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  • Raytheon's Thomas Kennedy: DoD-Industry Collaboration Essential to Address Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: DoD-Industry Collaboration Essential to Address Cyber Threats

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy said at an Aerospace Industry Association event held on Capitol Hill that the Defense Department and companies should partner in efforts to fix potential cyber vulnerabilities in military systems and develop future professionals to support cyberharderning efforts. He also called on DoD policymakers and industry leaders to collaborate to help small and medium businesses comply with […] More

  • Raytheon to Support Army Airborne Surveillance Sensor, Defense Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support Army Airborne Surveillance Sensor, Defense Systems

    The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a potential five-year, $48 million contract to perform support work on the military branch’s cooperative aviation surveillance sensor and man-portable air defense systems. Raytheon will support AN/UPR-3 CASS and Avenger/Stinger MANPADS along with AN/TPX-57(V)2, AN/TPX-58(V)1, AN/TPX-59 and ADI KIV-77 subassemblies, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command will determine funds […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has received a $10 million order to manufacture soldier wearable shooter detection systems for an unidentified Gulf country. BBN Technologies aims to deliver 2,000 Boomerang Warrior-X units to the customer over the next 12 months, Raytheon said Thursday. Boomerang is designed to help warfighters gain situational awareness of hostile fires or sniper attacks and provide […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays

    Raytheon has been chosen to deliver projectors for digital head-up displays that BAE Systems will install aboard the U.S. Air Force‘s F-22 Raptor aircraft. The Digital Light Engine HUDs will replace traditional analog displays on the fighter aircraft and help pilots gain situational awareness, Raytheon said Tuesday. Lockheed Martin awarded BAE a contract in January to modernize F-22 HUDs for the […] More

  • Raytheon Taps Ducommun to Produce Fire Control Components for Long-Range Missile Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Taps Ducommun to Produce Fire Control Components for Long-Range Missile Tech

    Raytheon has teamed up with Ducommun to develop fire control platforms for the Naval Strike Missile designed for integration with U.S. Navy frigates and littoral combat ships. Production work on the fire control systems is slated to commence later this year at Ducommun’s facilities in Huntsville and Berryville in Arkansas, Raytheon said Monday. NSM is a long-range, […] More

  • Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Air & Missile Defense Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Air & Missile Defense Radar

    The U.S. Navy has performed a simultaneous air and ballistic missile defense flight test with a Raytheon-made air and missile defense radar off the coast of Hawaii on Thursday. The AN/SPY-6(V) radar worked to detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple air-to-surface cruise missile targets during the test, the Navy said Friday. The demonstration […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $38.6 million contract to develop  incremental software that will work to increase the performance of the U.S. Air Force‘s  advanced medium-range air-to-air missile system. The company will provide AIM-120D AMRAAM software to the military branch as part of the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development program,  the Defense Department […] More

  • General Atomics Adds 5 Industry Partners to Team Reaper Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Adds 5 Industry Partners to Team Reaper Australia

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has announced the inclusion of five additional companies to an industry team that will support Australia’s Project Air 7003 that seeks to build a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft platform. Rockwell Collins‘ Australian arm, Airspeed, Ultra Electronics Australia, Quickstep Holdings and TAE Aerospace have joined Team Reaper Australia, General Atomics said Wednesday. Linden Blue, CEO […] 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

  • Technavio: Military Submarine Mast & Antenna Market to Grow at Nearly 6% CAGR Through 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio: Military Submarine Mast & Antenna Market to Grow at Nearly 6% CAGR Through 2021

    A Technavio report forecasts the compound annual growth rate for the global military submarine photonics mast and antenna market will reach nearly 6 percent by 2021 due to a demand for multifunctional antennas and submarine modernization efforts in the defense sector. The research company said Thursday the cost of modular optronics mast, use of short wave infrared technology and […] More

  • Raytheon Exec Stephen Doran Named CEO of UK Compound Semiconductor R&D Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Exec Stephen Doran Named CEO of UK Compound Semiconductor R&D Center

    Stephen Doran, director of operations and transformation at Raytheon‘s U.K. arm, has been appointed as CEO of Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult — a research and development facility backed by the U.K. government. CSA Catapult said Thursday Doran will lead the organization’s efforts to help U.K. businesses exploit emerging compound semiconductor technologies. “[Doran’s] experience will help the […] More

  • Report: Japan Asks US to Equip Aegis BMD System With New Radar Amid North Korean Missile Threat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Japan Asks US to Equip Aegis BMD System With New Radar Amid North Korean Missile Threat

    Japan has asked the U.S. government to use a new radar for integration with a ground-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense platform the East Asian country plans to launch by 2023 in an effort to counter threats posed by North Korea, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters Japan wants to equip the Aegis […] More