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  • Parsons Lands DTRA Task Order for Phase 2 Lebanon Border Surveillance Project; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands DTRA Task Order for Phase 2 Lebanon Border Surveillance Project; Carey Smith Comments

    Parsons has received a task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to continue to provide surveillance services for land border regiments in Lebanon in support of the country’s Border Security Project. The task order for the project’s second increment was awarded through DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract II and covers equipment delivery and training […] More

  • ACT I Lands OASIS SB Task Order on Air Force Ground Satcom Terminal Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Lands OASIS SB Task Order on Air Force Ground Satcom Terminal Logistics Support

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a five-year, $16 million task order to provide logistics services for the AN/TSC-168 TDC Quad-Band  satellite communications terminal of the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center. ACT I said it will also provide technical and operational assistance as well as warehouse operations support to SMC personnel under the task order. Jeffery Earley, executive […] More

  • BAE Unit to Provide Logistics Support, Incidental Materials for Navy C4I Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Provide Logistics Support, Incidental Materials for Navy C4I Projects

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a one-year, $24.4 million contract modification to a business unit of BAE Systems to provide logistics services and incidental materials for the Naval Air Warfare Center‘s aircraft division. BAE’s technology solutions and services unit will perform 568,551 hours of support for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence projects of NAWCAD’s special communications mission solutions division […] More

  • Lockheed Starts Optical Payload Development for NASA's Dark Energy Research Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts Optical Payload Development for NASA’s Dark Energy Research Programs

    Lockheed Martin has started develop an optical payload that could support NASA‘s research on a mysterious force called dark energy which causes the universe to expand. Lockheed said Thursday NASA selected the company’s Palo Alto, California-based Advanced Technology Center to start the formulation phase of the Wide-Field Optical-Mechanical Assembly. NASA could choose WOMA to serve as the core of the primary […] More

  • FAA Evaluates Tools for Spacecraft Re-Entry Surveillance Via Drone Test Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FAA Evaluates Tools for Spacecraft Re-Entry Surveillance Via Drone Test Flight

    The Federal Aviation Administration has conducted a flight test of a Near Space Corp.-built drone to evaluate how FAA’s surveillance tools could help the agency detect and monitor the return of commercial spacecraft through the National Air Space. NSC used a stratospheric balloon platform to launch and deploy the High Altitude Shuttle System at Tillamook […] More

  • Air Force Reschedules Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Satellite Launch to Friday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Reschedules Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Satellite Launch to Friday

    The U.S. Air Force has pushed back to Friday the launch of a Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite due to range and technical issues, Space News reported Thursday. The Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite was scheduled to take off Thursday from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket but was delayed due […] More

  • Reportlinker: Global C4ISR Market to Grow 2.85% Annually Through 2026 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker: Global C4ISR Market to Grow 2.85% Annually Through 2026

    A new Reportlinker study predicts the worldwide market for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems will grow at a 2.85 percent compound annual growth rate through 2026 due to an increasing demand for interoperable and integrated systems. Reportlinker’s “Global C4ISR Market 2016-2026” report also forecasts the land-based systems segment to dominate the C4ISR market that also covers airborne […] More

  • Air Force to Launch Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Satellite Thursday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Launch Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Satellite Thursday

    The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch a Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite Thursday onboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite will work to perform surveillance operations in support of missile warning and defense, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence missions, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More

  • First Iridium 'NEXT' Satellite Batch Deployed to Space After SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch Deployed to Space After SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

    An initial batch of 10 Iridium Communications satellites launched into space and transmitted signals to ground controllers Saturday in the start of the McLean, Va.-based company’s program to form its 81-strong, second-generation NEXT constellation for government and commercial customers around the world. Saturday’s launch is the first of seven for Elon Musk’s SpaceX outfit to carry out through early 2018 for Iridium in support […] More

  • Northrop-Built Aerial Mine Detection System Reaches Navy Initial Operational Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Aerial Mine Detection System Reaches Navy Initial Operational Capability

    An aerial mine detection platform that Northrop Grumman built for the U.S. Navy has reached initial operational capability. The AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection System works to detect and localize underwater mines through generation of 3-D images via the platform’s pulsed laser light, Mark Skinner, vice president of directed energy at Northrop, said Thursday. ALMDS […] More

  • General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business has said customers in the defense, science and commercial sectors can place an order for an autonomous underwater vehicle through the company’s website. Bluefin SandShark is part of General Dynamics’ Bluefin Robotics suite of underwater drones and is designed to dive down to up to 656 feet and navigate to […] More