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  • Inmarsat to Offer Mobile Satcom Services to Turksat; Ensar Gul, Rupert Pearce Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat to Offer Mobile Satcom Services to Turksat; Ensar Gul, Rupert Pearce Comment

    Inmarsat has been selected to provide mobile satellite communications services for Turkey-based satellite operator Turksat through a memorandum of understanding. Inmarsat and Turksat will also work to explore new opportunities in the aviation and defense sectors under a strategic partnership formed under the MOU, Inmarsat said Friday. “The main objective of this partnership is to […] More

  • DARPA Picks 9 Firms for Dismounted Squad Threat Detection Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 9 Firms for Dismounted Squad Threat Detection Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded nine companies contracts to build new systems for dismounted service personnel to collaborate with other troops and detect potential threats during military operations. DARPA said Thursday it made the awards through the agency’s Squad X Core Technologies program to develop lightweight, integrated platforms that will work to provide situational awareness functions for […] More

  • MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a contract to introduce updates to DigitalGlobe’s international ground stations for customers to directly receive and process Earth imagery and geospatial data from DigitalGlobe’s future WorldView-4 commercial satellite. MDA said Thursday WorldView-4 is scheduled to launch in September 2016 to provide customers with multi-spectral images of the Earth’s surface. The company aims […] More

  • Inmarsat, Aerosatcom Form Gov't Broadband Satellite Service Partnership; Andy Start Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat, Aerosatcom Form Gov’t Broadband Satellite Service Partnership; Andy Start Comments

    Inmarsat has chosen an Eclipse–NSSLGlobal joint venture as a value-added reseller of Global Xpress mobile broadband satellite airtime services to government aviation agencies. Aerosatcom will market GX Ka-band and L-band services as well as help Inmarsat design, certify and offer aeronautical communication platforms for the public sector, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “The government market for commercial satellite communications is, […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Lands UK Public Safety Comms Contract; Manuel Torres Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions Lands UK Public Safety Comms Contract; Manuel Torres Comments

    Motorola Solutions has been selected to provide user services for the U.K. government’s new public safety communications system. The company will also work to integrate the Emergency Services Network and to deliver system functionality, Motorola said Thursday. “We share ESN’s commitment and vision to equipping emergency and public service agencies with the functionality and capabilities […] More

  • MDA Puts Aegis Ashore, Standard Missile-3 Through Intercept Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Puts Aegis Ashore, Standard Missile-3 Through Intercept Test

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has evaluated a ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system in conjunction with a Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB at an outdoor testing complex in Kauai, Hawaii. MDA said Thursday the Aegis Ashore system installed at the Pacific Missile Range Facility fired an SM-3 missile at a medium-range BM target that came […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support

    DigitalGlobe has selected Raytheon‘s Constellation Scheduling System to provide mission planning and launch support for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 commercial satellite in September 2016. Raytheon said Thursday CSS is a commercial geospatial system that works to provide automatic scheduling and mission planning support for satellite operators and geospatial data providers. DigitalGlobe announced last year its plans to expedite […] More

  • Northrop Demos Ground-Based Targeting System Against UAS; Kay Burch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Ground-Based Targeting System Against UAS; Kay Burch Comments

    Northrop Grumman has conducted a demonstration of a ground-based system to test its production of targeting data and detection and monitoring of an adversary’s unmanned aircraft system. The company demonstrated the Venom platform at the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Fires Integrated Experiment held in Oklahoma, Northrop said Tuesday. The Venom system tracked small drones and provided two land-based […] More

  • Hera Systems Obtains Spacecraft Source Code License From NASA Ames; Bobby Machinski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hera Systems Obtains Spacecraft Source Code License From NASA Ames; Bobby Machinski Comments

    Hera Systems has gained access to a source code related to two pending patents for the Cost Optimized Test of Spacecraft Avionics and Technologies spacecraft through a licensing agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center. The company said Wednesday it will use the source code of COTSAT’s star tracker and spacecraft modular software in order to […] More

  • US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Navy and the Japanese defense department have demonstrated a variant of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 weapon during a live-fire flight test in Point Mogu, California. Raytheon built a 21-inch-diameter system against medium and intermediate ballistic missile threats for U.S. and Japan’s SM-3 Cooperative Development Project, MDA said Tuesday. The company said its SM-3 Block IIA launched from an […] More

  • MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a.i. solutions a potential three-year, $73 million contract to provide engineering, consulting and mission assurance support services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers risk management quality assurance process, system fielding, sustainment, ground and flight tests, configuration management, parts, and test anomaly and technical risk […] More

  • State Dept Clears $70M Boeing Munitions Tail Kit FMS Deal With Turkey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Clears $70M Boeing Munitions Tail Kit FMS Deal With Turkey

    The State Department has approved Turkey’s request to buy Joint Direct Attack Munitions tail kits and related components from the U.S. under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. Boeing will act as the principal contractor for the sale that covers JDAM GBU-31(V)1, GBU-31(V)3, GBU-38, GBU-54 JDAM laser kits, FMU-152A/B fuzes and BLU-109 hard target […] More