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  • Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System

    Airbus’ defense and space business has concluded a series of factory assessment tests on a radar system for integration with the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship-17. TRS-4D is a rotating active electronically scanned array radar that works to detect surface and aerial threats and perform target acquisition and surveillance operations, Airbus said Monday. The radar […] More

  • Raytheon Wraps Up GPS OCX Launch, Checkout System Exercises; Matt Gilligan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wraps Up GPS OCX Launch, Checkout System Exercises; Matt Gilligan Comments

    Raytheon has finished three initial readiness exercises on a component of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System that works to support the launch of GPS III satellites. Raytheon said Thursday it sought to evaluate the capability of Raytheon-built Launch and Checkout System to manage operations such as space anomalies that satellites might encounter, transfer orbit configurations and contacts […] More

  • Tory Bruno: Boeing-Lockheed JV Unveils CubeSat Rideshare Launch Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tory Bruno: Boeing-Lockheed JV Unveils CubeSat Rideshare Launch Initiative

    United Launch Alliance has introduced a science, technology, engineering and math education program that aims to encourage university students to launch their miniaturized satellites for free onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s future rocket missions. “ULA will offer universities the chance to compete for at least six CubeSat launch slots on two Atlas V missions, with […] More

  • NOAA Picks Harris Airborne Radar Tech for Environmental Monitoring Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Picks Harris Airborne Radar Tech for Environmental Monitoring Program

    Harris Corp.‘s EDO Corp. subsidiary has been chosen to supply AN/APY-11 radar systems for two surveillance planes that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to track hurricanes. Harris’ Exelis subsidiary and ELTA Systems will collaborate to build the multimode radar technology for integration into NOAA’s WP-3D Orion turboprop aircraft built by Lockheed Martin, Harris said Thursday. The alliance is scheduled to deliver the airborne radars in June […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Build Digital RF Memory Modulators for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Build Digital RF Memory Modulators for Navy

    A Mercury Systems subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $41.8 million contract to build 200 miniaturized digital radio frequency memory modulators for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday Mercury Defense Systems will also provide repair and evaluation services for the mini I/J band DRFMs. Miniaturized DRFMs work to help users produce high-fidelity threat simulation tools […] More

  • Raytheon Completes Sonar Platform Delivery to DARPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes Sonar Platform Delivery to DARPA

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos. MS3 is an open architecture-based platform designed to perform torpedo warning, search-and-tracking and small-object […] More

  • SPAWAR Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for On-Ship Communications System; Jack Stevens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPAWAR Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for On-Ship Communications System; Jack Stevens Comments

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins has secured a potential two-year, $32 million contract to deliver Multifunctional Information Distribution System-On-Ship platforms for integration with surface warships of the U.S. Navy and foreign naval forces. Data Link Solutions will provide up to 12 Lot 4 production MOS units under the firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the […] More

  • Hughes, Signal Mountain Complete Satcom Network Deployment for USGS Seismic System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes, Signal Mountain Complete Satcom Network Deployment for USGS Seismic System

    Signal Mountain Networks and its subcontractor Hughes Network Systems have completed the deployment of a satellite communications network at 80 locations under a potential four-year, $1 million contract with the U.S. Geological Survey. The satcom network is meant for data collection efforts in the U.S. and Caribbean in support of the USGS Global Seismographic Network’s […] More

  • NAVAIR Orders Airborne Dipping Sonars from Raytheon-Thales Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NAVAIR Orders Airborne Dipping Sonars from Raytheon-Thales Team

    A Raytheon–Thales alliance has received a $65.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command for the production of AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar systems, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes the team will supply 20 AN/AQS-22s to the U.S. Navy and another two systems to the Saudi Arabian military. The system consists of […] More

  • Telephonics to Install Interrogation Platform on US, Australia P-8As; Joseph Battaglia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telephonics to Install Interrogation Platform on US, Australia P-8As; Joseph Battaglia Comments

    A Griffon subsidiary has won a potential $21 million contract to produce and install AN/UPX-40 Identification Friend or Foe interrogation systems onboard the Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon aircraft of the U.S. Navy and Australian air force. Telephonics received the multi-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the AN/UPX-40 IFF system from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, the company said […] More

  • Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries

    Northrop Grumman is talking with countries in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and Asia on potential purchases of the country’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft despite the United Arab Emirates’ decision to not buy that plane, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes the UAE agreed earlier in the week to purchase $1.27 billion in Saab-built early warning planes. Northrop officials told Reuters Japan […] More

  • Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command

    The U.S. Transportation Command wants information on potential contractors that can provide command, control, cyber, communications and collaboration support for the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 9 that it is in search of vendors that can provide cyber defense, life-cycle sustainment, software management, automatic data processing equipment degaussing and disposal […] More