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  • Air Force Starts F-15 Sensor, Weapons System Updates; Mike Gibbons, Rob Leese Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Starts F-15 Sensor, Weapons System Updates; Mike Gibbons, Rob Leese Comment

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to update its fleet of F-15 aircraft in an effort to maintain air superiority over China’s J-10 fighter jet, keep the fleet in service through mid-2040s and support F-22, F-35 and other fifth-generation platforms, Scout Warrior reported Thursday. Maj. Rob Leese, a spokesman for the Air Force, told the publication […] More

  • CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International, the Association of Old Crows and the Center for Security Policy will sponsor an annual national security symposium on Sept. 22 at the Gannett Conference Center in McLean, Virginia. The ninth leg in the Asymmetric Threat symposia series will focus on the discussion around global threats to U.S. national security, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • Army to Hold Cyberspace Prototyping Experiment to Help Address Warfighting Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Hold Cyberspace Prototyping Experiment to Help Address Warfighting Challenge

    The U.S. Army‘s Cyber Center of Excellence plans to launch an annual cyberspace operations, signal and electronic warfare prototyping experiment in July 2017 to assess emerging technologies that could help address a warfighting challenge. A notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the upcoming Cyber Quest seeks to gather technology concepts and examine the potential impact of the concepts on the Army’s doctrine, […] More

  • Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings

    Raytheon has awarded an estimated $4 million contract to CPI Aerostructures to supply structural pod housings for tests and airworthiness certification activities on Raytheon’s new electronic warfare jammer pods. CPI Aero said Friday it will provide the jammer pod structures through 2018 to aid the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer program with the U.S. Navy. Raytheon secured […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System

    Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Deploy Digital EW Transceivers to U.S. Gov't Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Deploy Digital EW Transceivers to U.S. Gov’t Facility

    Mercury Systems has been awarded a $4.7 million contract to build digital transceivers intended to support electronic warfare missions at a government-run facility. The company said Wednesday it booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year 2016 and is scheduled to deliver the transceivers to the facility over the next several quarters. Charlie Hudnall, vice president and general manager for the embedded sensor products […] More

  • Navy Picks L-3 to Supply RF Microwave Power Module Amplifier for Electronic Warfare Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks L-3 to Supply RF Microwave Power Module Amplifier for Electronic Warfare Systems

    L-3 Communications has received a potential three-year, $19 million contract to develop a Radio Frequency Continuous Wave Microwave Power Module amplifier for the U.S. Navy. The Naval Research Laboratory awarded the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process with three bids received, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD said NRL will use the RF CW MPM amplifiers […] More

  • CACI Lands Army Software, Hardware Engineering Contract; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands Army Software, Hardware Engineering Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has been selected to provide electronic warfare software and hardware engineering support to the U.S. Army intelligence and information warfare directorate. The task order extends the company’s development, engineering and protection services for the Army’s effort to develop cyber, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, radar and intelligence technologies, CACI said Monday. The software and hardware engineering support is […] More

  • Textron Systems Receives Air Force Radar, Electronic Warfare Test Systems Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems Receives Air Force Radar, Electronic Warfare Test Systems Order

    Textron Systems has received an $11 million order for radar and electronic warfare test station systems from the U.S. Air Force as part of an effort to fulfill the service’s avionics testing requirements. The 12 Advanced Radar/EW Test Station Automatic Test Equipment systems are meant to replace the old ATE systems in support of the Air […] More

  • Comtech Subsidiary Lands Int'l Contract to Provide RF Microwave Amplifiers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Subsidiary Lands Int’l Contract to Provide RF Microwave Amplifiers

    Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary Comtech PST has been awarded a $1.3 million contract by an international customer to provide broadband radio-frequency microwave amplifiers for a communications jamming system. The communications products and services company said Wednesday the amplifiers work to provide broad frequency coverage for jamming systems through broadband solid-state switching and transistor technology. Stanton Sloane, Comtech president and CEO, said Comtech PST’s broadband amplifiers […] More

  • S2, MSU Lab to Support EW Tech Devt for Navy as BAE Subcontractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    S2, MSU Lab to Support EW Tech Devt for Navy as BAE Subcontractors

    S2 Corp. and Montana State University’s Spectrum Lab have been awarded a $4.5 million subcontract from BAE Systems to provide a radio frequency sensor system to the Office of Naval Research. MSU said Wednesday it will deliver a wideband radio frequency sensor Extreme Bandwidth Analyzer and Correlator alongside S2 to support BAE’s Full-Spectrum Staring Receiver electronic warfare technology initiative. EBAC and FSSR will work to […] More