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  • Hensoldt Demos Counter-UAV Platform at Airbus Airfield in Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hensoldt Demos Counter-UAV Platform at Airbus Airfield in Germany

    Germany-based sensor provider Hensoldt has tested its counter unmanned aerial vehicle system designed to defend airports and other infrastructure from potential threats. The company said Wednesday its Xpeller counter-UAV system was demonstrated at the Airbus airfield in Hamburg, Germany for spectators that included airport operators and representatives from armed forces, industrial companies and police forces. […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Integrate Airborne Radio Tech on Air Force F-16 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Integrate Airborne Radio Tech on Air Force F-16 Fleet

    Rockwell Collins will integrate its networked communications airborne radio, which features mobile user objective system and soldier radio waveform capacities, onboard U.S. Air Force F-16 aircraft. The company said Wednesday the ARC-210 RT-2036(C) offering provides data, imagery and voice connectivity for manned and unmanned systems. The ARC-210 RT-2036(C) radio system belongs under the company’s TruNet family […] More

  • Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Trellisware Technologies a five-year, $40 million contract to supply Advanced Tactical Scalable Mobile Ad-hoc Network radios to USSOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Center. USSOCOM granted the award following the third phase of a Small Business Innovation Research Program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. San Diego, California-based Trellisware will receive $54,759 […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order

    Rockwell Collins has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical to deliver 101 manpack radios and ancillaries. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin manufacturing the additional Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Factor radios this month. The service branch issued the new order after Rockwell Collins […] More

  • General Dynamics Unveils Combat Survival Radio System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unveils Combat Survival Radio System

    General Dynamics has introduced a combat survival radio system designed to facilitate direct line-of-sight voice and two-way data communications among military users. HOOK3 radios will work to help combat search-and-rescue groups transmit information when they locate and recover pilots and other isolated military units, General Dynamics said Thursday. The company’s mission systems business developed the radio technology after the […] More

  • BAE-Rockwell Collins JV to Supply Joint Tactical Radio Systems to Navy, Coalition Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Rockwell Collins JV to Supply Joint Tactical Radio Systems to Navy, Coalition Forces

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins has received a $47.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command for the delivery of joint tactical radio systems to U.S. and coalition forces. Data Link Solutions will provide Multifunctional Information Distribution System JTRS units to replace legacy radios of the service branch […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has produced and delivered its 10,000th air traffic control radio to the Federal Aviation Administration under the agency’s NEXCOM 2 modernization program. The company said Friday the CM-300/350 voice over internet protocol radios were designed to offer communication capacity for air traffic controllers and pilots who operate within the National Airspace System. […] More

  • NuRAN Wireless to Supply Software-Defined Radio Tech to NASA Glenn Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NuRAN Wireless to Supply Software-Defined Radio Tech to NASA Glenn Research Center

    NuRAN Wireless has been selected by NASA to provide a software-defined radio technology to support research on multi-element arrays at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. The company said Monday its SDR system works to support multiple antennas and maintain phase coherency between the devices. Martin Bedard, co-CEO of NuRAN Wireless, said that company […] More

  • USSOCOM Picks Thales Subsidiary for Multiband Radio Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSOCOM Picks Thales Subsidiary for Multiband Radio Sustainment Contract

    Thales‘ defense and security business has received a $9.9 million to sustain multiband radios for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will run through September 2021 and covers sustainment of the Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radio family of radios. Thales’ AN/PRC-148 MBITR is designed to operate with military and commercial legacy radio systems and provide communications capacity for warfighters. […] More

  • Boeing Adds KC-46A Aircraft to Tanker Test Program, Jeanette Croppi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Adds KC-46A Aircraft to Tanker Test Program, Jeanette Croppi Comments

    Boeing has added a sixth aircraft to its tanker test program to help expand the company’s capacity to conduct ground and flight-test activities. The company said Tuesday that it conducted test activities on the new KC-46A multi-role tanker to evaluate the aircraft’s capacity to operate through radar- and radio tower-produced electromagnetic fields. “Adding another tanker will help […] More

  • Harris Gets NSA Type-1 Certification for Wideband HF Manpack Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Gets NSA Type-1 Certification for Wideband HF Manpack Radio

    A Harris-developed wideband manpack radio system has secured a Type-1 certification from the National Security Agency for the transmission of classified images, maps and other data from beyond-line-of-sight environments. Harris said Monday the RF-300H high-frequency manpack radio under the Falcon III product line offers data transmission capacities of up to 10 times faster than previously used radios and is […] More