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  • Digital Reasoning Offers eComms Monitoring Product for Financial Institutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Digital Reasoning Offers eComms Monitoring Product for Financial Institutions

    Digital Reasoning has unveiled machine learning technology that seeks to help financial services institutions monitor employee communications for potential insider threats. The company said Friday Synthesys 3.10 works to provide insights on behavioral risks through human language data analysis and cognitive computing to detect indicators of employee misconduct such as market manipulation or collusive trading. “Electronic communication is the leading indicator […] More

  • BAE Systems to Supply Aircraft Interrogators to US Navy, Japan for $8M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems to Supply Aircraft Interrogators to US Navy, Japan for $8M

    BAE Systems‘ electronic systems business will provide 22 “identification friend or foe” interrogators to the U.S. Navy under an $8.5 million contract modification, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes that the company will supply its AN/UPX-41(C) digital interrogators to help surface ships and ground installations distinguish between friendly and enemy aircraft. The Navy will use 14 […] More

  • Raytheon Picks SES to Host FAA Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks SES to Host FAA Payload

    SES Government Solutions will host a Federal Aviation Administration payload on the company’s satellite under a 14-year contract with Raytheon. SES will construct the wide area augmentation systems payload, launch the SES-15 satellite and operate the spacecraft for 11 years in orbit, SES said Wednesday. The SES-15 satellite is scheduled for launch in 2017. The […] More

  • Navy Puts BAE-Made Coyote UAVs Through 'Swarm' Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Puts BAE-Made Coyote UAVs Through ‘Swarm’ Test

    The U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research has demonstrated a platform that works to launch multiple unmanned aerial vehicles on a swarm-based mission to deter adversaries. ONR said Tuesday the military branch tested the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology with BAE Systems-built Coyote drones during a recent demonstration. The service also used the LOCUST system in […] More

  • General Dynamics Picks DRS Surveillance Tech for Canada's Armored Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Picks DRS Surveillance Tech for Canada’s Armored Vehicles

    General Dynamics‘ Canadian land systems business has awarded DRS Technologies an eight-year, $100 million contract to produce surveillance radars for installation on Canada’s light armored vehicles. DRS will build long-range, mast mounted surveillance systems and operator control stations under the Canadian army’s Light Armored Vehicle–Reconnaissance Surveillance System development initiative, DRS said Tuesday. The company partnered […] More

  • Navy Set to Deploy Raytheon's AIM-120D Missile System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Set to Deploy Raytheon’s AIM-120D Missile System

    The U.S. Navy has declared initial operating capability for a Raytheon-built medium range air-to-air missile system after the military service completed flight testing of the technology. Raytheon said Thursday the Navy tested the AMRAAM AIM-120D missile on F/A-18 fighters and is scheduled to deploy the system later this year. According to the company, the U.S. […] More

  • Solar Probe Plus Completes CDR, Reaches ‘Build’ Status; Andy Driesman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Solar Probe Plus Completes CDR, Reaches ‘Build’ Status; Andy Driesman Comments

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received the go-ahead to start building NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft following a critical design review of its full mission plan by an independent agency panel. The plan includes how the SPP team will perform construction and testing of the spacecraft tasked to study the outer atmosphere […] More

  • TechNavio: Security Threats to Drive Surveillance, Security Equipment Market Growth Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio: Security Threats to Drive Surveillance, Security Equipment Market Growth Through 2019

    A new TechNavio report forecasts that the global market for surveillance and security equipment will grow in revenue through 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 13.58 percent. The market research firm said Wednesday the forecast is based on sales of electronic article surveillance systems, electronic access control systems, perimeter intrusion prevention systems and surveillance systems. These systems and […] More

  • DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with seven companies to build tools for distributing air warfare functions across multiple unmanned and manned platforms. DARPA said Monday it aims to blend new and existing airborne sensors, weapons, navigation, electronic warfare, positioning, navigation, communication and battle management architectures through the agency’s System of Systems Integration Technology […] More

  • Iridium's Matt Desch: Communications Satellite Requires High Startup Costs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium’s Matt Desch: Communications Satellite Requires High Startup Costs

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has shared his thoughts on emerging satellite broadband ventures in an interview with Via Satellite magazine. Mark Holmes writes Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, told the publication he believes the plans of SpaceX and OneWeb to build their own satellite Internet networks somewhat reflect Iridium’s approach […] More

  • Raytheon to Upgrade NASA, NOAA Environmental Satellite; Mark Sargent Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Upgrade NASA, NOAA Environmental Satellite; Mark Sargent Comments

    Raytheon has relocated its environmental satellite ground sustainment team to Maryland as part of a move to upgrade the existing satellite system of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The team that maintains the NASA/NOAA joint polar satellite system common ground system moved from Aurora, Colorado, to Riverdale near NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Suitland […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Sensor Tech for Unmanned Surface Vessels; Scott Littlefield Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Sensor Tech for Unmanned Surface Vessels; Scott Littlefield Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking information on nonradar technology that would help new unmanned surface vessels under the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program identify objects in its vicinity. DARPA said Thursday the request for information focuses on delivering the capability to track and classify those objects and direct autonomous behavior based on the International […] More