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  • Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force's Common Ground Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force’s Common Ground Weapon System

    Woburn, Massachusetts-based human centered technology engineering company Aptima has received a $12.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a virtual training environment for the military branch’s Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima said Wednesday the DCGS virtual training system will be built to help the Air Force produce actionable intelligence from a global network of systems and sensors. “By simulating the […] More

  • IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a research-and-development sources sought notice that seeks to obtain information from industry on potential support to help build an undersea drone. IARPA says it unveiled the UnderWatch notice seeks information on design, development, test, and demonstration of autonomous underwater vehicles; as well as sensing systems for automated detection, classification and localization […] More

  • Textron's Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments

    Textron has recorded more than 1 million flight hours for the Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system since the company launched the aerial vehicle in 1999. The company said Tuesday Shadow became the only UAS of its size to accomplish the feat and that more than 85 percent of the drone’s flights occurred during combat operations. Shadow TUAS supports the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Special Operations Command […] More

  • Thales Lands Civilian UAV Detection Tech Export Contract; Jose Sarnito Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Lands Civilian UAV Detection Tech Export Contract; Jose Sarnito Comments

    Thales has secured an export contract to deliver an integrated platform for identifying and detecting small civilian unmanned aircraft systems to a Southeast Asian country. The company said Thursday it will integrate a Gecko optronic system, Squire radar technology and thermal cameras in an effort to help the customer detect UAS at various deployable posts. “Thales is excited to embark on this project with […] More

  • Thomas Bussing: Raytheon, UVision Aim to Offer US Army Small Loitering Airborne Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Bussing: Raytheon, UVision Aim to Offer US Army Small Loitering Airborne Tech

    Raytheon and Israel-based unmanned air system manufacturer UVision to develop and offer small loitering airborne technology to U.S. military organizations. Raytheon said Friday it seeks to adapt UVision’s man-packed, canister-launched Hero-30 system to make it perform lethal target engagement, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. The company intends for the modified technology to help address the U.S. Army‘s Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System requirements. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon vice […] More

  • DRS-Roboteam Alliance Eyes Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotics Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS-Roboteam Alliance Eyes Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotics Program

    DRS Technologies and Roboteam have inked a strategic agreement to develop a new system that the team plans to offer for the U.S. Army‘s Common Robotic System – Individual program. The alliance will utilize Roboteam’s military robotics technology and DRS’ market presence, platform systems engineering services and production capacity to support their CRS-I program efforts, DRS said […] More

  • Herrick Technology Labs to Build Multi-Mission RF Transceiver for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Herrick Technology Labs to Build Multi-Mission RF Transceiver for Air Force

    Herrick Technology Laboratories has won a $24.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop poly-function transceiver software and hardware. The Defense Department said Thursday that HTL aims to deliver a software-based radio frequency transceiver that can support the Air Force’s multiple tactical missions in the  electromagnetic spectrum. The Air Force Research Laboratory will obligate $3.1 million from fiscal 2015 and […] More

  • Insitu's ScanEagle in Running for Coast Guard UAS-Ship Integration Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu’s ScanEagle in Running for Coast Guard UAS-Ship Integration Contract

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary is offering an unmanned aircraft system to the U.S. Coast Guard as the agency works to select a UAS for integration with its ships, Seapower Magazine reported Monday. John Marcario writes the Coast Guard has tested Insitu ScanEagle UAS platforms during land- and NSC-based demonstrations over the last three years as the agency worked to develop plans […] More

  • Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon's New Texas Campus to House Data Processing Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon’s New Texas Campus to House Data Processing Functions

    Raytheon has opened a new facility in Richardson, Texas that will house data processing work for unmanned airborne and space-based operations, WBAP/KLIF News reported Monday. According to the station, Raytheon looks to hire at least 2,000 workers in the city to add to the current pool of 27,000 employees across Texas. Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s […] More

  • General Atomics' Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps

    Chris Pehrson, a senior executive at General Atomics, has told Bloomberg Government that the vast amounts of intelligence data that remotely piloted aircraft’s sensors collect pose a challenge to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. Pehrson said in an interview published Thursday that General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business seeks to address that challenge through […] More

  • Coherent Technical Services Gets Navy Contract Modification for Navigation Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coherent Technical Services Gets Navy Contract Modification for Navigation Engineering Services

    Lexington Park, Maryland-based engineering consultancy firm Coherent Technical Services Inc. has secured a $20.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide navigation technology engineering support for air and shipboard C4ISR. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center awarded the contract modification and obligated the full amount from fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Defense Department […] More

  • David Stoudt Joins Booz Allen as Senior Executive Adviser, Directed Energy Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Stoudt Joins Booz Allen as Senior Executive Adviser, Directed Energy Fellow

    David Stoudt, formerly senior technologist for directed energy at the U.S. Navy, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior executive adviser and fellow for the company’s directed energy program. In his new role, Stoudt will focus on providing thought leadership in engineering, science and C4ISR, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Trey Obering, executive vice president for […] More