C4ISR News

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.

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  • Inmarsat, AeroVironment Support NOAA-Coast Guard Ice Obstruction Clearing Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat, AeroVironment Support NOAA-Coast Guard Ice Obstruction Clearing Mission

    Inmarsat has provided communications support to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led team in efforts to break a channel of Antarctic sea ice to help ships deliver supplies to a U.S. research center located on Ross Island. Operation Deep Freeze 2016 used the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to create a “superhighway” that will allow oil tankers and cargo ships to resupply fuel and food items to the […] More

  • Unisys Gets National Weather Service Radar Data Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Gets National Weather Service Radar Data Contract Extension

    Unisys Corp. has received a two-year contract extension to continue its supply of real-time radar data to the National Weather Service in an effort to aid in NWS’ forecasting activities. Unisys will gather radar information from multiple sources into a single interface to help meteorologists predict severe weather, Unisys said Wednesday. The company has worked with […] More

  • DSIT Lands Two-Year Contract for Hull Mounted Sonar Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSIT Lands Two-Year Contract for Hull Mounted Sonar Systems

    DSIT Solutions has secured a two-year, $7.1 million contract from an undisclosed naval organization to deliver hull mounted sonar systems. DSIT said Tuesday that it will offer its Blackfish HMS system designed to support littoral and anti-submarine warfare operations. DSIT CEO Benny Sela said the award supports the company’s strategic decision to invest in hull mounted sonar […] More

  • Orbital ATK, MDA Test Rocket Motor Nozzle on Raytheon's SM-3 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, MDA Test Rocket Motor Nozzle on Raytheon’s SM-3

    Orbital ATK and the Missile Defense Agency have demonstrated the company’s updated MK 136 Third Stage Rocket Motor nozzle aboard Raytheon‘s Standard Missile Block IB at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The company said Tuesday the missiles were fired from a Navy Aegis destroyer off the coast of Kauai to test the updated nozzle’s support for […] More

  • Navy Reviews Northrop's Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Reviews Northrop’s Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More

  • Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers

    Rockwell Collins has supplied 1,400 anti-jamming and anti-spoofing GPS receivers to the U.S. Air Force‘s Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command under a follow-on order. The company said Monday its Remote Secure Receivers are designed with the Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module that works to help military personnel secure their smartphones, tablets, radios and vehicle computing systems. Rockwell Collins has built and […] More

  • Steve Gizinski: Inmarsat-Spectra Group Alliance Creates Satellite Service for Tactical Mobile Comms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Gizinski: Inmarsat-Spectra Group Alliance Creates Satellite Service for Tactical Mobile Comms

    Inmarsat and Spectra Group have partnered to develop a mobile satellite service intended to help military customers facilitate ultra and very high-frequency tactical communications. Steve Gizinski, vice president of special programs at Inmarsat’s U.S. government business unit, wrote in a blog post published Monday the L-band Tactical Satellite platform works  to provide data and voice connectivity for military users. He noted […] More

  • Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy

    Harris subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $12.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and software support equipment for multiple airborne countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Monday Exelis will support the Navy’s AN/ALQ-165 self-protection jammers, AN/ALQ-214 integrated defensive electronic countermeasures as well as the service branch’s aircraft self-protection and software modernization projects. […] More

  • Inmarsat Subsidiary Provides Satellite Services Support to Antarctic Island Expedition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Subsidiary Provides Satellite Services Support to Antarctic Island Expedition

    An Inmarsat subsidiary has delivered its Broadband Global Area Network satellite services to support non-profit organization Cordell Expeditions‘ remote island exploration in the Antarctic Ocean. Inmarsat Government said Thursday the three-week mission aimed to study Heard Island’s volcanic environment and test satellite communications in isolation and extreme Antarctic weather. BGAN worked to aid the expedition’s radio propagation analysis, […] More

  • DARPA Picks 8 Firms to Support Phase 2 of UAS Collaborative Autonomy R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 8 Firms to Support Phase 2 of UAS Collaborative Autonomy R&D Project

    Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform system integration work for the second phase of the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program. The CODE program aims to develop collaborative autonomy algorithms and open software architectures designed to help a single commander stimulate unmanned aircraft systems to perform both individual […] More

  • General Atomics, Fokker to Collaborate on Predator UAV Landing Gear Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, Fokker to Collaborate on Predator UAV Landing Gear Development

    A General Atomics subsidiary has partnered with Fokker Technologies, a division of GKN Aerospace, to develop landing gear technology for the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system. Netherlands-based Fokker and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. have worked together to offer Predator B to the Dutch armed forces and aim to integrate Fokker’s technology onto the UAV as the companies anticipate a potential drone procurement by […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts 37-Hour Flight Test on Predator B Big-Wing UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Conducts 37-Hour Flight Test on Predator B Big-Wing UAV

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business flew its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing unmanned aerial vehicle for 37 hours non-stop as part of a follow-on endurance flight test program. The test simulated an operational mission to check the modified UAV’s flight time and its launch, operational altitude climb, loiter and reconnaissance maneuvering functions, General Atomics said Wednesday. Results indicated […] More