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  • Elbit Systems Awarded $150M to Support Australian Battle Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Awarded $150M to Support Australian Battle Mgmt System

    Elbit Systems‘ Australian subsidiary has received a potential $150 million contract to help the Australian defense force manage command and control operations of a battle management system. Elbit Systems of Australia will provide BMS C2 through life support under the contract from Australian defense department’s capability acquisition and sustainment group, the company said Thursday. The contract contains […] More

  • Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $1 million delivery order modification to provide support services to the U.S. Army project manager for tactical networks. The company said Wednesday its command and control technologies group will support communications assets for U.S. expeditionary unit readiness. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO at ComTech, said the company aims to deliver  communications systems to the military’s […] More

  • Connexta to Help Update Air Force's DCGS Integration Backbone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connexta to Help Update Air Force’s DCGS Integration Backbone

    Connexta has won a potential five-year, $83 million contract to develop a fifth version of the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help the service branch develop DIB software and related software as well as support the DCGS/Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise. DCGS is designed to receive, process, […] More

  • Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $12.5 million contract modification to perform engineering work on U.S. Army‘s fleet of Hunter unmanned aircraft systems The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s technical services business in Sierra Vista, Arizona, will perform work through Jan. 17, 2019. Hunter is designed to help Army personnel collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in the battlefield with […] More

  • Saab, Avioniq to Integrate Airborne C2, Threat Analyzer Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab, Avioniq to Integrate Airborne C2, Threat Analyzer Offerings

    Saab has agreed to integrate its air and airborne command-and-control technology offerings with Avioniq Awareness Sweden‘s threat analysis platform. The 9Air and 9Airborne C2 systems will feature the Rattlesnake engine designed to help fighter aircraft controllers recognize adversarial threats beyond visual range in real time, Saab said Tuesday. Saab’s C2 systems are built to support air […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Introduces Program to Help Foster Implementation of Army C4ISR, EW Open Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Introduces Program to Help Foster Implementation of Army C4ISR, EW Open Standards

    Curtiss-Wright‘s defense solutions business has launched a new program which will support a newly established suite of open architecture industry and U.S. Army standards for C4ISR and electronic warfare. The company said Monday it will create reference implementations to help the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center promote the C4ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards for […] More

  • Iridium Eyes March 18 Launch for 5th ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Eyes March 18 Launch for 5th ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications plans to launch on March 18 at 8:19 a.m. Pacific time the fifth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The planned launch would bring the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit to 50 as part of a potential $3 billion program to replace an existing constellation […] More

  • Harris Gets Air Force Contract to Update EW Systems for Int'l F-16 Fleets; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Gets Air Force Contract to Update EW Systems for Int’l F-16 Fleets; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to support software upgrades and engineer electronic warfare systems onboard the F-16 aircraft of eight U.S. allies. The company said Monday it will provide engineering support for versions 4, 8 and 9 of AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite systems. Ed Zoiss, president of Harris’ electronic systems […] More

  • Harris to Support Philippine Military C4ISTAR System Delivery Under Navy FMS Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Support Philippine Military C4ISTAR System Delivery Under Navy FMS Deal

      A Harris subsidiary has received a $44.8 million contract to assist the U.S government in efforts to deliver command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance equipment to the Philippine military. Harris’ RF Communications business will design, engineer and test a joint command and control system of systems for the armed forces of the Philippine under […] More

  • Former Exelis, AIA CEO David Melcher Nominated to Cubic Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Exelis, AIA CEO David Melcher Nominated to Cubic Board

    David Melcher, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, has been nominated to join the board of directors at Cubic. Cubic said Friday Melcher will bring decades of experience working with military and government leaders along with a background in finance, program management and strategy development […] More

  • PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army

    Pacific Star Communications has received authorization from the U.S. Army to begin full-rate production of deployable and tactical communications modules in support of the service’s Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. PacStar’s 400-Series small form factor communication modules are designed to provide baseband networking support for the T2C2 program’s Heavy and Lite satellite terminals that work to provide […] More

  • CACI to Provide Navy C4ISR Technical Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Provide Navy C4ISR Technical Services

    A CACI International business unit has received an $18.2 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to provide technical services to the Naval Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s special communications mission solutions division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modified contract calls for CACI’s integrated security solutions team to perform 224,761 hours of technical support for command, control, […] More