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  • Boeing to Showcase Offerings at Singapore Airshow; Skip Boyce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Showcase Offerings at Singapore Airshow; Skip Boyce Comments

    Boeing will exhibit a range of aircraft platforms and an ocean surface robot during a six-day aerospace and defense show in Singapore. The company said Monday it will participate in this year’s Singapore Airshow to highlight the firm’s efforts to increase growth prospects and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region for its defense, commercial and service businesses. “Singapore is […] More

  • Companies Pitch Off-the-Shelf Tech Platforms to DoD SCO Chief Will Roper - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Companies Pitch Off-the-Shelf Tech Platforms to DoD SCO Chief Will Roper

    The National Defense Industrial Association hosted a meeting on Nov. 14 to allow representatives from companies to present their commercial off-the-shelf technology platforms to Will Roper, director of the Defense Department’s strategic capabilities office, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes executives from Allegheny Technologies, Battelle, Creative Micro Systems, Endeavor Robotics, General Atomics, […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

  • Liquid Robotics Adds 3 Members to Strategic Advisory Board; Gary Gysin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liquid Robotics Adds 3 Members to Strategic Advisory Board; Gary Gysin Comments

    Liquid Robotics has named three new members to its strategic advisory board  U.S. Pacific Command head Timothy Keating, former United Nations Command leader Walter Sharp and Francisco Chavez — a senior scientist and biological oceanographer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The unmanned ocean robot manufacturer said Tuesday Keating, Sharp and Chavez will join 18 board advisers from […] More

  • Industry Explores New Tech to Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Explores New Tech to Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

    Several technology companies are developing power generation systems and methods to operate unmanned undersea vehicles for an extended period of time, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes Rich Granger, business development lead at Battelle‘s maritime systems business, told the magazine that the company has designed a platform that aims to transfer power and data […] More

  • Chris Chadwick: Boeing-Liquid Robotics Team to Build Maritime Defense Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Chadwick: Boeing-Liquid Robotics Team to Build Maritime Defense Tools

    Boeing and Liquid Robotics have teamed up to build maritime defense applications and services. The companies will jointly develop tools for anti-submarine warfare and maritime domain awareness applications, Boeing said Tuesday. “This relationship allows the Boeing-Liquid Robotics team to solve maritime security and surveillance challenges in entirely new and highly effective ways and provides unprecedented capability and […] More