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  • Lockheed Demos 'Fury' UAS in Long-Range Endurance Test Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos ‘Fury’ UAS in Long-Range Endurance Test Missions

    Lockheed Martin has conducted long-range endurance tests on a company-built tactical group 3 unmanned aerial system ahead of low-rate production of the drone. The company said Wednesday its Fury UAS has recorded a flight endurance time of 12 hours while the vehicle operated nearly 100 pounds of payload such as electro-optical/infrared surveillance and multiple signals intelligence systems, satellite communications links and voice […] More

  • General Atomics, Dynetics Land Phase 2 Contracts Under DARPA Gremlins Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, Dynetics Land Phase 2 Contracts Under DARPA Gremlins Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business and Dynetics under the second phase of a program that seeks to develop unmanned aircraft systems that can be launched and retrieved by aircraft carriers. DARPA said Wednesday the Gremlins program’s phase two aims to build and conduct risk-reduction tests of […] More

  • Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and Logos Technologies have conducted an initial flight test of a small tactical unmanned aircraft system equipped with a wide-area motion imagery technology Logos said Wednesday its Redkite sensor was tested aboard an Integrator UAS in Boardman, Oregon, and the demonstration marked the first WAMI integration into a drone’s internal payload bay. Redkite is designed to help operators detect, track and record movement […] More

  • Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract

    Syracuse Research has secured a one-year, $65 million contract to develop, produce, integrate and sustain a counter-unmanned aerial system platform for the U.S. Army under the acceleration phase of a joint-urgent operation need. The company will deliver up to 15 sets of low-slow small UAS integrated defeat system to the military branch under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech

    Lockheed Martin has won a two-year, $27.8 million contract to add a counter-unmanned aerial system feature to the U.S. Army‘s AN/TPQ-53 radar system. The Army Contracting Command received four bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed will perform work in Syracuse, New […] More

  • Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System

    Sentient and the U.S. Coast Guard have tested a company-built airborne maritime search and surveillance system during a live demonstration conducted off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The Visual Detection and Ranging system trial aimed to highlight the system’s capacity to detect objects at a distance and was part of the Coast Guard’s assessment of small UAS technologies and sensors, Sentient said Sept. 29. The company demonstrated […] More

  • Woolpert to Develop Master Plan for Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert to Develop Master Plan for Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport

    Woolpert has received a a contract from the city of Springfield, Ohio to develop a Federal Aviation Administration master plan and layout for the Springfield-Beckley municipal airport to detail the site’s existing configuration. The FAA will primarily fund the project while the city of Springfield and the Ohio Department of Transportation will provide additional financial support, Woolpert said Friday. Woolpert […] More

  • General Atomics Unveils Mechanical Arm for DARPA Gremlins UAS Program; Chris Pehrson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unveils Mechanical Arm for DARPA Gremlins UAS Program; Chris Pehrson Comments

    General Atomics has rolled out a mechanical arm for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Gremlins program in search of a launch-and-recovery system for unmanned aerial systems in-flight, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Sydney Freedberg writes General Atomics built the system catch drones in the air and haul collected units into the back of a cargo aircraft. Chris Pehrson, General […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More