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  • Orion Labs-Made Voice Comms App Gets FirstNet Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orion Labs-Made Voice Comms App Gets FirstNet Certification

    Orion Labs‘ mobile voice communication platform has been certified under the First Responder Network Authority and is now featured under the FirstNet App Catalog. The company said Wednesday its Orion Push to Talk iOS 5.2.8 app is geared to simplify communications between public safety agents across organizations. The app is now authorized for use with […] More

  • Harris Launches Small Comms Satellite for Defense, Commercial Clients; Bill Gattle Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Launches Small Comms Satellite for Defense, Commercial Clients; Bill Gattle Quoted

    Harris has launched its first small satellite through a medium-lift launch vehicle developed by the India’s space research organization. The Harris Satellite is built to operate in low Earth orbit and seeks to address military and commercial communications requirements, the company said Thursday. The 6U cubesat uses a mission architecture designed for post-launch reconfiguration. Bill Gattle, president […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Tools, Methods to Accelerate Data, SIGINT Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Tools, Methods to Accelerate Data, SIGINT Processing

    The U.S. Air Force aims to acquire new technologies or methods for real-time processing of data and collection of cyber and signals intelligence communications. The service requires new processing techniques and tools that will support its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission to protect “blue” coalition forces, according to a broad agency announcement that FedBizOpps posted […] More

  • SRC to Provide Sustainment Support for Marine Corps Radars Under $93M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRC to Provide Sustainment Support for Marine Corps Radars Under $93M Contract

    SRC will sustain and upgrade AN/TPQ-49 radar systems under a potential five-year, $93M contract with U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers production of new AN/TPQ-49A radar systems, program management, live-fire testing, technical manual production, sustainment spares, field service representative support, equipment training and kit installation. AN/TPQ-49 is a counterfire radar platform that works to help warfighters […] More

  • AT&T’s Chris Smith: 5G Can Help Build Up Citizen Engagement, National Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: 5G Can Help Build Up Citizen Engagement, National Defense

    Chris Smith, vice president of shared services at AT&T’s global public sector and wholesale solutions business, has said 5G technology can support government agencies across five areas and one of those is the platform’s capability to build up citizen engagement. Smith wrote in a GCN piece published Monday that connectivity through 5G can help facilitate […] More

  • Army Certifies Viasat Airborne Modem for Wideband Global Satcom Network; Ken Peterman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Certifies Viasat Airborne Modem for Wideband Global Satcom Network; Ken Peterman Quoted

    Viasat has received Army Forces Strategic Command authorization to operate a dual-band internet modem on the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satellite Communications network. ARSTRAT certified the Mobile Broadband Router-4020 platform for military users to connect when they perform airborne missions, Viasat said Tuesday. Ken Peterman, president of Viasat’s government systems business, said that the modem’s architecture allows users […] More

  • Marines Seek Potential Drone Kinetic Defeat Tech Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marines Seek Potential Drone Kinetic Defeat Tech Sources

    The U.S. Marine Corps is seeking a drone kinetic defeat technology the service can integrate with a ground-based vehicle platform under the Future Weapons Systems Increment 1 Marine Air Defense Integrated System program. USMC said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it wants a drone system that could expand the Ground Based Air Defense community’s ability […] More

  • PAE ISR to Provide UAS Platform for DHS Border Security Test Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE ISR to Provide UAS Platform for DHS Border Security Test Program

    PAE ISR has been selected to provide an unmanned aircraft system for a Department of Homeland Security program that seeks to demonstrate UAS and sensor technology platforms. DHS plans to test the company-built Resolute Eagle vehicle through the Robotic Aircraft Sensor Program–Borders as part of efforts to inform the department’s science and technology directorate and homeland security enterprise […] More

  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed-AWS Partnership Aims to Make Satellite Data Access Less Costly - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed-AWS Partnership Aims to Make Satellite Data Access Less Costly

    Rick Ambrose, head of space business at Lockheed Martin, has said the company’s partnership with Amazon Web Services aims to make access to satellite-based data less expensive for firms and other stakeholders, the Washington Post reported Friday. “If you look at the challenges people have with putting up satellites, it’s very cost-prohibitive to put ground […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab Seeks Contractor for Distributive Sensing R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab Seeks Contractor for Distributive Sensing R&D Project

    The Air Force Research Laboratory seeks a contractor to support research and development of cyber and electronic warfare technologies for integration with assets for cyber-kinetic combat effects and multidomain operations. AFRL’s sensors directorate aims to understand sensing effects across air, space, cyber and ground domains as well as internet of things and distributed sensing to […] More

  • General Atomics' SkyGuardian Aircraft Secures FAA Special Airworthiness Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ SkyGuardian Aircraft Secures FAA Special Airworthiness Certification

    The Federal Aviation Administration has certified General Atomics to operate in national airspace a remotely piloted aircraft designed for civil flight use. The company said Thursday it obtained Special Airworthiness Certification in experimental category for a second MQ-9B SkyGuardian unit. David Alexander, president of aircraft systems at General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, said the permit allows the company to further develop the […] More

  • General Atomics' RPA Ground Control Station Completes Initial Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ RPA Ground Control Station Completes Initial Test

    General Atomics has tested a ground control station in conjunction with an MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft during a flight test that took place in Yuma, Ariz. The company said Wednesday its “certifiable” GCS houses flight, payload and weapons management systems for the SkyGuardian and uses a human machine interface designed to provide a single view of tactical mission scenarios. […] More