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  • Raytheon-PCO Team to Build Poland Military's Night-Vision Devices; Duane Gooden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-PCO Team to Build Poland Military’s Night-Vision Devices; Duane Gooden Comments

    Raytheon’s missile systems business and optoelectronic devices manufacturer PCO S.A. have teamed up to design and produce night-vision goggles for Poland’s uniformed personnel and international military forces. Raytheon said Wednesday the letter of intent with the Poland-based company also covers the development of surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance platforms and concept design and production of hardware, optics […] More

  • Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launches, Transmits Initial Signals to Navy; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launches, Transmits Initial Signals to Navy; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    The U.S. Navy received initial signals from its new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite three hours after it launched Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Navy reported. MUOS-4 was scheduled to launch Monday but was postponed due to a tropical storm. Lockheed said MUOS-4 lifted off onboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket to […] More

  • DARPA Taps Leidos for Shared Spectrum Access Program Phase 2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Leidos for Shared Spectrum Access Program Phase 2

    Leidos has secured a potential one-year, $7.9 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research and develop a spectrum sharing platform for use between communications systems and radars. Reston, Va.-based Leidos will carry out research work under the second phase of DARPA’s Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications initiative, the Defense […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation

    Iridium Communications has spent $3 billion on its program to launch 66 satellites that will work to offer airline companies satellite-based air traffic surveillance services, CEO Matt Desch told The Globe and Mail for an article published Sunday. Eric Atkins writes those satellites will carry instruments to collect information such as aircraft speed and location in an effort to help airlines manage fuel usage and flight […] More

  • Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments

    A new Boeing-made satellite lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan onboard an International Launch Services-built Proton Breeze M space vehicle to become part of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmarsat, said Thursday the new GX satellite joins a constaellation that works to help customers quickly introduce new applications and offer remote mobile broadband services to […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers' Day for 'Gremlins' UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for ‘Gremlins’ UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office plans to unveil information on its Gremlins program during a Proposers’ Day from Sept. 24 to 25. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps said registration is open through Sept. 18. According to DARPA, the Gremlins program aims to utilize small unmanned aircraft systems for coordinated support during distributed U.S. military […] More

  • Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch

    The launch of a new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite has been moved to Wednesday due to tropical storm Erika, SpaceFlight Insider reported Monday. Lockheed said Friday MUOS-4 will join the other three satellites in the U.S. Navy’s communications satellite network that works to provide video, data and voice capabilities for mobile uniformed personnel through an Internet protocol-based platform. […] More

  • US Agency Purchases $49M in Kratos Subsidiary SATCOM Hardware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Agency Purchases $49M in Kratos Subsidiary SATCOM Hardware

    A subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will provide satellite and communications system hardware, equipment and other products to a U.S. government agency under a five-year, $49 million contract. The company said Friday RT Logic, which is part of Kratos’ technology and training solutions division, has already received $8 million in delivery orders under the contract. RT Logic will […] More

  • NASA Wraps Up Developmental Tests on Aerojet Rocketdyne SLS Engine; Steve Wofford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Wraps Up Developmental Tests on Aerojet Rocketdyne SLS Engine; Steve Wofford Comments

    NASA has concluded a series of seven developmental tests on an Aerojet Rocketdyne-made engine for the Space Launch System at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ahead of the rocket’s mission to Mars and other deep space destinations. The 535-second hot-fire test on the RS-25 engine sought to gather information on inlet pressure conditions, engine controller component and temperatures, […] More

  • Raytheon, Naval Undersea Warfare Center to Study Minehunting Sonar’s Imaging Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Naval Undersea Warfare Center to Study Minehunting Sonar’s Imaging Functions

    Raytheon and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center have agreed to extend their partnership to determine methods for the the AN/AQS-20A minehunting sonar system to detect undersea threats. Raytheon said Thursday it will conduct sea-based and laboratory tests with NUWC Division Newport in Rhode Island to leverage the AN/AQS-20A’s synthetic aperture sonar to capture images of underwater […] More

  • Space Systems/Loral Awarded DARPA Robotic Satellite Assembly Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems/Loral Awarded DARPA Robotic Satellite Assembly Research Contract

    A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will investigate ideas on how to robotically assemble communication satellites while in orbit under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. MDA said Wednesday Space Systems/Loral will carry out the study for five months under the initial phase of DARPA’s Dragonfly program, which seeks to launch larger geostationary […] More

  • Army Test Fires Raytheon AIM-9X Block II Missile from Ground; Mike Jarrett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Test Fires Raytheon AIM-9X Block II Missile from Ground; Mike Jarrett Comments

    The U.S. Army has test-fired a Raytheon-built missile from the service branch’s land-based Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-I Block 1 Multi-Mission Launcher. The test sought to evaluate the capability of AIM-9X Block II missile to intercept and destroy unmanned aircraft systems and other aerial targets when launched from the ground, Raytheon said Wednesday. Mike Jarrett, […] More