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  • Raytheon to Develop Open Architecture for Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft; Jerry Powlen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Open Architecture for Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft; Jerry Powlen Comments

    Raytheon has been awarded a 27-month, $15.5 million contract to develop an open architecture for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The company will produce application-based systems for airborne commercial-off-the-shelf computing, services-oriented architecture and infrastructure, and software-based mission applications, Raytheon said Feb. 17. “The goal is to use readily available technology to quickly upgrade […] More

  • Julie Van Kleeck: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Army, AF Develop Green Propellants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Julie Van Kleeck: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Army, AF Develop Green Propellants

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has secured a three-year contract to help the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force conduct research and development work on sustainable propulsion technology for rockets, missiles, and divert and attitude control systems. The company said Tuesday it will work with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Medical Command, and Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center to develop and […] More

  • Harris Integrates Ground Segment IT Hardware for NOAA Satellite; Romy Olaisen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Integrates Ground Segment IT Hardware for NOAA Satellite; Romy Olaisen Comments

    Harris Corp. has fully installed and integrated the computer hardware for the ground segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R series. The company said Wednesday the hardware makes up the ground segment’s operational system, which works to help GOES-R satellites perform their weather detection and tracking mission. “System testing can be completed now that the hardware is […] More

  • SATCOM Tech Makers Form Broadband Service Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SATCOM Tech Makers Form Broadband Service Alliance

    Cobham, International Communications Group, Iridium Communications, L-3 Communications and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop and distribute products that are built to work with Iridium’s new broadband service. The industry partners will design and manufacture broadband terminals to be compatible with Iridium Certus, Iridium said Thursday. Iridium expects the products from its partners to be available in late 2016 after the release of […] More

  • Hyune Hand: DigitalGlobe Starts to Offer 30-cm Satellite Images - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hyune Hand: DigitalGlobe Starts to Offer 30-cm Satellite Images

    DigitalGlobe has rolled out 30-centimeter satellite imagery products for government and industrial customers. The high-resolution aerial photos are captured through DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite and intended to help civil government, defense, intelligence, energy, mining and global development organizations, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. “Today marks a significant milestone for our customers, who will now benefit from a level […] More

  • Exelis to Build Pneumatic Missile Eject Launcher for Saab Fighter Aircraft; Ken Harrison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Build Pneumatic Missile Eject Launcher for Saab Fighter Aircraft; Ken Harrison Comments

    Exelis has inked a deal with Saab to develop and supply pneumatic missile eject launcher pylons for installation in Saab’s fighter aircraft. The launcher will work to eject the Meteor and AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missile from the fuselage underside of Saab’s Gripen E jet, Exelis said Tuesday. Exelis will produce an initial batch of 214 […] More

  • Boeing, Raytheon Team to Build Command and Control System for Saudi Air Force; Paul Geery Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Raytheon Team to Build Command and Control System for Saudi Air Force; Paul Geery Comments

    Raytheon and Boeing have teamed up to develop a C5I (command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence) system for the Royal Saudi Air Force in a move to help the service modernize its command and control platform. ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture between Raytheon and Thales, and Raytheon Atheeb Systems, Raytheon and Atheeb Group’s joint venture […] More

  • Exelis Unveils First CorvusEye Nighttime Imagery; Dwight Greenlee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Unveils First CorvusEye Nighttime Imagery; Dwight Greenlee Comments

    Exelis has debuted the first nighttime imagery taken with the CorvusEye 1500 airborne system that is intended for use in commercial and government surveillance applications. The wide-area airborne system captured images depicting cars and pedestrians in downtown Rochester from an altitude of 15,000 feet using a mid-wave infrared sensor, Exelis said Monday. Dwight Greenlee, Exelis […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Military Readiness Support Under Navy MPTE Prime Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Military Readiness Support Under Navy MPTE Prime Contract

    CACI International has landed prime position on a potential $40.7 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Navy‘s manpower, personnel, training and education programs. The company said Monday it can compete for up to $23 million of analysis, consulting and modeling work in support of the deputy chief of naval operations for MPTE (N1). Ken Asbury, […] More

  • TCS Puts O3b Networks' Satellite Services on GSA IT Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS Puts O3b Networks’ Satellite Services on GSA IT Schedule 70

    TeleCommunication Systems has agreed to offer the satellite products and services of its channel partner O3b Networks to TCS’ government clients via the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. TCS said Monday O3b’s medium Earth-orbit constellation provides broadband satellite services with up to 1.6 Gbps data throughput and LTE support. O3b’s satellite products include satellite terminals, antennas, gateway equipment and block upconverters, while services include field service […] More

  • Exelis Delivers Infrared Sounder to NOAA; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Delivers Infrared Sounder to NOAA; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis has delivered the cross-track infrared sounder to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for installation in the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft. The sounder is designed to produce atmospheric temperature and moisture data for weather and climate prediction, Exelis said Friday. “This advanced hyperspectral technology is providing improvements to numerical weather prediction models,” said […] More

  • Anthony Reardon: Ducommun to Continue Tomahawk Electronic Assemblies Supply for Raytheon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anthony Reardon: Ducommun to Continue Tomahawk Electronic Assemblies Supply for Raytheon

    Raytheon has awarded Ducommun Inc. contracts totaling $7.3 million to produce additional interconnect and electronic assemblies for the U.S. Navy‘s Tomahawk cruise missile. The company will build the assemblies at facilities in Missouri and Arkansas through 2016,  Ducommun said Thursday. “Ducommun is honored to continue providing support for the Tomahawk program going forward,” said Anthony Reardon, […] More