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  • Northrop Demos Mine Hunting Platform With Unmanned Surface Vehicle at UK Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Mine Hunting Platform With Unmanned Surface Vehicle at UK Navy Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a mine hunting platform with an Atlas Elektronik-built unmanned surface vehicle at the Unmanned Warrior Exercise hosted by the U.K. navy in Scotland. The ARCIMS autonomous surface vehicle deployed the Northrop-developed AQS-24B mine hunting tool to perform mine detection, classification and localization functions in a simulated mine field during several mission scenarios […] More

  • Cambridge International Systems Opens New Office in Virginia Beach; Russell Thurston Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cambridge International Systems Opens New Office in Virginia Beach; Russell Thurston Comments

    Cambridge International Systems has opened a new office in Virginia Beach, Virginia where the company will house its Combatant Commands division and the Military Sealift Command information technology engineering and support services program support team. The new office is part of the company’s effort to provide collaborative workspaces to its employees, Cambridge said Friday. Russell Thurston, Cambridge […] More

  • Iridium to Integrate Asset Monitoring Service With Komatsu's Vehicle Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Integrate Asset Monitoring Service With Komatsu’s Vehicle Tracking System

    Iridium has agreed to integrate its asset tracking and monitoring service into vehicle monitoring systems built by Japan-based construction and mining equipment maker Komatsu. McLean, Virginia-based Iridium said Thursday its network will aim to provide real-time vehicle location, health, diagnostics and proactive maintenance data for Komatsu’s KOMTRAX system under the contract. Ichiro Nakano, executive officer and vice president […] More

  • PAR Technology Subsidiary to Operate, Maintain Air Force Global Communication Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Technology Subsidiary to Operate, Maintain Air Force Global Communication Station

    A PAR Technology subsidiary has received a $5.2 million subcontract from Delta Solutions & Strategies to support a U.S. Air Force-run global communication station in Puerto Rico. Rome Research Corp. will operate and maintain USAF’s Air Combat Command High Frequency Global Communication System-Puerto Rico Station, the company said Thursday. HFGCS-PRS is one of the thirteen high-frequency stations designed to […] More

  • CACI to Extend Navy Satcom, Network Support Under Potential $77M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Extend Navy Satcom, Network Support Under Potential $77M Contract

    CACI International has received potential four-year, $77 million for support of communication systems, satellite communications and networks for the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic organization. The company said Wednesday its logistics and technical services will include lifecycle support and integration, training and 24/7 technical work for an estimated 2,500 satellite communication systems around the world. CACI will also […] More

  • Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System

    Sentient and the U.S. Coast Guard have tested a company-built airborne maritime search and surveillance system during a live demonstration conducted off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The Visual Detection and Ranging system trial aimed to highlight the system’s capacity to detect objects at a distance and was part of the Coast Guard’s assessment of small UAS technologies and sensors, Sentient said Sept. 29. The company demonstrated […] More

  • Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments

    Commercial imagery provider Planet has been awarded a $20 million introductory contract to supply small satellite imagery of Earth’s landmass to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA will have access to a global imagery collection called the Planet Feed every 15 days and share the feed with the National System for Geospatial Intelligence and civil federal community, the agency said […] More

  • Kratos to Provide RF Services for DoD-Leased Commercial Bandwidth Under Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Provide RF Services for DoD-Leased Commercial Bandwidth Under Contract Modification

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a $6.2 million contract modification from U.S. Strategic Command to provide radio frequency services for all Defense Department-leased Ku and C-band commercial bandwidth. San Diego-based Kratos said Monday Stratcom’s Joint Functional Component Command for Space awarded the modification that expands RF monitoring, interference detection and geolocation services to European Command, Northern Command, […] More

  • Inmarsat Picks Satcom Direct as Global Aviation Broadband Service Distribution Partner; Frederik van Essen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Picks Satcom Direct as Global Aviation Broadband Service Distribution Partner; Frederik van Essen Comments

    Inmarsat has selected Satcom Direct to serve as a worldwide distribution partner for the former’s broadband connectivity service intended for aircraft and cockpit operations. Satcom Direct will provide the business aviation market with Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband-Safety service under a memorandum of understanding, Inmarsat said Monday. The SwiftBroadband-Safety service is an internet protocol-based service that works to […] More

  • Airbus Taps Intelsat for Commercial Satellite Communication Services; Skot Butler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Taps Intelsat for Commercial Satellite Communication Services; Skot Butler Comments

    An Intelsat subsidiary has received a contract to provide commercial satellite communication services for an Airbus-provided European defense network. This long-term contract renewal will cover selected C- and Ku-band transponders across various Intelsat General satellites that support national and international voice and data applications for end-users. Skot Butler, Intelsat General president, said the company’s satellite systems […] More

  • Hydronalix Lands Navy SBIR Phase III Contract for Micro Underwater Drone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hydronalix Lands Navy SBIR Phase III Contract for Micro Underwater Drone

    The Department of the Navy has awarded Hydronalix a Small Business Innovation Research contract to update a micro unmanned surface vehicle designed to perform situational awareness, communications and mine hunting functions. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps says the SBIR program’s phase III contract calls for Hydronalix to integrate an acoustic communications platform with the […] More

  • Harris, Florida Utility Company Partner to Deploy Digital Communication System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, Florida Utility Company Partner to Deploy Digital Communication System

    Florida Power & Light Company and Harris have partnered to transition the utility firm from an analog radio communication system to an integrated digital communication system. Harris said Thursday its P25 digital network platform will work to support FPL’s operations across Florida and feature Symphony command center dispatch consoles, XL-200P digital handheld radios and BeOn narrowband and broadband integration platform. Harris said […] More