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  • Thales to Supply Airborne Surveillance Radar to Qatar Armed Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Supply Airborne Surveillance Radar to Qatar Armed Forces

    Thales and Qatar have signed a a memorandum of understanding for the supply of Thales’ aerial surveillance radar to Qatar’s armed forces. The company said Thursday it will equip Qatar’s Optionally Piloted Vehicles-Aircraft with the Searchmaster radar designed for naval and ground-based surveillance missions. Gen. Khalid Ahmad Al-Kuwari of Qatar’s armed forces said the partnership with […] More

  • Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments

    Saab has rolled out a three-dimensional naval radar technology the company designed to help maritime users perform air and surface surveillance operations. The Sea Giraffe 1X active electronically scanned array radar is built to integrate with small patrol ships and requires a small number of line-replaceable units and little power to operate, Saab said Tuesday. “Traditionally, smaller patrol […] More

  • Raytheon to Integrate GaN-Based Radar Tech Into Patriot Missile System; Ralph Acaba Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Integrate GaN-Based Radar Tech Into Patriot Missile System; Ralph Acaba Comments

    Raytheon will equip its Patriot air and missile defense system with a gallium nitride-based active electronically scanned array technology as part of efforts to modernize the system. The company said Tuesday it will upgrade the Patriot for military customers to detect and identify adversarial manned and unmanned aircraft as well as cruise and ballistic missile threats. Ralph Acaba, Raytheon’s […] More

  • Defense News: Poland, Germany Could Ink Missile Defense System Procurement Contracts in 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Poland, Germany Could Ink Missile Defense System Procurement Contracts in 2016

    NATO member countries, such as Poland and Germany, have yet to sign the final contracts to buy new missile defense systems even if they already chose the contractors for such platforms this year, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes that Germany and Poland expect to sign the procurement agreements in 2016. Poland tapped Raytheon […] More

  • Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System

    Airbus’ defense and space business has concluded a series of factory assessment tests on a radar system for integration with the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship-17. TRS-4D is a rotating active electronically scanned array radar that works to detect surface and aerial threats and perform target acquisition and surveillance operations, Airbus said Monday. The radar […] More

  • Raytheon Adds Gallium Nitride-Based AESA to Patriot Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Adds Gallium Nitride-Based AESA to Patriot Radar

    Raytheon continues work to upgrade the radar component of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System with a gallium nitride-based active electronically scanned array to provide a 360-degree radar coverage. The company said Tuesday the GaN-based AESA radar works to help the Patriot system protect U.S. and allied forces against attacks that come from multiple directions. “The Raytheon-developed GaN-based AESA […] More

  • Northrop to Develop Long-Range Radar for Army Recon Plane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop Long-Range Radar for Army Recon Plane

    Northrop Grumman will build a synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator system for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced aircraft under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday the long-range radar combines Vehicle and Dismount and Exploitation Radar and Active Electronically Scanned Array technology to bolster the ARL-E DHC-8 reconnaissance plane’s capabilities. “The long-range radar is a natural fit into the […] More

  • Northrop Launches AESA Radar for US Air Force B-1B Bombers; Paul Kalafos Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Launches AESA Radar for US Air Force B-1B Bombers; Paul Kalafos Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched an active electronically scanned array radar it built for the B-1B Lancer bomber of the U.S. Air Force under the Radar Modernization Improvement Program. The company said Wednesday it designed the Scalable Agile Beam Radar – Global Strike AESA system to generate digital maps and advanced images to support B-1B bombers’ […] More

  • DRS Teams with Israel's Beth-El, Rada on CBRN Defense, AESA Radar Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Teams with Israel’s Beth-El, Rada on CBRN Defense, AESA Radar Tech

    Finmeccanica-owned DRS Technologies has teamed with Beth-El Industries, and Israeli supplier of environmental threat protection systems, to develop an air filtration product for U.S. military use. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will create new offerings to utilize Arlington, Virginia-based DRS’ chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense systems and Beth-El filtration technology, DRS said Tuesday. […] More

  • Teri Marconi: Northrop to Add '1st Simultaneous Multi-Mission' Tool for Navy Surface Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teri Marconi: Northrop to Add ‘1st Simultaneous Multi-Mission’ Tool for Navy Surface Ships

    Northrop Grumman will add early detection, threat warning, signal analysis and other functions to its AN/SLQ-32 electronic warfare system as part of a $267 million contract it received from the U.S. Navy in February. The company said Thursday the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 contract seeks to upgrade the electronic warfare attack system to protect Navy vessels from enemy missiles. “This is […] More