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  • Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a 10-month, $18.9 million task order  to install command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. Serco Inc. will support installation of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system on the warship as well as provide satellite communications and C4ISR system modernization services under the order, the […] More

  • LGS Innovations to Update, Relocate US Army C41 Systems in South Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LGS Innovations to Update, Relocate US Army C41 Systems in South Korea

    LGS Innovations has received a five-year contract from the U.S. Army to support the migration of assets from the service branch’s facilities across South Korea to U.S. Army Garrison-Humphreys. The company said Monday it will update and migrate the Army’s command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems to a new network infrastructure at Camp Humphreys as part of the […] More

  • General Dynamics Integrates Link 16 Datalink System on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Export Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Integrates Link 16 Datalink System on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Export Helicopter

    A U.K.-based General Dynamics subsidiary and the former AgustaWestland business unit of Leonardo-Finmeccanica have teamed up to develop and integrate a Link 16 datalink system into the first AW159 Wildcat helicopter export variant. General Dynamics said Thursday its missions systems business in the U.K. worked with Leonardo Helicopters to install the datalink and provide a full command-and-control surveillance system on the […] More

  • CCRi to Develop Analytics-Based GEOINT Data Evaluation Tool Under NGA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CCRi to Develop Analytics-Based GEOINT Data Evaluation Tool Under NGA Contract

    Commonwealth Computer Research Inc. has received a $499,767 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to develop a data analytics-based platform designed to evaluate and identify GEOINT data that has potential value to users. NGA awarded the contract under the first topic of a broad agency announcement for the agency’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT program, NGA said Wednesday. CCRi will […] More

  • Inmarsat, VT iDirect Partner for Satcom Tech R&D; Michele Franci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat, VT iDirect Partner for Satcom Tech R&D; Michele Franci Comments

    Inmarsat has partnered with VT iDirect to form a joint research-and-development group that will work to create satellite communications platforms. The i2 R&D team will work at Inmarsat’s London headquarters to build satcom technology prototypes that have the potential for commercial market deployment, Inmarsat said Wednesday. Both companies expect the i2 group to develop systems that […] More

  • General Atomics Inks Deal With NLR to Fly UAS in Non-Segregated European Airspace; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Inks Deal With NLR to Fly UAS in Non-Segregated European Airspace; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics has signed an agreement with the NLR-Netherlands Aerospace Centre to facilitate the operation of remotely piloted aircraft in non-segregated airspace in Europe. Linden Blue, CEO of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems business, said in a statement released Tuesday the company will leverage NLR’s air traffic control simulation and modeling capabilities to test the potential integration […] More

  • L-3 to Supply Electro-Optical IR Designators for General Atomics Predator XP UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Supply Electro-Optical IR Designators for General Atomics Predator XP UAS

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems unit has ordered electro-optical and infrared designator systems from L-3 Communications’ WESCAM division for installation on a General Atomics-built remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics will integrate L-3’s MX-15D EO/IR designators onto the Predator XP RPA for an international military client, L-3 said Tuesday. The MX-15D features large-aperture, long focal-length optics and patented four-axis gimbal technology designed to support intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon 'Progresses' on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon ‘Progresses’ on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System

    Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business segment, has said the company will continue to collaborate with the U.S. Air Force to further develop a ground control system for GPS satellites, Reuters reported Tuesday. “We feel good about the progress we’ve made,” he told Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal at the Farnborough International Airshow. […] More

  • Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology to Support Air Force's Radio Frequency Comms R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology to Support Air Force’s Radio Frequency Comms R&D Program

    A PAR Technology subsidiary has received a five-year, $5.1 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate to research, develop, test and evaluate radio frequency communications tools. PAR Technology said Tuesday its government systems business will work to help AFRL address RF technical requirements for military vehicles and weapon systems tests at the U.S. Air Force and other Defense Department components. Matt Cicchinelli, […] More

  • L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments

    L-3 Communications has completed system updates to a C-130 military transport aircraft for Argentina under the U.S. Air Force‘s foreign military sales program. The company’s platform integration division refreshed the aircraft’s communication, navigation, air traffic management and critical environmental and power systems, L-3 said Tuesday. The updated C-130 is the first of five aircraft slated for avionics and […] More

  • Honeywell, IAI to Jointly Develop UAS Sense & Avoid System; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, IAI to Jointly Develop UAS Sense & Avoid System; Carey Smith Comments

    Honeywell and Israel Aerospace Industries have forged a partnership to develop a sensor system for IAI’s Heron unmanned aircraft systems product line with funds from the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation. The sense-and-avoid technology will utilize Honeywell’s software, algorithms, hardware and inputs from various sensors contained in a line-replaceable unit to help track nearby aircraft and avoid collision […] More