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  • Kratos Completes Customer-assigned UAS Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Completes Customer-assigned UAS Missions

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has completed a set of unmanned aerial system missions that were tasked by the company’s private customers. The company said Tuesday it made use of different UAS types with varying payload capacities and features to accommodate corresponding missions. Kratos’ jet powered UAS are designed to participate in tactical operations. Steve […] More

  • ESA Names Airbus Prime Contractor for European Satellite-Based Augmentation System Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ESA Names Airbus Prime Contractor for European Satellite-Based Augmentation System Devt

    The European Space Agency has selected Airbus to be the prime contractor on a project to build a new satellite-based augmentation system that can support “safety of life” and other services across the aviation sector. Airbus said Friday it will help the agency produce EGNOS V3 in efforts to boost the performance of European SoL services to […] More

  • BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits

    BAE Systems has received an $8 million contract to produce modernized precision guidance kits for the U.S. Army‘s 155-millimeter artillery munitions. New kits will be developed to increase accuracy of in-flight Army munitions to hit targets through trajectory corrections even in a GPS-jammed environment, BAE said Tuesday. Marc Casseres, director of BAE’s precision guidance and sensor solutions business, said the […] More

  • Lockheed Puts Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Through Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Puts Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Through Flight Test

    Lockheed Martin has completed a controlled flight test of its Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to validate the weapon’s agility, airframe and electronics. The Lockheed-funded demonstration on Friday marked the first test for MHTK’s updated electronics and the second for the missile’s new airframe, the company said Tuesday. MHTK comes in two […] More

  • DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a live event next year for the finale of a three-year collaborative machine intelligence competition designed to mitigate challenges related to spectrum scarcity. DARPA said Tuesday it will host the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge finale event simultaneously with the 2019 Mobile World Congress Americas annual conference in partnership […] More

  • Ryan Lewis Named Knight Point Systems Capture & Response Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ryan Lewis Named Knight Point Systems Capture & Response Director

    Ryan Lewis, formerly capture manager at Knight Point Systems, has been promoted to director of capture and response at the Reston, Virginia-based government technology and consulting services contractor, GovCon Executive has learned. Lewis will oversee capture and proposal teams to respond to potential business opportunities, build up the company’s sales lifecycle and align bids and […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for US-India Imaging Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for US-India Imaging Satellite

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has performed a critical design review of the AstroMesh radar antenna reflector being developed for a joint imaging satellite of NASA and India’s space agency. AstroMesh will serve as a deployable mesh reflector for the large aperture antenna of the NASA-Indian Space Research Organization Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, Northrop said Monday. The reflector […] More

  • Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Man-Portable Laser-Targeting Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Man-Portable Laser-Targeting Technology

    The U.S. Marine Corps seeks industry input for the potential acquisition of a man-portable rapid laser-targeting platform that integrates three currently used systems. The Marine Corps Systems Command considers a two-phased approach to full operational capacity for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, the Marines said through a Federal Business Opportunities sources-sought notice posted Wednesday. NGHTS, […] More

  • IndraSoft to Support Census Bureau Fingerprinting Operations Under $64M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IndraSoft to Support Census Bureau Fingerprinting Operations Under $64M Task Order

    IndraSoft has received a multiyear $64 million task order to help the U.S. Census Bureau manage its fingerprinting and identity proofing operations to prepare for the next decennial count. The company said Friday it will support the bureau’s 2018 End-to-End Census Test and 2020 Decennial Census activities across the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and island territories. Neeraja Lingam, CEO […] More

  • Comtech Subsidiary to Deliver Infrastructure Equipment to Telesat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Subsidiary to Deliver Infrastructure Equipment to Telesat

    A Comtech Communications subsidiary has received a multi-million dollar order to deliver infrastructure equipment to global satellite firm Telesat. Comtech EF Data will provide equipment that will be used to support multi-gigabit connectivity coverage over Northern Canada’s Nunavut territory, Comtech said Monday. The ordered equipment include the CDM-760 Advanced High-Speed Trunking and Broadcast Modem and the FX Series Wide Area Network […] More

  • Condusiv's James D'Arezzo: AI Tech Could Reduce Effectiveness of Govt Processes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Condusiv’s James D’Arezzo: AI Tech Could Reduce Effectiveness of Govt Processes

    Condusiv CEO James D’Arezzo has urged government information technology managers to be cautious in using artificial intelligence platforms to meet productivity needs amid budget reductions. D’Arezzo noted that AI systems may lessen the effectiveness of government processes since the technology is still “new and uncertain,” Condusiv said Monday. The company cited a white paper from the […] More

  • Luxriot-Atlas Dynamics Team to Supply Drone-Based Services for Defense, Security and First Responder Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Luxriot-Atlas Dynamics Team to Supply Drone-Based Services for Defense, Security and First Responder Markets

    Atlas Dynamics and Luxriot have teamed up to create drone-based products and services for first-responders, defense and security markets. Atlas Dynamics said Monday it will combine its autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle expertise with the Luxriot Evo Video Management Software to develop technologies that can impact the aforementioned markets. Ainars Svirskis, business development manager at Luxriot, said […] More