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  • Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge

    Engility has awarded a $25,000 prize to Optensity as the winner of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge 2016 for work on an application built to alert users on location-based threats and identifications of safe locations. Engility said Wednesday it worked with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to create the IGAPP challenge in an effort to connect commercial vendors with government agencies that are […] More

  • Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device

    Battelle aims to build a third version of the nonprofit’s rifle-like device that works to jam GPS and command-and-control and GPS systems used to fly unmanned aircraft systems, IHS Jane’s 360 reported Tuesday. Geoff Fein writes the current DroneDefender system is powered by a nearly 10-pound battery inside a backpack and designed to neutralize UAS that weighs less than 55 pounds and operates at a speed of less […] More

  • MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship

    The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Pacific […] More

  • Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany's P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany’s P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has received a $54.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update mission computers, armament and ordnance systems, displays and controls and acoustic equipment on eight P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes for Germany. The P-3C Mission System Refresh Program will cover long-lead items procurement, non-recurring engineering, design and build, integration, planning and software development services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed’s […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a $18.2 million contract to design, test and deliver a cryocooler for NASA’s Landsat-9 spacecraft. Ball Aerospace will build two stages of cooling materials into the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 instrument Cryocooler, NASA said Tuesday. The first cooling stage will be for a layer of thermal shielding and the […] More

  • Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More

  • FEMA Taps UltiSat to Support Contingency Satellite Services Project; Moe Abutaleb Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FEMA Taps UltiSat to Support Contingency Satellite Services Project; Moe Abutaleb Comments

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a task order to UltiSat for services to support the agency’s Contingency Satellite Services Project. The company will deliver satellite services that work to meet operational communications requirements for FEMA response and recovery missions along with network support for training, testing and operations, UltiSat said Monday. UltiSat CEO Moe Abutaleb […] More

  • Insitu's ScanEagle in Running for Coast Guard UAS-Ship Integration Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu’s ScanEagle in Running for Coast Guard UAS-Ship Integration Contract

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary is offering an unmanned aircraft system to the U.S. Coast Guard as the agency works to select a UAS for integration with its ships, Seapower Magazine reported Monday. John Marcario writes the Coast Guard has tested Insitu ScanEagle UAS platforms during land- and NSC-based demonstrations over the last three years as the agency worked to develop plans […] More

  • Saab Unveils Unmanned Sea Wasp Underwater IED Removal Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Unveils Unmanned Sea Wasp Underwater IED Removal Vehicle

    Saab Group has unveiled its Sea Wasp remotely operated vehicle the company built to relocate, identify and neutralize underwater improvised explosive devices and support anti-terrorism operations below the surface. The defense and security company said Tuesday Sea Wasp is based on the Saab Seaeye commercial ROV line and the U.S. Underwater Hazardous Device Response Community’s explosive ordnance disposal purposes and procedures. Sea Wasp […] More

  • Lockheed to Install Compass Systems on UK Navy Ships, Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Install Compass Systems on UK Navy Ships, Submarines

    Lockheed Martin has received an estimated $25 million contract from Britain’s defense ministry to develop and install a new compass system for more than 30 U.K. navy ships and submarines. Lockheed said Tuesday the Navigation Compass Program‘s goal is to install a new solid-state, sensor-based compass system for the U.K. navy’s Type 23 Frigates, Hunt– and Sandown-class mine countermeasure vessels, Trafalgar– […] More

  • Northrop Finishes Preliminary Design Review of Inertial Sensor Module for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Finishes Preliminary Design Review of Inertial Sensor Module for Navy

    Northrop Grumman has completed the preliminary design review of the inertial sensor module in the U.S. Navy‘s WSN-12 Inertial Navigation System Replacement that will succeed the current WSN-7 system. “This is a critical system for both surface and subsurface platforms,” Todd Leavitt, vice president of Northrop’s maritime systems business unit, said Monday. He adds that the […] More

  • US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program

    The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has introduced a new certification program for U.S. and international GEOINT professionals across industry, military, academia and government. USGIF officially unveiled the the Universal GEOINT Certification Program during the general session at its GEOINT 2016 Symposium, USGIF said Monday. The certification program requires three exams for applicants to obtain the GIS […] More