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  • VA Requests Info on GPS Vehicle Tracking Platform Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Requests Info on GPS Vehicle Tracking Platform Sources

    The Department of Veterans Affairs wants information from potential industry sources of a web-based platform designed to track GPS-equipped vehicles within the continental U.S. A sources sought notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated that VA seeks vendors who can provide hardware, installation, training, monthly wireless GPS vehicle tracking and fleet management services. VA requires equipment and software that are compatible with the Las Vegas […] More

  • NASA, Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to Launch UAV Tracking Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to Launch UAV Tracking Platform

    NASA has signed a license agreement with Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to commercialize a portable antenna platform the company designed to provide users satellite-based tracking functions for unmanned aerial vehicles. The space agency said Friday the platform is built to constantly rotate approximately 60 pounds of antennas, transmitters and receivers and eliminate the need for additional load-balancing hardware. The […] More

  • Textron, Thales Launch 'Fury' Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron, Thales Launch ‘Fury’ Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test

    Textron‘s weapon and sensor systems business and Thales have launched a Fury guided glide weapon from a tactical unmanned aircraft system to engage static vehicle targets as part of a test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground. The team released Fury from a Textron-built Shadow TUAS, after which the weapon performed a global positioning system guided fly-out maneuver, transitioned […] More

  • Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments

    Raytheon has conducted a “run for record” test on network connectivity technology for the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellite constellation. The company said Monday it tested the mission capability and cyber control functions of the Black Wide Area Network that is scheduled to be deployed in 2017 as part of OCX blocks 1 and 2. “This latest milestone shows […] More

  • Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    A GPS navigation payload Raytheon built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System was launched aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. Raytheon said Wednesday the WAAS GEO 5 payload is designed to support air navigation of commercial airline and general aviation pilots over a 12-year period. “Extremely accurate navigation technologies make this system a critical resource to […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Install GPS Receivers on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Install GPS Receivers on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Weapon System

    Rockwell Collins will mount its global positioning system technology on Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s naval and artillery weapon suite in a move to assist in military operations. Leonardo-Finmeccanica is set to fire its Vulcano weapon system with Rockwell Collins’ NavFire Precision Positioning Service GPS under the agreement, Rockwell Collins said Monday. “We have customized the NavFire receivers for the particular […] More

  • Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins

    The Department of the Air Force has announced it wants to negotiate a contract for the production, repair and logistics support of a global positioning system receiver for the Defense Department and foreign military customers. In a presolicitation released Monday, the Air Force said it also looks to tap Rockwell Collins for the requirements for the planned […] More

  • Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products

    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, ABI Research’s Patrick Connolly and Gopher Protocol’s Danny Rittman discuss future location tracking and navigation offerings and market prospects with Investorideas.com. Connolly said ABI Research predicts the global positioning device market will reach nearly $2 billion by 2021 as the market experiences a transition period, Investorideas.com said Thursday. “The market is undergoing […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Mulls Satellite to Track Aircraft GPS Transponder Following EgyptAir Crash - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Mulls Satellite to Track Aircraft GPS Transponder Following EgyptAir Crash

    Iridium Communications eyes the possibility of launching by 2018 a satellite system that monitors an aircraft’s global positioning system transponder to help broadcast flight information in real time, CBS News reported Friday. “A global surveillance system can track that airplane down to the second and help you find it very quickly,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch told the news station. Existing systems […] More

  • BAE Systems to Develop Undersea Navigation, Positioning System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems to Develop Undersea Navigation, Positioning System for Navy

    BAE Systems has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an undersea navigation technology for the U.S. Navy under the Positioning System for Deep Ocean Navigation program. The goal of the program is to enable undersea vehicles to navigate underwater without having to periodically go above surface to access the space-based global positioning system, BAE said Monday. […] More

  • Mark Stewart: Lockheed Tests GPS III Satellite Thermal Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Stewart: Lockheed Tests GPS III Satellite Thermal Design

    Lockheed Martin has put its first satellite for the U.S. Air Force GPS III program through a thermal vacuum test in order to determine if the satellite could withstand simulated harsh space conditions. The simulation took place Dec. 23 and exposed an assembled GPS III system to prolonged extreme temeprature cycles inside a depressurized chamber, Lockheed […] More

  • Steven Whitney: AF Eyes More GPS III Purchases to Bolster GPS Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Whitney: AF Eyes More GPS III Purchases to Bolster GPS Modernization Efforts

    U.S. Air Force Col. Steven Whitney believes the updated global positioning system satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the service will work to deliver increased accuracy and security in GPS services, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Rutrell Yasin writes that Whitney, director of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s GPS directorate, indicated the Air Force plans […] More