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  • Australia Taps 3 Firms, 2 Universities for Defense Tech R&D Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Taps 3 Firms, 2 Universities for Defense Tech R&D Contracts

    Australia’s defense department has awarded $4.6 million in contracts to three companies and two universities to develop multiple technology platforms for the Australian military. The department said Friday that L3 Technologies‘ Oceania subsidiary aims to create an underwater acoustic sensor for maritime applications under a $2.3 million contract. Agent Oriented Software received a $295,000 contract to study the […] More

  • Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems

    The U.S. Army has announced it plans to buy up to 1,800 units of L3 Technologies-built upgrade kits to modernize the service branch’s mine detection platform. A justification and approval notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Army requires kits to address AN/PSS-14 maintainability, performance, reliability and sustainment requirements. The service branch aims to convert its current mine detection […] More

  • L3 Subsidiary to Design, Develop Gamma Simulator for Army Nuclear Effects Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Subsidiary to Design, Develop Gamma Simulator for Army Nuclear Effects Lab

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has won a potential three-year, $18.5 million contract to design and develop a simulation technology for the U.S. Army‘s nuclear effects laboratory located at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. L3 Applied Technologies will also help the service branch integrate, test, manage and document the Prompt Gamma Simulator under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the  Defense Department […] More

  • L3 Gets Air National Guard Contract for Satcom Terminals, Training Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Gets Air National Guard Contract for Satcom Terminals, Training Services

    L3 Technologies has secured a contract to provide satellite communications terminals and on-site training services to the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability teams of the U.S. Air National Guard. The company said Monday it is scheduled to deliver 46 Hawkeye III Lite very small aperture terminals to JISCC groups in the fourth quarter of 2017. Hawkeye VSATs […] More

  • Army to Test Apache Manned-Unmanned Teaming System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Test Apache Manned-Unmanned Teaming System

    The U.S. Army plans to implement a new technology designed to help the service branch’s AH-64 Apache helicopter operators communicate with up to two unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense News reported Sunday. The report said Manned-Unmanned Teaming X system will work to help AH-64E crews to operate the sensors and flight paths of Textron‘s RQ-7 Shadow and General […] More

  • Iridium Certus Broadband Service Enters On-Orbit Test; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Certus Broadband Service Enters On-Orbit Test; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has initiated on-orbit tests of the company’s broadband service platform built to deliver global L-band connectivity through the NEXT satellite constellation. The company said Thursday it uploaded software to the NEXT satellites that are already in orbit to activate the Iridium Certus communications service. Certus entered live testing Sept. 25 and is slated for commercial […] More

  • UK Air Force Gets Third L3-Built SIGINT Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Air Force Gets Third L3-Built SIGINT Aircraft

    L3 Technologies has transferred the third and last RC-135V/W Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft to the U.K. air force. The RJ aircraft is designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for global security missions as part of the U.S.-U.K. Airseeker program, L3 said said Wednesday. U.K. procured three KC-135R tankers for conversion by L3 to RC-135V/W aircraft […] More

  • Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

    Kongsberg Gruppen‘s Hydroid subsidiary has demonstrated the capacity of an unmanned underwater vehicle to collect signals intelligence and launch an unmanned aerial vehicle during an in-water exercise. REMUS 600 UUV conducted a threat mission scenario at the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took place in Newport, Rhode Island last month, Hydroid said Tuesday. The platform was equipped with […] More

  • L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport

    L3 Technologies has delivered its ProVision 2 passenger screening system to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey. The company said Wednesday the order brings the total number of deployed ProVision platforms to 2,000 systems worldwide. ProVision works to detect metallic and non-metallic objects such as weapons, explosives, liquids, gels, plastics, powders, metals, ceramics and other materials. […] More

  • Lockheed Unit Demos Use of Open Systems Architecture to Help Warfighters Share Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unit Demos Use of Open Systems Architecture to Help Warfighters Share Data

    A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has taken part in the U.S. Air Force‘s Northern Edge military exercise to demonstrate how open systems architecture could help warfighters gain battlespace awareness and accelerate the data-to-decision process in the battlefield. Skunk Works demonstrated the Project Hunter system in a series of six flights during the military exercise that featured open […] More

  • Technavio: Military Submarine Mast & Antenna Market to Grow at Nearly 6% CAGR Through 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio: Military Submarine Mast & Antenna Market to Grow at Nearly 6% CAGR Through 2021

    A Technavio report forecasts the compound annual growth rate for the global military submarine photonics mast and antenna market will reach nearly 6 percent by 2021 due to a demand for multifunctional antennas and submarine modernization efforts in the defense sector. The research company said Thursday the cost of modular optronics mast, use of short wave infrared technology and […] More

  • L3 to Provide Manned-Unmanned Teaming Hardware for Army Apache Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Provide Manned-Unmanned Teaming Hardware for Army Apache Helicopters

    L3 Technologies will develop manned-unmanned teaming hardware to aid the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache multirole helicopters as part of a one-year, $69.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract also covers technical and engineering support services. The Army Contracting Command will solicited and received one bid for the procurement effort. AH-64 helicopters are manufactured by Boeing and […] More