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  • Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Toyon Research Corp. a potential five-year, $22.8 million contract to provide to produce AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid  Tiger II pod system hardware. Toyon will also provide AN/ALQ-231 incidental engineering and modification services for electronic warfare and attack communications jamming airborne and ground-based systems and laboratories, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division obligated […] More

  • France, Italy Ink Aster 30 Missile Development Pact; Antoine Bouvier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France, Italy Ink Aster 30 Missile Development Pact; Antoine Bouvier Comments

    Italian defense minister Roberta Pinotti and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian have signed an agreement to facilitate collaboration on the development of the Aster 30 Block 1 NT missile. MBDA said Tuesday France and Italy will work to update the Aster 30 missile and its SAMP/T system through the cooperation arrangement pact in order to develop […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Encapsulation Work on Navy MUOS-5 Satellite; Mark Woempner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Encapsulation Work on Navy MUOS-5 Satellite; Mark Woempner Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed the encapsulation of a fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite designed for military communications into a launch vehicle fairing platform. MUOS-5 is scheduled to take off June 24 onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket and would be the final satellite to complete the U.S. Navy’s network constellation, Lockheed said in […] More

  • SES GS-O3b Team Delivers Managed Satellite Service to Support NWS Weather Data Sharing Operations; Pete Hoene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES GS-O3b Team Delivers Managed Satellite Service to Support NWS Weather Data Sharing Operations; Pete Hoene Comments

    SES Government Solutions has partnered with O3b Networks to install the latter company’s managed satellite service at a National Weather Service office in American Samoa under a task order. The task order under NOAA’s Worldwide Satellite Communications Systems II contract covers the installation of O3b’s terminals, ground segment network and radomes in order to provide high-speed data connectivity to NWSO […] More

  • Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force's Common Ground Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force’s Common Ground Weapon System

    Woburn, Massachusetts-based human centered technology engineering company Aptima has received a $12.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a virtual training environment for the military branch’s Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima said Wednesday the DCGS virtual training system will be built to help the Air Force produce actionable intelligence from a global network of systems and sensors. “By simulating the […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts Flight Test of Predator C Avenger Remotely Piloted Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Conducts Flight Test of Predator C Avenger Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flown its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft with a United Technologies-built MS-177 electro-optical/infrared sensor. Seven test flights occurred at the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California that had the Avenger gather land-based and littoral objects imagery through the MS-177 sensor at more than 37,000 feet Mean Sea Level altitudes, General Atomics […] More

  • Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016

    Thales has introduced at the Eurosatory 2016 trade exhibition a software-defined broadband tactical radio designed to support command, control, computers, communications and intelligence systems. The Thales-built Synaps radio communications platform is based on Contact, a software-defined radio that the French defense procurement agency ordered for use by the country’s armed forces starting in 2019, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio

    Harris has added the RF-7850S wideband secure personal radio to the company’s Falcon III line of tactical radios built to offer networked voice, data and situational awareness in a single platform for warfighters. The company said Monday RF-7850S succeeds the RF-7800S SPR team radio and is designed to deliver optimized waveform and spectrum flexibility and power. Matt Nearpass, a product management director for global […] More

  • MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor

    Logos Technologies and MAG Aerospace have conducted an airborne test on the RedKite wide-area motion imagery sensor in Carthage, North Carolina, to check the sensor’s video streaming functions. The sensor was aboard a Cessna 206 turboprop aircraft during the test and was able to send a live-streaming video to ground personnel’s Android tablets, Logos said Thursday. RedKite is […] More

  • IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a research-and-development sources sought notice that seeks to obtain information from industry on potential support to help build an undersea drone. IARPA says it unveiled the UnderWatch notice seeks information on design, development, test, and demonstration of autonomous underwater vehicles; as well as sensing systems for automated detection, classification and localization […] More

  • Textron's Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments

    Textron has recorded more than 1 million flight hours for the Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system since the company launched the aerial vehicle in 1999. The company said Tuesday Shadow became the only UAS of its size to accomplish the feat and that more than 85 percent of the drone’s flights occurred during combat operations. Shadow TUAS supports the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Special Operations Command […] More

  • BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes

    The U.S. Air Force has started to field a BAE Systems-built laser-guided rocket technology on the service branch’s F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to support ongoing combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It marks the first time that BAE’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System has been deployed on fixed-wing Air Force aircraft, the company said Wednesday. “The APKWS fixed-wing fielding […] More