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  • Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia's Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia’s Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer

    Lockheed Martin has collaborated with an alliance composed of Australia’s defense department, Raytheon‘s Australian subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding and Navantia to conduct a five-week sea acceptance trial for a Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. The Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance and Lockheed jointly tested Australia’s future HMAS destroyer to verify the ship platform and determine if the vessel could support the Aegis combat system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Airborne Testbed to Boost Intell Processing Capacity; Rob Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Airborne Testbed to Boost Intell Processing Capacity; Rob Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has updated a manned airborne testbed the company built to help customers experiment with a range of sensors, technologies and systems designed for contingency operations. The company said said Monday it reconfigured the Airborne Multi-INT Lab in an effort to increase the platform’s capacity to process and transform data into decision-making support intelligence. AML now employs an updated on-board processing system designed to collect […] More

  • Boeing to Continue Sustainment Work on South Korea's F-15 Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Continue Sustainment Work on South Korea’s F-15 Jets

    Boeing has been awarded a five-year contract to extend the company’s ongoing sustainment efforts for the F-15K aircraft fleet of South Korea. The company said Monday it aims to help the country’s air force to boost its F-15K aircraft readiness through the contract. Tim Buerk, Boeing’s director of F-15 sustainment in the Far East region and the U.S., said […] More

  • Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft Undergoes Flight Trials at BAE's UK Facility; Steve Formoso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft Undergoes Flight Trials at BAE’s UK Facility; Steve Formoso Comments

    BAE Systems has hosted a series of flight trials on a Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft equipped with an MBDA air-to-surface weapon as part of a program to transition the multirole fighter platform to the U.K.’s air force by the end of next year. The Typhoon flight tests were conducted at BAE’s facility in Lancashire, England, under phase 3 enhancement effort of Project Centurion, […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary to Provide ATM Comm Equipment for Chile's Airport Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary to Provide ATM Comm Equipment for Chile’s Airport Network

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has been selected by Chile’s civil aviation authority DGAC to supply an air traffic management communication system for use on the country’s airport network. Northrop said Friday its Park Air Systems business will provide a turnkey system that consists of eight Sapphire very-high-frequency and ultra HF ATM communication systems as well as training, installation and commissioning support […] 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

  • Reuters: MBDA, Lockheed Plan JV to Manage MEADS Deal with Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: MBDA, Lockheed Plan JV to Manage MEADS Deal with Germany

    MBDA plans to establish a joint venture with Lockheed Martin to oversee a missile defense program in Germany after the country’s defense ministry voiced concerns about MBDA’s capacity to execute the project independently, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes both companies are in talks with the German defense ministry regarding their planned JV and the ministry does not expect to finalize a contract with […] More

  • Boeing Tests CST-100 Starliner Parachute System at Spaceport America Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Tests CST-100 Starliner Parachute System at Spaceport America Facility

    Boeing has launched a parachute system of its crew capsule at Spaceport America‘s purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico to verify the inflation characteristics and landing system performance of the platform during touchdown. Spaceport America said Friday the CST-100 Starliner Parachute System Test Launch utilized a giant helium-filled balloon that carried a flight-sized boilerplate spacecraft 40,000 feet above the San Andres Mountains and […] More

  • Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy

    Cubic‘s defense applications business has won a $20.9 million contract to assemble,  produce, document, test and deliver 25 Portable Common Data Link systems for installation at the U.S. Navy‘s tactical and mobile tactical operation centers. The Defense Department said Friday that work also covers engineering services for TacMobile Person PCDL systems and spare suites. The contract’s 18-month base […] More

  • MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract

    M.C. Dean has been awarded a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet. The Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland will determine funds and performance locations with each order. Contract work is scheduled to […] More

  • Airbus, Intelsat Form Military Satcom Service Partnership; Richard Franklin, Skot Butler Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Intelsat Form Military Satcom Service Partnership; Richard Franklin, Skot Butler Comment

    An Intelsat subsidiary has joined a channel partner program of Airbus‘ defense and space segment for military satellite communication services. Intelsat General will offer Skynet X-band and ultra-high-frequency services to the U.S. government under the channel partner agreement, Airbus said Wednesday. Richard Franklin, head of the secure communications business at Airbus Defense and Space, said the new partnership will provide services to customers via the newly […] More

  • Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement

    Esri is poised to sign an enterprise agreement with an Energy Department-funded laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to provide some federal research and development projects access to the company’s geographic information system. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can leverage a full set of ArcGIS-based spatial analysis tools and add licenses on an as-needed basis as part of the agreement with Esri, the […] More