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  • Gryphon Sensors, WhiteFox Form Counter-UAS Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gryphon Sensors, WhiteFox Form Counter-UAS Tech Partnership

    SRC Inc.‘s Gryphon Sensors subsidiary has partnered with Whitefox Defense Technologies to integrate drone threat mitigation and analytic tools with a radio frequency-based sensor system. Gryphon Sensors said Monday it seeks to equip the company’s Skylight system WhiteFox-made technologies in a push to offer an integrated platform designed to counter small unmanned aerial systems. Skylight employs radars and multispectral sensors built to […] More

  • Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo

    The U.S. Air Force seeks information on the availability of directed energy weapons technology that can support an upcoming counter-unmanned aircraft system demonstration. The service branch said Tuesday its Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office will use data collected from the request for information as part of market research analyses under the Air Force Directed Energy […] More

  • Lockheed to Pair Indago Quadrotor With MyDefence Counter-UAS Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Pair Indago Quadrotor With MyDefence Counter-UAS Platform

    Lockheed Martin and MyDefence Communication have agreed pair a quadrotor unmanned aerial system with a counter-UAS platform under a collaborative development agreement between the two companies. Both companies aim to offer rapid response aerial surveillance services through the combination of Indago and KNOX platforms, MyDefence Communication said. The resulting technology will look to help users detect potential threats as […] More

  • Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract

    Syracuse Research has secured a one-year, $65 million contract to develop, produce, integrate and sustain a counter-unmanned aerial system platform for the U.S. Army under the acceleration phase of a joint-urgent operation need. The company will deliver up to 15 sets of low-slow small UAS integrated defeat system to the military branch under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech

    Lockheed Martin has won a two-year, $27.8 million contract to add a counter-unmanned aerial system feature to the U.S. Army‘s AN/TPQ-53 radar system. The Army Contracting Command received four bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed will perform work in Syracuse, New […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Counter-UAS Detection Platform Sources for AN/TPQ-53 Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Counter-UAS Detection Platform Sources for AN/TPQ-53 Radar System

    The U.S. Army has sought information on potential industry sources that can equip the service branch’s AN/TPQ-53 radar system with a platform that works to detect, monitor and counter unmanned aircraft systems. The Army Contracting Command said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it wants interested vendors to modify the radar platform’s existing software to detect and track […] More

  • Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K.

      Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. The report said the Babcock offering […] More

  • Army Requests Info on Small UAS Detection Tech Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Requests Info on Small UAS Detection Tech Sources

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on potential industry sources of technology that can detect and identify unmanned aerial vehicles that weigh less than 20 pounds. The Army’s Rapid Equipping Force is also looking for non-kinetic radio frequency or GPS jamming systems intended to counter drones that pose a threat to the safety of people, the military […] More

  • Lockheed Launches Counter-UAS System at AUSA Meeting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Launches Counter-UAS System at AUSA Meeting

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting a new software system that works to detect and intercept threats from commercially available unmanned aircraft systems. Lockheed said Monday Icarus operates defensively and combines electronic warfare, cybersecurity, sensor and nonkinetic technology or techniques. According to Deon Viergutz, vice president of cyber solutions at Lockheed Martin, […] More