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  • Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service

    Iridium Communications has selected seven businesses as the initial service providers to resell the Iridium Push-to-Talk service to military, search-and-rescue, law enforcement and other customers in the international market. The company said Monday the service works to support instant communication from any location via the Iridium low-earth orbit satellite system and operates as half-duplex communication. The following are […] More

  • Navy Picks L-3 to Build Poseidon's Electro-Optical Sensor Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks L-3 to Build Poseidon’s Electro-Optical Sensor Systems

    L-3 Communications has been selected to provide digital electro-optical sensor and infrared systems for the U.S. Navy’s maritime patrol planes, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes L-3 will also repair services and technical assistance for the military branch as part of the installation of its MX-20HD EO/IR system on board the Boeing-built P-8A […] More

  • Northrop to Integrate Software Fixes into US Air Force Global Hawk - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Integrate Software Fixes into US Air Force Global Hawk

    Northrop Grumman has received a $16,232,399 contract modification to perform software repairs on the U.S. Air Force’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Work includes development and integration of software patches and maintenance of graphical user interface into the aircraft’s ground station, the Defense Department said Friday. Northrop will carry out the work in San Diego through Dec. 30, 2016. More

  • General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments

    General Atomics is modifying its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft system to meet NATO regulations as the company aims to fly the drone in European airspace by 2019, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes that the company is adding new features to drive fuel economy and comply with air worthiness requirements in the NATO Standardization Agreement 4671 and […] More

  • Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has conducted a limited user test of its Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radio during the U.S. Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 15.3 operation at Fort Bliss in Texas. The company said Thursday it sought to validate the video, voice and data sharing capability of MNVR among soldiers across company, battalion and brigade levels and verify network routing configurations in […] More

  • Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE's Aerostat Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE’s Aerostat Upgrade Contract

    BAE Systems has selected Drone Aviation Corp. to provide parts and services for the upgrade of two Winch Aerostat Small Platform systems of the U.S. Army‘s Space and Missile Defense Command Battle Lab. DAC said Wednesday it will also work with L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 Communication Systems-West to integrate the new WASP electro-optical and infrared imaging tactical surveillance system and […] More

  • Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets

    Northrop Grumman has won contracts worth $74 million to upgrade the targeting pods onboard the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft of the Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard. The company said Monday the upgrade work intends to equip the F-16 jets with the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening G4 targeting and surveillance system’s digital video processing functions to […] More

  • O3b Networks Demos Satellite-Based Broadband Service Aboard US Navy’s USS Fort Worth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    O3b Networks Demos Satellite-Based Broadband Service Aboard US Navy’s USS Fort Worth

    O3b Networks in conjunction with lead integrator Oceus Networks and partner TrustComm, Inc. has demonstrated its satellite constellation for broadband connectivity during the Trident Warrior exercises of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet. The company said Monday, upon installing O3b tracking antennas that receive signals from its medium Earth-orbit satellites, the USS Fort Worth achieved approximately 600 Megabits per second […] More

  • Northrop Demos Open Mission Systems on NASA Global Hawk - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Open Mission Systems on NASA Global Hawk

    Northrop Grumman has concluded the flight test for its new open mission systems architecture onboard a NASA Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. The flight was intended to demonstrate the architecture’s ability to transmit a payload command and receive subsystem status response over a Ku SATCOM communications link between the Global Hawk and an operations center, Northrop said […] More

  • AllSource-BAE Team to Offer Analyst Network, Geospatial SaaS Platforms; Stephen Wood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AllSource-BAE Team to Offer Analyst Network, Geospatial SaaS Platforms; Stephen Wood Comments

    AllSource Analysis and BAE Systems have formed an alliance in an effort to provide imagery analysis platforms and business intelligence content for commercial and government enterprises. AllSource’s network of military and intelligence professionals will work to deliver imagery-based geospatial and intelligence content to customers through the use of BAE’s cloud-based Software as a Service tools, AllSource said Thursday. […] More

  • Rob Weiss: Lockheed, Raytheon, Bombardier Team to Chase Air Force JSTARS Recap Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Weiss: Lockheed, Raytheon, Bombardier Team to Chase Air Force JSTARS Recap Program

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Raytheon and Bombardier to develop a version of the latter company’s Global business jet in pursuit of the U.S. Air Force‘s JSTARS Recapitalization program U.S. Air Force. Rob Weiss, executive vice president and general manager at Lockheed’s Skunk Works business, said Tuesday the companies will seek to combine their experience and technologies for their version […] More