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Parsons has landed a 58-month radio system installation contract with three five-year renewal options from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The company will manage the design, delivery, installation and integration of an interoperable Terrestrial Trunked Radio system for 6,250 buses and support vehicles that will comply with the public safety radio standard Project 25, Parsons said Tuesday. Michael Johnson, […] More

A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has secured a $7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide operations and maintenance services for electronic Consolidated Automated Support System assets. Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training will provide repair, replacement, calibration, configuration management, functional tests, inventory maintenance and return-to-service processes for eCASS, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The contract also […] More

Northrop Grumman-built unmanned helicopters have integrated a Cubic-produced data link system in a U.S. Navy operational assessment. The MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopters featured the Wide Band Line of Sight data link system, which works to provide ISR, target acquisition, laser designation and battle management functions, Cubic said Tuesday. Cubic also provides Miniature Multiband Transceivers for the Fire Scout to support Ku-band transmissions and […] More

Reston, Virginia-base software company Indigo IT has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement with two initial task orders from the Federal Housing Finance Agency‘s office of the inspector general. Indigo IT will provide IT support services to FHFA in an effort to align the agency’s infrastructure and systems with its mission support requirements, the company […] More

An Onvia study has found that the number of solicitations from state and local agencies for “as a service’ information technology management models hit 940 during 2015, a nearly 10 percent increase from the prior-year figure. “With the number of solicitations increasing steadily, the doors are opening for IT service providers that can provide government agencies with new business […] More

A subsidiary of Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems has landed an estimated $10 million contract for the sale of buried threat detection devices from a country in the Persian Gulf region. NIITEK will deliver its Groundshark dual-sensor handheld system that works to detect buried objects and threats including mines and improvised explosive devices, the company said Monday. NIITEK President […] More

A business unit of BAE Systems has been awarded a $40 million contract to supply new flares for the U.S. Navy‘s Air Expendable Countermeasures program. Part of the MJU-68/B flares production will go to the government of Israel under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Monday. BAE Systems’ information and electronic systems integration […] More

Raytheon has been awarded a potential $18.7 million U.S. Navy contract to provide science and technology research support for the Network Cooperative Radar Program. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business unit will perform design and development work for the program in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. The contract will run through July 9, 2018, if the option is exercised. […] More

A Textron subsidiary has secured a $66 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide armored personnel carriers to Iraq and Colombia. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems will supply each nation with 60 Commando Select APCs, of which 58 have a 40/50 turret and four have a command-and-control variant, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Contracting […] More

Peru’s navy has selected a Rockwell Collins-designed tactical radio for installation on the agency’s fleet of SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters. The company said Thursday its Talon V/UHF tactical radios are built to give pilots secure voice and data communications for missions in areas such as surface and sub-surface maritime, blue water and littoral surveillance, and search-and-rescue operations. Alan Prowse, vice president […] More

The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol has certified to Congress that an Elbit Systems of America-built Integrated Fixed Towers border surveillance system meets operational requirements, as part of the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Parent company Elbit Systems said Thursday IFT works to provide long-range, 360-degree, all-weather surveillance for optimized situational awareness and agent safety. The company added the […] More

A subsidiary of Raytheon has been awarded an $8 million contract to help redesign the National Science Foundation‘s internet-based laboratory for networking and distributed systems research in an effort to help scientists meet the requirements of technologies online. Raytheon BBN Technologies will work to expand the Global Environment for Network Innovations platform to help further the studies in […] More