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  • Leonardo Subsidiary Wins Navy Contract for Instrument Landing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Subsidiary Wins Navy Contract for Instrument Landing Systems

    Leonardo‘s Selex ES subsidiary has won a potential $20.9 million contract to supply instrument landing systems to the U.S. Navy. The contract was awarded through a competitive procurement process and covers 31 Model 2100 instrument landing systems along with collocated distance measuring equipment, Leonardo said Monday. The company noted its Model 2100 technology will work to help naval aviators perform safe […] More

  • General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson to Speak at TTC UAS Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson to Speak at TTC UAS Symposium

    Chris Pehrson, vice president for Defense Department strategic development at General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, will serve as a guest speaker at Technology Training Corp.-hosted Unmanned Aircraft Systems East for Defense and Government symposium that will kick off Saturday, Nov. 7, in Washington, D.C. Pehrson is one of the 24 guest presenters who will discuss emerging […] More

  • Insitu-Esri Team Demos UAV Platform in Firefighting Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu-Esri Team Demos UAV Platform in Firefighting Mission

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and Esri have collaborated to conduct test flights of an unmanned aerial vehicle technology that was equipped with geographic information system designed to aid firefighting missions. The flights took place at a Federal Aviation Administration test range in Warm Springs, Oregon, and sought to demonstrate the potential of ScanEagle UAS to help firefighters and fire […] More

  • KBR Subsidiary to Help Maintain FAA Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Subsidiary to Help Maintain FAA Security Systems

    KBR‘s government services business segment has received a potential $52 million contract to help the Federal Aviation Administration maintain security systems and equipment at more than 500 FAA facilities nationwide. KBRWyle will support maintenance of technology platforms FAA use to secure national airspace under the five-year contract, the company said Tuesday. The company added it will record potential revenues […] More

  • Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance

    Summit Technical Solutions has received a potential $35.5 million prime contract from the U.S. Air Force for the operations, maintenance and logistical support of a missile warning and space surveillance phased-array radar system. The contract for work on the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System has a base performance period of seven months starting October and one-year […] More

  • GA-ASI Launches First Test Flight from New North Dakota-Based Test and Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GA-ASI Launches First Test Flight from New North Dakota-Based Test and Training Center

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has conducted the first test flight from its new Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. GA-ASI deployed a Block 5 Predator B/MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft which flew approximately 1,075 nautical miles in Class A civilian airspace, General Atomics said Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration granted a […] More

  • SimiGon to Supply Simulation Development Tools for FAA UAS Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SimiGon to Supply Simulation Development Tools for FAA UAS Research

    SimiGon has received a $100,000 contract to provide the Federal Aviation Administration its SIMbox development tools for simulation and training for the agency’s unmanned aircraft systems research simulator. The contract serves to build on SimiGon’s effort to expand into the civilian aviation and UAS markets, the company announced Monday. SimiGon added FAA aims to use SIMbox as its primary platform […] More

  • Derco, Universal Synaptics Extend Avionics Fault Detector Distribution Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Derco, Universal Synaptics Extend Avionics Fault Detector Distribution Agreement

    Lockheed Martin‘s Derco subsidiary will continue to serve as the exclusive distributor of a Universal Synaptics technology designed to help operators detect intermittent errors in electronic equipment or wiring on multiple aircraft platforms. Derco will distribute the Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System as well as the portable Voyager Intermittent Fault Detector system to customers worldwide under a […] More

  • Harris to Offer Federal Agencies Network Services Under $50B GSA Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Offer Federal Agencies Network Services Under $50B GSA Contract Vehicle

    Harris has won a position under the General Services Administration‘s potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle to offer network services to federal agencies. GSA selected Harris and nine other companies to compete for task orders to deliver information technology, telecommunications and infrastructure services through the EIS contract. Harris said Tuesday it plans to offer network […] More

  • General Atomics Completes FAA-Approved SkyGuardian Drone Flight; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Completes FAA-Approved SkyGuardian Drone Flight; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flown the MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft in non-restricted airspace after the company received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The company said Friday the MQ-9B RPA flew a 275-mile trip that lasted approximately one hour and 45 minutes from Laguna Airfield at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona to the Gray […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation works to help track the location of commercial aircraft across trans-oceanic routes in support of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Transportation System program, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. Desch said the company has equipped its Iridium NEXT satellites with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receivers designed to enable planes to communicate […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has produced and delivered its 10,000th air traffic control radio to the Federal Aviation Administration under the agency’s NEXCOM 2 modernization program. The company said Friday the CM-300/350 voice over internet protocol radios were designed to offer communication capacity for air traffic controllers and pilots who operate within the National Airspace System. […] More