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  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition

    Northrop Grumman will feature some of its technologies at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 138th General Conference and Exhibition in Maryland from Sept. 9 to 12. The company said Thursday it will present technologies that work to support the National Guard in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fields. Included in the […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Unveils Network-Connected Ship Heading Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Unveils Network-Connected Ship Heading Mgmt System

    Northrop Grumman‘s Sperry Marine subsidiary has introduced a network-connected heading management system that can integrate with a wide range of vessels at the ongoing Shipbuilding, Machinery and Maritime trade show in Germany. Northrop said Tuesday CompassNet uses a standard Ethernet technology to link the heading sensors and distribute portion of the heading management system. The platform is designed to operate on commercial ships, cruise liners, survey vessels, military […] More

  • Northrop Lands Navy Contract Modification for MK 54 Torpedo Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands Navy Contract Modification for MK 54 Torpedo Production

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential two-year, $16.4 million contract modification to continue to produce MK 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo array kits for the service branch. The modification exercises the third option year on a previously awarded contract and covers engineering, production support materials, hardware repair services and factory test equipment […] More

  • Northrop to Demo Mine-Hunting Sensor Tech at UK's Unmanned Warrior Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Demo Mine-Hunting Sensor Tech at UK’s Unmanned Warrior Exercise

    Northrop Grumman will demonstrate a sensor technology designed for mine detection, localization and classification at the Unmanned Warrior exercise to be hosted by the U.K. navy in October. The company said Thursday its AQS-24B mine-hunting system will be towed by an Atlas Electronik UK-built ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel in a simulated environment  during the event to exhibit how the sensor […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

  • Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar

    Okland Construction has won a potential $24 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to design and build an F-35 operations, maintenance, administration and six-position maintenance hangar facility. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 10 bids for the project through an online-based solicitation and obligated the full contract amount at the time of award from fiscal 2016 military […] More

  • Northrop Makes Bat UAS Donation to Northland Community & Technical College - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Makes Bat UAS Donation to Northland Community & Technical College

    Northrop Grumman has entered into a new partnership with Northland Community & Technical College to continue unmanned aerial systems efforts throughout the Red River Valley in North Dakota and Minnesota. The company said Tuesday it will donate the Bat medium altitude, multi-mission unmanned aircraft and related equipment to the university’s UAS maintenance and training program. The program aims to […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Conduct Initial Integration Event on Ground/Air Radar in October - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Conduct Initial Integration Event on Ground/Air Radar in October

    Northrop Grumman is set to conduct an initial integration event in October to demonstrate the Ground Weapon Locating Radar mode for the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar system. The company said Tuesday the IIE includes initial system tests and follows the completed preliminary and critical design reviews in February and August, respectively. The integration event seeks to demonstrate G/ATOR’s functions to […] More

  • Northrop to Develop Beam Control System for Air Force Fighter Jet Laser Weapon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop Beam Control System for Air Force Fighter Jet Laser Weapon

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential five-year, $39.3 million contract to develop a beam control technology for integration into the laser weapons system for a tactical pod on a U.S. Air Force fighter jet. The Defense Department said Tuesday the effort is part of the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator Turret Research in Aero-Effects program that will work to collect […] More

  • Northrop Receives Global Hawk Ground Segment Modernization Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Global Hawk Ground Segment Modernization Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for modernization work on a ground segment the service branch uses to control Global Hawk autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. Northrop said Monday the work will include a modular and scalable cockpit architecture, as well as an updated command and control capacity across all missions and sensors. “Global Hawk […] More

  • Northrop Receives OHB System AG Contract to Provide Space Inertial Reference System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives OHB System AG Contract to Provide Space Inertial Reference System

    Northrop Grumman will deliver a space inertial reference system for Germany’s satellite-based radar reconnaissance platform under a contract with Bremen, Germany-based space systems company OHB System AG. Northrop said Monday its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit-L will work to provide sensor pointing or stabilization as well as attitude control support for Germany’s SARah satellite-based radar reconnaissance system. Scalable SIRU-L is based on Northrop’s Scalable […] More