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  • Lockheed Demos Jettison Release of Anti-Ship Missile From Super Hornet Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Jettison Release of Anti-Ship Missile From Super Hornet Aircraft

    A Lockheed Martin-built missile has been released from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft of the U.S. Navy during a flight test at the service branch’s air station in Patuxent River, Maryland. The jettison flight test aimed to validate the aerodynamic separation models of Lockheed’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile in a push to obtain flight clearance for captive carry integration […] More

  • Textron to Build 2 More Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Navy's Mine Countermeasure Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron to Build 2 More Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Navy’s Mine Countermeasure Mission

    Textron‘s unmanned systems division has been awarded a $14.8 million contract to build an additional two fourth-generation Common Unmanned Surface Vehicles for the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Influence Sweep System program. The company said Monday the service branch plans to use the CUSVs for a Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vehicle mission that will involve mine-hunting, neutralization and sweeping operations. CUSV is designed […] More

  • TCOM Partners with Maryland Commerce Dept to Present Aerostat Offerings at Avalon Air Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCOM Partners with Maryland Commerce Dept to Present Aerostat Offerings at Avalon Air Show

    TCOM has teamed up with the Maryland Commerce Department to demonstrate the company’s aerostat offerings, designed to help deliver maritime and border security for Australia and Southeast Asia, at the Avalon Air Show. The company said Wednesday it presented the ISR applications of its 28M aerostat offerings designed to monitor areas with potential domain obstructions which disrupt manned aerial surveillance […] More

  • Northrop to Supply F-16 Targeting Pods to Denmark - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Supply F-16 Targeting Pods to Denmark

    Northrop Grumman has received a contract to supply Denmark’s air force with  targeting pods that will work to help the service branch’s F-16 pilots detect, identify and track targets. The company said Tuesday that Denmark became its first international customer to receive the fourth-generation Litening targeting system. Litening pods are designed to provide airmen situational awareness and targeting capacity when they conduct strike, intelligence, surveillance […] More

  • Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD's Tactical Airship Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD’s Tactical Airship Platform

    Drone Aviation has integrated government-furnished intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment onto a company-built tactical airship platform as part of a $346,000 contract from the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it added communications and optical sensor systems to the Winch Aerostat Small Platform in an effort to increase the platform’s flexibility to perform missions and address ISR support requirements. WASP is also equipped with updated data […] More

  • Northrop Begins UAV Multispectral Sensor Payload Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Begins UAV Multispectral Sensor Payload Test

    Northrop Grumman has conducted an inaugural flight test of a multispectral sensor payload onboard a high-altitude long-range unmanned aircraft system. Northrop said Wednesday it integrated the MS-177 sensor into an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone during the test flight held at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California. The sensor is designed to find targets with broad area search and sensing methods as well as help operators fix, track and […] More

  • Marise Payne: Australia to Invest $192M in Growler Radio Jammer, Radar Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marise Payne: Australia to Invest $192M in Growler Radio Jammer, Radar Tech Development

    Australia will make a potential $191.6 million investment to develop a new radio jammer and radar system for the country’s Boeing-built EA-18G Growler aircraft. Sen. Marise Payne, Australia’s defense minister, said in a statement released Wednesday the country will partner with the U.S. Navy to perform development work on the next-generation radio jamming platform. Payne announced the […] More

  • SAP NS2's Mark Testoni: Education, Tech, Cooperation Key in Ransomware Mitigation Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Education, Tech, Cooperation Key in Ransomware Mitigation Efforts

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said he believes public sector agencies can mitigate ransomware attacks through innovation, education and collaboration with companies. Testoni wrote in a guest post published Tuesday on GCN that data from human sources and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems must be incorporated in real time to help prevent ransomware […] More

  • Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program

    Aurora Flight Sciences has tested a technology demonstration platform designed to retrieve unmanned aerial systems as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. DARPA said Monday the SideArm prototype worked to capture a Lockheed Martin-built Fury UAS flying at full speed. “SideArm aims to replicate carriers’ capability to quickly and safely accelerate and decelerate planes through a portable, […] More

  • IndraSoft Chosen for Air Force Software Group Cyber, Systems Engineering Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IndraSoft Chosen for Air Force Software Group Cyber, Systems Engineering Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force‘s 402nd Software Maintenance Group has awarded IndraSoft a five-year, $38 million task order for software sustainment and development, laboratory, cybersecurity and systems engineering services. The company said Wednesday it will provide support services for SMXG’s operational flight programs, test program sets, mission support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business lines at Robins […] More

  • Textron Starts USV On-Water Tests Under Navy Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Starts USV On-Water Tests Under Navy Program

    Textron Systems has kicked off on-water tests for the company-built Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Influence Sweep System program. Textron said Wednesday the on-water maneuverability test is part of the program’s system-level integration and test phase that will also involve demonstrations of the CUSV’s integrated generators, engines and […] More

  • General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business has said customers in the defense, science and commercial sectors can place an order for an autonomous underwater vehicle through the company’s website. Bluefin SandShark is part of General Dynamics’ Bluefin Robotics suite of underwater drones and is designed to dive down to up to 656 feet and navigate to […] More