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  • UK Navy Tests BAE Systems-Built C2 Platform on Astute-Class Submarine Torpedo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Navy Tests BAE Systems-Built C2 Platform on Astute-Class Submarine Torpedo

    The U.K. navy used a BAE Systems PLC-built command-and-control platform to test-fire a torpedo onboard Artful, an Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine. BAE’s submarines business designed and integrated the Common Combat System in partnership with Dell, VMware and Aish Technologies, BAE said Monday. The submarine crew members used the system to process data from the vessel’s sensors, analyze sonar […] More

  • OSIsoft to Install Sensor System at US Intell Agency; Martin Otterson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OSIsoft to Install Sensor System at US Intell Agency; Martin Otterson Comments

    OSIsoft has been selected to install the company’s operations tracking software in a U.S. intelligence agency in an effort to monitor situations at several national facilities. The PI System software will serve as an information technology-operational technology infrastructure to provide situational awareness to the government customer, OSIsoft said Wednesday. OSIsoft will begin installation of the PI System […] More

  • H3 Dynamics Debuts Unmanned Aerial System Built for Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    H3 Dynamics Debuts Unmanned Aerial System Built for Internet of Things

    H3 Dynamics has introduced a new unmanned aerial system the company built for customers seeking to apply the Internet of Things for industrial usage. Dronebox is designed to carry sensors for deployment to aerial locations and perform scheduled tasks as part of an Internet of Things network, H3 Dynamics said Tuesday. The product is scheduled for first market […] More

  • NOAA Receives 2nd Lockheed-Built Lightning Mapper for GOES-S Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Receives 2nd Lockheed-Built Lightning Mapper for GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has handed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the second Geostationary Lightning Mapper for integration with NOAA’s second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The GLM sensor will fly onboard the GOES-S spacecraft and will work to monitor lightning from geostationary orbit in order to detect and provide warnings on tornadoes, storms and other severe […] More

  • Elbit Gets $50M Order for Airborne ISR Platform; Bezhalel Machlis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Gets $50M Order for Airborne ISR Platform; Bezhalel Machlis Comments

    Elbit Systems will provide a full-scale airborne intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance platform to an Asia-Pacific customer under a three-year, $50 million contract. The company said Dec. 22 the airborne platform will build on the customer’s existing electro-optical cameras and sensors by Elbit with synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator technology by ELTA Systems. Elbit Systems […] More

  • Tom Vice: Northrop Eyes Heat Management For Future 6th Gen Fighter Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Vice: Northrop Eyes Heat Management For Future 6th Gen Fighter Aircraft

    A Northrop Grumman executive has said the company’s concept for the future sixth-generation fighter jet will work to manage heat that sensors and weapons produce, Flight Global reported Saturday. Stephen Trimble writes Tom Vice, vice president at Northrop’s aerospace systems business, demonstrated the concept for the new combat plane as the defense contractor prepares to compete […] More

  • MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a.i. solutions a potential three-year, $73 million contract to provide engineering, consulting and mission assurance support services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers risk management quality assurance process, system fielding, sustainment, ground and flight tests, configuration management, parts, and test anomaly and technical risk […] More

  • Lockheed, EOS Build Space Debris Tracking Facility in Australia; Ben Greene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, EOS Build Space Debris Tracking Facility in Australia; Ben Greene Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems have begun construction on a new facility in Australia that seeks to help government and industry satellite operators track and monitor orbital space debris objects. The tracking facility will work to help prevent collisions of satellite payloads with debris objects in space, Lockheed said Tuesday. The new site will house […] More

  • Leidos Subcontracts Thales for Testing, Integration Work on NATO Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subcontracts Thales for Testing, Integration Work on NATO Missile Defense System

    Thales has received a subcontract from Leidos to help validate NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. Thales will design and test interfaces with NATO’s sensors and weapons, provide integration services and evaluate the BMD system on the integrated test bed under the subcontract, Thales said Friday. The work is part of a potential $77 million contract […] More

  • NASA Picks 19 Firms for 22 Space Tech Projects; Steve Jurczyk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 19 Firms for 22 Space Tech Projects; Steve Jurczyk Comments

    NASA has formed public-private partnerships with 19 companies for 22 research projects under two solicitations that seek to advance the development of new space platforms intended for human and robotic exploration missions. “These awards enable us to continue to foster partnerships with the commercial space sector that not only leverage capabilities to meet NASA’s strategic […] More

  • Raytheon Completes Sonar Platform Delivery to DARPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes Sonar Platform Delivery to DARPA

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos. MS3 is an open architecture-based platform designed to perform torpedo warning, search-and-tracking and small-object […] More

  • Israel Aerospace Industries Unveils Drone Detection, Disruption System; Nissim Hadas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Israel Aerospace Industries Unveils Drone Detection, Disruption System; Nissim Hadas Comments

    Israel Aerospace Industries launched a new drone detection, identification and disruption system at the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition in October in efforts to address the potential threat of drones. The company said Oct. 19 that Drone Guard features three-dimensional radars, electro-optical sensors and electronic attack jamming systems made by IAI subsidiary ELTA Systems to identify and disrupt enemy drones. “We believe that […] More