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  • Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems

    Mercury Systems has received a $2.8 million follow-on order from a defense contractor to produce digital processing subsystems for an unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the subsystems in the company’s fiscal 2017 third quarter, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. Didier Thibaud, an executive vice president […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts Flight Test of Predator C Avenger Remotely Piloted Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Conducts Flight Test of Predator C Avenger Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flown its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft with a United Technologies-built MS-177 electro-optical/infrared sensor. Seven test flights occurred at the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California that had the Avenger gather land-based and littoral objects imagery through the MS-177 sensor at more than 37,000 feet Mean Sea Level altitudes, General Atomics […] More

  • MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor

    Logos Technologies and MAG Aerospace have conducted an airborne test on the RedKite wide-area motion imagery sensor in Carthage, North Carolina, to check the sensor’s video streaming functions. The sensor was aboard a Cessna 206 turboprop aircraft during the test and was able to send a live-streaming video to ground personnel’s Android tablets, Logos said Thursday. RedKite is […] More

  • Leidos Eyes Analytic Software Devt Task Orders Under Army IDIQ Contract; John Fratamico Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Eyes Analytic Software Devt Task Orders Under Army IDIQ Contract; John Fratamico Comments

    Leidos will compete for task orders to develop analytic software and related platforms for the Army Research Laboratory’s sensors electron devices directorate under a potential five-year, $250 million contract the U.S. Army awarded in May. The company will design software platforms that work to facilitate integration of large data sets and sensor redeployment in order […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts 37-Hour Flight Test on Predator B Big-Wing UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Conducts 37-Hour Flight Test on Predator B Big-Wing UAV

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business flew its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing unmanned aerial vehicle for 37 hours non-stop as part of a follow-on endurance flight test program. The test simulated an operational mission to check the modified UAV’s flight time and its launch, operational altitude climb, loiter and reconnaissance maneuvering functions, General Atomics said Wednesday. Results indicated […] More

  • Thomas Bussing: Raytheon, UVision Aim to Offer US Army Small Loitering Airborne Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Bussing: Raytheon, UVision Aim to Offer US Army Small Loitering Airborne Tech

    Raytheon and Israel-based unmanned air system manufacturer UVision to develop and offer small loitering airborne technology to U.S. military organizations. Raytheon said Friday it seeks to adapt UVision’s man-packed, canister-launched Hero-30 system to make it perform lethal target engagement, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. The company intends for the modified technology to help address the U.S. Army‘s Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System requirements. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon vice […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Sources for Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Industry Sources for Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle System

    The U.S. Navy seeks information on potential industry sources that can help develop a prototype of the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle system designed to support the service branch’s underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday that it wants information on structures and materials […] More

  • DoD Org to Evaluate Potential ISR, Security Applications of Tethered AeroVironment UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Org to Evaluate Potential ISR, Security Applications of Tethered AeroVironment UAS

    A Defense Department organization is examining the potential use of an AeroVironment-built tethered unmanned aircraft system to facilitate intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and security operations. AeroVironment developed the Tether Eye UAS as part of the company’s contract with DoD’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, the company said Monday. CTTSO operates under the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict. “Having the […] More

  • Elbit Systems Picks Leonardo-Finmeccanica Radar for US Naval Test Pilot School - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Picks Leonardo-Finmeccanica Radar for US Naval Test Pilot School

    Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has selected Leonardo-Finmeccanica to provide a radar system to support training at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. The school will use the Vixen 500E active electronically scanned array radar for student training operations aboard a C-26 aircraft, Leonardo-Finmeccanica said Friday. The radar is set for delivery in mid-2016 and will […] More

  • Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for potential industry sources of a suite of machine-to-machine software programs that the service branch can use in battlefield air operations. The Air Force plans to incorporate data gathered through a request for information posted April 29 into the Air Force Special Operations Command’s Increment III Capabilities Development document set for […] More

  • Michael Fallon: UK to Order 1st Boeing P-8 Poseidon in Summer 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fallon: UK to Order 1st Boeing P-8 Poseidon in Summer 2016

    The U.K. government plans to order the first of nine Boeing-built P-8 Poseidon aircraft in the summer of 2016 through a contract worth approximately $2.9 billion in support of its maritime surveillance efforts, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Alan Tovey writes Michael Fallon, U.K. defense secretary, made the announcement during a visit to a military installation in […] More

  • Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project

    The Naval Research Laboratory has partnered with a General Atomics subsidiary to embed NRL-built inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging software into the company’s Lynx multimode radar system. NRL and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will work to build integrated radar technology for joint warfighter missions under a cooperative research and development agreement, according to an article published Tuesday on the U.S. Navy website. Thomas Pizzillo, […] More