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  • Intelsat General Unveils Military Aircraft Broadband Service; Skot Butler Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat General Unveils Military Aircraft Broadband Service; Skot Butler Quoted

    Intelsat General has introduced a broadband service offering intended to help military aircraft passengers connect to the internet while in flight. FlexAir uses the company’s Ku-band and EpicNG communications satellite platforms and is designed to operate with fuselage and tail-mounted antennas, Intelsat said Thursday. The in-flight connectivity service works to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications such as sensor […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom's Collaboration Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom’s Collaboration Tech

    Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Immersive Wisdom to further develop the latter company’s virtual and intelligence platform for government applications. Immersive Wisdom designed its software to help users access information in real time and view live 3D maps through a shared virtual workspace, IQT said Tuesday. The technology employs virtual, mixed and […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Tools, Methods to Accelerate Data, SIGINT Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Tools, Methods to Accelerate Data, SIGINT Processing

    The U.S. Air Force aims to acquire new technologies or methods for real-time processing of data and collection of cyber and signals intelligence communications. The service requires new processing techniques and tools that will support its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission to protect “blue” coalition forces, according to a broad agency announcement that FedBizOpps posted […] More

  • PAE ISR Receives NAVAIR Interim Flight Clearance for Resolute Eagle VTOL UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE ISR Receives NAVAIR Interim Flight Clearance for Resolute Eagle VTOL UAS

    PAE ISR has obtained an interim flight clearance from Naval Air Systems Command for the vertical takeoff-and-landing configuration of the Resolute Eagle unmanned aerial system. The company said Monday the group 3 IFC validates the system’s airworthiness in accordance with requirements under a potential five-year, $1.73B indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract. NAVAIR awarded PAE ISR a spot on the contract in June of […] More

  • Abaco, EIZO Forge Video Processing Tech Dev't Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Abaco, EIZO Forge Video Processing Tech Dev’t Partnership

    Abaco Systems has partnered with EIZO Rugged Solutions to meet the video processing requirements of military and aerospace clients.  Abaco said Tuesday it will leverage EIZO’s experience in general-purpose graphics processing unit and video processing technology to offer new platforms for use in electronic warfare; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; remote sensing; and other compute-intensive operations. The collaboration with EIZO allows […] More

  • Hughes to Provide Satcom Integration Services for USCG Aircraft; Rick Lober Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes to Provide Satcom Integration Services for USCG Aircraft; Rick Lober Quoted

    The Naval Air Systems Command has chosen Hughes Network Systems to integrate satellite communications systems on C-27J aircraft used for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s humanitarian aid and disaster relief efforts. The company said Monday it will partner with Virginia-based procurement and logistics firm ADS, Inc. to provide satcom integration services to support the Coast Guard’s HADR-focused intelligence, surveillance […] More

  • Kratos Subsidiary to Integrate Tactical Waveform in Harris Radios for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Subsidiary to Integrate Tactical Waveform in Harris Radios for Air Force

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has signed a licensing agreement to provide communication waveforms for integration into tactical radio systems Harris will produce for the U.S. Air Force. Kratos RT Logic will equip handheld video data link radios with bandwidth and standard common data links, vortex native waveform, tactical data link and 466-extended range for ground troops to […] More

  • Tony Moraco Talks SAIC’s Planned Engility Buy, Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Moraco Talks SAIC’s Planned Engility Buy, Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower Program

    Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., told Defense News in an interview published Monday that the planned acquisition of Engility fits into SAIC’s strategy and provides an opportunity to gain access to market channels that SAIC lacks. Moraco, a five-time Wash100 winner, cited Engility’s “multi-intelligence agency portfolio” and space capabilities as factors that drove SAIC to […] More

  • Insitu Unveils Extended-Range Small UAS Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Unveils Extended-Range Small UAS Platform

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has introduced a small unmanned aerial system designed to perform beyond line-of-sight flights and integrate with satellite communications technology. Integrator Extended Range is built to travel 200 nautical miles and remain on station for up to 10 hours or fly 300nm and stay on station for up to six hours, Insitu said Monday. The group 3 […] More

  • Northrop, Navy Demo Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter in Sea Mine Detection Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Navy Demo Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter in Sea Mine Detection Mission

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with other autonomous assets to hunt sea mines, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Fire Scout demonstrated its situational awareness capability and capacity to communicate with a submersible drone and a small unmanned surface ship to perform underwater mine sweeping operations at the service’s […] More

  • Lockheed Increases Investment in Ocean Aero via Series B Funding Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Increases Investment in Ocean Aero via Series B Funding Round

    Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has participated in a round of Series B financing for Ocean Aero to help the San Diego-based autonomous marine systems developer ramp up production work and support its client base, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. Lockheed made its initial investment in Ocean Aero in September 2017 through its venture […] More

  • AT&T's Mike Leff: US Military Needs ‘Robust’ IoT Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Mike Leff: US Military Needs ‘Robust’ IoT Network

    U.S. military leaders have said that service branches need a modernized information technology network that can help troops collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data from internet-of-things platforms, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. Mike Leff, vice president for global defense at AT&T‘s public sector business, said military personnel need a “robust” network in order to secure and connect to ISR […] More