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  • Mitre Picks Systems from Van Cleve & Associates, Open Works Engineering as Countering UAS Contest Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Picks Systems from Van Cleve & Associates, Open Works Engineering as Countering UAS Contest Winners

    Mitre has selected platforms from Van Cleve & Associates and Open Works Engineering as winners of the nonprofit organization’s Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge. The two winners were selected out of the eight finalists for the C-UAS competition that seeks new systems designed to detect and interdict small drones that pose security or safety risks, Mitre […] More

  • PARC, DZYNE Technologies Land Contracts Under DARPA’s Vanishing Air Delivery R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PARC, DZYNE Technologies Land Contracts Under DARPA’s Vanishing Air Delivery R&D Program

    Xerox’s PARC subsidiary and DZYNE Technologies have been awarded separate contracts under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at developing a “vanishing” air delivery platform. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted June 10 DZYNE Technologies will receive $2.9 million under the initial phase of the Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems program and $3.2 million under […] More

  • GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech

    Companies continue to explore new drone defense technologies to address the potential threat from unmanned aircraft systems as they prove hard to detect using existing radar technologies, GCN reported Tuesday. Mark Pomerleau writes that NEC, Battelle and Lockheed Martin currently have programs that seek to bolster drone defense through capabilities ranging from detection to disruption. […] 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