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  • Space News: Thales Alenia Space & Partners Seek Contract for High-Altitude Platform Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: Thales Alenia Space & Partners Seek Contract for High-Altitude Platform Station

    Industry partners will invest in and work to develop a contract for the Thales Alenia Space-led Stratobus high-altitude platform station, Space News reported Thursday. Peter de Selding writes the French-Italian group expects to add telecommunications payloads when HAPS systems become authorized to operate in Ka- and Ku-band. “We expect to have our first contract in 2017 to develop […] More

  • Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter

    Harris has provided communications and monitoring connectivity to support the NASA mission to insert the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft into an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Harris said Tuesday a team of more than 100 employees supported operations, maintenance and engineering work for the space agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network. “Harris and the DSN have been […] More

  • Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System

    The Canadian military plans to solicit ideas from industry on a satellite communications infrastructure dedicated to the Arctic region, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss reports Col. Jeff Dooling, director of space requirements for the Canadian Department for National Defense, told the MilSatCom conference in Virginia that the Enhanced Satcom project is estimated to cost $1.8 billion […] More

  • Fifth Lockheed-Built MUOS Satellite Set to Launch Friday; Mark Woempner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fifth Lockheed-Built MUOS Satellite Set to Launch Friday; Mark Woempner Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy are scheduled to launch a fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite Friday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida onboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket. The launch of MUOS-5 will complete a network of orbiting satellites and relay ground stations designed to provide near-global communications coverage for mobile military forces, Lockheed said Wednesday. “MUOS […] More

  • NASA Seeks Next-Generation Spacecraft Onboard Computing Processor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Next-Generation Spacecraft Onboard Computing Processor

    NASA has kicked off its hunt for a processor based on the ARM architecture for use aboard the space agency’s and U.S. Air Force’s future manned and unmanned spacecraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. John Keller writes NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released a solicitation Monday in search of a radiation-hardened, multicore processor under the […] More

  • Tim Meehan: CenturyLink Adds GENBAND Application Server to Networx Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Meehan: CenturyLink Adds GENBAND Application Server to Networx Offerings

    CenturyLink has added GENBAND-built application server products to its General Services Administration Networx telecommunications contract. GENBAND’s Experius server works to provide multimedia communications applications and integrate voice, video, instant messaging, presence, mobility, conferencing and collaboration tools networks and devices, CenturyLink said Thursday. Tim Meehan, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s federal government unit, said the companies aim […] More

  • Inmarsat, AeroVironment Support NOAA-Coast Guard Ice Obstruction Clearing Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat, AeroVironment Support NOAA-Coast Guard Ice Obstruction Clearing Mission

    Inmarsat has provided communications support to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led team in efforts to break a channel of Antarctic sea ice to help ships deliver supplies to a U.S. research center located on Ross Island. Operation Deep Freeze 2016 used the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to create a “superhighway” that will allow oil tankers and cargo ships to resupply fuel and food items to the […] More

  • Iridium to Launch Satellite Broadband Service in Q2 2017; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Launch Satellite Broadband Service in Q2 2017; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications will release a new satellite communications service offering for the government and enterprise sectors in the second quarter of 2017. The Certus service will be powered by Iridium’s NEXT satellite network and will work to deliver broadband connectivity to public and private sector customers as a standalone option or in conjunction with very small aperture terminals, Iridium said Tuesday. Iridium CEO Matt Desch said the […] More

  • Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons will provide engineering services as well as research and development support to the Naval Research Laboratory’s information technology division under a potential five-year, $245 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in May. The company said Tuesday it will work to support NRL-ITD across seven research areas that include artificial intelligence, data storage and computing, communications, security, […] More

  • Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments

    Motorola Solutions and Singapore Technologies Electronics have partnered to develop secured communications technology offerings for public safety, national security and enterprise applications. The companies aim to produce broadband, cybersecurity and purpose-built applications that will be available to first responders, Motorola Solutions said Tuesday. Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president of strategy and innovation office at Motorola Solutions, said the […] More

  • Fairfax County to Adopt Airbus 911 Call Handling Platform; Bob Freinberg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fairfax County to Adopt Airbus 911 Call Handling Platform; Bob Freinberg Comments

    Fairfax County, Virginia will install an Airbus-built call handling platform into the jurisdiction’s future 911 system for use by more than 1.1 million residents. Airbus said Monday it will provide the company’s Vesta 9-1-1 call handling platform to Fairfax County in support of the latter’s contract to General Dynamics for work to help develop, deploy, maintain and support a “next-generation” 911 network. Steve McMurrer, Fairfax […] More

  • General Dynamics Delivers 1st Zumwalt Class Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Delivers 1st Zumwalt Class Ship to Navy

    A subsidiary of General Dynamics has delivered the first of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers to the U.S. Navy for the service branch’s multi-mission surface combatant force. The Navy said Friday it accepted delivery of the USS Zumwalt after a series of tests on the ship’s hull, mechanical and electrical, damage control, ballasting, navigation and communications systems. General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works subsidiary designed and built the ship. […] More