Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes General Atomics UAS Support for Task Force Southwest Missions

    The U.S. Navy intends to award General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business a contract to provide contractor-owned/contractor-operated unmanned air systems to support Task Force Southwest missions across the U.S. Central Command area of operations in fiscal 2018 and fiscal 2019. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the Naval Air Systems Command will ask GA-ASI to supply military […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Additional Tech to Complement Military Space Asset Mgmt Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Additional Tech to Complement Military Space Asset Mgmt Systems

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a broad agency announcement to seek additional technology platforms that can help U.S. military personnel manage space assets through rapid delivery and presentation of data. DARPA said Tuesday the Hallmark Tools and Capabilities 2 initiative looks to create and validate technologies to complement a set of tools and systems being […] More

  • Gibbs & Cox to Help Lockheed Design Saudi Arabia's Future Surface Combatant Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gibbs & Cox to Help Lockheed Design Saudi Arabia’s Future Surface Combatant Ship

    Lockheed Martin has selected Gibbs & Cox to support functional design work on a  multi-mission surface combatant platform for Saudi Arabia. Gibbs & Cox said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s navy chose an MMSC offering that Lockheed based on the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in a bid to help the service branch confront maritime and economic security threats. […] More

  • TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications

    TWD & Associates looks to create and deploy a customer relationship management tool that can help the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Partnership and Engagement upgrade stakeholder communications and collaboration capacities. The company said Tuesday it will integrate agile Scrum methodologies and cloud capacities on the new CRM platform to help boost the effectiveness […] More

  • HDT Robotic System Enters Phase II Army Equipment Transport Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HDT Robotic System Enters Phase II Army Equipment Transport Program

    HDT Global has received a contract to further develop a robotic system under the second phase of the U.S. Army‘s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program. The company said Tuesday its Wheeled Offload Logistics Follower is designed to transport up to 1,000 pounds of cargo at a distance of 100 miles without resupply as well as perform silent drive […] More

  • Battelle to Develop Biological Threat Assessment Software Under IARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Develop Biological Threat Assessment Software Under IARPA Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected Battelle to create a software platform that can help thwart development of synthetic biological threats. Battelle said Tuesday it will develop the threat assessment platform in support of IARPA’s Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats program that aims to counter various threats from biotechnological advancements. Ginkgo Bioworks, […] More

  • DARPA Taps Raytheon to Produce Software Under Collaborative UAS Autonomy Program's 3rd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Raytheon to Produce Software Under Collaborative UAS Autonomy Program’s 3rd Phase

    Raytheon has been selected to develop software under the third phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to expand the capacities of current U.S. military unmanned aircraft systems. DARPA said Tuesday the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program aims to increase the effectiveness, flexibility and survivability of current air platforms when the […] More

  • Ken Lee: Orbital ATK to Build 11th Comms Satellite for Intelsat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Lee: Orbital ATK to Build 11th Comms Satellite for Intelsat

    Intelsat has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) a contract to build a communications satellite based on the latter company’s GEOStar-2 platform. Orbital ATK said Monday it will design, construct and test Intelsat’s future Galaxy 30  satellite at a Dulles, Virginia-based manufacturing facility. “Galaxy 30 will be the 11th satellite Orbital ATK has built for Intelsat, and […] More

  • State Dept Clears Mexico's $98M Missile, Torpedo Purchase Request - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Clears Mexico’s $98M Missile, Torpedo Purchase Request

    The State Department has approved a potential $98.4 million foreign military sale of missiles, torpedoes, ammunition, spares and repair parts to Mexico. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday the proposed agreement will cover the delivery of six RGM-84L Harpoon Block II surface launched missiles, 23 Block II Rolling Airframe Missile tactical missiles and six MK 54 Mod 0 […] More

  • Argus Cyber Security, Renesas Electronics Develop Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Cybersecurity System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Argus Cyber Security, Renesas Electronics Develop Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Cybersecurity System

    Argus Cyber Security and Renesas Electronics have integrated their respective offerings to develop a new security system designed to keep connected and autonomous vehicles safe from potential cyber attacks. The Argus Connectivity Protection and Argus Lifespan Protection systems were merged with the Renesas R-Car H3 system-on-chip automotive computing platform to help mitigate potential threats to vulnerable attack […] More