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  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Applies Crowdsourcing, Deep-Learning Tools in Satellite Image Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Applies Crowdsourcing, Deep-Learning Tools in Satellite Image Analysis

    Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the company works to analyze large amounts of satellite images and data through deep-learning tools and crowdsourcing, GCN reported Wednesday. Frazier told GCN columnist Patrick Marshall in an interview that OpenCV computer vision software library, Caffe deep-learning framework and NVIDIA graphics processors are some of the deep-learning systems […] More

  • Hughes Implements Managed Enterprise Network for Labor Department's Mine Safety Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Implements Managed Enterprise Network for Labor Department’s Mine Safety Office

    Hughes Network Systems has concluded the installation of a managed enterprise network for the Labor Department‘s Mine Safety and Health Administration under a one-year, $1.36 million contract. The company said Monday HughesON works to provide remote connectivity to the deployed vehicles and regional facilities of MSHA’s Mine Emergency Operations. Tony Bardo, Hughes assistant vice president of government solutions, said […] More

  • Cobham Develops Satcom Tech to Connect Tactical UAVs to Inmarsat Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Develops Satcom Tech to Connect Tactical UAVs to Inmarsat Network

    Cobham‘s satellite communications business has created the Aviator UAV 200, a 1.45 kg unmanned aerial vehicle satcom system that works to connect the drone to an Inmarsat network. sUAS News reported Monday the unit works to support tactical UAV satellite connectivity with data transmission of up to 200 kbps with full control of data channels. Cobham said it designed Aviator UAV 200 […] More

  • Northrop Concludes Operational Tests for Triton Ahead of Navy Milestone C Decision; Doug Shaffer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Concludes Operational Tests for Triton Ahead of Navy Milestone C Decision; Doug Shaffer Comments

    Northrop Grumman has wrapped up the operational assessment phase for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system the company designed for the U.S. Navy. Navy personnel and Northrop employees collaborated to check the performance of Triton during a 60-hour flight test and examined sensor imagery taken at different altitudes, Northrop said Tuesday. “Operational assessment for Triton included […] More

  • Boeing to Upgrade Air Force's Satellite Comms Anti-Jam System for $55M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Upgrade Air Force’s Satellite Comms Anti-Jam System for $55M

    Boeing has received a $54.98 million contract modification to upgrade the anti-jam system of the U.S. Air Force‘s satellite communications. The company will work to increase the resilience of the Air Force’s Wideband Global Satcom satellites from electronic threats with a redesigned X-Band anti-jam system, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Boeing will perform work in El Segundo, […] More

  • Army Requests Info on Consortium for DoD's C4, Cyber Platform Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Requests Info on Consortium for DoD’s C4, Cyber Platform Development

    The U.S. Army Contracting Command has sought information on a consortium with the capability to research and develop prototypes of command, control, communications, computer and cyber platforms for the Defense Department. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Feb. 3 the consortium will build prototypes under the “other transaction” agreement in order to reduce DoD’s dependence […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Rolls Out Geospatial Data Services Package for Rio Olympics; Daniel Jablonsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Rolls Out Geospatial Data Services Package for Rio Olympics; Daniel Jablonsky Comments

    DigitalGlobe has introduced a set of geospatial data and satellite imagery services designed to help security agencies and international governments improve the safety of athletes and audience for this year’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil. The Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Security Package includes the Basemap+Daily subscription service, Human Landscape database and Vricon‘s digital service […] More

  • Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service Awards Unified Comms BPA to VSGi - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Awards Unified Comms BPA to VSGi

    Visual Systems Group Inc. has received a five-year, $10 million blanket purchase agreement to provide unified communications services and technology to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service within the Treasury Department. The company said Thursday it will design, install and maintain communications and collaboration equipment at the bureau and support standardized video teleconferencing between internal and external participants. […] More

  • ULA Makes 2nd Launch in 2016 With NRO Payload Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Makes 2nd Launch in 2016 With NRO Payload Mission

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Wednesday onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-45 mission in support of national defense. The payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s second launch this year, ULA said Wednesday. The Delta IV rocket used in the mission consists of a composite […] More

  • Elbit Systems Rolls Out Unmanned Surface Vehicle Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Rolls Out Unmanned Surface Vehicle Platform

    Elbit Systems has introduced an unmanned surface vehicle platform the company designed for anti-submarine warfare and mine countermeasure missions. The 12-meter Seagull USV works to operate maritime vehicles to detect and neutralize underwater mines, the company said Monday. Seagull has a mission control system, replaceable mission modules, Autonomous Navigation System and command, control, communications, computers and […] More

  • NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system to carry out missions that aim to study El Nino-related weather conditions over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA will utilize NASA’s Global Hawk UAV for the Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology missions that will take place starting this month through March, Northrop said Friday. […] More

  • Serco-Lockheed Team Helps UK Build Wind Turbine-Radar Interference Mitigation Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco-Lockheed Team Helps UK Build Wind Turbine-Radar Interference Mitigation Tech

      A Serco Group–Lockheed Martin team has built and installed the first of five anti-interference radar systems for the British defense ministry under a contract awarded in 2010. Serco said Thursday the Remote Radar Head located at Trimingham in Norfolk, England, is now fully operational and is equipped with a TPS-77 radar that aims to minimize wind turbine interference with air defense radar technology. Serco acts […] More