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  • AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada's Maritime Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada’s Maritime Operations

    The Canadian department of national defense has selected a team of AeroVironment and Maxar Technologies‘ MDA subsidiary to provide small unmanned aerial systems for deployment aboard the Canadian navy’s maritime coastal defense vessels. AeroVironment said Wednesday the military service will receive Puma II AE mini UAS equipped with 360-degree antenna and Mantis i45 sensor systems designed to support […] More

  • Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions business has received a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help expedite the development of machine learning algorithms designed to gather data from satellite images. Radiant Solutions said Tuesday it will provide NGA access to high-resolution satellite images of at least 1 million labeled objects to help the agency launch […] More

  • Maxar Subsidiary to Design Optical Data Relay Payload for Airbus Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Subsidiary to Design Optical Data Relay Payload for Airbus Satellite

    A Maxar Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $3.2 million contract to design a payload technology for an Airbus satellite developed to support space-based data transmission efforts. MDA will develop preliminary designs, evaluate applicable tools and identify enhancement methods for the optical data relay payload of Airbus’ third SpaceDataHighway satellite, also called the European Data Relay System, Maxar said Thursday. […] More

  • Maxar to Transfer Corporate HQ to Westminster, Colorado - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar to Transfer Corporate HQ to Westminster, Colorado

    Maxar Technologies will relocate its corporate headquarters from San Francisco, California, to DigitalGlobe’s existing facility in Westminster, Colorado. “This move represents an opportunity to bring together our executive leadership team in a common location, as well as to establish a base for our future shared-services organizations,” Howard Lance, Maxar president and CEO, said in a statement […] More

  • Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium

    Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms and discuss how they use new tools to build technology platforms designed to address space challenges. Dario Zamarian, group president of Maxar’s SSL business, discussed how the business […] More

  • SSL to Conduct Tech Study for USAF Space Enterprise Vision; Richard White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL to Conduct Tech Study for USAF Space Enterprise Vision; Richard White Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary will work with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to conduct a study on new space architectures and related systems in support of the service branch’s Space Enterprise Vision. SEV seeks to ensure resiliency in space defense capabilities through the development of new enterprise-level technology platforms designed to […] More

  • SSL Ships Hispasat Satellite to Cape Canaveral Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL Ships Hispasat Satellite to Cape Canaveral Launch Site

    A communications satellite made by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for  Hispasat has been delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will lift off aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket. SSL said Tuesday the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will provide communications services for television, broadband, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications in Europe, North Africa and […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Richard White, President of SSL Government Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Richard White, President of SSL Government Systems

    When working with U.S. government agencies on defining next-generation space technologies, industry leaders across the board are all hands on-deck. SSL Government Systems, for instance, is helping the U.S. Air Force test the security of hosting payloads on commercial satellites; researching power and propulsion for NASA’s Deep Space gateway; developing concepts for advanced military satellite […] More

  • SSL's Richard White Envisions Space-Based Satellite Manufacturing Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Richard White Envisions Space-Based Satellite Manufacturing Facility

    Richard White, president of SSL‘s government systems business, predicts that satellite production efforts in the near future could take place in space, he told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday. White added he believes that all activities on Earth will eventually be performed on-orbit. SSL, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, is working with the Defense […] More

  • MDA to Help NATO Build Maritime C2 Visualization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA to Help NATO Build Maritime C2 Visualization Tech

    Maxar Technologies‘s MDA business has received a potential $11.8 million contract to produce a technology platform for NATO to visualize the international alliance’s maritime command and control operations. MDA said Thursday it will base the platform on a modern software architecture and technology for integration into fixed and deployable systems as part of Project TRITON. TRITON is designed to help NATO and […] More

  • SSL-Built Satellite Servicing Spacecraft Completes NASA Design Review; Richard White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL-Built Satellite Servicing Spacecraft Completes NASA Design Review; Richard White Comments

    A spacecraft built by Maxar Technologies’ SSL business for NASA’s in-orbit satellite servicing mission has concluded the agency’s mission preliminary design review. The completion of the mission PDR would advance the spacecraft to the Key Decision Point C phase to pave the way for the launch of the Restore-L mission in 2020, SSL said Wednesday. KDP-C is set […] More

  • Maxar Wins ‘Deal of the Year’ Award; Howard Lance Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Wins ‘Deal of the Year’ Award; Howard Lance Comments

    Maxar Technologies, formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, has received SpaceNews’ “Deal of the Year” award in recognition of the company’s acquisition of DigitalGlobe in an estimated $3.6 billion transaction. Maxar’s predecessor MDA closed the deal in October in a push to offer imagery, satellite and geospatial services across the government and commercial sectors, Maxar said […] More