C4ISR News

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.

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  • Lockheed, Raytheon-Thales JV Partner to Provide C2 Capability for NATO’s BMD System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Raytheon-Thales JV Partner to Provide C2 Capability for NATO’s BMD System

    Lockheed Martin and a Raytheon–Thales joint venture have teamed up to provide a command-and-control capability for NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Tuesday it will work with ThalesRaytheonSystems to build a low-risk C2 capability for NATO’s air BMD program designed to defend and protect European populations and territories from potential missile attacks. Rob Smith, […] More

  • Army to Adopt Raytheon-Built UAS Counter-Drone Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Adopt Raytheon-Built UAS Counter-Drone Missions

    The U.S. Army has chosen a Raytheon-made unmanned aircraft system and radar technology to help the service branch counter drone threats. Raytheon said Tuesday its Coyote UAS is designed to work with the company’s Ku-band radio frequency radar to detect and track adversarial unmanned aircraft. Coyote is a tube-launched vehicle that uses a seeker technology and a […] More

  • L3-Air Tractor Partnership Offers ISR Aircraft Compatibility With BAE Sensor Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3-Air Tractor Partnership Offers ISR Aircraft Compatibility With BAE Sensor Tech

    Air Tractor and L3 Technologies have updated a joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and light strike aircraft offering to support compatibility with a suite of BAE System-built sensors. The AT-802L Longsword platform can now accommodate BAE’s COBRA signals intelligence and electronic warfare sensor technologies on a wing station pod or in an inboard system, L3 said Monday. BAE designed COBRA […] More

  • Globecomm’s Dwight Hunsicker: Satellite Network Tech Could Help Meet Govt Connectivity Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm’s Dwight Hunsicker: Satellite Network Tech Could Help Meet Govt Connectivity Requirements

    Dwight Hunsicker, executive vice president and general manager of Globecomm’s government solutions business, has said the combination of satellite communications-on-the move and communications-on-the-move platforms could help meet the data and intelligence needs of deployed warfighters. Hunsicker wrote in an article for MilSatMagazine that satellite network technology platforms work to provide U.S. government clients with broadband connectivity […] More

  • L3 Wescam Reports $300M in ISR Sensor Tech Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Wescam Reports $300M in ISR Sensor Tech Orders

    L3 Technologies‘ Wescam business has booked more than $300 million in contracts during the first quarter of this year to supply domestic and international customers with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors. The company said Monday sensors within its MX product line are equipped with optical and processing technologies and designed to integrate with manned and unmanned aircraft platforms, land […] More

  • Northrop Awarded Supplemental Agreement for Marine Radar Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Awarded Supplemental Agreement for Marine Radar Engineering Support

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $35.8 million supplemental agreement to engineer software for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar systems with gallium nitride technology. The company will also help the service branch develop an engineering change proposal required to support the G/ATOR program, the Defense Department said Friday. G/ATOR is designed integrate with DoD’s command-and-control […] More

  • Northrop Delivers Avionics Software for Army UH-60V Black Hawk Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Delivers Avionics Software for Army UH-60V Black Hawk Test

    Northrop Grumman has developed avionics software for a modernized version of the U.S. Army‘s Black Hawk helicopter platform that will undergo limited user test. The company said Thursday it collaborates with the Army Prototype Integration Facility and Redstone Defense Systems to upgrade the service branch’s fleet of UH-60L helicopters through cockpit improvements as part of a contract awarded in 2014. […] More

  • Raytheon’s Todd Probert: Multidomain C2 Architecture Essential for Military Decision-Makers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Todd Probert: Multidomain C2 Architecture Essential for Military Decision-Makers

    Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, has said the U.S. military needs a multidomain command-and-control platform that could help them make decisions in the future battlespace. “Developing these tools requires investing in truly open architectures, analytics, [artificial intelligence] and human/machine teaming capabilities that can connect and […] More

  • General Atomics Flies SkyGuardian RPA on Maiden Trans-Atlantic Voyage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Flies SkyGuardian RPA on Maiden Trans-Atlantic Voyage

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business flew an MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft Tuesday from Grand Forks, N.D., to a U.K. air force station located in Gloucestershire, England. The company said Tuesday it used Inmarsat‘s SwiftBroadband L-band satellite communications system to manage the first trans-Atlantic flight of the medium-altitude, long-endurance RPA. SkyGuardian will be presented at the three-day Royal […] More

  • Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov't, Critical Infrastructure Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov’t, Critical Infrastructure Operations

    Peraton has launched efforts to add new points-of-presence across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific region and broaden its terrestrial core network in an effort to build up its global communications services. “Demand for high speed persistent communications has grown exponentially over the past few years, with today’s applications often requiring gigabit rather […] More

  • Northrop-Built Unmanned Helicopter Completes Initial Operational Test Aboard Navy LCS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Unmanned Helicopter Completes Initial Operational Test Aboard Navy LCS

    A U.S. Navy aviation unit has conducted an initial operational test and evaluation of an MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter produced by Northrop Grumman. Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 assessed Fire Scout’s intelligence gathering, target identification and surface warfare functions through simulated engagements onboard USS Coronado, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said Friday. The IOT&E activity took place June 28 off […] More

  • Marines Eye Contractor Support for C4 Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marines Eye Contractor Support for C4 Systems

    The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a request for information on technical support services necessary to integrate and test command, control, communications and computer systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the USMC is eyeing contractor personnel who can offer test and engineering support for C2 applications under the service branch’s Combat Operations Center and Networking-On-the-Move programs. Other services […] More