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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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.
The U.S. Navy has a awarded an $18.5M contract to General Dynamics‘ missions systems business for research, development and sustainment support on various control systems. The company will perform these services to support the fire control sub-system for U.S. ballistic missile submarines, the U.K.’s FCS and the weapon control system for U.S. cruise missile submarines, […] More
Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has completed an interim board meeting with the Federal Aviation Administration as part of efforts to obtain type certification for the ScanEagle3 unmanned aerial system. Insitu said Tuesday multiple FAA teams visited the UAS maker’s Bingen, Wash., headquarters and examined its “detect-and-avoid” capability plan, model-based engineering process and safety management system. Agency personnel witnessed launch-to-capture […] More
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company plans to launch on Dec. 30 the final batch of Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket, Teslarati reported Thursday. Desch said in a tweet the Iridium-8 mission will take off aboard Falcon 9’s previously-flown booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. He noted the B1049.2 booster would skip a return-to-launch […] More
The U.S. Army plans to come up with an interconnected platform designed to collect and transmit intelligence data to warfighters as they navigate the battlefield through the Distributed Common Ground System-Army program, Defense One reported Thursday. Raytheon has demonstrated its proposed offering, FoXTEN, for the DCGS-A competition. “We’ve been maturing the look and feel, the […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said government and military leaders should leverage commercial satellite communications platforms to support critical missions through the satcom-as-a-service business model. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a MilsatMagazine piece that the business model is designed for global mobility and to deliver “end-to-end, communication infrastructure from resilient satellite […] More
Naval Air Systems Command looks to hold a full and open competition for a new contract vehicle that will cover research, development, test, evaluation and deployment of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting platforms. NAVAIR said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it expects to publish a formal request for proposals by Nov. 1. The command would […] More
Jerry Parker, senior vice president of C4ISR and electronic warfare at CACI International, has said the company wants to produce an open architecture system to help the government and industry create multiple platforms that could recognize radio frequency signals, C4ISRNET reported Monday. Parker made the statement as the U.S. Army seeks new software-based technologies designed […] More
A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has signed a licensing agreement to provide communication waveforms for integration into tactical radio systems Harris will produce for the U.S. Air Force. Kratos RT Logic will equip handheld video data link radios with bandwidth and standard common data links, vortex native waveform, tactical data link and 466-extended range for ground troops to […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, told the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in a video interview posted Friday how the company supports government operations through its satellite communications platforms. She said satellites placed approximately 35K kilometers above the equator and ground stations that back those spacecraft work to provide users […] More
CACI International has offered its Tactical Radio Frequency Exploitation Vehicle to help the U.S. Army test a new platform designed to consolidate signals intelligence and electronic warfare functions, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. Jerry Parker, senior vice president of C4ISR and EW at CACI, said at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting that the company […] More
The U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Test Squadron at Eglin AF Base will test and evaluate a radar installation Lockheed Martin has built to help the military service track objects currently in orbit, NWF Daily News reported Sunday. Lockheed developed the Space Fence on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under a $914M contract awarded in […] More
Northrop Grumman is looking at other possible applications of an avionics system used on the U.S. Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter, Rotary & Wing International reported Tuesday. The company designed its Integrated Avionics Suite with an open architecture intended to support future system adjustments without having to involve the original equipment manufacturer. Robert Fleming, vice president of […] More
