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  • FAA Buys Thales Navigation Aids for National Airspace System; Tony Lo Brutto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FAA Buys Thales Navigation Aids for National Airspace System; Tony Lo Brutto Comments

    The Federal Aviation Administration has purchased five Thales-built navigational aids for the U.S. National Airspace System under a five-year contract between the agency and company. “As the FAA transitions to NextGen, Thales will continue to help support and modernize the FAA’s inventory of navigational aids,” Tony Lo Brutto, vice president of Thales’ U.S. air traffic management unit, said Monday. The […] More

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  • Ball Aerospace's Joint Polar Satellite System Bus Goes Live; Cary Ludtke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace’s Joint Polar Satellite System Bus Goes Live; Cary Ludtke Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has started to power the Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft bus, kicking off a nine-month integration and testing phase as the company prepares to deliver the spacecraft to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the continuous power on-off cycle involves operating the satellite system with the electrical power and distribution and command and data handling subsystems. “Following […] More

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  • Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a nearly $9 million foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to help maintain South Korea’s reconnaissance aircraft system. Lockheed will sustain the Peace Krypton system’s spare and repair components, supply test tools for South Korea’s aircraft, fixed and mobile ground stations and upgrade system software, the company said […] More

  • Exelis Awarded $92M for Anti-Missile Electronic Jammer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Awarded $92M for Anti-Missile Electronic Jammer Systems

    The electronic systems unit of Exelis has been awarded a $91.7 million contract to deliver 42 electronic jammer systems to the U.S. Navy for protecting aircraft from radar-guided missiles, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. contracted Exelis to build the AN/ALQ-214(V)4 set for the F/A-18C/D and F/A-18E/F Hornet and Super Hornet combat […] More

  • Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Research Highlights Gov't Role in C4ISR Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Research Highlights Gov’t Role in C4ISR Design

    A study from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council recommends government and industry align their expectations in order to meet the requirements of defense acquisition programs. The Booz Allen-backed study polled 340 federal and defense leaders to assess their views on military procurement and potential reform in the process, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Eighty-five […] More

  • Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net's Reseller Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net’s Reseller Network

    NSSLGlobal a has agreed to work as value-added reseller of Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress satellite constellation for military and government customers in the European market, extending the companies’ existing GX VAR partnership for maritime services. Inmarsat said Tuesday it intends for NSSLGlobal to help address bandwidth, mobility, coverage and service availability needs for European government customers. “We are very pleased […] More

  • Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments

    Northrop Grumman has transported antennas for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellites to the Lockheed Martin team that is developing the spacecraft in Littleton, Colo. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business unit delivered 32 JIB antennas for GPS III satellite numbers three through six, Northrop said Wednesday. Dan Johansen, a program manager at Astro Aerospace, said the unit plans to […] More

  • Boeing, L-3 Wrap Up CF-188 Fighter Jet Modifications for Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, L-3 Wrap Up CF-188 Fighter Jet Modifications for Canada

    Boeing International has delivered the last of the 76 CF-188 fighter jets that the Canadian air force ordered through a contract awarded in March 2011.  The contract called for the modified CF-188 fighters to have an upgraded electronics warfare suite and modified air-to-air and ground-to-air threats protection equipment, the Canadian Air Force said March 4. L-3 Military […] More

  • Northrop Integrates Payload Antennas for Lockheed AEHF Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates Payload Antennas for Lockheed AEHF Satellite

    Northrop Grumman has started to integrate two downlink phased array antennas into the payload of a fourth advanced extremely high frequency military communications satellite being built by Lockheed Martin. The companies are working together to integrate the AEHF satellite payload under a hybrid integration framework, Northrop said Tuesday. Northrop designed the AEHF antennas to operate […] More

  • Peter Dingley: Inmarsat, Hughes to Create Comm Terminal for Police Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Dingley: Inmarsat, Hughes to Create Comm Terminal for Police Agencies

    Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems are partnering to design a communications terminal for police forces and other government departments to communicate discreetly. The companies will build the Low Profile BGAN terminal to function as a “rapid-to-deploy, lay-flat, coverable, covert” terminal for mounting on flat surfaces outdoors or burying under a layer of material, Inmarsat announced Tuesday. “A […] More

  • Harris CapRock Launches Satellite Tech for Offshore, Deepwater Communications; Tracey Haslam Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris CapRock Launches Satellite Tech for Offshore, Deepwater Communications; Tracey Haslam Comments

    Harris CapRock Communications launched a very small aperture terminal product that is built to adjust satellite bandwidths for offshore and deepwater communications at this week’s SATELLITE 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. The Harris subsidiary said Tuesday that the Pulse Advanced VSAT tool uses modem technology and Comtech EF Data‘s Vipersat Management System to reassign or extend satellite bandwidth in real time. […] More

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  • Ed Morche: Level 3's Network Incorporated in Northrop Air Force Training Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Morche: Level 3’s Network Incorporated in Northrop Air Force Training Tools

    Level 3 Communications has been awarded a subcontract to provide connectivity services for Northrop Grumman-built simulation and training systems used by the Air Force. The Air Force’s distributed mission operation network uses Northrop simulators that are designed for the branch to train pilots on aerial refueling and other complex flight maneuvers, Level 3 said Tuesday. Northrop […] More