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  • Logos Technologies Launches Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor for Aerostats; John Marion Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logos Technologies Launches Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor for Aerostats; John Marion Comments

    Logos Technologies has introduced a sensor designed for installation on aerostats to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. John Marion, president of Logos Technologies, said in a statement released Tuesday Kestrel KS-200 is an 80-pound wide-area motion imagery sensor that works to provide “a 360-degree view of an entire city-sized area, simultaneously tracking multiple objects of […] More

  • UTC to Continue Support for Air Force's Raytheon-Operated ISR Data Collection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC to Continue Support for Air Force’s Raytheon-Operated ISR Data Collection Platform

    A United Technologies Corp. business unit will continue to provide sustainment, on-site and field services in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Raytheon-operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform for data collection, command and situational awareness functions. UTC Aerospace Systems‘ ISR and space systems division will provide electro-optical/infrared multi-spectral imaging exploitation and training support to Raytheon for the Distributed Common Ground System, UTC said Thursday. The company […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives Order for Manned Airborne Sonar Digital Signal Processing Subsystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives Order for Manned Airborne Sonar Digital Signal Processing Subsystems

    A defense contractor has awarded Mercury Systems a $4.4 million follow-on order for manned airborne sonar digital signal processing subsystems. The company said Thursday it booked the order in the last quarter of fiscal 2016 and is set to ship the subsystems through the next several quarters. Didier Thibaud, Mercury Systems’ executive vice president and chief operating […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos Bluefin-21, Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drones at Navy Tech Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos Bluefin-21, Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drones at Navy Tech Exercise

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit demonstrated its autonomous underwater vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Naval Technology Exercises held in August at the service branch’s Narragansett Bay test facility in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Friday a Bluefin-21 AUV deployed two Bluefin SandShark micro-AUVs to perform target imagery transmission and data collection simulations in one […] More

  • General Atomics Finalizes Aircraft Integration, Moves to Developmental Tests on Certifiable Predator B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Finalizes Aircraft Integration, Moves to Developmental Tests on Certifiable Predator B

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems subsidiary has shipped its new Certifiable Predator B remotely piloted aircraft to its Gray Butte flight operations facility for developmental tests after the company completed aircraft integration for the system. CPB is set to undergo ground and taxi tests before initial flight tests in November under an experimental certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, General Atomics said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Navy Tests AeroVironment Blackwing UAV's Cross-Domain Data Relay Function - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests AeroVironment Blackwing UAV’s Cross-Domain Data Relay Function

    The U.S. Navy has demonstrated the communication, control and command functions of a small AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft vehicle at the service branch’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise. AeroVironment said Wednesday its Blackwing UAV worked to connect with a swarm of unmanned undersea vehicles and communicated with a manned submarine’s combat control system during the ANTX event. The drone used a government-owned digital data link to transfer […] More

  • DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy

    A DRS Technologies subsidiary has won a potential $22 million contract to develop and produce Link 11 and Link 22 data terminal sets for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday DRS Advanced ISR will also help the military service integrate, test and sustain Link 11 data terminal and Link 22 signal processing controller system for the branch’s command-and-control processor […] More

  • Drone Aviation Lands Subcontract for Sensor Suite Integration on DoD-Owned WASP Tactical Aerostats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Lands Subcontract for Sensor Suite Integration on DoD-Owned WASP Tactical Aerostats

    Drone Aviation has received a $125,000 subcontract from a Defense Department contractor for equipment and engineering services and work to integrate sensor suite for aerial applications on a DoD-operated fleet of tactical aerostats. Drone Aviation said Thursday it will integrate contractor-produced sensors onto the Winch Aerostat Small Platform tactical aerostats that support U.S. Army soldier training operations and various exercises. Jay Nussbaum, […] More

  • Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms

    Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. has received a two-year, $12.4 million order from the U.S. Navy to develop and test intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for current maritime platforms of the military service branch. The Navy plans to integrate the sensors into naval platforms to support various operations of the Special Operations Command, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Boeing to Refresh Underwater ISR Tech on New Zealand Orion Patrol Aircraft Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Refresh Underwater ISR Tech on New Zealand Orion Patrol Aircraft Fleet

    Boeing has secured a $36 million contract to update the underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology on the New Zealand air force’s six P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft. Gerry Brownlee, New Zealand’s defense minister, has said he believes that underwater ISR technology will help deter interference with sea lines of communication that the country and its allies use […] More

  • Air Force Issues Airborne ISR Data Link System RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues Airborne ISR Data Link System RFI

    The U.S. Air Force has published a request for information on data links that the military branch can integrate with airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. A notice posted Aug. 17 on FedBizOpps website stated the Air Force seeks a data link system that is designed to comply with the International Traffic in Arms Regulation  and the State Department DSP-5 export licensing […] More

  • Northrop Receives Global Hawk Ground Segment Modernization Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Global Hawk Ground Segment Modernization Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for modernization work on a ground segment the service branch uses to control Global Hawk autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. Northrop said Monday the work will include a modular and scalable cockpit architecture, as well as an updated command and control capacity across all missions and sensors. “Global Hawk […] More