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  • Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for potential industry sources of a suite of machine-to-machine software programs that the service branch can use in battlefield air operations. The Air Force plans to incorporate data gathered through a request for information posted April 29 into the Air Force Special Operations Command’s Increment III Capabilities Development document set for […] More

  • Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have agreed to jointly explore autonomous and robotic technologies under a partnership agreement the parties signed Friday. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the university’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage the university’s faculty and students in human-machine teaming and navigation […] More

  • Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments

    The U.S. Navy has selected an AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft system for deployment from submarines to operate in anti-access and aerial denial environments. AeroVironment built Blackwing for a joint capability technology demonstration sponsored by the Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command known as Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets, AeroVironment said Monday. Kirk Flittie, vice president and general manager for AeroVironment’s […] More

  • Navy Vet Andy Von Stauffenberg Opens Unmanned, Robotics Systems Integration Company - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Vet Andy Von Stauffenberg Opens Unmanned, Robotics Systems Integration Company

    Andy Von Stauffenberg, a former U.S. Navy aviation electrician and Northrop Grumman engineer, has launched VStar Systems — a systems integration company that specializes in robotics and unmanned aerial systems for government and commercial clients. In a VStar press release posted Thursday, Stauffenberg said he established the company in 2015 to offer integration services for UAV customers. “There are hundreds of […] More

  • Phil Alvarez: Raytheon Expects to Complete Development Work on Digital TOW Launcher in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phil Alvarez: Raytheon Expects to Complete Development Work on Digital TOW Launcher in 2018

    Phil Alvarez, a Raytheon official, has said the company has built a launcher system designed for tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided missiles, Defense News reported Wednesday. Jen Judson writes Alvarez, a senior manager for missile systems at Raytheon, described the TOW Eagle Fire launcher platform at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference in Amman, Jordan. […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Geospatial Support Services Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Geospatial Support Services Sources

    The U.S. Army seeks information on potential industry sources that can provide geospatial services for the service branch’s office of the assistant chief of staff for installation management. The Army Corps of Engineers said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday that the military branch plans to award a potential five-year, $48.5 million multiple-award contract in support of […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary to Update US Army’s Satellite Antenna Terminals; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary to Update US Army’s Satellite Antenna Terminals; Mike Twyman Comments

    A Cubic subsidiary has been awarded a $5 million contract to integrate new software systems into inflatable satellite antenna terminals for the U.S. Army prior to the terminals’ tests. Cubic said Thursday its GATR Technologies business will perform the engineering services in support of the Army’s Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. Mike Twyman, executive vice president of communications, intelligence and […] More

  • Woolpert-Magnolia River Geospatial JV Awarded Army & Navy Coastal Imagery Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert-Magnolia River Geospatial JV Awarded Army & Navy Coastal Imagery Support Contract

    A joint venture of Woolpert and Magnolia River Geospatial named WMR-532 has been awarded a $10 million contract to provide coastal mapping and charting support for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Naval Oceanographic Office. Woolpert said Tuesday the contract requires the joint venture to deliver bathymetric and topographic lidar and imagery data to the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center […] More

  • Comtech Subsidiary Awarded Military Comm Terminal Design, Installation Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Subsidiary Awarded Military Comm Terminal Design, Installation Contract

    A subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has been awarded a $7 million contract from an identified foreign company to install and design multiple fixed troposcatter terminals in support of military communications between off-shore islands. Dr. Stanton Sloane, president and CEO of Comtech, said in a press release posted Wednesday the troposcatter systems are designed to provide users low latency and beyond-line-of-sight communications backhaul capability, […] More

  • EOIR Technologies to Support Army Radar Systems R&D; Ricardo Lorenzo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EOIR Technologies to Support Army Radar Systems R&D; Ricardo Lorenzo Comments

    EOIR Technologies Inc. has been selected to provide engineering services for the radar systems and identification research and development project of the U.S. Army’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. EOIR will work to manage programs, develop and test systems and assess performance through the acquisition life cycle of the R&D initiative, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Michael Fallon: UK to Order 1st Boeing P-8 Poseidon in Summer 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fallon: UK to Order 1st Boeing P-8 Poseidon in Summer 2016

    The U.K. government plans to order the first of nine Boeing-built P-8 Poseidon aircraft in the summer of 2016 through a contract worth approximately $2.9 billion in support of its maritime surveillance efforts, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Alan Tovey writes Michael Fallon, U.K. defense secretary, made the announcement during a visit to a military installation in […] More

  • LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments

    LGS Innovations has been selected to develop optical communication terminals meant to facilitate communication between two micro-satellites of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in low-Earth orbit. LGS will build a pair of lightweight, low-power laser communication terminals that DARPA plans to launch on the agency’s small satellites as part of the Inter-Satellite Communication Link initiative, the company said Wednesday. “Small satellites […] More