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  • CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International a three-year, $79 million task order to provide intelligence systems engineering support for the military branch’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. CACI said Tuesday it will work to mature technologies in order to fulfill the Army’s intelligence and electronic warfare requirements in collaboration with academia. Under the task order, the company and […] More

  • Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments

    Echodyne has completed an airborne test of a detect-and-avoid radar technology mounted on a commercial small unmanned aerial vehicle. The company said Nov. 8 its radar is designed to help UAVs sense moving and stationary obstacles with radar vision when drones fly through the airspace beyond the operator’s line of sight. The tests were conducted using Echodyne’s patented Metamaterial Electronically Scanning […] More

  • DARPA Taps Northrop for RF Signal Processing Tech Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Northrop for RF Signal Processing Tech Development Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $7.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop new technology platforms for a program that seeks to facilitate radio and radar communications in contested radiofrequency environments. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the contract awarded through the Signal Processing at RF program has a base […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica Receives Radar Systems Order from China - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica Receives Radar Systems Order from China

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica will supply four new radar systems for air traffic control to China under a contract with the country’s National Instruments Import and Export Corp. Instrimpex will use the four ATCR-33S NG primary radars during flight departure and landing phases and extended terminal area surveillance, Leonardo said Wednesday. The radar system is developed based on […] More

  • Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System

    Cobham has secured a contract worth more than $10 million to provide multiple waveguide assemblies and components to support Lockheed Martin‘s production of three-dimensional fixed-phase array radars for the U.S. Navy. Cobham said Monday its electronic integrated solutions business will manufacture AN/SPY-1D waveguide systems at a facility in New Hampshire. The AN/SPY-1D is designed to function as the primary air search radar on […] More

  • Raytheon Awarded Additional Gallium Nitride Production Process Development Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Awarded Additional Gallium Nitride Production Process Development Funds

    Raytheon has secured a $14.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Office of the Secretary of Defense to further develop the production process of gallium nitride-based semiconductors. The company said Wednesday it will work to update the performance, supply and the dependability of wideband, monolithic, microwave-integrated circuits and circulator equipment made from GaN. This […] More

  • Report: Lockheed-MBDA-Leonardo Team Bids for Germany’s Medium Extended Air Defense System Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed-MBDA-Leonardo Team Bids for Germany’s Medium Extended Air Defense System Program

    A team composed of Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland and Leonardo-Finmeccanica has submitted a final proposal to the government of Germany to compete for the development of the Medium Extended Air Defense System, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes Richard Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, told Defense News that the […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Develop Canada's Space-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Develop Canada’s Space-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has been awarded an $11.4 million contract option by Canada’s department of national defense to develop space-based synthetic aperture radar technology for a maritime surveillance project. The radar will be built to support the Polar Epsilon 2 broad-area maritime surveillance system that will utilize Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission, MDA said Thursday. PE2 ground systems are designed to receive and process information from RCM SAR satellites […] More

  • Saab Intros Land-Based Compact Radar Tech Offering; Erik Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Intros Land-Based Compact Radar Tech Offering; Erik Smith Comments

    Saab has released a ground-based compact radar system in the U.S. market in efforts to help military customers address multiple types of threat when they conduct missions. Sweden-based Saab said Monday it will transfer rights to the Giraffe 1X radar that mounts on vehicles, vessels and fixed installations to its subsidiary Saab Defense and Security USA in a push to help address emerging requirements […] More

  • MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars

    Raytheon has received a contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to develop a transition-to-production process that will incorporate Gallium Nitride components onto existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. The company said Friday the initial effort will also support efforts to modernize ballistic missile defense radars through the transition from Gallium Arsenide to GaN technology which will work to boost […] More

  • LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support

    LJT & Associates has received a $54 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to continue to help NASA manage the space agency’s launch facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. NASA said Saturday that JLT will extend the company’s operations support at Wallops Flight Facility from Oct. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018 under the “bridge” contract. Work covers radar, telemetry, logistics, tracking and communication services as well […] More

  • Marine Corps Tests General Dynamics-Made Aviation C2 System; Larry Grove Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Tests General Dynamics-Made Aviation C2 System; Larry Grove Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational test on the General Dynamics-built Common Aviation Command and Control System at a Marine Corps weapons and tactics instructor course in Arizona. General Dynamics said Wednesday the service branch’s Marine Air-Ground Task Force uses the CAC2S platform that visually integrates C2 data collected from aerial and ground-based radar systems […] More