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  • Leidos to Help Navy Develop Carrier Strike Mission Planning System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Navy Develop Carrier Strike Mission Planning System

    Leidos has won a $22.6 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a system for carrier strike group personnel to collaborate on navigation and tactical mission planning tasks. The company will aim to create a planning platform with analytics, common widgets and decision support tools under the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Asset Synchronization Tool for Mission Planning Operations; Rob Smith Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Develops Asset Synchronization Tool for Mission Planning Operations; Rob Smith Quoted

    Lockheed Martin has developed a tool that consolidates disparate systems and assets from different domains into a single platform to speed up mission planning processes. The Multi-Domain Synchronized Effects Tool is designed to synchronize essential information from traditional stove-piped systems to allow warfighters to make decisions based on concurrent situational awareness of activity in multiple […] More

  • BAE Unveils GEOINT Platform for Mission Planning Applications; Scott Murray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils GEOINT Platform for Mission Planning Applications; Scott Murray Comments

    BAE Systems has introduced a new geospatial offering designed to support mission planning applications of military and civilian agencies. Dynamic Cartography works to generate geospatial content and analytics information from various sources such as commercial and military satellites, BAE said Wednesday. The platform uses comparative vector data and social media to develop constantly updated digital maps that feature human geography, […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface

    Charles River Analytics has developed a user interface that integrates tailored display and input methods intended to help U.S. Navy pilots plan or replan flight activities. The Intuitive User Interfaces for Task-Tailored Planning program works to help the military branch’s airmen leverage underlying mission planning technologies customized for users to accommodate specific tasks and roles, Charles River said Wednesday. INTUIT is a card-based UI designed to increase the […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity

    The U.S. Air Force looks to develop new approaches to information fusion and analysis as well as new techniques to provide intelligence to decisionmakers using service-oriented architecture, open standards and analytical algorithms. A broad agency announcement published Wednesday on FedBizOpps calls for analytic services that can help the military branch understand data sources such as multi-intelligence and source fusion. The service branch also […] More

  • CACI to Offer Mission Planning Support Through SOCOM JGASS Contract; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Offer Mission Planning Support Through SOCOM JGASS Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International will work to support mission planning efforts of U.S. geographic combatant commands worldwide as part of a five-year, $180 million Joint Geospatial Analytic Support Services contract awarded to the company by Special Operations Command. The company said Monday the contract seeks to expand its footprint in the intelligence services market and contains a base term and four […] More

  • MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a contract to introduce updates to DigitalGlobe’s international ground stations for customers to directly receive and process Earth imagery and geospatial data from DigitalGlobe’s future WorldView-4 commercial satellite. MDA said Thursday WorldView-4 is scheduled to launch in September 2016 to provide customers with multi-spectral images of the Earth’s surface. The company aims […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support

    DigitalGlobe has selected Raytheon‘s Constellation Scheduling System to provide mission planning and launch support for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 commercial satellite in September 2016. Raytheon said Thursday CSS is a commercial geospatial system that works to provide automatic scheduling and mission planning support for satellite operators and geospatial data providers. DigitalGlobe announced last year its plans to expedite […] More