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  • Navy Reviews Northrop's Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Reviews Northrop’s Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More

  • QinetiQ Partners with Cobham to Support U.K. Military's Aircrew Training, Flight Test Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ Partners with Cobham to Support U.K. Military’s Aircrew Training, Flight Test Programs

    Cobham has secured an 18-month, $2.9 million contract from QinetiQ to support the Empire Test Pilots’ School and Rotary Wing Test and Evaluation Squadron based at a British military airfield in Wiltshire, England. The agreement calls for Cobham to deliver one Bell 412 HAR2 helicopter as well as provide aircrew training services and deploy maintenance personnel at the U.K. Ministry of […] More

  • BAE-Led Contractor Team to Compete Under UK's Challenger 2 Tank Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Led Contractor Team to Compete Under UK’s Challenger 2 Tank Update

    BAE Systems will lead a team comprising General Dynamics‘ U.K. land systems and international mission systems subsidiaries, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Moog, QinetiQ and Safran Electronics to bid under the U.K. defense ministry’s project to update the Challenger 2 main battle tank fleet. The team will pursue a contract to update the tanks to the Challenger 2 Mark 2 design to feature thermal […] More

  • Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K.

      Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. The report said the Babcock offering […] More

  • DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed. DARPA said Tuesday the agency is interested in a vehicle with track and suspension technologies, agile motion systems, 360-degree data visualization technology and a signature management system […] More

  • Visiongain: 2015 Border Security Market Revenue to Hit $16B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: 2015 Border Security Market Revenue to Hit $16B

    A Visiongain study, released by ReportLinker, forecasts global revenue from border security platforms and services will be approximately $16.4 billion this year. The 364-page market research report examines key factors that Visiongain believes can affect worldwide, regional and national spending on products designed to help authorities monitor cross-border activities, ReportLinker said Wednesday. Visiongain categorized the […] More

  • Cyveillance Unveils Image-Based Search, Retrieval Tool; Eric Olson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyveillance Unveils Image-Based Search, Retrieval Tool; Eric Olson Comments

    Cyveillance has introduced new search and intelligence offerings in its cyber threat center intended to help security professionals protect their organizations from threats. The QinetiQ company said Monday the content-based search and retrieval systems work to find trademarks, fake accounts and counterfeit products in the web by scanning brand marks, logos, images of physical locations […] More

  • Steve Wadey Assumes CEO Role at QinetiQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Wadey Assumes CEO Role at QinetiQ

    Steve Wadey, formerly managing director of MBDA’s U.K. business, has taken on his new role as CEO at QinetiQ. Wadey, whose appointment was announced in January 2015, is tasked to steer QinetiQ’s organic-plus growth strategy and lead more than 5,000 employees in the U.K., U.S., Belgium and Australia, QinetiQ said Monday. “I am relishing my new […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets 31% CAGR for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets 31% CAGR for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market

    A Research and Markets report has forecast the worldwide market for unmanned ground vehicles will enjoy a 31.34 percent growth year-over-year from 2014 to 2019. The research firm said Monday defense agencies use UGVs to examine terrain, supply weapons to soldiers during combat operations, and perform explosive detection and disaster search and rescue efforts. UGVs are also […] More

  • TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles

    Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation of explosives and detection of enemy […] More

  • Cyveillance, Centripetal Networks Combine Tech for Cyber Threat Intell - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyveillance, Centripetal Networks Combine Tech for Cyber Threat Intell

    QinetiQ‘s Cyveillance subsidiary has partnered with Centripetal Networks to combine the former’s threat intelligence streaming technology and the latter’s RuleGate platform to provide customers with actionable information on cyber threats. Cyveillance said Monday the partnership works to enable RuleGate to operationalize Cyveillance’s feeds on phishing and malicious URLs and suspect domain names and quickly activate security policies to catch network threats in real time. […] More