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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
ExecutiveBiz provides the latest news regarding Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) from the industry’s top players. This section is dedicated to providing news about technologies that are crucial to warfighters.
The U.S. Army has announced plans to award a contract for electronic warfare technologies that will be used for unmanned aircraft systems, C4ISRnet reported Friday. Work under the contract will be done in support of the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare program, an effort aiming to provide EW capacities for the Army’s brigade combat teams. Based on the DoD’s fiscal 2019 […] More
A weather satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S system will be called GOES-17 once it reaches the geostationary orbit within two weeks and will undergo a checkout and validation phase […] More
The Canadian department of national defense has selected a team of AeroVironment and Maxar Technologies‘ MDA subsidiary to provide small unmanned aerial systems for deployment aboard the Canadian navy’s maritime coastal defense vessels. AeroVironment said Wednesday the military service will receive Puma II AE mini UAS equipped with 360-degree antenna and Mantis i45 sensor systems designed to support […] More
Raytheon has received a potential $87.1 million contract to supply updated high definition/target location accuracy turrets to the U.S. Air Force and France. The Defense Department said Wednesday the fixed-price-incentive contract covers the production of 44 AN/DAS-4 AN/DAS-4 Multi-Spectral Targeting System Model B turrets as well as one lot of initial spares, shop replaceable units, associated data. The […] More
Leidos has received a five-year, $25.4 million contract to sustain an automated platform the U.S. Air Force uses to monitor the global supply chain of command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance weapons systems. The company will provide software maintenance and minor modification support for the Automated Logistics Management Support system under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has said the company is likely to launch on March 29 the fifth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceNews reported Monday. Desch, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, added the company expects subsequent launches to occur every five to six weeks to complete the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. The sixth […] More
General Dynamics‘ information technology business has won a potential $53.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support services to help address command and control requirements within the Joint Staff J6 Directorate. GDIT will provide research, development, technical, engineering and analytical support services to the J6 organization’s command, control, communications and computers assessments division, the Defense […] More
Saab has unveiled a new airborne surveillance platform the company built for United Arab Emirates as part of an aircraft development and production contract awarded in 2015. The company said Friday its GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft is derived from Bombardier‘s Global 6000 model and equipped with an extended-range Erieye radar technology. GlobalEye is designed to support […] More
Boeing‘s Digital Receiver Technology subsidiary has secured a $23.8 million contract to provide ruggedized surveillance equipment and peripherals to the U.S. Navy‘s Combat Direction Systems Activity Dam Neck. The Defense Department said Thursday that CDSA Dam Neck will use the equipment in engineering, technical design and acquisition activities. The service branch will obligate $30,610 in initial contract funds slated to expire at the […] More
A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary and the Air National Guard have wrapped up an operational evaluation of an airborne reconnaissance platform aboard the General Atomics-built MQ-9 Reaper drone. The 174th attack wing of the New York Air National Guard conducted the assessment of UTC Aerospace Systems’ DB-110 aerial sensor in fall 2017 to evaluate the platform’s use in delivering […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a potential five-year, $81 million contract to supply unmanned drone systems to a U.S. government agency. The company said Tuesday it will also provide command, control and communications services to the customer agency through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said the company’s unmanned systems division […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes an integrated satellite communications architecture should incorporate industry’s technological advancements to change the cultural misperception about military and commercial satcom. “For space programs, it remains imperative to incorporate advancements from the commercial sector into the baseline [Defense Department] architecture as a […] More
