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  • Report: Lockheed, Raytheon, Harris Back Air Force Multi-Domain C2 Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, Raytheon, Harris Back Air Force Multi-Domain C2 Efforts

    Companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Harris have launched initiatives to help the U.S. Air Force come up with new approaches that can be used in multi-domain command and control operations, C4ISRNET reported Monday. Lockheed will conduct another war game this fall in support of the service branch and the multi-domain C2 enterprise capability […] More

  • Harris Secures $70M Contract UK EOD Robot Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Secures $70M Contract UK EOD Robot Supply Contract

    Harris has received a potential $70 million contract from the U.K. ministry of defense for the delivery of robotic systems to support the agency’s explosive ordnance disposal missions worldwide. The company said Wednesday it will supply T7 robotic systems for MoD’s Project STARTER that aims to mitigate explosive threats that include IEDs and other unexploded […] More

  • Harris Adds Encryption Feature to Falcon III Radios - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Adds Encryption Feature to Falcon III Radios

    Harris has unveiled a communications security feature for the company’s Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack radio system. The Suite B encryption tool is designed to help military users of Falcon III switch between independent and U.S. or NATO networks, Harris said Tuesday. The company developed the technology to also integrate with additional waveforms designed for individual and joint missions. Chris Young, […] More

  • MBDA Taps Harris for Missile Carriage & Release Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Taps Harris for Missile Carriage & Release Systems

    Harris has received a contract from MBDA to supply carriage and release technology for the latter’s SPEAR precision strike missiles. Harris said Tuesday it will deliver four internal bay-compatible SCORPION lightweight ejection rack units for each of the weapon bays of two U.K. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. “The MBDA SPEAR weapon, combined with our delivery system, […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site

    Ball Aerospace has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar orbiting weather satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the platform’s scheduled launch on Nov. 10. The company said Tuesday it delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 following a pre-ship review at Ball’s Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturing facility. JPSS-1 is part of the JPSS series of […] More

  • Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites

    Canada-based exactEarth has teamed up with Harris to bring into service five additional satellites as part of the former’s automatic identification system satellite constellation designed to support the delivery of a real-time ship tracking service to the maritime market. The addition of five more exactEarth satellites brings the total number of operational systems in the […] More

  • Harris to Supply EW Transmitter for Air Force C-130J Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Supply EW Transmitter for Air Force C-130J Aircraft

    BAE Systems has awarded Harris a contract to provide electronic warfare transmitter technology for integration into the U.S. Air Force‘s MC-130J Commando II and AC-130J Ghostrider aircraft platforms. Harris said Wednesday its phased array antennas will offer transmit capacity for BAE’s electronic warfare countermeasure systems. In 2016, BAE and Northrop Grumman secured separate contracts worth up […] 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

  • Space News: Harris Realigns Focus to Small Satellite Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: Harris Realigns Focus to Small Satellite Devt

    Executives at Harris‘ space and intelligence systems unit have said the company aims to focus on the development of small satellites in a push to test electronics and other technology aboard larger spacecraft, Space News reported Wednesday. Sid Stewart, manager of the satellite solutions group, told Space News the company’s transition to small satellites from hosted […] More

  • Lockheed Receives 3rd Harris-Built Navigation Payload for Air Force GPS III Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives 3rd Harris-Built Navigation Payload for Air Force GPS III Satellite

    Harris has shipped the third of 10 navigation payloads designed to help boost the accuracy, signal power and jamming resistance capacity of Global Positioning System III satellites Lockheed Martin is building for the U.S. Air Force. Lockheed is scheduled to integrate the new payload into the GPS III Space Vehicle 3 this summer, Harris said Wednesday. “We are now in […] More

  • Harris to Produce Falcon III Manpack Radios for Army Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Produce Falcon III Manpack Radios for Army Evaluation

    Harris has secured a delivery order from the U.S. Army to supply an undisclosed number of multichannel radios for evaluation under the service branch’s Handheld, Manpack & Small Form-Fit program. The company said Thursday it will provide Falcon III radios along with installation kits, ancillaries, training and field service representative support. Brendan O’Connell, president of Harris’ tactical communications business, […] More