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  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Nonsurgical Human-Machine Comms Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Nonsurgical Human-Machine Comms Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on April 3 in Arlington, Virginia to discuss a program that seeks to develop human-machine communications technologies that will not require surgery. DARPA said Friday the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program, or N3, will explore noninvasive ways to connect able-bodied service members’ neurons with devices. Existing brain-machine […] More

  • Report: Marine Corps Partners With Industry to Demo Drone Supply Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Marine Corps Partners With Industry to Demo Drone Supply Delivery

    The U.S. Marine Corps has collaborated with companies to develop a supply delivery system that uses unmanned aerial vehicles, GCN reported Thursday. The Hive Final Mile project, a joint program of the Marine Corps’ Next Generation Logistics arm and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office, seeks to automate the delivery of […] More

  • Boeing Invests in UAV Radar Tech Developer Fortem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Invests in UAV Radar Tech Developer Fortem

    Boeing has made an investment in Fortem Technologies through its ventures arm to help the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company advance the development of radar platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles. Fortem has developed a radar system, TrueView, that works to help drones detect and avoid other aerial objects and perform package delivery, cargo transport, infrastructure inspections […] More

  • Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars

    Lockheed Martin has begun to develop a new missile designed to target and destroy incoming projectiles through the use of a radar system and kinetic energy, the New York Post reported Friday. The company has recently tested in New Mexico the Miniature Hit to Kill Missile platform, which is based on the technology used in the […] More

  • Lockheed Intros Multi-UAV Control Platform; John Molberg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Intros Multi-UAV Control Platform; John Molberg Comments

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new software platform designed to help operators manage various unmanned aircraft vehicles simultaneously during intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. VCSi is engineered to support operation of multiple dissimilar vehicles at once and modular customization based on mission requirements, the company said Tuesday. John Molberg, manager of business development at Lockheed’s CDL systems unit, […] More

  • Luxriot-Atlas Dynamics Team to Supply Drone-Based Services for Defense, Security and First Responder Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Luxriot-Atlas Dynamics Team to Supply Drone-Based Services for Defense, Security and First Responder Markets

    Atlas Dynamics and Luxriot have teamed up to create drone-based products and services for first-responders, defense and security markets. Atlas Dynamics said Monday it will combine its autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle expertise with the Luxriot Evo Video Management Software to develop technologies that can impact the aforementioned markets. Ainars Svirskis, business development manager at Luxriot, said […] More

  • Air Force May Hand Over Some Predator UAVs to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force May Hand Over Some Predator UAVs to Navy

    The U.S. Navy may take on some of the U.S. Air Force’s General Atomics-built MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles as the latter prepares to transition to the MQ-9 Reaper drone by the end of 2018, The War Zone reported Monday. “There are a number of possibilities as to where they could go, including Air Force museums,” […] More

  • Kraken Robotics Evaluates Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar System on Navy Autonomous Underwater Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kraken Robotics Evaluates Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar System on Navy Autonomous Underwater Tech

    Kraken Robotics has integrated and tested a new real-time synthetic aperture sonar system aboard a U.S. Navy Remus 600 autonomous underwater vehicle in Rhode Island. The company said Thursday its Aquapix miniature SAS technology features capacities to support minehunting operations at ranges up to 10 times more than traditional side scan sonar technologies. The SAS […] More

  • Boeing Develops Unmanned VTOL Aerial Platform to Test Autonomous Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Develops Unmanned VTOL Aerial Platform to Test Autonomous Tech

    Boeing has revealed a new electric unmanned aerial vehicle prototype developed to serve as a test bed for the company’s future autonomous and electric propulsion technologies. The company said Wednesday it designed the vertical-takeoff-and-landing, multi-copter UAV platform to accommodate logistics and cargo payload of up to 500 pounds. The 747-pound unmanned cargo air vehicle is equipped […] More

  • Research and Markets: Manufacturing Tech Advancement to Drive Global Drone Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Manufacturing Tech Advancement to Drive Global Drone Market

    Research and Markets has projected that technological advancements in the production of military and commercial drones will help fuel the worldwide drone market’s growth to $16.7 billion in value by 2022. The company said Wednesday that efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulatory agencies to formulate policies that support use of military unmanned aerial […] More

  • Northrop to Implement Army 'Hunter' UAV Engineering Change Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Implement Army ‘Hunter’ UAV Engineering Change Proposal

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $12.7 million contract modification to incorporate an engineering change proposal into the payload technology of the U.S. Army‘s Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop will perform work in Sierra Vista, Arizona through Oct. 20, 2018. The Army Contracting Command obligated $6.2 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal year […] More

  • BAE, University of Manchester Test Small UAV With Blown-Air System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, University of Manchester Test Small UAV With Blown-Air System

    BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have jointly conducted the first phase of flight tests with a small unmanned aerial vehicle that works to maneuver using a blown-air system. The company said Wednesday that MAGMA UAV’s blown-air system is designed to eliminate the need for mechanical moving parts used to control aircraft during flight, as well as optimize the speed […] More