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  • Rockwell Collins Helps NASA Test UAS Traffic Mgmt Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Helps NASA Test UAS Traffic Mgmt Tech

    Rockwell Collins has provided systems and services to aid testing efforts under NASA‘s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management program. The company said Monday it served as a UAS service supplier to help the agency manage safety of a UAS operating beyond visual line of sight during flight tests. The two-week test series demonstrated the consecutive, repetitive use of […] More

  • Sagetech to Provide Transponder for NASA's UAS Safety Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sagetech to Provide Transponder for NASA’s UAS Safety Research Project

    NASA has selected Sagetech to provide a transponder technology in support of the agency’s initiative to explore detect-and-avoid methods to ensure safety of unmanned aircraft system operations in national airspace. Sagetech said Monday it will provide the company’s MXS transponder for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System Project of NASA with other government […] More

  • HII Installs Main Deck Forward Section on JFK Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Installs Main Deck Forward Section on JFK Aircraft Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has installed the forward section of the main deck on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the company is building for the U.S. Navy. HII said Monday its Newport News Shipbuilding division has completed approximately 75 percent of USS John F. Kennedy structures through a “modular” building process, wherein smaller sections of a ship are consolidated into […] More

  • Comms Tech Vet Chris McGugan Rejoins Avaya as Chief Technology Strategist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comms Tech Vet Chris McGugan Rejoins Avaya as Chief Technology Strategist

    Chris McGugan, a more than 25-year communications technology veteran, has returned to Avaya as chief technology strategist. Avaya said Monday McGugan will work to assess customer requirements, market trends and the potential of new and emerging digital platforms to create value for clients. He served as vice president of emerging products and technology at the communications technology provider from […] More

  • General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems

    A business unit of General Dynamics has secured a potential 10-year, $36.3 million contract to repair or replace mission systems installed on multiple U.S. Navy aircraft platforms. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also provide program support for Advanced Mission Computer systems onboard F/A-18 E/F, EA 18G and AV-8B, the Defense Department said Friday. The performance-based logistics contract […] More

  • Leonardo DRS to Produce Sensor Tech for BAE-Developed Aircraft Missile Warning System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS to Produce Sensor Tech for BAE-Developed Aircraft Missile Warning System

    Leonardo DRS has been selected to provide sensors for an aircraft missile warning system BAE Systems is developing for the U.S. Army under a $97.9 million contract awarded in December. BAE will build the 2-Color Advanced Warning System to increase threat detection and protection capacities of Army rotary-wing aircraft through the Limited Interim Missile Warning System Quick Reaction Capability program, Leonardo DRS said Friday. 2C-AWS is […] More

  • CAE Expands Defense & Security Business Footprint With New Australia Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Expands Defense & Security Business Footprint With New Australia Office

    CAE‘s defense and security unit has opened a new office in Canberra, Australia, and exhibited company-built simulation products during the inauguration ceremony. The company said Wednesday Christopher Pyne, Australian minister for defense industry, and Ian Bell, vice president and general manager of CAE’s operations in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, attended the formal opening of the office located […] More

  • Scientific Research Corp. to Engineer, Install Navy Carrier Under $92M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scientific Research Corp. to Engineer, Install Navy Carrier Under $92M IDIQ

    Scientific Research Corp. has secured a potential $92.5 million contract to engineer, integrate and install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on newly constructed aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy. SRC will also support the service branch’s shipbuilding conversion efforts and other government shipbuilding projects under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Space and Naval Warfare […] More

  • DARPA Seeks New Tools, Concepts to Secure DoD Space Systems, Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks New Tools, Concepts to Secure DoD Space Systems, Satellites

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office has issued a request of information on cybersecurity tools and methods for the Defense Department’s national security space systems and low-Earth orbit satellite networks. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says DARPA seeks new platforms to secure space information systems built to collect, store, process and transmit national security […] More

  • NASA Issues Draft RFP for Commercial Lunar Payload Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Draft RFP for Commercial Lunar Payload Services Contract

    NASA has announced plans to conduct a full and open competition for a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver scientific payloads to the Moon. In a draft request for proposals notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps, the space agency said it seeks contractor-provided assets to integrate, transport and operate instruments and technology demonstration payloads intended for the […] More

  • BAE Advances Battle Management Software Development Project With DARPA, AFRL - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Advances Battle Management Software Development Project With DARPA, AFRL

    BAE Systems has teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to further develop a software platform that works to facilitate communications between manned and unmanned aerial systems in contested environments, C4ISRNet reported Friday. The Distributed Battle Management software is designed to provide pilots situational awareness through the use of […] More