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  • Navy Eyes Potential Purchase of Rockwell Collins Radio Comm Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes Potential Purchase of Rockwell Collins Radio Comm Equipment

    The U.S. Navy intends to purchase from Rockwell Collins‘ government systems business a set of radio receiver-transmitters and ancillary equipment under the ARC-210 family of communications products. A presolicitation notice posted Oct. 21 on FedBizOpps indicated that Naval Air Systems Command plans to send a delivery order for 12 RT-1747D/ARC receiver-transmitter and 12 C-11898A/ARC control and radio set. According […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on X-Band Radar Systems, Receivers For Surveillance Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on X-Band Radar Systems, Receivers For Surveillance Applications

    The U.S. Navy has asked industry to provide information on X-band radar systems and active antenna platforms designed for tracking and surface surveillance operations. The Naval Sea Systems Command said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 21 that it also wants information on scalable X-band exciters, receivers and frequency synthesizer tools that can be integrated […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Open Architecture-Based C4ISR Could Help in Interoperability, Situational Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Open Architecture-Based C4ISR Could Help in Interoperability, Situational Awareness

    Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has told C4ISR & Networks that an integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system could help achieve interoperability and enhance situational awareness for troops. Wenzel said in an interview published Thursday that agencies and military organizations should advance the use of government-owned […] More

  • Frank Kendall OKs Consolidated Shipboard Networks Program’s Full Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Kendall OKs Consolidated Shipboard Networks Program’s Full Deployment

    The Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program has achieved full deployment approval after Frank Kendall, acquisition chief at the Defense Department, signed an acquisition decision memorandum on the CANES program, Chips magazine reported Friday. Steven A. Davis writes the CANES program aims to reduce shipboard network workload through information technology modernization and consolidation of data, voice, […] More

  • Army Seeks Potential Unmanned System Sensing Tech Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Potential Unmanned System Sensing Tech Sources

    The U.S. Army wants information on potential vendors that can help build and demonstrate autonomous unmanned vehicle sensing platforms intended to operate in GPS-challenged locations. The Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center is interested in acquiring architectures and services for the Autonomous Unmanned Systems Teaming and Collaboration in GPS Denied Environments project, the military branch […] More

  • Lockheed Kicks Off Environmental Tests on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft; Mike Donnelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Kicks Off Environmental Tests on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft; Mike Donnelly Comments

    Lockheed Martin’s space systems business has begun the environmental testing phase on NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft at its facilities in Denver. NASA said Thursday it plans to launch the OSIRIS-REx space vehicle in September 2016 to collect samples of the Bennu asteroid for further research. Lockheed will subject the spacecraft to […] More

  • GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech

    Companies continue to explore new drone defense technologies to address the potential threat from unmanned aircraft systems as they prove hard to detect using existing radar technologies, GCN reported Tuesday. Mark Pomerleau writes that NEC, Battelle and Lockheed Martin currently have programs that seek to bolster drone defense through capabilities ranging from detection to disruption. […] More

  • Selex ES Completes Laser System Installation on Italy’s NH90 Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Selex ES Completes Laser System Installation on Italy’s NH90 Helicopter

    Selex ES, a Finmeccanica subsidiary, has completed the installation of a laser system onboard an NH90 tactical transport helicopter for Italy’s army. The Laser Obstacle Avoidance and Monitoring platform works to detect power lines, pillars and other obstacles as helicopter pilots fly at low altitudes, Selex said Friday. Selex handed the NH90 helicopter with the LOAM system to […] More

  • Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract

    Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $49 million contract to build prototype sensors for the U.S. Navy to use during force-protection, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Northrop Grumman, Consolidated Resource Imaging and Manufacturing Techniques will compete for task orders to develop and deliver sensor systems for different clients. The contract has a […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Aircraft Laser Turret System; Doug Graham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Develops Aircraft Laser Turret System; Doug Graham Comments

    Lockheed Martin has helped build a laser turret system for high-speed aircraft under a collaborative project between the company, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Thursday its Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control turret was integrated onto a business jet during 2014 and 2015 flight tests. The […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for industry proposals for a program that seeks to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne radio networks that manned aircraft and drones use to communicate with each other. The objective of the Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program “is to enable pilots […] More

  • Col. Thomas von Eschenbach: Army Eyes Lightweight Weapon for Gray Eagle UAS Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Col. Thomas von Eschenbach: Army Eyes Lightweight Weapon for Gray Eagle UAS Fleet

    The U.S. Army has asked industry about available smaller weapons that the military service can integrate onto its fleet of General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems, Flightglobal reported Wednesday. James Drew writes the Army’s existing Gray Eagles are built to launch up to four 106-pound Hellfire air-to-ground missiles. “We would like increased range,” […] More