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  • Report: Navy to Launch UCLASS Contract Competition After DoD's Aircraft Portfolio Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy to Launch UCLASS Contract Competition After DoD’s Aircraft Portfolio Review

    The U.S. Navy cannot issue a formal solicitation for the Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike System contract until the Defense Department has completed its review of military aircraft portfolio, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Rear Adm. Mike Manazir, director of air warfare at the Navy, said the military service finalized UCLASS development requirements […] More

  • Lockheed Commences Environmental Tests on GOES-R Weather Satellite; Tim Gasparrini Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Commences Environmental Tests on GOES-R Weather Satellite; Tim Gasparrini Comments

    Lockheed Martin has begun the environmental testing phase for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series following completion of assembly work on the spacecraft. The environmental testing aims to assess the capability of GOES-R to withstand launch and extreme environmental conditions in space, the company said Wednesday. Lockheed said it will […] More

  • Lockheed Hands Navy 3rd MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands Navy 3rd MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    Lockheed Martin has turned over a third Mobile User Objective System satellite to the U.S. Navy after the company completed on-orbit testing on the spacecraft. MUOS-3 is part of a network of satellites and relay ground stations designed to provide secure mobile communications to military users, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “This latest satellite will expand the MUOS network’s coverage […] More

  • Northrop Concludes Navy CANES Limited Deployment; Sam Abbate Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Concludes Navy CANES Limited Deployment; Sam Abbate Comments

    Northrop Grumman has concluded the development and limited distribution of consolidated shipboard legacy network programs across the fleet of the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system is designed to streamline logistics and modernize command, control, communications, computers and intelligence programs of submarines, aircraft carriers and other ship classes. “We […] More

  • Scott Smith: Iridium Completes NEXT Satellite Payload Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Smith: Iridium Completes NEXT Satellite Payload Integration

    Iridium Communications has completed the integration of communication and surveillance payloads with the Iridium NEXT satellite. The company said Monday it will send the satellite with the integrated Aireon-hosted tracking payload for aircraft surveillance to Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France for final qualification testing. The integrated module is part of the 66 low-Earth orbit satellites that will […] More

  • France Takes in 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone; Frank Pace Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France Takes in 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone; Frank Pace Comments

    France’s military has received a third unmanned Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper from General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as targeting missions. The company said Friday this latest delivery is the third for the French air force and will join the two remotely piloted aircraft currently in service. Frank Pace, president of aircraft […] More

  • Army Kicks Off Flight Test of Northrop C2 Missile Defense System; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Kicks Off Flight Test of Northrop C2 Missile Defense System; Dan Verwiel Comments

    The U.S. Army has conducted an initial flight test of a Northrop Grumman-built integrated air and missile defense battle command system designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles. The IBCS has mission control software that aims to help engagement center operators intercept missile threats, the company said Thursday. Dan Verwiel, vice president and general manager of […] More

  • Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis will move forward to final production of its Advanced Meteorological Imager after the system completed a design review conducted by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The company said Wednesday the now-finished review moves the program closer to the planned 2018 launch of AMI onboard the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A satellite. Eric Webster, environmental intelligence vice president and director at Exelis, said the imager works to build knowledge of weather and […] More

  • Air Force to Integrate New EA Weapon with Lockheed Standoff Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Integrate New EA Weapon with Lockheed Standoff Missile

    The U.S. Air Force wants a Lockheed Martin-built missile system to host a new microwave weapon technology designed to disrupt adversaries’ computer and electronic systems, Flightglobal reported May 14. James Drew writes Maj. Gen. Thomas Masiello, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, said the lab will miniaturize the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-Saab JV Sees Market Opportunity for 3-D Model of Earth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-Saab JV Sees Market Opportunity for 3-D Model of Earth

    The new joint venture between DigitalGlobe and Saab seeks to accelerate the companies’ existing work toward delivering a 3-D model of Earth using their combined technologies and partner on distribution efforts, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that the Vricon joint venture will integrate 3-D computer processing and satellite imaging technologies in efforts to meet the needs of […] More

  • General Dynamics Updates Mission Computer Software in US Navy Harrier Aircraft; Carlo Zaffanella Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Updates Mission Computer Software in US Navy Harrier Aircraft; Carlo Zaffanella Comments

    General Dynamics Mission Systems has completed the third software update to mission computers in AV-8B Harrier II ground-attack aircraft for the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. The software upgrade is based on the Future Airborne Capability Environment Technical Standard, which aims to improve software interoperability and portability and lessen lifecycle costs across the Pentagon’s aviation platforms, General Dynamics […] More

  • Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Continues Work on Satellite Imaging Amid Growing Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Continues Work on Satellite Imaging Amid Growing Market

    DigitalGlobe CEO Jeffrey Tarr told potential investors at a recent event that the company continues to eye a competitive edge in the growing satellite imaging market, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Peter de Selding writes that Tarr highlighted the demand for high-resolution imagery and geolocation capability as well as DigitalGlobe’s potential partnership with other imaging providers. Tarr also […] More