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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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.
Boeing has received consent from NASA to store a tracking and data relay satellite at the company’s facility in El Segundo, Calif. following the completion of work to build the satellite in 2015. TDRS-M is the sixth satellite Boeing built for NASA’s TDRS constellation that is designed to help the space agency meet high-bandwidth communications requirements of […] More
Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have conducted an initial qualification test on a ground-based satellite launch-and-checkout platform the company has built as part of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System. The company said Tuesday the LCS system is designed to help the military service manage the launch and early-orbit checkout phases of GPS III satellites. The Air Force tested the platform in […] More
Comtech Telecommunications has collected $14.3 million in orders from the Defense Department during the third quarter of its fiscal year 2016 for communications services by the company’s government solutions unit. The company will use the funds to provide training services, ground satellite terminal field support and tactical communications systems that work to provide multimedia communications functions, Comtech said Monday. $8.4 […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has christened an autonomous vessel demonstrator that a Leidos-led team designed and built for DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone joined several DARPA and Defense Department officials during the christening of a prototype unit for the Sea Hunter ACTUV at a dockside ceremony held Thursday in Portland, Oregon, […] More
Sean Berg, vice president for Polycom’s public sector business, has said a “workplace of the future” concept continues to evolve for public sector agencies as mobile device use grows and millennials enter the workforce. Berg told Public Sector View in an interview posted Thursday that one trend he observes is growth in usage of video collaboration platforms that […] More
The U.S. Navy has begun its search for industry sources of technology designed to detect unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. In a FedBizOpps notice published Monday, the military branch said its Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland is interested in detection systems that ordnance disposal personnel can stow in backpacks or cargo pockets. NSWC seeks a detector that […] More
BAE Systems has awarded a subcontract to Cumming, Georgia-based small business Pyrgos Communications for technical and installation personnel support of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence functions to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. Pyrgos said Thursday it will help BAE in work to develop, design, implement and test C4I systems for the division. Pyrgos’ personnel will provide assistance in research and development, […] More
A Govini report indicates the U.S. military unmanned aerial systems market has experienced a compound annual growth rate of about 6 percent over the past five fiscal years, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lara Seligman writes the research firm observed the Defense Department‘s strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific region and efforts to implement a third offset strategy have […] More
The U.S. Navy has instructed Serco‘s North American subsidiary to resume its sustainment work for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems under a contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Serco Inc. said Thursday it will recommence services under the potential $131 million C4I lifecycle sustainment contract it won in late 2015 after the Navy resolved a protest that challenged the award of […] More
Dynetics has unveiled a new reconfigurable surveillance radar that works to help owners or operators of critical infrastructure monitor a larger area without the use of multiple short-range sensors. The new surveillance technology called GroundAware CS4 includes a radar sensitivity feature that could help detect threats beyond 2.2 miles across a 120-degree view, the company said Wednesday. Dynetics […] More
An L-3 Communications subsidiary has received a $21.3 million contract to produce signal analysis system outboard cables for the U.S. Navy‘s submarine platforms. The Defense Department said Wednesday L-3 Unidyne will manufacture the outboard cables in Norfolk, Virginia, through April 2021. The Navy will use the technology to support systems that work to analyze signals, prevent ship […] More
A BlackBerry business unit has expanded its networked crisis communications platform in Europe in an effort to support public safety. AtHoc has made its platform available in Europe to address the need for secure communications for the cloud-based exchange of data in support of life safety and business continuity, the company said Tuesday. AtHoc President Guy Miasnik said the […] More
