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  • Air Force Accepts Raytheon-Built GPS Launch & Checkout System; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Accepts Raytheon-Built GPS Launch & Checkout System; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    A Raytheon-built ground launch and checkout system has been accepted by the U.S. Air Force to support management and operation of Global Positioning System satellites. Raytheon said Thursday the acceptance of GPS Operational Control System Block 0 reflects the company’s completion of all contractual requirements under the LCS program. The LCS ground system is designed to strengthen cybersecurity […] More

  • Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its navigation platform designed to guide military aircraft and aerial weapon systems to maritime and ground targets without using GPS signals. The company said Monday it teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to test the capability of its All Source Adaptive […] More

  • VectorNav HQ Gets Int'l Aerospace Standard Accreditation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VectorNav HQ Gets Int’l Aerospace Standard Accreditation

    VectorNav Technologies‘ headquarters in Dallas, Texas, has received AS9100 Revision D international aerospace standard accreditation that recognize the inertial navigation system developer’s manufacturing, quality management and customer service processes. AS9100 is based on the International Organization for Standardization’s 9001 certification and established by industry in a push to comply with requirements from the Defense Department, NASA and […] More

  • Lockheed Satellite-Based Augmentation System Testbed Begins DFMC Signal Transmission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Satellite-Based Augmentation System Testbed Begins DFMC Signal Transmission

    A Lockheed Martin satellite-based augmentation system testbed has begun to broadcast in dual frequency, multi-constellation as part of a two-year collaborative research project between the company and the government of Australia, Inside GNSS reported Friday. The second-generation SBAS testbed is designed to help increase the efficiency, innovation, productivity and safety of various industrial and research sectors […] More

  • Elbit Systems Debuts RF-Based Force Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Debuts RF-Based Force Tracking System

    Elbit Systems has released a tracking system for dismounted soldiers, first responders and special forces to gain situational awareness in places with poor or no access to GPS signal. SmarTrack is built with radio frequency technology that will work to help commanders locate and track force members in GPS-denied indoor, underground or urban areas, Elbit Systems said Thursday. The […] More

  • Ensco-Leidos Team to Support Phases II and III of DARPA PNT Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco-Leidos Team to Support Phases II and III of DARPA PNT Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a Leidos–Ensco partnership to support the second and third phases of a project that aims to create a backup positioning, navigation and timing system. Ensco said Tuesday Phases II and III of DARPA’s Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Information in Contested Environments program will focus on the development of a detailed design and a real-time demonstration […] More

  • Orbital ATK Updates Navy Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Updates Navy Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Software

    Orbital ATK has rolled out a software upgrade for the U.S. Navy‘s air-launched, anti-radiation guided missiles. The company said Monday it worked with the Navy earlier this year to test and demonstrate the Block 1 software upgrade for the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile. Cary Ralston, an Orbital ATK vice president and general manager, said the updated […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force

    Rockwell Collins has delivered to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command a GPS platform designed to provide anti-jam protection capability to various aerial platforms. The Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver is based on open systems architecture that works to provide jamming resistance and anti-spoofing functionality to fixed-wing aircraft, transport planes, bombers, unmanned aircraft systems and other […] More

  • Lockheed to Develop Military Code Software for GPS Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Develop Military Code Software for GPS Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has received a $45.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide military-code early use software for current and future global positioning system satellites. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s space systems business will develop the software for the service branch to task, monitor and signal M-code programs in space. DoD noted the […] More

  • Lockheed Deploys 3 of 6 Receivers for Air Force GPS Monitoring Stations; Vinny Sica Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Deploys 3 of 6 Receivers for Air Force GPS Monitoring Stations; Vinny Sica Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered three satellite signal receivers to the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts to update the service branch’s global positioning system monitoring stations at six international locations. The company said Monday the Monitor Station Technology Improvement Capability receivers will work to build on the accuracy of GPS satellite signals for navigation and positioning applications. Vinny […] More

  • NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena

    NASA will collaborate with a team of space researchers in Brazil to conduct a joint CubeSat mission as part of efforts to study phenomena that occur within the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task mission aims to observe the equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation in the ionosphere that affect radio communications, satellite technologies […] More

  • Australia's GPS Cubesat Payload Deploys From Space Station Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia’s GPS Cubesat Payload Deploys From Space Station Into Orbit

    The International Space Station has delivered a cube satellite with a global positioning system payload, developed by Australia’s space engineering research center and the University of New South Wales, to orbit using a NanoRacks deployer. The Australian defense department said Tuesday the Namaru GPS technology on board the U.S.-built Biarri-Point cubesat will support on-orbit research activities. Australia’s defense science and technology […] More