ITT Exelis has won a $3.2 million follow-on contract from the Air Force research laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to provide upgraded satellite remote sensor systems, according to a company statement. “The new sensor system gives our customers advance knowledge about changes in space weather,“ said Mark Fournier, ITT Exelis director of …

ITT Exelis has won a $2.15 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to research navigation payloads that could support the Air Force‘s GPS program, Exelis said Wednesday. Over 18 months, the company will research potential ways to reduce payload weight, size and power and help GPS users in either urban …

ITT Exelis has announced a new platform aimed at using traffic and surveillance cameras already in use to to collect weather information in real-time. The company said Helios is intended to integrate cameras that watch traffic, facility security and railroad assets. Eric Webster, vice president of weather systems for Exelis’ …

ITT Exelis has won a $93,261,183 U.S. contract to provide material and services for design, procurement, installation and maintenance of adaptive persistent awareness systems. According to the Defense Department, the indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract includes provisions for cost-plus-fixed-fee orders. The Adaptive Persistent Awareness Systems is an integrated system designed to provide …

Following an announcement earlier this week from Harris Corp., ITT Exelis announced Thursday it has also won a position on a $10 billion communications systems and services contract from the U.S. Army. The five-year Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems and Services contract supports orders from the Defense Department and other …

A Raytheon-led team will develop unmanned aerial vehicle sensors for detecting ground objects not visible to the human eye, Military Aerospace reports. Under a sole-source contract from the Air Force, the team will equip the General Atomics-made MQ-1 Predator with hyperspectral sensors between 2012 and 2016 under the Airborne Cueing …

ITT Exelis will present several offerings in aerospace and defense Monday through Wednesday at the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington. The company said it will display its technology for networked communications, airborne electronic warfare, night vision goggles, airborne ISR systems, information processing, exploitation …

ITT Exelis‘ subsidiary Exelis Visual Information Solutions will release a cloud computing-based implementation of its ENVI image analysis software, the company announced Wednesday. The ENVI Services Engine will provide deployed military and intelligence personnel information from satellite imagery and airborne services via mobile devices. Information on the device is for …

ITT Exelis has released an updated version of its Jagwire enterprise software for management and dissemination of tactical imagery and video, the company announced Tuesday. Jagwire 1.2 is used to review and distribute wide area persistent surveillance data. Richard Cooke, vice president of geospatial intelligence solutions, said in a release …

ITT Exelis has completed acceptance testing of the navigation payload element for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III non-flight satellite testbed, the company announced Thursday. The company also delivered the testbed’s pathfinder unit to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor of the GPS III program, for thermal vacuum testing and space vehicle …

ITT Exelis has developed a new system for detecting both intentional and unintentional GPS jamming sources through a network of sensors and new geolocation technology, the company announced Monday. The GPS Interference, Detection and Geolocation system is based on a network of threat detection sensors linked to a central server …

ITT Exelis will present several of its offerings in C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) and electronic warfare at an Air Force Association conference this week. The company said the Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition is taking place Monday through Wednesday at the Gaylord Convention …

  ITT Exelis announced that it completed six rounds of testing for its Advanced Defensive Electronic Warfare System on September 11. Exelis said the demonstration concluded a year’s worth of planning and coordination between the U.S. and Chilean Air Forces. Stuart Altman, Exelis Electronic Systems business area lead for AIDEWS said that electronic warfare …

ITT Exelis and an Airbus subsidiary are partnering to develop a new system for airports and airline customers to track aircraft and vehicle movement between gates, Exelis announced Monday. The companies will draw on Exelis’ web-based Symphony OpsVue, which visualizes flight data, and Metron’s web-based Harmony, used to manage flow …

A contracting team including ITT Exelis will develop a line-of-sight, high-bandwidth laser communications system for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Exelis said the branches will use the system for ISR missions (intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance). Exelis will lead systems engineering, product development and production and NOVASOL will design …