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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  • Raytheon BBN Designs Situational Awareness Interface for DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN Designs Situational Awareness Interface for DARPA’s Ground X-Vehicle Tech Program

    A Raytheon subsidiary has begun development work on a three-dimensional interface designed to help military personnel gain situational awareness while they are inside a  windowless armored ground vehicle. Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing the “human-machine” interface as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies initiative, the company said Monday. The platform will employ lidar data and high-definition videos to generate […] More

  • Coast Guard Taps CopaSAT for Managed Satcom Services to Icebreaker Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Taps CopaSAT for Managed Satcom Services to Icebreaker Ships

    The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded CopaSAT a potential five-year contract to provide managed satellite communications services to two of the service branch’s Antarctica-based icebreaker ships. CopaSAT started to provide satcom services to the military branch’s Healy and Polar Star icebreakers on Oct. 1 under the contract, the company said Tuesday. “We are excited to provide the […] More

  • Boeing Chosen to Find F-15 Sensor Tech Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Chosen to Find F-15 Sensor Tech Provider

    Boeing will work to identify a vendor that can supply 132 infrared search-and-track sensors in support of a $198 million program to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s F-15C/D twin-engined fighter, Flight Global reported Monday. Stephen Trimble writes the Air Force has also tasked Boeing to find a provider of sensors for active duty squadrons, Air National Guard and test […] More

  • Army Taps DRS for Ground Vehicle Infrared Sensor Devt Contract; Shawn Black Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps DRS for Ground Vehicle Infrared Sensor Devt Contract; Shawn Black Comments

    DRS Technologies has received a potential $41.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop an infrared sensor for a system mounted on ground combat vehicles. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, DRS will integrate a two-color IR sensor with the Third-Generation Forward Looking Infrared Dewar Cooler Bench platform designed to help mounted troops identity and engage enemy targets, the […] More

  • Raytheon, Logos Form Multi-Intell Sensor Tech Partnership; Fred Darlington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Logos Form Multi-Intell Sensor Tech Partnership; Fred Darlington Comments

    Raytheon has agreed to integrate its Multi-Spectral Targeting System with Logos Technologies‘ wide-area motion imagery technology to produce a new sensor system intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The integrated sensor offering will work to help military ISR operators gather multi-sensor data to detect, recognize and identify targets in near-real time, Raytheon said Wednesday. The technology will be designed to support WAMI, multispectral full-motion video, hyperspectral imaging, […] More

  • Harris Receives Initial Army Networking Vehicular Radio Order; Brendan O'Connell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Receives Initial Army Networking Vehicular Radio Order; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris has received an initial $10 million order from the U.S. Army to manufacture mid-tier networking vehicular radio systems following a Milestone C decision from the Defense Department. The company will produce Falcon III AN/VRC-118 MNVRs for Army warfighters to share, voice, data and video as well as operate as a node in a mobile network to transmit information from one […] More

  • DRS Lands $65M Army Production Order for Night-Vision Goggles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Lands $65M Army Production Order for Night-Vision Goggles

    DRS Technologies has secured a potential $65 million task order to manufacture and supply night-vision goggle systems to the U.S. Army. The service branch awarded the initial production order under a potential $367 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that DRS received in September 2015 in support of the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III and Family of Weapon Sights – […] More

  • Patriot Group International Subcontracts Tempus for Northcom Aerial ISR Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Group International Subcontracts Tempus for Northcom Aerial ISR Support

    Patriot Group International has awarded Tempus Applied Solutions a $24.4 million subcontract to provide aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for U.S. Northern Command. Tempus said Wednesday the airborne ISR services will aid a counter narcotics and global threats contract that PGI secured in September. Tempus will install aerial surveillance hardware and software into a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to conduct more than 1,500 flight […] More

  • NovAtel's GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NovAtel’s GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network

    NovAtel has received an order from the U.S. Naval Observatory for its anti-jamming antenna system in efforts to address the core controlled reception pattern antenna requirements of the Defense Department‘s main global enterprise network. The company said Monday its GPS Anti-Jam Technology will serve to support the DoD Information Network, which facilitates voice, data, video and bandwidth services. “GAJT has now been shipped and is […] More

  • Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments

    Northrop Grumman has shipped an initial batch of Common Infrared Countermeasure missile defense systems to the U.S. Army as part of an engineering and manufacturing development contract awarded in August 2015. The Army received the CIRCMs after the company completed software qualification tests to evaluate the system’s performance and compliance with program requirements, Northrop said Tuesday. CIRCM is designed to help protect rotary […] More

  • L-3 Releases Electro-Optical IR Imaging Tech for Small Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Releases Electro-Optical IR Imaging Tech for Small Aircraft

    L-3 Communications has introduced an electro-optical/infrared airborne imaging system designed to integrate with small tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, light manned ISR aircraft and tactical aerostats. The MX-8 system works to process images in real time and simultaneously support up to four sensors, the company said Monday. L-3’s WESCAM division developed the airborne imaging technology. The 15-pound system has a clearance level of […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Extend FAA Air Traffic Control Comms Services; Yun Chong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Extend FAA Air Traffic Control Comms Services; Yun Chong Comments

    Rockwell Collins has received a contract extension to continue the company’s air traffic control communications services for the Federal Aviation Administration. Rockwell Collins will provide position reports, aircraft requests and ATC clearances to FAA on aircraft operating within the U.S. oceanic airspace under the Aeronautical Mobile Communications Service deal, the company said Monday. Yun Chong, vice president of commercial […] More