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  • Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System

    The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and XTAR have demonstrated a high-throughput intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service on a C-130 hatch with the use of the former company’s AIRLINK X-1 antenna. AIRLINK X-1 was certified to access XTAR satellites after a terminal sent 4.5 megabits per second of data through the XTAR-LANT satellite during the demonstration that occurred […] More

  • Air Force Eyes 2021 Launch for Follow-On Space Surveillance Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Eyes 2021 Launch for Follow-On Space Surveillance Mission

    The U.S. Air Force plans to launch a space surveillance mission in 2021 to monitor the geosynchronous orbital belt that houses the service branch’s satellites, Space News reported Monday. Mike Gruss writes Congress appropriated $27 million for space situational awareness systems related activities such as the Space Based Space Surveillance to be launched in 2021. AnnMarie Annicelli, an Air Force […] More

  • ViaSat to Develop In-Flight Broadband, Comms Services for Air Force One; Ken Peterman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat to Develop In-Flight Broadband, Comms Services for Air Force One; Ken Peterman Comments

    ViaSat will develop global in-flight broadband and communications services for Air Force One and other aircraft for U.S. government senior officials under a $73.2 million contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded in June. Work under the contract will support the VC-25s, C-17s, C-32s, C-37s, C-40s and special air mission aircraft through ViaSat’s in-flight […] More

  • Amazon, UK Govt Partner to Explore Drone-Backed Package Deliveries; Paul Misener Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon, UK Govt Partner to Explore Drone-Backed Package Deliveries; Paul Misener Comments

    Amazon has partnered with the U.K. government to study the potential use of small unmanned aerial systems in package deliveries across the country with permission from a British Civil Aviation Authority-backed cross-government team. The shipping giant aims to explore beyond line of sight operations in rural and suburban areas, assess sensor performance to help drones detect obstacles […] More

  • DARPA Taps Raytheon to Build Interoperable Network Tools for UAVs, Manned Aircraft; Jason Redi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Raytheon to Build Interoperable Network Tools for UAVs, Manned Aircraft; Jason Redi Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a Raytheon subsidiary two contracts worth $9 million combined to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne communication networks used by manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. DARPA awarded the contracts to Raytheon BBN Technologies under the agency’s Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program, Raytheon said Monday. The DyNAMO […] More

  • Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems

    L-3 Communications has received a nine-year $160 million, subcontract from Bollinger Shipyards to provide an integrated C4ISR system for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters. L-3 said Monday it will provide initial design updates to the FRC ships such as antenna arrangement and analysis, exterior communications and other situation awareness platforms. The company will also deliver, […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Air Force Sustain GPS Control Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Air Force Sustain GPS Control Segment

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $8.6 million contract modification to provide sustainment support services for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System control segment. The GPS control segment includes the master control station, alternate control station, six monitor stations, four ground antennas, consolidated test environment and telecommunications simulator test station, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • CopaSAT to Provide US Agency End-to-End Communications Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CopaSAT to Provide US Agency End-to-End Communications Services

    CopaSAT has received a multiyear, $3.5 million contract to supply and manage Ku-band man-portable terminals for an unnamed U.S. government agency. The company said Wednesday the Ku-band man-portable terminals will work to provide the agency end-to-end communications for its global operations. CopaSAT will deliver managed services under the contract through June 2021. Scott Bohnsack, CopaSAT vice president for business development, said […] More

  • Northrop Taps Cobham to Develop Motion Control Tech for Joint Polar Satellite Microwave Sounder - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps Cobham to Develop Motion Control Tech for Joint Polar Satellite Microwave Sounder

    Northrop Grumman has awarded Cobham an $8 million contract to build a motion control technology for use in two microwave instruments Northrop is developing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System  program. Cobham said Thursday it will develop the motion controller system at its Hauppauge, New York-based facility for integration with the Advanced Technology Microwave […] More

  • Space Systems Loral to Build Robotic Arm for DARPA Satellite Servicing Program; Al Tadros Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral to Build Robotic Arm for DARPA Satellite Servicing Program; Al Tadros Comments

    Space Systems Loral has been awarded a $20.7 million contract to build a robotic arm for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s servicing program for geosynchronous satellites. The company said Thursday it will design two robotic arm systems to capture and dock with satellites and carry multiple tools to carry out requirements of the Robotic Servicing […] More

  • Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country

    Elbit Systems has received multiple contracts worth approximately $30 million combined from a European country to deliver thermal-imaging observation systems over a one-year period. The company said Wednesday it will provide Long View CR, LOROSS and XACT observation systems to support all of the customers’s army command levels. LVCR is a long-range observation system for dismounted soldiers with day and night target acquisition functions, […] More