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  • Air Force Orders Rheinmetall Ammo for F-35 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Rheinmetall Ammo for F-35 Fleet

    Rheinmetall has received a $6.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce four lots of ammunition for the service branch’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft. The company said Monday it will begin to deliver Frangible Armor Piercing rounds to the Air Force in December 2017. Rheinmetall will manufacture the ammunition at a company facility in Switzerland and […] 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

  • Northrop Delivers Fifth AEHF Satellite Payload to Lockheed; Cyrus Dhalla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Delivers Fifth AEHF Satellite Payload to Lockheed; Cyrus Dhalla Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a fifth payload comprised of anti-jamming, cyber attack protection, detection and intercept technologies from Northrop Grumman under a U.S. Air Force satellite program that aims to facilitate communications between military leaders and the White House. Northrop said Monday the payload it developed for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite will undergo space vehicle level integration ahead of the fifth […] 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

  • Inmarsat-EM Solutions Team Equips Australian Maritime Vessels With Satcom Terminals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat-EM Solutions Team Equips Australian Maritime Vessels With Satcom Terminals

    Inmarsat has integrated EM Solutions-designed Cobra-class satellite communications terminals onto eight vessels of Australia’s department of immigration and border force in an effort to help boost the country’s communications capacity in inhospitable maritime environments. Inmarsat said Monday the satcom terminals will offer an option for users to augment capacities on government-owned satellites with commercial satellites such as the Global Xpress. EM Solutions […] More

  • Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has unveiled the first images from two Lockheed Martin-built space instruments onboard a weather monitoring satellite that was launched in November last year. Lockheed said Monday the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and Solar Ultraviolet Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 work to record continuous lightning data and compile complete views of the sun, respectively. Jeff Vanden […] More

  • PEMDAS to Develop Atmospheric Sensing, Prediction Tech for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PEMDAS to Develop Atmospheric Sensing, Prediction Tech for Army

    Blue Storm Associates, doing business as PEMDAS Technologies and Innovation, has secured a potential $49.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop an atmospheric sensing and prediction platform. The Defense Department said Monday the service branch received one bid for the five-year order dependent contract that will run through March 5, 2022. DoD noted that the Army Contracting […] More

  • Army Surveys Potential Tech Sources for Fake Social Media Account Removal Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Surveys Potential Tech Sources for Fake Social Media Account Removal Effort

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information to gather input from potential vendors that can support the military branch in efforts to identify, report and mitigate imposter social media accounts. The Army Contracting Command will conduct the market research on behalf of the service branch’s Office of the Chief of Public Affairs to identify sources and resources that can […] More

  • Army Seeks Laser-Guided Precision Mortar Tech Developers; Lt. Col. Anthony Gibbs Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Laser-Guided Precision Mortar Tech Developers; Lt. Col. Anthony Gibbs Comments

    The U.S. Army is looking for contractors to develop laser-guided precision mortar systems as part of efforts to replace the service branch’s current GPS-guided mortar units and help soldiers eliminate targets at a high accuracy rate. The service branch said Friday that it has closed the initial phase of a solicitation for a 120mm high-explosive guided mortar that can work to […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, Spire Partner to Help NGA Develop Arctic Maritime Traffic Monitoring Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, Spire Partner to Help NGA Develop Arctic Maritime Traffic Monitoring Platform

    Ball Aerospace and Spire Global will collaborate to support a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project that seeks to increase maritime domain awareness in the Arctic region through the use of technology. Both companies aim to develop a data collection and analysis platform that will work to help the agency monitor the activity of vessels that travel in Arctic waters, Ball […] More

  • SOCOM Lists Technology Areas of Interest in Updated BAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOCOM Lists Technology Areas of Interest in Updated BAA

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has updated a broad agency announcement seeking to add new capacities to the Special Operations Forces’ warfighters in eight specific technology areas, Shephard Media reported Friday. Scott Gourley writes the G-2 appendix added to the “Advancement of Technologies for Use by Special Operations Forces” BAA identifies specific areas of interest that will support […] More