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  • Marine Corps Tests Harris-Made UAS Data Link; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Tests Harris-Made UAS Data Link; Ed Zoiss Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated an unmanned aircraft system equipped with a Harris Corp.-built data link technology during USMC’s Talon Reach exercise, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Kevin McCaney writes Small Secure Data Link platform is designed to leverage very high and ultra high frequency radio networks and certified to protect classified communications. Harris derived the […] More

  • Lockheed Completes MUOS Satellite Fleet; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes MUOS Satellite Fleet; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    Lockheed Martin has concluded the development of the fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite to complete the MUOS fleet. The U.S. Navy and Lockheed transported the MUOS-4 satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida from Moffett Federal Airfield aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft, Lockheed said Monday. MUOS-4 is scheduled for launch in August aboard a […] More

  • Motorola Solutions to Demo Devices on Colombia's LTE Networks; Fernando Bonilla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions to Demo Devices on Colombia’s LTE Networks; Fernando Bonilla Comments

    Motorola Solutions is set to demonstrate the company’s devices on public safety LTE networks in Colombia. The company will showcase how LTE technology could help during crime and emergency events through events and cases during the demonstration, Motorola Solutions said Thursday. “Public safety forces need to capture and process large volumes of data every day and […] More

  • Level 3, Comcast Forge Network Interconnection Partnership; Jack Waters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level 3, Comcast Forge Network Interconnection Partnership; Jack Waters Comments

    Level 3 Communications and Comcast have inked a multi-year agreement to interconnect their networks in an effort to fulfill future customer requirements. The companies said Thursday the partnership is meant to expand both companies’ existing network capacity to exchange Internet traffic between the two networks at present and in the future. “We believe the agreement […] More

  • DHS Seeks Proposals for Detainee Telephone Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Proposals for Detainee Telephone Services

    The Department of Homeland Security has launched a solicitation for telephone services for various detention centers nationwide. The solicitation released May 6 seeks proposals for a telephone network for contract detention facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement service processing centers, state and local detention centers, and 72-hour holding facilities. DHS plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More

  • Strategy Analytics: APAC Region to Drive Land-Based Tactical Radio Market Through 2024 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Strategy Analytics: APAC Region to Drive Land-Based Tactical Radio Market Through 2024

    A new Strategy Analytics report projects the total number of radio shipments to increase to 172,867 units by 2024 and the Asia-Pacific region to drive spending in the market. The report predicts land-based communications will represent the largest end market over the next 10 years and be buoyed by handheld radios, Strategy Analytics said Thursday. “Handheld radios will drive the volume in […] More

  • Rockwell Collins, DataPath to Jointly Build Army Comms Systems; Mike Jones, David Myers Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, DataPath to Jointly Build Army Comms Systems; Mike Jones, David Myers Comment

    Rockwell Collins and DataPath have partnered to develop global communication systems in support of the U.S. Army’s positioning, navigation and risk reduction efforts. Mike Jones, vice president and general manager of communication and navigation products for Rockwell Collins, said Wednesday the companies would build pseudolite systems with the goal to help the Army deploy positioning, navigation […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Comms Satellites for Arabsat; Mike Hamel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Comms Satellites for Arabsat; Mike Hamel Comments

    Lockheed Martin will produce communication satellites for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in a move aimed to help connect the citizens of Saudi Arabia. Arabsat ordered two A2100 satellites to expand its fleet of television, internet, telephone and secure communications satellites that already operate in orbit for the customers in Middle East, […] More

  • Comtech Continues to Sustain US Army Comms System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Continues to Sustain US Army Comms System

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has been tasked to deliver additional battle command and control support systems to the U.S. Army under a $19.8 million initial funding. The Army exercised one option year of a three-year contract awarded to Comtech Mobile Datacom in April 2014 to obtain license for its Blue-Force Tracking intellectual property, Comtech said Monday. Comtech will […] More

  • Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments

    Morgan County in Ohio has selected Oracle to deploy its communication service for the  9-1-1 emergency system with the goal of helping the local government secure its Internet protocol-based infrastructure. Morgan County implemented the Oracle communications session border controller to protect the 9-1-1 service against denial-of-service attacks, service overloads and failures, Oracle said Monday. Steve Aulds, vice president of […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Vendors to Develop Military Wireless Data Link - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Vendors to Develop Military Wireless Data Link

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for companies to develop a military wireless data link under a $27 million project, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes the agency issued a solicitation for the second and third phases of the 100-gigabit-per-second RF backbone project intended to transmit data within a single RF and microwave […] More

  • TeleCommunication Systems Unveils New Tracking Antenna System; Michael Bristol Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TeleCommunication Systems Unveils New Tracking Antenna System; Michael Bristol Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has introduced a new tracking antenna system intended for low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit satellite missions. The deployable X/Y antenna system is built to support Earth observation, remote sensing, telemetry, tracking and control operations for tactical applications, TCS said Monday. Michael Bristol, TCS government solutions group president, said the company incorporated lessons learned from TCS’ […] More