C4ISR News

ExecutiveBiz provides the latest news regarding Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) from the industry’s top players. This section is dedicated to providing news about technologies that are crucial to warfighters.

Latest stories

  • Lockheed to Provide F-16 Targeting Pods for Taiwan Air Force; Marc Nazon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Lockheed to Provide F-16 Targeting Pods for Taiwan Air Force; Marc Nazon Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract to build and install two Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods aboard the Taiwan air force’s F-16 fighter planes. The Sniper ATP platform will work to provide Taiwan air force pilots a visual tool for use in intelligence, precision targeting, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Marc Nazon, Sniper international program manager at Lockheed, […] More

  • USAF Taps Wright State Applied Research Corp. to Help Develop Human-Machine Intell Analysis Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    USAF Taps Wright State Applied Research Corp. to Help Develop Human-Machine Intell Analysis Tech

    Wright State Applied Research Corp. has won a $42.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force explore tools to facilitate human-machine collaboration on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data analysis. The Defense Department said Friday that WSARC will perform ISR knowledge elicitation, concept design and development and performance assessment services for the Air Force Research […] More

  • Airbus Links LMR Networks With Kodiak Push-to-Talk Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Airbus Links LMR Networks With Kodiak Push-to-Talk Systems

    An Airbus company has teamed with Kodiak to develop an open standards interface that supports connectivity between push-to-talk systems and mission-critical radio networks. Airbus DS Communications said Thursday it will combine the functions of its VESTA Radio product with Kodiak Broadband PTT to facilitate communications between land mobile radio users and push-to-talk users. “Linking mission-critical LMR networks […] More

  • Luke Barrington: DigitalGlobe Unveils Mapping API for Software Developers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Luke Barrington: DigitalGlobe Unveils Mapping API for Software Developers

    DigitalGlobe has unveiled a new hosted service that works to help software developers build their own Web or mobile applications from the company’s satellite image basemaps. Luke Barrington, senior director of product development at DigitalGlobe, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that DigitalGlobe Maps API also provides terrain and OpenStreetMap layers for image context. He said the API is built […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global C4ISR Market to See 3.67% CAGR Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Research and Markets: Global C4ISR Market to See 3.67% CAGR Through 2019

    A Research and Markets report predicts that the global market for C4ISR systems will grow at a 3.67-percent compound annual growth rate through 2019. The company said Wednesday the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions will see the most growth with a combined 30-percent market share due to increased defense budgets and demand for C4ISR technologies. According to the […] More

  • Northrop Tests C2 Platform on RQ-4 Global Hawk; Michael Leahy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Northrop Tests C2 Platform on RQ-4 Global Hawk; Michael Leahy Comments

    Northrop Grumman has completed a series of flight tests for its command and control platform aboard an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. The flight test was carried out to assess the Control Mission Management System’s capability to connect to the U.S. Air Force’s Common Mission Control Center via the UAS CU Initiative message standard and respond to […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar's Comm Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar’s Comm Satellite

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial launch services subsidiary will support the launch of EchoStar‘s Jupiter 2 or XIX communications satellite in late 2016 aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket. EchoStar said Wednesday the SSL-built EchoStar XIX is a Ka-band satellite that works to provide satellite Internet service to North American customers of HughesNet. The satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed to Supply F-2 Targeting Pods to Japan; Marc Nazon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Lockheed to Supply F-2 Targeting Pods to Japan; Marc Nazon Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to produce and install Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods onboard the Japanese air force’s F-2 fighter planes. The company said Monday the Sniper ATP platform works to detect and track tactical small targets at extended ranges and is designed to aid pilots during surveillance, precision targeting, intelligence and reconnaissance […] More

  • Northrop Demos Virtual Aircraft Training Tool at Northern Edge Joint Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Northrop Demos Virtual Aircraft Training Tool at Northern Edge Joint Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a live, virtual and constructive system the company built to help aircrew members operate virtual planes alongside live aircraft through a network of simulation tools. The company presented its LVC Experimentation, Integration and Operations Suite platform at the Northern Edge 2015 joint-training exercise held at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex in June, […] More

  • Italy’s Boeing-Built Tanker Completes Foreign Aerial Refueling Test With US F-35A - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Italy’s Boeing-Built Tanker Completes Foreign Aerial Refueling Test With US F-35A

    The Boeing-built KC-767A tanker from Italy has completed its first foreign aerial refueling test with the U.S. Air Force’s F-35A fighter plane, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Colin Clark writes the Italian tanker completed the certification refueling test in California on July 29. The F-35A fighter aircraft received 16,000 pounds of fuel from the KC-767A tanker […] More

  • Serco Adds Navy C4ISR System Installation Task Order; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Serco Adds Navy C4ISR System Installation Task Order; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a nine-month, $13 million task order to install new command, communication, control, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for the U.S. Navy. The contract also covers certification and testing services related to C4ISR systems, Serco Inc. said Thursday. Dan Allen, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., said the company’s work under the […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary Flies ScanEagle During Coast Guard's Arctic S&R Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Flies ScanEagle During Coast Guard’s Arctic S&R Exercise

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has flown its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle in the Arctic region as part of search-and-rescue demonstrations before the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, Energy Department and other industry participants. Insitu said Thursday the Coast Guard Research and Development Center’s Arctic Technology Evaluation 2015 Search and Rescue exercise aims to assess the capability of unmanned technologies […] More