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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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.
Northrop Grumman is scheduled to deliver five unmanned ground surveillance aircraft to NATO’s Sigonella air base in Sicily, Italy by the end of this year, Defense News reported Monday. Program officials told Defense News that 30 NATO personnel are now on the air base in preparation for a performance assessment of five Northrop-built Global Hawk […] More
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system will kick off its initial operation after the program received a go signal. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for aviation, said the first Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron has been confirmed for deployment with the RQ-21A system, the Navy […] More
Honeywell’s aerospace business has obtained approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for its JetWave hardware for use onboard Boeing 757 aircraft. JetWave is a wireless system that works to allow aircraft to establish Internet connectivity with Inmarsat’s Global Xpress broadband satellite network through GX Aviation service, Honeywell said Thursday. Jack Jacobs, vice president of safety […] More
DRS Technologies has unveiled a 10-pound digital tuner that works to detect weak high-frequency radio signals. The Harrier Multichannel Wideband High-Frequency Digital Tuner is designed to capture signals of interest through its 28 digital down converters distributed across its four wideband channels, DRS said Wednesday. The DRS-built tuner has a dynamic range of up to 120 […] More
Raytheon has built an unmanned air system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an effort to help agency and company researchers study hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA and Raytheon launched an upgraded version of the company’s Coyote UAS from a P-3 Orion aircraft over Avon Park, Florida, during a recent calibration flight test, the […] More
CACI International has received a potential three-year, $25 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide development and lifecycle support services for the service branch’s command and control training simulation suite. The contract covers support for the Air Space and Cyberspace Constructive Environment – Information Operations Suite of the service branch’s Cyber Command […] More
BlackBerry has received a $20 million order to deliver a communications platform for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ notification and personnel accountability systems in an effort to help protect employees and contractors during crises. The company’s AtHoc networked crisis communication system will work to centralize response activities and provide real-time status of all users to VA […] More
Telephonics has been awarded a $13.5 million contract to provide mobile surveillance vehicles for Customs and Border Protection agents on the U.S and Mexican border. The Mobile Surveillance Capability vehicles work to detect, track and identify targets as part of the CBP agents’ intelligence gathering operations, Telephonics said Tuesday. “Monitoring and protecting the U.S. border is […] More
The North American subsidiary of Serco Group will continue to help the U.S. Navy test and install command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems under a three-year contract extension from the branch’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Serco Inc. said Thursday it has installed C4ISR systems on surface vessels, submarines and shore terminals worldwide for the military branch under […] More
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems segment, has said the company has concluded a thermal vacuum test on the first satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III program, Space News reported Wednesday. Mike Gruss writes Ambrose made the announcement through a post on his Twitter account. Lockheed is contracted to develop eight GPS III satellites […] More
General Dynamics‘ manpack radio has connected government users to Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellites during a demonstration conducted by the U.S. Army. The two-channel AN/PRC-155 MUOS-Manpack radio runs the soldier radio waveform and the single-channel ground and airborne radio system waveform with the MUOS waveform, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “These radios connect the […] More
PAR Technology‘s Rome Research Corp. subsidiary has received a five-year, $3 million contract from Delta Solutions & Strategies to help operate and maintain telecommunications systems at a Dixon, California-based naval radio transmitter facility. The naval radio transmitter serves as the U.S. Navy’s high frequency global communication systems transmitter facility for the West Coast, PAR said […] More
