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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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  • DARPA, Lockheed Demo Cognitive Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Lockheed Demo Cognitive Electronic Warfare System

    Lockheed Martin and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have collaborated to demonstrate a cognitive electronic warfare system that is designed to detect, characterize and counter wireless communication threats. Lockheed said Monday that Raytheon‘s Silencer EW technology hosted machine-learning software for the Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare system onboard a modified Piper Navajo aircraft during a series of flight tests. The Lockheed-Raytheon team flew the aircraft to […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Transitions WorldView-1 Imagery Satellite to Afternoon Orbit; Tim Hascall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Transitions WorldView-1 Imagery Satellite to Afternoon Orbit; Tim Hascall Comments

    DigitalGlobe has completed the shift of its WorldView-1 imagery satellite to an afternoon orbit from morning in an effort to help customers view changes that take place on Earth in a given day. WorldView-1 concluded its 18-month-long transition and will begin to pass above the planet in the afternoon to capture locations across different time zones, […] More

  • Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS

    Northrop Grumman has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center and Air Combat Command to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payload adapter for the Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The parties built the IPA technology under a cooperative research-and-development agreement as part of efforts to link existing and future data-gathering sensors with the RQ-4 drone’s airframe system, the […] More

  • Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems

    Mercury Systems has received a $2.8 million follow-on order from a defense contractor to produce digital processing subsystems for an unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the subsystems in the company’s fiscal 2017 third quarter, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. Didier Thibaud, an executive vice president […] More

  • Dan Allen: Serco to Update Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar Tech at U.S. Air Base in Greenland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Allen: Serco to Update Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar Tech at U.S. Air Base in Greenland

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $38 million contract to modernize the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse protection of Ballistic Missile Early Warnings Systems at Thule Air Base in Greenland. Serco Inc. will apply a design-build-install-test approach to update the radar system’s HEMP protection for the U.S. Air Force Space Command, the company said Friday. Dan Allen, Serco  Inc. chairman and CEO, said the contract supports the […] More

  • DARPA Solicits Research Proposals for Space Command & Control Software Testbed Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Solicits Research Proposals for Space Command & Control Software Testbed Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for the Software Testbed part of the Hallmark program that seeks to develop new technology platforms for U.S. space command and control. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement published Friday on FedBizOpps the Hallmark-ST effort aims to design, build and maintain an enterprise software […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for 'Over-the-Horizon' Radar Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for ‘Over-the-Horizon’ Radar Devt

    Australia’s defense science and technology organization has partnered with Lockheed Martin to develop radar technology for detecting and tracking small, fast-moving targets at a very long range, Defense News reported Friday. Nigel Pittaway writes the Australian DST Group and Lockheed completed the first phase of validation work on ‘over-the-horizon’ radar technology as part of Project Coorong. The report said Lockheed invested in […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense Chooses Telephonics for JLTV Intercommunications Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense Chooses Telephonics for JLTV Intercommunications Systems

    Griffon subsidiary Telephonics has received a subcontract from Oshkosh‘s defense segment to provide the NetCom vehicle intercommunications systems for the future U.S. Army and Marine Corps Humvee replacement Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. Telephonics said Tuesday NetCom works to provide crew intercommunications and radio management systems for up to 20 users. NetCom also features noise cancellation technology to optimize audio intelligibility and protect […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Bittium to Demo Radio, IP Network Platforms at Eurosatory Exhibition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Bittium to Demo Radio, IP Network Platforms at Eurosatory Exhibition

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica and Bittium will showcase their military radio platforms at the five-day Eurosatory Defense and Security International Exhibition that kicked off Monday in Paris. Leonardo-Finmeccanica said Monday it will demonstrate how its Swave software-defined tactical radio and Bittium’s Tactical Wireless IP Network system could establish a network through a common high data rate waveform. The European HDRWF […] More

  • Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    A GPS navigation payload Raytheon built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System was launched aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. Raytheon said Wednesday the WAAS GEO 5 payload is designed to support air navigation of commercial airline and general aviation pilots over a 12-year period. “Extremely accurate navigation technologies make this system a critical resource to […] More

  • BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $3.9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop a custom variant of its maritime defense system to support ONR’s Combined Electro-optic/infrared Surveillance and Response System program. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide a variant of its Lock-on Naval Electro-optic/infrared Sensor […] More

  • Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders. Denmark ordered nine Seahawks under an FMS deal with the […] More