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  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • Report: UAS Satcom, Imaging Markets to Hit $19.9B & $3.7B by 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UAS Satcom, Imaging Markets to Hit $19.9B & $3.7B by 2025

    A new Northern Sky Research report predicts the unmanned aircraft system satellite communications and imaging markets will respectively reach $19.9 billion and $3.7 billion in cumulative revenues over a 10-year period ending 2025. NSR said Monday the defense and intelligence community’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements for operations in hostile areas spur the demand for unmanned airborne […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Talks Govt-Industry Relationship, Inmarsat 6 Satellite Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Talks Govt-Industry Relationship, Inmarsat 6 Satellite Fleet

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said she believes the relationship between the government and commercial sector “will continue to mature” under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Cowen-Hirsch told Space News staff writer Caleb Henry in an interview published Tuesday that the company sees a “greater geographically dispersed demand” for commercial satellite […] More

  • Northrop Passes Two Milestones for Joint DARPA-ONR 'Tern' UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Passes Two Milestones for Joint DARPA-ONR ‘Tern’ UAS Program

    Northrop Grumman has passed two milestones for a joint program between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research that requires the company to develop an unmanned aerial system for multiple medium altitude, long endurance missions. Northrop said Monday the team oversees the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program has completed […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a potential two-year, $39.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce, install and deliver retrofit kits for the extended-range variant of the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will perform work in Poway, California, through Nov. 20, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The […] More

  • Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development

    Lockheed Martin has invested $1.4 million in CarteNav Solutions through Canada’s Industrial and Regional Benefits Investment Framework program to support the latter company’s development work on its flagship intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance product. CarteNav said Wednesday the investment covers two years of development efforts on CarteNav’s AIMS-ISR mission system software that works to deploy hosted sensing, computing and communication technologies on aircraft, vehicle […] More

  • Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy

    Metron has won a potential $12.8 million contract to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning system for the U.S. Navy to counter adversarial ISR networks. The Navy will use the C-ISR system to plan coordinated friendly force movement emissions control, denial and deception operations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains an 18-month base period, three optional […] More

  • Naval Research Office Selects Decisive Analytics Corp to Create Multi-Modal Data System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Office Selects Decisive Analytics Corp to Create Multi-Modal Data System

    The Office of Naval Research has awarded Decisive Analytics Corp. a $1.5 million contract to develop a system that will work to carry out analytics functions and utilize disparate, multi-modal data to support warfighters and decision-makers. The SEMantic Powered Event Reasoning system works to tag, identify and provide users information through an intelligent-natural language query mechanism, Decisive […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on Vertical Take-Off & Landing Small Drone Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on Vertical Take-Off & Landing Small Drone Sources

    The Department of the Navy has begun its search for potential industry sources of a small unmanned aerial system designed to perform vertical take-off and landing operations. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 12 says the VTOL-based small UAS will work to help the U.S. Marine Corps perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in any environmental conditions. […] More

  • Drone Aviation to Integrate Communications Sensor in DoD Tactical Aerostats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation to Integrate Communications Sensor in DoD Tactical Aerostats

    Drone Aviation has received a $200,000 contract to integrate communications sensors into the Defense Department‘s tactical aerostats in an effort to extend range and support for reconnaissance missions. The sensors are built to help the Winch Aerostat Small Platform provide users communication payloads and additional ISR functions such as voice and data network range extensions and reconnaissance services, the company said Wednesday. “This DoD […] More

  • IAP Worldwide Services to Help Implement Army's Distributed Common Ground System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP Worldwide Services to Help Implement Army’s Distributed Common Ground System

    IAP Worldwide Services has landed a potential $53 million contract to help the U.S. Army implement a ground intelligence system at Fort Hood in Texas and other military facilities worldwide. IAP said Monday it will provide integrated logistics, fielding and training services for the  Distributed Common Ground System-Army under the contract awarded through the military branch’s Rapid Response Third Generation vehicle. Work also covers hardware […] More