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  • Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Blue Cedar to incorporate the latter’s mobile security tool into its Universal Communications Platform mobile application in an effort to facilitate secure communications among app users, military personnel and first responders. The partnership seeks to enable users to download to their smartphones, table computers and other mobile devices the […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech

    Rockwell Collins has showcased the capacities of a jamming-resistant directional communication link designed to send signals 10 times farther than current omnidirectional systems. The company said Thursday that the communication link system uses technologies built through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Arrays at Commercial Timescales programs to aid operations of military unmanned aerial systems […] More

  • UK Govt Taps Leonardo-Thales Team to Demo IR Threat Warning & Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Govt Taps Leonardo-Thales Team to Demo IR Threat Warning & Countermeasure System

    A partnership of Leonardo and Thales has received a contract from the U.K. defence ministry to demonstrate their combined missile threat warning and protection system in early 2018. The joint platform is currently under development to integrate Thales’ Elix-IR threat warner with Leonardo’s Miysis directed infrared countermeasure system, Leonardo said Wednesday. Elix-IR will work to detect, […] More

  • BAE Launches Updated Naval Mine Countermeasures System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Launches Updated Naval Mine Countermeasures System

    BAE Systems has introduced a new version of its naval mine countermeasures system at the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in London, U.K. The updated Naval Autonomy Tactical Information System dubbed NAUTIS 5 is designed to provide optimized command and control for autonomous and off-board systems; a new human-computer interface; and embedded on-board training, BAE […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has received a $10 million order to manufacture soldier wearable shooter detection systems for an unidentified Gulf country. BBN Technologies aims to deliver 2,000 Boomerang Warrior-X units to the customer over the next 12 months, Raytheon said Thursday. Boomerang is designed to help warfighters gain situational awareness of hostile fires or sniper attacks and provide […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft

    Rolls-Royce seeks to pitch the company’s BR725 engine technology offering to the U.S. Air Force as a potential replacement for current B-52 bomber engines, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. Tom Hartmann, senior vice president of customer business at Rolls Royce’s North American arm, told FlightGlobal the company will prepare for a potential bomber engine modernization program as the service branch […] More

  • Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite

    Saab has entered the final development phase for a new suite of electronic warfare self-protection systems in a move to expand the company’s EW portfolio. The company said Wednesday it will install one variant of the Arexis product on board the Gripen E/F fighter aircraft. Arexis is designed to feature ultra wideband digital receivers, digital radio frequency memory devices, interferometric direction […] More

  • NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets

    NASA and the BoldlyGo Institute have entered into a Space Act Agreement to build and deploy a purpose-built space telescope to determine potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system. BoldlyGo said Tuesday the public-private collaboration seeks to open up opportunities for NASA personnel and staff members of the Project Blue mission to review mission designs […] More

  • BAE Unit to Support US, UK Trident II Missile Programs Under $64M Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Support US, UK Trident II Missile Programs Under $64M Contract Modification

    BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business has received a $63.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support strategic weapon systems for U.S. and U.K. Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile programs. The modification also covers services for the Navy’s SSGN guided-missile submarine attack weapons, nuclear weapon surety and future concepts, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD […] More

  • Verizon's Federal Arm to Help Maintain Naval Computer, Telecom Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Federal Arm to Help Maintain Naval Computer, Telecom Systems

    Verizon‘s federal business has secured a potential five-year, $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to maintain and support switched voice and data telecommunications systems for the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic. The Defense Department said Thursday the service branch awarded the contract after a competitive solicitation process on FedBizOpps with one bid received. NCTAMS […] More

  • Lockheed Secures $62M Coast Guard C-130J Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $62M Coast Guard C-130J Contract Option

    Lockheed Martin has received a $61.9 million contract option to produce C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed will build the military transport aircraft at a company facility in Marietta, Georgia, through April 30, 2020. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is the contracting activity and will obligate the full modification […] More

  • Navistar Gets Army Contract for Mine-Resistant Vehicle Technical Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navistar Gets Army Contract for Mine-Resistant Vehicle Technical Services

    The U.S. Army has awarded Navistar‘s defense business a $29.6 million contract modification to provide technical and sustainment support for mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. Navistar will perform services in support of in-production and out-of-production MaxxPro vehicles through March 31, 2019, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Army Contracting Command will identify work locations and funds with each order. MaxxPro is designed […] More