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  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System

    NexGen Communication has received a five-year, $7.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide spares and repair supplies for the U.S. Navy’s AN/SSX-1 Specific Emitter Identification System. The Defense Department said Tuesday NexGen Communication will work to repair, modify, update and manage the configuration of the system to address requirements under the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program. SEWIP is the […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Textron for F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Tests; Steve Mensh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Textron for F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Tests; Steve Mensh Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected Textron’s electronic systems business unit to provide threat simulation systems for electronic warfare tests on the F-35 fighter jet. Lockheed will use Textron’s Advanced Architecture Phase Amplitude and Time Simulator system to develop and confirm aircraft software requirements for the F-35, Textron said Wednesday Textron will manufacture the simulation system at the F-35 […] More

  • CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International a three-year, $79 million task order to provide intelligence systems engineering support for the military branch’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. CACI said Tuesday it will work to mature technologies in order to fulfill the Army’s intelligence and electronic warfare requirements in collaboration with academia. Under the task order, the company and […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments

    Raytheon has demonstrated the interoperability of the company’s cyber and electromagnetic battle management tool with an electronic warfare asset management system used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it integrated the CEMBM tool into Raptor-X to showcase how the unified system could facilitate data sharing across the joint battlespace environment. “We’ve achieved an interoperability breakthrough with CEMBM,” […] More

  • BAE Extends Support for DARPA's Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Extends Support for DARPA’s Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project

    BAE Systems has received a $13.3 million contract modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue support for DARPA’s program that aims to develop electronic warfare technologies that will counter new, unknown and adaptive radars. BAE said Thursday its team will complete algorithm development, advanced readiness tests and key milestones in efforts to transition technologies from […] More

  • BAE Builds Electronic Warfare Tool Under DARPA Contract; Joshua Niedzwiecki Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Builds Electronic Warfare Tool Under DARPA Contract; Joshua Niedzwiecki Comments

    BAE Systems has launched a new portable sensor system designed to perform tactical situational awareness functions for soldiers through detection and analysis of radiofrequency signals. BAE said Tuesday it developed the electronic warfare platform under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in support of DARPA’s Cognitive radio Low-energy signal Analysis Sensor ICs program and […] More

  • Cobham to Supply RF Microelectronics for Lockheed's F-35; Jill Kale Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Supply RF Microelectronics for Lockheed’s F-35; Jill Kale Comments

    Cobham has received a multimillion dollar order to manufacture radio frequency microelectronics for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. Cobham said Monday its microelectronic solutions division will produce the RF components at a company facility in San Diego, California. Jill Kale, president of Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business, said the company’s microelectronic components and assemblies are designed to increase the sensitivity of aircraft electronic warfare and radar systems. […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More

  • BAE Launches Reconfigurable Chip for Adaptive Radio Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Launches Reconfigurable Chip for Adaptive Radio Systems

    BAE Systems has developed a reconfigurable chip that is designed to help radio systems adapt to changing environments in the field. The company said Tuesday the Microwave Array Technology for Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits chip was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the Adaptive RF Technology program. DARPA’s ART program aims to develop communication […] 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