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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.
Northrop Grumman is set to hand over this year two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems to the U.S. Navy as the service intends to replace its fleet of P-3C Orion and EP-3E Aries II aircraft that work to perform maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The Navy will test the two Triton […] More
A Northrop Grumman-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft equipped with an aerial refueling system completed its first in-flight fuel transfer mission in July alongside a U.S. Navy KC-130 Hercules tanker. Northrop said Tuesday pilots conducted 10 dry plugs and two wet plugs throughout the four-hour flight transferring approximately 1,700 pounds of fuel to the tactical airborne early […] More
Maxar Technologies’ SSL business has received a contract to deliver a communications satellite to Brazil-based Embratel Star One. SSL said Monday the Star One D2 satellite will work to provide broadband coverage and information services to businesses and clients in Central America, Mexico, South America and other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite is […] More
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its navigation platform designed to guide military aircraft and aerial weapon systems to maritime and ground targets without using GPS signals. The company said Monday it teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to test the capability of its All Source Adaptive […] More
Lockheed Martin has won a potential $43.2 million contract to design an underwater platform as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program. The Navy seeks an XLUUV platform equipped with a reconfigurable payload bay that will work to help the service branch launch, recover, operate and communicate with the system from a home […] More
General Atomics has embarked on a project to incorporate automation-based disruptive technology into the Reaper unmanned aircraft system as the company aims to increase the aircraft’s performance, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Darren Moe, senior director of automation and UX mission systems at General Atomics, told the publication the modernization effort covers flight, ground and intelligence components of […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Black Box a potential $4.8 million contract to modernize a telecommunication network architecture at the service branch’s air station in North Carolina. Black Box said Wednesday it will update the architecture at MCAS Cherry Point into a unified communications platform as part of the Marine Corps’ efforts to modernize its command, control, communications, computing and […] More
The U.S. Army has issued a special notice inviting non-members to join the Vehicular Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare interoperability program. According to a notice published Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website, the initial set of VICTORY standard specifications have started to be implemented on commercial vendors, U.S. Army and Marine […] More
An Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary has developed a three-dimensional radar system designed to support air surveillance and defense operations in a European NATO member country. IAI said Tuesday its ELTA Systems business produced and integrated an undisclosed quantity of mobile 3D radars into the customer’s national and NATO air and missile defense system. The radar is built to aid […] More
A business group within Comtech Telecommunications‘ government solutions segment has received a $7.5 million order to provide troposcatter equipment for deployment to U.S. Army operations across the Korean Peninsula. Comtech said Tuesday its systems unit will produce major components of the troposcatter equipment that the command and control technologies group will deliver to the service branch. Fred Kornberg, Comtech […] More
ManTech International has secured a potential five-year, $45.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer training support services to the U.S. Navy‘s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop and implement online computer-based virtualized tools to aid SSC Pacific training on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and […] More
Airbus Group‘ defense and space business has awarded Israel Aerospace Industries a contract to supply multimode radar systems for integration into Canada’s future maritime surveillance aircraft. The Canadian government ordered 16 C295 MSA units from Airbus that will be equipped with ELM-2022A radars from IAI’s ELTA Systems subsidiary, IAI said Monday. ELM-2022 works to detect, track, classify and identify maritime […] More
