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  • Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training, Counter-IED Tech at Unmanned Warrior Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training, Counter-IED Tech at Unmanned Warrior Event

    Saab will feature its anti-submarine warfare training system and waterborne anti-improvised explosive device vehicle at the Unmanned Warrior event in Scotland and Wales from Oct. 10 to 21. The company said Wednesday it will demonstrate its Sea Wasp anti-IED underwater robot and AUV62-AT acoustic target system that works to replicate active and passive submarine signatures for ASW force training. […] More

  • IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency

    IBM’s Australian arm has received a potential six-month, $2.4 million contract to provide an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform for a federal government agency in Australia, ZDNet reported Friday. Asha McLean writes the contract with the Australian Taxation Office comes a month after IBM received approximately $5.3 million in contracts from Australia’s five federal agencies that include the departments […] More

  • Honeywell Chosen to Build Ballistic Composite Materials for ArmorSource, KDH Defense, Short Bark Industries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Chosen to Build Ballistic Composite Materials for ArmorSource, KDH Defense, Short Bark Industries

    Honeywell will provide ballistic composite materials to ArmorSource, Short Bark Industries and KDH Defense Systems‘ for efforts by the latter three companies to build military protection products. KDH Defense will use Honeywell’s Gold Shield and Spectra Shield products to create soft armor vest systems for the U.S. Army‘s next-generation Soldier Protection System, Honeywell said Tuesday. Honeywell added KDH Defense […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Combat System on Future Australia Submarine Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Combat System on Future Australia Submarine Fleet

    Lockheed Martin‘s Australia-based subsidiary has been awarded a contract install combat systems on 12 future ­submarines for that country’s navy, The Australian newspaper reported Friday. Brendan Nicholson writes Lockheed will integrate the combat systems in partnership with Australia’s defense department and France-based company DCNS. DCNS was chosen for the potential $38.7 billion contract in April to help design 12 submarines that will replace Australia’s fleet of Collins-class […] More

  • Australia's 1st Hobart-Class Air Warfare Destroyer Completes Initial At-Sea Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia’s 1st Hobart-Class Air Warfare Destroyer Completes Initial At-Sea Tests

    A partnership between Australia’s defense department, shipbuilding company ASC and Raytheon‘s Australian subsidiary has completed phase one trials for the first of the country’s three Hobart-class destroyers, The Lead South Australia reported Monday. Caleb Radford writes the Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance performed the HMAS Hobart  builder’s sea trials off the coast of South Australia to evaluate the ship’s hull, propulsion and navigation systems. AWD Alliance General Manager […] More

  • BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production

    An estimated 150 small and medium-size Australian enterprises will offer their products and services in a meeting with BAE Systems and 20 of its suppliers as the SMEs seek to participate in the Australian navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship maritime defense project. BAE said Monday it currently works to mature the design for the ships under the Type 26 program and […] More

  • Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept

    Chemring‘s sensors and electronic systems business will collaborate with Minelab Electronics to develop a handheld detector of buried improvised explosive devices as part of a $5 million contract that MineLab received from Australia’s defense department. The handheld detector prototype will feature Chemring’s ground-penetrating radar and Minelab’s multi-frequency continuous wave metal detection technology, Chemring said Tuesday. Chemring […] More

  • South Australia Eyes Single Integration Hub for Ground Combat Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    South Australia Eyes Single Integration Hub for Ground Combat Systems

    The South Australian government looks to establish a defense technology center dedicated to integrating and supporting land combat systems for Australia’s military, the Lead South Australia reported Tuesday. Jim Plouffe writes Jay Weatherill, premier of South Australia state, said the proposed Land Integration and Innovation Center will be built at Edinburgh Parks and will use an agile approach to address […] More

  • AeroVironment, Partners to Market Hand-Launched UAS to Australian Armed Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment, Partners to Market Hand-Launched UAS to Australian Armed Forces

    AeroVironment has partnered with Australian companies XTEK, Sentient Vision and General Dynamics‘ Mediaware subsidiary to bring AeroVironment’s line of unmanned aircraft systems to the Australia. The California-based small UAS provider said Monday the team looks to sell the AeroVironment Wasp AE or RQ-12A micro air vehicle to Australia’s armed forces. Wasp AE systems consist of two air vehicles and one ground control system and feature AeroVironment’s […] More

  • BAE, Raytheon Team Up to Chase Australia Radar Network Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Raytheon Team Up to Chase Australia Radar Network Modernization Program

    The Australian subsidiaries of BAE Systems and Raytheon have partnered to bid for a $765 million contract to update a radar network that supports aerial and maritime surveillance efforts of the Australian military. Daronmont Technologies and RCR Resolve FM also joined the BAE-led team that will pursue Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network modernization program, BAE said Sunday. Raytheon will provide systems integration expertise under […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Launches Helmet-Mounted Display Tool for Soldiers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Launches Helmet-Mounted Display Tool for Soldiers

    Rockwell Collins has unveiled at Land Forces 2016 exhibition in Adelaide, Australia, a new helmet-mounted display system that works to provide situational awareness functionality for warfighters. The company’s Integrated Digital Vision System is designed to combine mission data from command center, unmanned aerial systems and other sources with multispectral vision sensors to provide soldiers a view […] More

  • Space Systems Loral Readies Australia’s 2nd Broadband Network Satellite for Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral Readies Australia’s 2nd Broadband Network Satellite for Launch

    Space Systems Loral has shipped the second satellite developed for Australia’s national broadband network to French Guiana in preparation for the spacecraft’s launch. The Sky Muster II satellite will take off onboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle built by Arianespace from the European Spaceport in Kourou, SSL said Wednesday. The satellite will work to provide […] More