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  • Lockheed Completes Installation of Telephonics Radar on 74K Aerostat System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Installation of Telephonics Radar on 74K Aerostat System

    Lockheed Martin has retrofitted its 74K Aerostat System with a Telephonics-made radar to further support warfighting missions on land and at sea. Lockheed said Tuesday the installation of the RDR-1700B radar succeeds the integration of other radar sensors from Leonardo and Northrop Grumman and electro-optic/infrared cameras from L3 Technologies‘ Wescam subsidiary on the airship. Jerry […] More

  • D13, XiDrone Forge Counter-UAS Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D13, XiDrone Forge Counter-UAS Tech Partnership

    Department 13 International and XiDrone Systems have teamed up to pursue intellectual property development related to counter-unmanned aerial systems, wireless communications and autonomous platforms. The partnership will provide patents rights to D13 to integrate its MESMER counter-UAS system with radar, electro-optical/infrared, radio frequency, acoustics and other sensors to build a platform designed to mitigate commercial […] More

  • Lockheed to Insert Gallium Nitride Into Army Radar Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Insert Gallium Nitride Into Army Radar Tech

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract modification to incorporate gallium nitride into U.S. Army radars used to protect soldiers from indirect fire. The company said Monday updating the AN/TPQ-53 radar technology with GaN can help increase the system’s performance to acquire counterfire targets. AN/TPQ-53 is designed to help military users detect, classify, track and identify the location of adversarial indirect fire in […] More

  • Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture

    Northrop Grumman has introduced a radar technology equipped with an open architecture system and designed to integrated with multiple platforms and missions. Vanguard is made-up of panels that can function independently or in conjunction with other similar structures to form an integrated radar array, Northrop said Thursday. The company has put the system through at least […] More

  • Kratos Lands $67M Contract to Support Navy Radar Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands $67M Contract to Support Navy Radar Programs

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a potential $67.5M contract to provide engineering and technical services to U.S. Navy radar programs. The company said Tuesday its advanced naval weapon system business will support the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Dahlgren Division’s radar division in efforts to develop requirements, analyze and engineer systems, develop software, design antennas. Work under the single-award contract also […] More

  • Raytheon’s Space & Airborne Unit Develops Surveillance Sensors in McKinney, Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Space & Airborne Unit Develops Surveillance Sensors in McKinney, Texas

    A Raytheon business unit based in McKinney, Texas, builds sensors that work to provide aircraft, ships and spacecraft with surveillance capabilities, the Dallas Business Journal reported Tuesday. The company’s space and airborne systems business unit recorded $6.4B in 2017 sales and has approximately 2.2K employees who help produce several products, such as multispectral targeting system […] More

  • Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System

    The U.S. Army has tested long-range network management features of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. IBCS helped soldiers maintain video, data and voice connectivity through network management, execute and track simulated threats and identify aerial objects as “friend or foe” during the five-week soldier checkout event held with air-and-missile defense […] More

  • Raytheon Recognizes Kratos For Supplier Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Recognizes Kratos For Supplier Support Services

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has recognized the services of a unit of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions as an outstanding supplier. Kratos said Tuesday its microwave electronics division (KMED) was among 56 companies that received 4-star honors during the Supplier Excellence Conference that Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems held on May 17. Kratos Microwave Electronics Division was selected […] More

  • Lockheed’s Steve Over: F-35 Could Someday Release Drones to Target Enemy Air Defenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Steve Over: F-35 Could Someday Release Drones to Target Enemy Air Defenses

    Steve Over, director of F-35 international business development at Lockheed Martin, has said he thinks pilots flying the F-35 Lightning II aircraft could someday operate and launch drones during missions, Forces.net reported Thursday. He noted that the fighter jet in stealth mode could be used in the future to field a drone to trigger an […] More

  • Boeing Invests in UAV Radar Tech Developer Fortem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Invests in UAV Radar Tech Developer Fortem

    Boeing has made an investment in Fortem Technologies through its ventures arm to help the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company advance the development of radar platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles. Fortem has developed a radar system, TrueView, that works to help drones detect and avoid other aerial objects and perform package delivery, cargo transport, infrastructure inspections […] More

  • Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars

    Lockheed Martin has begun to develop a new missile designed to target and destroy incoming projectiles through the use of a radar system and kinetic energy, the New York Post reported Friday. The company has recently tested in New Mexico the Miniature Hit to Kill Missile platform, which is based on the technology used in the […] More

  • Raytheon Gets $56M Order to Repair Navy F/A-18 Aircraft Radar Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets $56M Order to Repair Navy F/A-18 Aircraft Radar Systems

    Raytheon has received a one-year, $56 million delivery order to provide repair services for APG-65 and APG-73 radar systems installed on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18 aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday the Navy will obligate $27.4 million in fiscal 2018  working capital funds at the time of award. Raytheon will repair the aircraft radars at a company facility located in Indianapolis, […] More