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  • LinQuest Awarded Air Force Satellite Test and Engineering Services Contract; Greg Young, Leon Biederman Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LinQuest Awarded Air Force Satellite Test and Engineering Services Contract; Greg Young, Leon Biederman Comment

    LinQuest Corp. has been selected for a recompete contract to carry out engineering and operational services on research and development satellites for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. LinQuest will support the center’s pre-launch, launch and early orbit, mission planning, on-orbit operations and anomaly resolution operations at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, LinQuest said Thursday. […] More

  • DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite Ready for Friday Liftoff - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite Ready for Friday Liftoff

    Lockheed Martin is scheduled to launch the WorldView-4 imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe Friday onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket. WorldView-4 will lift off from the Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to a sun-synchronous orbit, where the satellite will begin to capture images of the Earth, Lockheed said Tuesday. The satellite is built to operate in […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition

    Northrop Grumman will feature some of its technologies at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 138th General Conference and Exhibition in Maryland from Sept. 9 to 12. The company said Thursday it will present technologies that work to support the National Guard in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fields. Included in the […] More

  • DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy

    A DRS Technologies subsidiary has won a potential $22 million contract to develop and produce Link 11 and Link 22 data terminal sets for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday DRS Advanced ISR will also help the military service integrate, test and sustain Link 11 data terminal and Link 22 signal processing controller system for the branch’s command-and-control processor […] More

  • DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries

    The Defense Department has given initial purchase orders to Cubic‘s TeraLogics, DTECH Labs and GATR Technologies subsidiaries for the delivery of Tactical Two-way Sensor Data Transport baseband kits. Cubic said Monday the integrated T2SDT system to be delivered by its subsidiaries that operate within the Cubic Mission Solutions business division aims to help boost existing Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel via Satellite terminal capacity. […] More

  • Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments

    Lockheed Martin has changed the name of its mission systems and training business area in an effort to demonstrate the company’s expanded portfolio after it completed the acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp. for approximately $9 billion in November. The business area will start to operate as Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business segment […] More

  • Lockheed, Air Force Complete First F-35 Air-to-Air Kill on Drone; Maj. Raven LeClair Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Air Force Complete First F-35 Air-to-Air Kill on Drone; Maj. Raven LeClair Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet has completed its first live air-to-air kill test on a drone over a military test range off of California’s coastline Thursday. Lockheed said Monday Maj. Raven LeClair, U.S. Air Force test pilot, fired an AIM-9X missile towards an aerial drone target through the use of the plane’s mission systems sensors identification and targeting capacity to track information […] More

  • Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software

    Australia-based computer vision systems provider Sentient Vision Systems has unveiled the latest update to its automated object detection software for land and maritime applications. Sentient said July 19 the Kestrel 4.0 update includes functions that work to cut image processing requirements by 50 percent and support high-definition image processing on a processor. “This upgrade allows our ground-based customers […] More

  • Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems

    L-3 Communications has received a nine-year $160 million, subcontract from Bollinger Shipyards to provide an integrated C4ISR system for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters. L-3 said Monday it will provide initial design updates to the FRC ships such as antenna arrangement and analysis, exterior communications and other situation awareness platforms. The company will also deliver, […] More

  • Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a 10-month, $18.9 million task order  to install command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. Serco Inc. will support installation of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system on the warship as well as provide satellite communications and C4ISR system modernization services under the order, the […] More

  • Drone Aviation Unveils New Heavy-Lift Tethered Drone; Jay Nussbaum Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Unveils New Heavy-Lift Tethered Drone; Jay Nussbaum Comments

    Drone Aviation has launched a new heavy-lift, higher-altitude tethered unmanned aerial system designed for persistent military operations. The Bolt coaxial tethered helicopter is part of Drone Aviation’s portfolio of drones and is set for exhibit at ADS‘ Warrior Expo East this week at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, Drone Aviation said Wednesday. Jay Nussbaum, chairman and CEO of […] More

  • Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments

    Jeremy Myers, a 25-year information technology veteran, has been appointed IT solutions architect at Reston, Virginia-based tactical C4ISR systems and lifecycle support provider iGov. He will support the company’s business development functions and lead its efforts to design enterprise architecture, assess emerging technology and develop advanced concepts in his new position, iGov said Monday. The company noted he […] More