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  • Northrop Tests Data Link for Aircraft Operations in Contested Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tests Data Link for Aircraft Operations in Contested Airspace

    Northrop Grumman has tested an in-flight connectivity designed to enable long range command and control for aircraft in highly contested environments. The demonstration exhibited how an advanced line-of-sight data link can support multi-domain battle management by connecting aircraft through an open-architecture network, Northrop said Wednesday. The company integrated a new mission-specific military transceiver, open architecture […] More

  • Northrop Demos 100 Gbps Data Transmission Under DARPA’s 100G RF Backbone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos 100 Gbps Data Transmission Under DARPA’s 100G RF Backbone Program

    Northrop Grumman and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have established a new wireless transmission standard through a demonstration of a two-way data link that transmitted data at speeds of 100 gigabits per second over a 20-kilometer range. Northrop said Wednesday the demonstration conducted on Jan. 19 in Los Angeles marked the conclusion of the […] More

  • Navy Selects L3 to Provide New Data Link for 3 Future Littoral Combat Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects L3 to Provide New Data Link for 3 Future Littoral Combat Ships

    L3 Technologies has been selected to produce a new communications data-link system for three future U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships to receive imagery from multiple aircraft platforms simultaneously, Defense News reported Friday. The report said L3 will provide Maritime Surface Terminals for installation aboard the Independence-class Mobile and Savannah vessels and the Freedom-class Marinette ship. John Van Brabant, […] More

  • DISA Renews Subscription for Northrop Data Link Test System Desktop Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Renews Subscription for Northrop Data Link Test System Desktop Software

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $106,010 contract to extend desktop software subscription for the Tactical Data Link Integration Exerciser platform. DISA announced the contract award through a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. TIGER is a suite of software tools based on the Defense Department’s data link test system – Multi-Link System […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the primary data link of MQ-9 Gen 4 Predator remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform work under the sole-source contract in Poway, California through Nov. 29, 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times faster than gravity. The GEU […] More

  • Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has developed a new data link offering to aid interoperability, situational awareness and connectivity for in-theater operations. The company said Wednesday the Tactical Data Link Lite system is designed to integrate with Android and Windows devices and address size, weight and power requirements of military customers for the use of such technology in adverse environments. Engility will showcase the ruggedized platform during the JRE Operator’s Working Group […] More

  • General Atomics' Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps

    Chris Pehrson, a senior executive at General Atomics, has told Bloomberg Government that the vast amounts of intelligence data that remotely piloted aircraft’s sensors collect pose a challenge to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. Pehrson said in an interview published Thursday that General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business seeks to address that challenge through […] More

  • Northrop Unmanned Helicopter With Cubic Data Link System Completes Operational Assessment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unmanned Helicopter With Cubic Data Link System Completes Operational Assessment

    Northrop Grumman-built unmanned helicopters have integrated a Cubic-produced data link system in a U.S. Navy operational assessment. The MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopters featured the Wide Band Line of Sight data link system, which works to provide ISR, target acquisition, laser designation and battle management functions, Cubic said Tuesday. Cubic also provides Miniature Multiband Transceivers for the Fire Scout to support Ku-band transmissions and […] More

  • Army Issues RFI on Gray Eagle UAS Data Link Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Issues RFI on Gray Eagle UAS Data Link Update

    The Army has unveiled its plans to update the data link of MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems. A request for information posted Aug. 27 asks for vendors that can provide receivers, antennas, modems and satellite communication components for the drone’s data link system. The Army wants to equip the drone with a ground SATCOM tool, new Tactical Common Data Link […] More

  • Thales, Israel Aerospace Industries Install Data Link Terminal on Heron UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales, Israel Aerospace Industries Install Data Link Terminal on Heron UAV

    Thales and Israel Aerospace Industries have completed a flight test of an IAI-built unmanned aerial vehicle following the installation of a data link component and Elisra’s antennas and radio frequency-based modules on board the UAV. Thales said Tuesday the TMA 6000 data link aboard the Heron Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance UAV is designed to transmit daylight and […] More

  • Inmarsat to Update Europe's ATC Data Link; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat to Update Europe’s ATC Data Link; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Inmarsat has been awarded a $19 million contract from the European Space Agency to build a satellite data link for the continent’s air traffic control infrastructure. ESA’s Iris Precursor project seeks to improve controller-pilot communications and help industry cut airborne delays by using Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband service, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “Our aim, and the purpose of […] More