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  • Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio

    Harris has added the RF-7850S wideband secure personal radio to the company’s Falcon III line of tactical radios built to offer networked voice, data and situational awareness in a single platform for warfighters. The company said Monday RF-7850S succeeds the RF-7800S SPR team radio and is designed to deliver optimized waveform and spectrum flexibility and power. Matt Nearpass, a product management director for global […] More

  • Forecast International Predicts Electronic Attack Programs Market Value at $5.1B by 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forecast International Predicts Electronic Attack Programs Market Value at $5.1B by 2025

    Forecast International has predicted that $5.1 billion will be contributed to the electronic attack systems markets from 2016 to 2025 with 14,610 major electronic attack program units worth $2.8 billion produced between 2016 to 2020 and another 13,094 units worth $2.3 billion by 2025. The EA category includes any electronic system designed to conduct offensive functions, such […] More

  • Bloomberg Government Team Predicts FY 2016 Reversal of Contract Spending Declines, M&A Reshaping to Continue - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg Government Team Predicts FY 2016 Reversal of Contract Spending Declines, M&A Reshaping to Continue

    Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

  • Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy

    Harris subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $12.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and software support equipment for multiple airborne countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Monday Exelis will support the Navy’s AN/ALQ-165 self-protection jammers, AN/ALQ-214 integrated defensive electronic countermeasures as well as the service branch’s aircraft self-protection and software modernization projects. […] More

  • Harris Receives Army Dental Directorate Follow-On Contract for IT Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Receives Army Dental Directorate Follow-On Contract for IT Support Services

    Harris Corp. has secured a potential four year, $30 million contract from the U.S. Army‘s dental directorate to provide a range of information technology services for dental clinics that have Army, Navy and Air Force staff and dependents as patients. The company said Thursday the contract requires analysis, software programming and development, system interface support, testing, deployment, […] More

  • Steve Brannan: Harris CapRock Helps Satellite Operator Build VSAT Hub in Qatar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Brannan: Harris CapRock Helps Satellite Operator Build VSAT Hub in Qatar

    Doha, Qatar-based satellite operator Es’hailSat has chosen Harris subsidiary Harris CapRock Communications to build a very small-aperture terminal hub to support the Qatari company’s government and corporate clients. Steve Brannan, a senior project manager at Harris CapRock, said Wednesday the business worked with multiple vendors to develop and install an “advanced” VSAT network for Es’hailSat under a tight deadline. Harris CapRock obtained a government license […] More

  • Esri, Harris Form Federal GEOINT Data Production Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri, Harris Form Federal GEOINT Data Production Partnership

    Esri has partnered with Harris Corp. to develop new methods for the production of geospatial intelligence data within a web-based geographic information system in an effort to help federal agencies update their processes and outcomes. The companies seek to help agencies build new applications and tools through digital transformation initiatives and location-based technology, Esri said Tuesday. Esri’s WebGIS is a network designed to […] More

  • Harris to Incorporate Icaros Image Processing Software to Geospatial Analysis Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Incorporate Icaros Image Processing Software to Geospatial Analysis Tool

    A division of Harris Corp. will offer its geospatial analytics technology ENVI with the Icaros OneButton image processing software to support both manned and unmanned aerial sensor data extraction. Icaros said Wednesday it developed OneButton to provide geospatial end users with 2D maps and 3D models using frame-based imaging systems. Beau Legeer, data products business lead at the Harris geospatial solutions division, […] More

  • Harris Nabs Two Orders From European Customer for Tactical Radio Supply - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Nabs Two Orders From European Customer for Tactical Radio Supply

    Harris has acquired two orders worth an estimated $29 million combined from an undisclosed European customer to provide Falcon tactical radios. The company will supply its Falcon product line, including AN/PRC-152A wideband networking handheld radios, AN/PRC-117G multiband networking manpack radios and AN/PRC-150C HF/VHF tactical radios as part of a standardization program that seeks to address interoperability challenges during coalition operations, […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has started to test a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather prediction and environmental monitoring satellite in a simulated setting. The Joint Polar Satellite System satellite will undergo a series of acoustic, vibration, and electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests at a facility Boulder, Colorado where the company built the spacecraft, Ball Aerospace said Friday. […] More

  • Harris to Support Australian Army Communications Network Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Support Australian Army Communications Network Modernization Program

    Harris has been chosen by Australia’s government to provide an integrated tactical communications network in support of modernization efforts for the country’s army. The company said Friday the Land 2072 program is on its third phase and will work to build up the Australian army’s operational tempo, command and control once it is complete. Harris added its voice and data services network will be designed to support line-of-sight […] More

  • Govini's Eric Gillespie: Federal Spending Poised for Rebound, Vendor Services Demand Remains Steady - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini’s Eric Gillespie: Federal Spending Poised for Rebound, Vendor Services Demand Remains Steady

    A Govini report has shown that contract obligations by half of 24 federal agencies increased during fiscal year 2015 despite a two-percent decline in overall agency spending. “Spending may have decreased relative to the last two years, but we see signs of a rebound, or spending stabilization, as agency funding solidified,” Eric Gillespie, Govini founder and CEO, said Friday. […] More