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  • Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand's Combat System Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand’s Combat System Trainer

    A Kongsberg subsidiary produced the geospatial and display components of a combat management system that Lockheed Martin built and delivered to New Zealand’s navy. Lockheed’s Canadian arm deployed the CMS 330 Combat Management System to a maritime warfare training center in Devonport, New Zealand, as part of the country’s Anzac frigate system modernization effort, Kongsberg said Monday. Kongsberg noted the CMS 330 was originally developed to support Canada’s Halifax-class frigates and modified later […] More

  • General Atomics to Build UAS Ground Control Station for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Build UAS Ground Control Station for Air Force

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a $39.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to build a ground control station for the company-built Predator unmanned aircraft system. GA-ASI is scheduled to complete work by March 25, 2019, the Defense Department said Monday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will obligate the full amount of the modification at the […] More

  • Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets

    Raytheon has landed a $37.3 million modification from the U.S. Navy to exercise an option on a previously awarded contract for the supply of missile fire control system equipment ship sets. The Defense Department said Monday that Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will produce two MFCS MK 99 equipment ship sets to help address the military branch’s Aegis Weapon […] More

  • Northrop Eyes Space, Missile Defense Tech Devt Task Orders Under $3B Army IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Eyes Space, Missile Defense Tech Devt Task Orders Under $3B Army IDIQ

    Northrop Grumman plans to compete for task orders to design, build, demonstrate and integrate space and missile defense technology platforms under a potential nine-year,  $3.04 billion contract with the U.S. Army. The company said Monday it will work to help the service branch meet requirements and provide capabilities in the areas of integrated air and missile […] More

  • Cubic to Display Virtual Training, C4ISR Platforms at Maritime Expo; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Display Virtual Training, C4ISR Platforms at Maritime Expo; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense and mission solutions businesses will feature a variety of air combat and maritime virtual training systems alongside C4ISR platforms at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition to be held in National Harbor, Maryland, from April 3 to 5. Mike Twyman, president of Cubic’s mission solutions unit, said in a statement released Tuesday the company will also present its NextMission strategy with communications and ISR […] More

  • MDA, Raytheon Incorporate New Sensors, Software Into SM-3 IIA Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA, Raytheon Incorporate New Sensors, Software Into SM-3 IIA Missile

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have updated the Standard Missile-3 IIA weapon with new software, sensors and infrared seeker designed to handle new threat data and detect hostile targets in space, Defense Systems reported Friday. MDA officials said the Raytheon-built SM-3 IIA missile worked to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile during a demonstration, Kris Osborn wrote. “We […] More

  • NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium

    NASA has picked a potential $40 million science mission that aims to measure emissions from the cosmic material – interstellar medium – that can be found among stars in order to generate data for use in research into the Milky Way galaxy. The Galactic/Extragalactic [Ultralong-Duration Balloon] Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory mission seeks to offer a “complete […] More

  • Lockheed Team-Built LCS 7 Completes Ship Qualification Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Team-Built LCS 7 Completes Ship Qualification Tests

    A Freedom-class U.S. Navy littoral combat ship built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team has completed a series of combat system ship qualification trials that evaluated the vessel’s capacity to track and disable maneuvering surface targets. The service branch said Friday LCS Crew 103 tested the USS Detroit‘s combat systems suite that includes a 57mm gun designed to target fast […] More

  • DISA Issues Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Database - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Issues Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Database

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data Solutions‘ relational database management platform. DISA’s STIG for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL database seeks to guide agencies on how to field the database platform in government-run networks in compliance with the Defense Department’s security requirements, the company said Thursday. PostgreSQL is an open-source database that comes with the […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Opens Jet Engine R&D Lab in Purdue Research Park Aerospace District - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Opens Jet Engine R&D Lab in Purdue Research Park Aerospace District

    Rolls-Royce has opened a facility at the Purdue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the company will research and develop jet engine components for customers globally. The Purdue Technology Center Aerospace will house a Rolls-Royce group that aims to design, build and test engine parts, collaborate with Purdue University researchers via corporate partnerships and recruit student interns and graduates, […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Mature UUV Wireless Recharging Tech Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Mature UUV Wireless Recharging Tech Under Navy Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.6 million contract to mature a power and energy management system designed to remotely recharge underwater unmanned vehicles while undersea. The company said Friday it will also mature and demonstrate the system’s software in an effort to help the Navy prioritize and schedule UUVs that need wireless recharging. Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and President Eileen Drake said the […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface

    Charles River Analytics has developed a user interface that integrates tailored display and input methods intended to help U.S. Navy pilots plan or replan flight activities. The Intuitive User Interfaces for Task-Tailored Planning program works to help the military branch’s airmen leverage underlying mission planning technologies customized for users to accommodate specific tasks and roles, Charles River said Wednesday. INTUIT is a card-based UI designed to increase the […] More