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  • Rockwell Collins Marks 40K ARC-210 Radio Deliveries to US Military; Candace Chesser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Marks 40K ARC-210 Radio Deliveries to US Military; Candace Chesser Comments

    Rockwell Collins has delivered its 40,000th software-based ARC-210 radio to the U.S. military and celebrated this milestone during a ceremony at the company’s Cedar Rapids, Iowa headquarters. The ARC-210 is designed to support joint precision approach and landing system data link, satellite communications integrated waveform and combat net radio systems, Rockwell Collins said Friday. “The delivery of the 40,000th radio continues […] More

  • Scalable Network Technologies to Update, Maintain Radio Emulation Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scalable Network Technologies to Update, Maintain Radio Emulation Platform for Navy

    Scalable Network Technologies has received a five-year, $13.1 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update and maintain a radio simulation and modeling platform. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide technical support services for the Joint Network Emulator software and associated systems under the indefinite-deliver/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur in Culver City and San Diego in California through Nov. 3, 2021. […] More

  • Navy Wants Info on Parachute Insertion Training, Sustainment Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Wants Info on Parachute Insertion Training, Sustainment Sources

    The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center has kicked off a search for potential sources of training and sustainment services for the U.S. Navy’s autonomous static line and military free fall parachute insertion systems. The branch seeks written information on the required services through a sources sought notice published Monday and intends to issue a full solicitation for […] More

  • Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $1.6 million in computer rugged servers from Themis Computer via the company’s reseller Strictly Technology LLC, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the order covers four Themis RES-XR5 1U standard-density rack mounted servers along with shock-mounting kits, cabling, optical transceivers, Gigabit Ethernet switches, disk-on-module data storage and auxiliary […] More

  • Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy

    Metron has won a potential $12.8 million contract to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning system for the U.S. Navy to counter adversarial ISR networks. The Navy will use the C-ISR system to plan coordinated friendly force movement emissions control, denial and deception operations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains an 18-month base period, three optional […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Rick Lober: US Military Can Look to Industry for Commercial Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Rick Lober: US Military Can Look to Industry for Commercial Satcom

    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch and Rick Lober of Hughes Network Systems have recommended the use of commercial systems to help fulfill the government’s satellite requirements as constellations start to age, Space News Magazine reported Oct. 24. Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, told Space News military officials should consider commercial technologies for their broadband communications functions […] More

  • Space News: Harris Radio Receives NSA Clearance for MUOS Satellite Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: Harris Radio Receives NSA Clearance for MUOS Satellite Functions

    Harris Corp. has received a National Security Agency certification for the company’s military radios to support higher-throughput functions of the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System satellites, Space News reported Tuesday. Caleb Henry writes the Falcon 3 AN/PRC-117G backpack-sized radios will use compatibility software patch designed to facilitate the transmission and receipt of voice, video and data transmissions through the MUOS […] More

  • EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts

    EHS Technologies has received two new contracts worth $37 million combined from the U.S. Navy to carry out cybersecurity, engineering and logistics services for two service branch divisions. EHS said one $8 million contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock division covers cybersecurity services to that organization. EHS will perform engineering and logistics support for the Navy’s […] More

  • Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship

    The U.S. Navy will conduct developmental and operational tests of seven Lockheed Martin-built F-35B Lightning II aircraft aboard an amphibious assault ship. Five of the seven F-35B short take-off and vertical-landing variant are scheduled to enter the operational testing phase onboard the USS America (LHA-6) vessel while the remaining two fighter jets will begin the third phase of the shipboard […] More

  • Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System

    Cobham has secured a contract worth more than $10 million to provide multiple waveguide assemblies and components to support Lockheed Martin‘s production of three-dimensional fixed-phase array radars for the U.S. Navy. Cobham said Monday its electronic integrated solutions business will manufacture AN/SPY-1D waveguide systems at a facility in New Hampshire. The AN/SPY-1D is designed to function as the primary air search radar on […] More

  • GTS to Produce Common Processing Tech for Navy Combat Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GTS to Produce Common Processing Tech for Navy Combat Systems

    Global Technical Systems has secured an $18.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce and test 36 common processing system units that will work to help address the computer requirements of various Navy combat systems. The open architecture-based Technical Insertion Twelve Hybrid CPS will comprise an enclosure assembly as well as processing, storage/extraction and input/output subsystems, the […] More

  • Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract

    Lockheed Martin has landed a $60.9 million contract modification to integrate and test the Aegis weapon system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 class ships under the third option year of a previously awarded contract. The company will perform Aegis shipboard integration engineering, support the Ballistic Missile Defense test team and assess AWS elements  through Advanced Capability Build 12, the […] More