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  • Marine Corps Issues RFI for Over-the-Horizon Integrated Satcom Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Issues RFI for Over-the-Horizon Integrated Satcom Service

    The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command is requesting information on over-the-horizon satellite communications technologies to help provide warfighting units with round-the-clock access to the Global Information Grid. MCSC said in a SAM.gov notice posted Monday that it is interested in existing and future space-enabled communication offerings to help inform a potential acquisition of a commercial […] More

  • PAR Subsidiary Gets Navy Telecommunications O&M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Subsidiary Gets Navy Telecommunications O&M Task Order

    A subsidiary of PAR Technology has received a potential five-year, $19.8 million task order from the U.S. Navy to operate and maintain telecommunications infrastructure at Camp Lemonnier in Africa. Rome Research Corp. will provide communications services to the Global Information Grid facility under the task order awarded through the Navy’s SeaPort-e vehicle, PAR said Tuesday. Matthew Cicchinelli, president of […] More

  • Air Force Seeks White Papers for Multi-Domain Aerial Warfighting Network R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks White Papers for Multi-Domain Aerial Warfighting Network R&D

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to seek white papers from industry for a potential $24.9 million program to research, develop, integrate and test novel technology platforms and techniques that work to provide agile data transmission and networking capabilities to aerial platforms. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the solicitation for white papers is part […] More

  • Lockheed-Built MUOS-5 Delivers Beyond-Line-of-Sight Comms Service to Soldiers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built MUOS-5 Delivers Beyond-Line-of-Sight Comms Service to Soldiers

    The fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Navy has begun to provide beyond-line-of-sight communications capability to warfighters with ultra-high frequency radios. Lockheed said Monday the Navy collaborated with the Army Forces Strategic Command to configure the UHF payload of the MUOS-5 satellite to provide UHF narrowband communications services to troops […] More

  • Raytheon to Provide Navy Satcom Terminal Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Provide Navy Satcom Terminal Engineering Support

    Raytheon has secured a five-year, $9.1 million contract modification to provide engineering services for the U.S. Navy‘s multi-band satellite communications terminal. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon’s space and airborne systems unit will perform work on the Navy Multiband Terminal program in Florida and Massachusetts through Aug. 8, 2021. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command obligated $1.2 million […] More

  • Navy Taps PAR Technology Subsidiary for DoD Info Grid Teleport Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps PAR Technology Subsidiary for DoD Info Grid Teleport Services

    PAR Technology subsidiary Rome Research Corp. will provide teleport commercial satellite services to the Global Information Grid facility located in Lago Patria, Italy as well as other remote sites under a five-year, $13.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense uses GIG to receive, manage, store and relay data to military commanders, policymakers and support personnel during national security and intelligence community missions, PAR […] 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

  • Lockheed Completes Encapsulation Work on Navy MUOS-5 Satellite; Mark Woempner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Encapsulation Work on Navy MUOS-5 Satellite; Mark Woempner Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed the encapsulation of a fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite designed for military communications into a launch vehicle fairing platform. MUOS-5 is scheduled to take off June 24 onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket and would be the final satellite to complete the U.S. Navy’s network constellation, Lockheed said in […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Software Dev’t Support for Cyber Defense Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Software Dev’t Support for Cyber Defense Program

    The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to award a potential $49.5 million contract to commercial companies to develop software programs that could help the service branch block potential cyber attacks and hack threat actors’ computer systems, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the military branch published the draft contract for the “Offensive Cyberspace Operations […] More

  • DISA-Lockheed Team Aims to Deploy Common Security Stack for Global Info Grid; Chris Kearns Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA-Lockheed Team Aims to Deploy Common Security Stack for Global Info Grid; Chris Kearns Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency and Lockheed Martin have begun efforts to implement a common security stack as part of the Joint Information Environment in a set of new tools planned for the Global Information Grid, GCN reported Monday. Lockheed acts as the primary contractor on a potential seven-year, $1.9 billion Global Information Grid Services Management-Operation contract […] More

  • Telos to Help Air Force Squadron Operate Global Info Grid Portion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Help Air Force Squadron Operate Global Info Grid Portion

    Telos Corp. has been awarded a task order U.S. Air Force network operations squadron to help configure and maintain an enterprise network that is part of the Defense Department‘s Global Information Grid. The 561 Network Operations Squadron helps Air Force and joint commands operate their core networks, Telos announced Tuesday. Charisse Stokes, Telos vice president of cybersecurity and network […] More

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