Trimble has secured a potential five-year, $5.8 million contract to produce devices and software for the U.S. Marine Corps to perform topographic surveys. The Marine Corps ordered M7 GPS receivers, S9 robotic total stations, TSC3 data controller systems, Business Center office software, and MX2 mobile scanning systems, Trimble said Thursday. The M7 receiver employs a selective availability anti-spoofing […] More

Iridium Communications has agreed to integrate its satellite communications system into the core transportation and logistics offering of Trimble. Trimble will offer the product with Iridium’s satellite machine-to-machine connectivity services in Europe and other regions worldwide, Iridium said Thursday. David Wigglesworth, vice president and general manager for Americas and global M2M services at Iridium, said Iridium’s global coverage “will play an important role in Trimble’s […] More

Trimble Inc. is planning to release its cloud-based feedback management technology to government customers in an effort to aid in government-constituent collaborations, GCN reported Thursday. Local government clients will be able to manage and respond to service requests from their constituents using the Trimble Feedback application, according to the report. The system is also designed […] More

AECOM will use a suite of Trimble software products to help government clients manage workflow, costs, scheduling and technical processes in construction projects. AECOM will deploy Trimble’s Proliance platform to monitor capital investments and assignment delivery for customers throughout the design-build-operate lifecycle, Trimble said Tuesday. Bryn Fosburgh, vice president of Trimble, said the company’s portfolio […] More

BAE Systems has moved to increase the level of GPS jamming protection for aircraft operating in contested environments by broadening the beamforming capabilities of its Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver. The company said Monday it enabled beamforming with Trimble receivers to expand its DIGAR system’s capabilities.  BAE engineers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed software to broaden […] More

Lockheed Martin has joined an organization that aims to promote awareness of global positioning system technology applications.

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The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has issued a security certification for Raytheon-made global positioning system modules and receivers.

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Leaders from the geospatial world have formed a council that would facilitate collaboration in the industry, particularly among companies and representative trade organizations. Jack Dangermond, president of Redlands, Calif.-based Esri, provider of geographic information system software, web geographic information systems and geodatabase management applications, will serve as the chairman and founder of the World Geospatial Industry […] More

The U.S. Navy has begun to conduct safe separation tests of a Lockheed Martin-built anti-submarine warfare weapon from Boeing-made P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Flighglobal reported Wednesday. Stephen Trimble writes the High Altitude Anti-submarine warfare Weapon Capability is scheduled to undergo guided flight test in late fiscal 2017, which will permit program officials to potentially order 140 weapons in the […] More

Boeing will work to identify a vendor that can supply 132 infrared search-and-track sensors in support of a $198 million program to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s F-15C/D twin-engined fighter, Flight Global reported Monday. Stephen Trimble writes the Air Force has also tasked Boeing to find a provider of sensors for active duty squadrons, Air National Guard and test […] More

Dynetics has introduced a new guided bomb with a larger warhead that it will provide to the U.S. Special Operations Command under an $11.6 million contract awarded in early June to develop small glide munition, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. Stephen Trimble writes the nearly 60-pound guided bomb’s warhead case incorporates separate modules for the nose section, tail kit and wing […] More

A Northrop Grumman executive has said the company’s concept for the future sixth-generation fighter jet will work to manage heat that sensors and weapons produce, Flight Global reported Saturday. Stephen Trimble writes Tom Vice, vice president at Northrop’s aerospace systems business, demonstrated the concept for the new combat plane as the defense contractor prepares to compete […] More