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  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More

  • LGS Innovations to Update, Relocate US Army C41 Systems in South Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LGS Innovations to Update, Relocate US Army C41 Systems in South Korea

    LGS Innovations has received a five-year contract from the U.S. Army to support the migration of assets from the service branch’s facilities across South Korea to U.S. Army Garrison-Humphreys. The company said Monday it will update and migrate the Army’s command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems to a new network infrastructure at Camp Humphreys as part of the […] More

  • AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate seeks white papers on ideas that support the research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of quantum computing sciences under a potential $40 million funding opportunity. According to a broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps, the funding opportunity aims to assess algorithm designs and technologies that utilize quantum annealing techniques in support of […] More

  • Serco's US Arm to Install C4I Infrastructure at Air Force C2 Hub in Nebraska; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco’s US Arm to Install C4I Infrastructure at Air Force C2 Hub in Nebraska; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a four-year, $12 million contract to install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence infrastructure for a new U.S. Air Force command and control facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Systems Center Pacific awarded the contract to Serco Inc. in a move to help […] More

  • Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016

    Thales has introduced at the Eurosatory 2016 trade exhibition a software-defined broadband tactical radio designed to support command, control, computers, communications and intelligence systems. The Thales-built Synaps radio communications platform is based on Contact, a software-defined radio that the French defense procurement agency ordered for use by the country’s armed forces starting in 2019, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support

    The U.S. Coast Guard has launched market research on the availability of commercial technology and service offerings to support the maritime security agency’s information technology modernization effort. In a notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps, the Coast Guard said it will hold a vendor information session in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 26 to discuss program objectives and critical […] More

  • BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services

    BAE Systems has awarded a subcontract to Cumming, Georgia-based small business Pyrgos Communications for technical and installation personnel support of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence functions to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. Pyrgos said Thursday it will help BAE in work to develop, design, implement and test C4I systems for the division. Pyrgos’ personnel will provide assistance in research and development, […] More

  • Serco Inc. to Resume Work on Navy C4I Support Contract; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco Inc. to Resume Work on Navy C4I Support Contract; Dan Allen Comments

    The U.S. Navy has instructed Serco‘s North American subsidiary to resume its sustainment work for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems under a contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Serco Inc. said Thursday it will recommence services under the potential $131 million C4I lifecycle sustainment contract it won in late 2015 after the Navy resolved a protest that challenged the award of […] More

  • Riptide Software to Help Update Navy's Integrated Arms Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riptide Software to Help Update Navy’s Integrated Arms Training System

    Riptide Software has won a potential five-year, $47 million contract to update and support a military arms training platform designed for U.S. Navy commanders and combat units. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help build the Combined Arms Command and Control Trainer Upgrade System for naval personnel to train in live, virtual and […] More

  • CACI to Help Navy Build, Install Airborne C4I Systems; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Navy Build, Install Airborne C4I Systems; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI International a 20-month, $63.5 million contract to support the Naval Air Warfare Center’s research and development work on C4I (command, control, computers, communications, intelligence) technologies. CACI said Monday it will help NAWCAD design, produce and install rapid reaction aerial vehicle C4I systems for the Navy and Marine Corps. “This […] More

  • Serco to Help SPAWAR Maintain Mine-Resistant Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Help SPAWAR Maintain Mine-Resistant Vehicles

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco -Inc. a one-year, $9 million contract to provide integration and maintenance services for the military’s fleet of mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles. Serco will work with the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Command to maintain command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on the armored fighting vehicles, Serco said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Ken Asbury: Army Taps CACI to Help Build Network Interoperability Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: Army Taps CACI to Help Build Network Interoperability Tech

    CACI International has won a $21 million task order to help the U.S. Army integrate data networking and connectivity tools for the branch’s tactical command infrastructure. The potential two-year contract also covers research and development, prototyping, logistics, systems engineering and software support services, CACI said Monday. The Army uses the battle command system to manage […] More