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  • Harris Nabs Two Orders From European Customer for Tactical Radio Supply - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Nabs Two Orders From European Customer for Tactical Radio Supply

    Harris has acquired two orders worth an estimated $29 million combined from an undisclosed European customer to provide Falcon tactical radios. The company will supply its Falcon product line, including AN/PRC-152A wideband networking handheld radios, AN/PRC-117G multiband networking manpack radios and AN/PRC-150C HF/VHF tactical radios as part of a standardization program that seeks to address interoperability challenges during coalition operations, […] More

  • General Atomics' Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps

    Chris Pehrson, a senior executive at General Atomics, has told Bloomberg Government that the vast amounts of intelligence data that remotely piloted aircraft’s sensors collect pose a challenge to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. Pehrson said in an interview published Thursday that General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business seeks to address that challenge through […] More

  • Elbit Systems to Deliver Software-Based Tactical Radios to European Customer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems to Deliver Software-Based Tactical Radios to European Customer

    Elbit Systems has secured a three-year, $20 million contract to supply an undisclosed number of mobile radio systems for a Western European client’s tactical communications. The company said Tuesday its software-based E-LynX radio system works to help military users transmit  voice, data and video. “The modern battlefield requires sophisticated networking capabilities for the maneuvering forces as an infrastructure for […] More

  • BAE to Help US Navy Build, Test Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help US Navy Build, Test Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems

    The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $51.9 million to design, develop, test and evaluate air traffic control and landing systems for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. BAE will also provide ATC&LS engineering products and perform up to 706,560 hours of technical support under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Ninety-eight percent of the work […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Auracle Form Global Info Partnership for Mineral Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Auracle Form Global Info Partnership for Mineral Exploration

    DigitalGlobe and Auracle Geospatial Science have forged a global information partnership to provide geospatial services to support mineral, oil and gas exploration activities. Drew Esson, director of DigitalGlobe’s information partner program, said in a statement released Thursday the partnership will merge Auracle’s mining analytics tools and DigitalGlobe’s satellite spectral services. David McLelland, Auracle Remote Sensing’s president, […] More

  • DHS Tests Timing Tool for Financial Transactions at NYSE; Reginald Brothers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Tests Timing Tool for Financial Transactions at NYSE; Reginald Brothers Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has demonstrated at the New York Stock Exchange a system that works to complement GPS tools that provide users timing information for financial transactions. DHS said Wednesday the Enhanced Loran or eLoran is a low-frequency radio navigation signal that ground-based stations broadcast to supply positioning, navigation and timing […] More

  • Ken Hunzeker: Vectrus to Extend Comms Support for U.S. Air Forces in Europe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Hunzeker: Vectrus to Extend Comms Support for U.S. Air Forces in Europe

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a potential $12 million contract to provide command, control, communications and intelligence support services to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Vectrus Systems will support C3I operations at various unmanned and manned Air Force facilities located in the U.K., Belgium, Germany and Turkey as part of USAFE’s Enterprise Legacy Voice and Information System program, the company said Wednesday. The ELVIS contract, managed […] More

  • DRS Receives $51M Subcontract from General Dynamics for Tactical C4I System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Receives $51M Subcontract from General Dynamics for Tactical C4I System Support

    Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Technologies has landed a $51 million subcontract from General Dynamics to provide support services for the U.K. armed forces’ tactical command, control, communications, computers and intelligence system. DRS said Monday it will provide rugged tactical displays, rugged computing technology upgrades, and associated services for the General Dynamics-supported Bowman tactical communications system that works to support secure radio, telephone, […] More

  • DISA Selects UltiSat to Provide Ku Bandwidth Capacity for Global Hawk UAV Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Selects UltiSat to Provide Ku Bandwidth Capacity for Global Hawk UAV Operations

    Gaithersburg, Md.-based UltiSat has secured a $9,369,756 task order contract with options from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Ku bandwidth capacity for a U.S. military organization based at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The company will support Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle flight tests along with its Ku-band earth terminals associated with a mission […] More

  • Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support

    The U.S. Coast Guard has launched market research on the availability of commercial technology and service offerings to support the maritime security agency’s information technology modernization effort. In a notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps, the Coast Guard said it will hold a vendor information session in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 26 to discuss program objectives and critical […] More

  • Army Activates 1st Boeing WGS Satellite for Cross-Band Satellite Communications Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Activates 1st Boeing WGS Satellite for Cross-Band Satellite Communications Services

    The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command activated the first satellite of the Boeing-built Wideband Global Satellite constellation six months after it completed a series of tests, the Army reported Thursday. WGS-1 is the first block I satellite of the WGS constellation that works to provide two-way Ka– and X-band communications services for combatant commanders […] More