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  • Honeywell Obtains Certifications to Offer Satcom, Health Monitoring Tech for Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Obtains Certifications to Offer Satcom, Health Monitoring Tech for Helicopters

    Honeywell has received certifications from various aviation agencies to provide its satellite communications system and health and usage monitoring platform for a range of helicopters. The company said it obtained supplemental type certificates from U.S., European and Brazilian respective aviation agencies to offer the Honeywell Health and Usage Monitoring Systems and Vibration Expert products for helicopters […] More

  • Harris Gets NSA Type-1 Certification for Wideband HF Manpack Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Gets NSA Type-1 Certification for Wideband HF Manpack Radio

    A Harris-developed wideband manpack radio system has secured a Type-1 certification from the National Security Agency for the transmission of classified images, maps and other data from beyond-line-of-sight environments. Harris said Monday the RF-300H high-frequency manpack radio under the Falcon III product line offers data transmission capacities of up to 10 times faster than previously used radios and is […] More

  • General Atomics Unveils Railgun Pulsed Power Container - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unveils Railgun Pulsed Power Container

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has developed a pulsed power container designed to provide twice the energy density of current railgun pulsed power platforms. The High Energy Pulsed Power Container is equipped with HEPP modules that work to supply energy content of more than 415 kilojoules per module, General Atomics said Thursday. The company added the system can work to […] More

  • Brazil Orders Saab RBS 70 Air Defense Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil Orders Saab RBS 70 Air Defense Systems

    Saab has received a potential $11.6 million contract to deliver RBS 70 very short-range air defense systems to the Brazilian army. The company will also supply man-portable launchers, training simulators, night vision tools, multispectral camouflage for the air defense systems and related equipment for maintainers and operators, Saab said Monday. Saab will perform deliveries through […] More

  • Navy Extends Sierra Nevada's Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract

    Sierra Nevada has received a one-year, $31 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue to supply and support countermeasure transmitters designed for explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises option year six and extend the ordering period of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AN/PLT-5 electronic jamming systems. Sierra Nevada will produce the systems as […] More

  • CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems

    CGI has secured a potential 20-year, $66.2 million contract from the Colorado government to update payroll systems across 21 state agencies and departments in support of efforts to overhaul the existing enterprise resource planning system. The company said Wednesday it will offer information technology services to transform manual payroll processes into a unified human resource […] More

  • HII Division Lands Chem-Bio Defense Acquisition Technical Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Division Lands Chem-Bio Defense Acquisition Technical Support Contract

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has received a contract to continue to provide acquisition technical support services to the Defense Department’s joint program executive office for chemical and biological defense. HII’s technical solutions division secured four procurement technical support task orders under JPEO-CBD’s Omnibus Program, Engineering and Technical Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, HII said Tuesday. HII Technical […] More

  • Hughes Unveils Satellite Service for Distributed Organizations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Unveils Satellite Service for Distributed Organizations

    Hughes Network Systems has unveiled a high-throughput satellite service offering designed for large government or business organizations. The Hughes HTS service offers a download speed of up to 50 megabits per second, an upload capacity of 5 Mbps and a range of data usage allowances, the company said Tuesday. The service works to help enterprises provide connectivity to branch sites or […] More

  • FLIR to Supply CBRN Dismounted Reconnaissance Kits to Army Under $54M Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR to Supply CBRN Dismounted Reconnaissance Kits to Army Under $54M Delivery Order

    The Defense Department has awarded FLIR Systems a potential $54.2 million delivery order to supply 50 sets of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear dismounted reconnaissance toolkits to the U.S. Army. The order is part of DoD’s five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that seeks to support the DR-SKO program of record of the joint program executive office for […] More

  • Harris to Supply VoIP Comm Tech for Taiwan's Military Air Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Supply VoIP Comm Tech for Taiwan’s Military Air Defense System

    Harris has been chosen to provide a next-generation voice over internet protocol communication system for Taiwan’s air defense service. The company said Tuesday its IP-based Voice Communication System for the 21st Century offering will help modernize the air defense system in Taiwan and reduce the country’s reliance on traditional point-to-point communications platforms. Harris will install VCS21 systems across multiple facilities across Taiwan, including an initial 140 controller […] More

  • CAE Opens Alabama-Based Facility to Offer Fixed-Wing Training Course for Army Aviators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Opens Alabama-Based Facility to Offer Fixed-Wing Training Course for Army Aviators

    CAE has opened a facility at the Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama to help the U.S. Army train the first class of military aviators as part of an initial entry fixed-wing training course. CAE said Monday the Dothan Training Center is built to support the Army Fixed-Wing Flight Training program for more than 600 Army and Air Force fixed-wing aviators annually. The […] More

  • Cubic's GATR Technologies Subsidiary to Debut Portable Satcom Antenna, Modem Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic’s GATR Technologies Subsidiary to Debut Portable Satcom Antenna, Modem Offerings

    GATR Technologies, a Cubic subsidiary, will unveil a foldable satellite communications antenna along with a modem technology based on iDirect‘s Velocity product line at the Satellite 2017 convention in Washington, D.C. Cubic said Tuesday the GATR-FLEX satcom antenna and GATR 950 modem will offer an integrated data transfer terminal platform that can work to support sub-meter satcom operations that leverage high-throughput […] More