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  • Raytheon-PCO Team to Build Poland Military's Night-Vision Devices; Duane Gooden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-PCO Team to Build Poland Military’s Night-Vision Devices; Duane Gooden Comments

    Raytheon’s missile systems business and optoelectronic devices manufacturer PCO S.A. have teamed up to design and produce night-vision goggles for Poland’s uniformed personnel and international military forces. Raytheon said Wednesday the letter of intent with the Poland-based company also covers the development of surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance platforms and concept design and production of hardware, optics […] More

  • Northrop, Navy Subject Fire Scout to Endurance Flight Test; Jeff Dodge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Navy Subject Fire Scout to Endurance Flight Test; Jeff Dodge Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have carried out an endurance flight test with an unmanned helicopter at Naval Base Venture County in Point Mugu, California. The company said Tuesday the MQ-8C Fire Scout system flew for 11 hours with more than an hour in fuel reserve. “Endurance flights provide a full evaluation of the MQ-8C Fire Scout […] More

  • Spain to Acquire AeroVironment Raven Drones; Kirk Flittie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spain to Acquire AeroVironment Raven Drones; Kirk Flittie Comments

    The U.S. Army has awarded AeroVironment a $3.4 million contract to produce small unmanned airborne systems for Spain’s defense ministry. AeroVironment secured the contract for the RQ-11B Raven UAS through a foreign military sales program, the company said Thursday. The drone has a 4.2-pound wingspan and is designed for use in low-altitude surveillance, intelligence and […] More

  • Lockheed Receives First Materion-Built Cast Components for F-35 EOTS; W. Glenn Maxwell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives First Materion-Built Cast Components for F-35 EOTS; W. Glenn Maxwell Comments

    Materion Beryllium & Composites has handed over an initial batch of aluminum-beryllium casting products to Lockheed Martin after the Materion Corp. subsidiary secured first-article inspection approval. Lockheed will integrate the Materion-made AlBeCast aluminum-beryllium components with its Electro-Optical Targeting System onboard F-35 fighter jets, Materion said Tuesday. Lockheed’s EOTS has infrared sensors designed to help F-35 pilots carry out reconnaissance operations […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-16 Targeting Pods for Taiwan Air Force; Marc Nazon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-16 Targeting Pods for Taiwan Air Force; Marc Nazon Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract to build and install two Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods aboard the Taiwan air force’s F-16 fighter planes. The Sniper ATP platform will work to provide Taiwan air force pilots a visual tool for use in intelligence, precision targeting, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Marc Nazon, Sniper international program manager at Lockheed, […] More

  • Northrop Holds Discussion on C4ISR Platforms; Kathy Warden, Gloria Flach Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Holds Discussion on C4ISR Platforms; Kathy Warden, Gloria Flach Comment

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated several command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms designed to help uniformed personnel counter threats in the battlespace. The company presented its Citadel battle command system, Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, Enterprise Airborne Gateway Network, Scalable Agile Beam Radar and other C4ISR tools during a media briefing held at its […] More

  • US Air Force Seeks ISR Technical Concept Papers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Air Force Seeks ISR Technical Concept Papers

    The U.S. Air Force is seeking technical concept papers from vendors as part of the service’s move to develop intelligence and cyber systems. In a broad agency announcement released Wednesday, the Air Force wants companies to submit ideas that address kill chain integration in order to detect threats. The Air Force requires concepts that aim […] More

  • Army Taps CyberLink to Build Aircraft Surveillance Video Processing Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps CyberLink to Build Aircraft Surveillance Video Processing Tech

    The U.S. Army has awarded CyberLink a contract of an undisclosed value to develop customized tools for the military service to edit and process surveillance data from OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters. CyberLink said Tuesday the military branch sought a technology that can manage multiple video data formats in Windows military computers designed to run the […] More

  • Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market

    New analysis from Research and Markets has forecast a 4.52 percent year-over-year growth for the $102 billion C4ISR market from 2014 to 2020. The market report singled out the electro-optics subsector fueling demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment in the defense, aerospace and homeland security segments, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Electro-optics is used […] More

  • ReportsnReports Forecasts $133B C4ISR Global Market by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports Forecasts $133B C4ISR Global Market by 2020

    The global market for C4ISR – short for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — is forecast to become a $133 billion industry by 2020, new research from ReportsnReports says. The market analysts said Monday that it expects the segment, currently valued at $102 billion, to have a compound annual growth rate of 4.52 percent […] More

  • Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise

    A joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises LLC has kicked off operational testing for its reconnaissance aircraft during a Northern Command and Kansas National Guard training exercise. Textron AirLand LLC’s Scorpion aircraft provided multi-spectral full motion video and communications with other aircraft and ground stations at VIGILANT GUARD 2014 from Aug. 4 to […] More

  • Switzerland Picks Elbit UAS for Reconnaissance Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Switzerland Picks Elbit UAS for Reconnaissance Program

    Elbit Systems has been chosen by Switzerland’s defense agency to provide the country’s military with an unmanned aerial system that is built to support reconnaissance operations. Switzerland department of defense, civil protection and sports has picked the company’s Hermes 900 HFE drone system to replace the country’s existing tactical UAS platform, the agency said Friday. […] More