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  • 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

  • Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers

    Rockwell Collins has supplied 1,400 anti-jamming and anti-spoofing GPS receivers to the U.S. Air Force‘s Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command under a follow-on order. The company said Monday its Remote Secure Receivers are designed with the Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module that works to help military personnel secure their smartphones, tablets, radios and vehicle computing systems. Rockwell Collins has built and […] More

  • Defense News: Raytheon, Army to Modernize Old Equipment Under Procurement Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Raytheon, Army to Modernize Old Equipment Under Procurement Strategy

    Raytheon will work with the U.S. Army to modify the service branch’s 1960s-era Patton tanks as part of a procurement formula to modernize old models of equipment, Defense News reported Sunday. Jen Judson writes Raytheon will work to sustain and update old equipment in an effort to help the Army meet modern requirements and cut acquisition costs. Todd Probert, […] More

  • DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations

    DMI will deploy a mobile application meant to help cemetery operations teams manage catalogs and assign location tags at Defense Department national military cemeteries. The company will provide the Enterprise Interment Services System app and build a common virtual database and network environment for more than 42 military cemeteries across the U.S., DMI said May 24. DMI intends for the enterprise app […] 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 Releases Positioning, Navigation & Timing Tech Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Releases Positioning, Navigation & Timing Tech Offering

    Iridium Communications has introduced a technology platform the company designed to help users access satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing data in locations where GPS services are limited or unavailable. The Satellite Time and Location system will work to verify GPS, Galileo and Glonass navigation signals when deployed through Iridium’s constellation of cross-linked satellites in low-Earth orbit, the company said Monday. Matt Desch, Iridium CEO, […] 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

  • Lockheed Eyes On-Orbit Re-Programmability for Air Force GPS III Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Eyes On-Orbit Re-Programmability for Air Force GPS III Satellites

    Lockheed Martin will work to provide an on-orbit re-programmability feature for the U.S. Air Force‘s future global positioning system satellites in response to changing requirements. The company will seek to demonstrate this feature of the GPS III system over the next two years under the Air Force’s GPS III Space Vehicles 11+ Production Readiness Feasibility Assessment contract, Lockheed said Thursday. […] More

  • Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device

    Battelle aims to build a third version of the nonprofit’s rifle-like device that works to jam GPS and command-and-control and GPS systems used to fly unmanned aircraft systems, IHS Jane’s 360 reported Tuesday. Geoff Fein writes the current DroneDefender system is powered by a nearly 10-pound battery inside a backpack and designed to neutralize UAS that weighs less than 55 pounds and operates at a speed of less […] 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