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  • Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Additional Stratcom Geolocation, RF Interference Detection Support Work; Greg Caicedo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Additional Stratcom Geolocation, RF Interference Detection Support Work; Greg Caicedo Comments

    A subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will offer radiofrequency satellite monitoring and interference detection services to one of the components of the U.S. Strategic Command under the expanded contract. SAT Corp. will also provide geolocation and mitigation support for the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, Kratos said Tuesday. Greg Caicedo, a vice president and general […] More

  • Airbus Receives Order for 7 Additional Tiger Choppers From France - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Receives Order for 7 Additional Tiger Choppers From France

    France has placed an order for seven more Airbus-built Tiger attack helicopters in an effort to help French troops perform air-land operations in sub-Saharan Africa, Defense News reported Tuesday. Pierre Tran writes the French defense procurement agency or DGA made the order on Dec. 17 through France’s Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation. The report said DGA […] More

  • France Orders 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone From US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France Orders 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone From US

    France has placed an order for a third General Atomics-built Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the French defense ministry said Thursday. The French government made the order through the country’s directorate general of armaments and under a military program that aims to equip its air force […] More

  • Thales Introduces Mini ISR Unmanned Aerial System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Introduces Mini ISR Unmanned Aerial System

    Thales has unveiled a new small drone technology intended to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations of military and security organizations. The company built Spy’Ranger with Aviation Design and is demonstrating the mini-drone at the ongoing Milipol Paris trade show, Thales said Wednesday. The unmanned aircraft is designed with a gimbal that works to stabilize the drone’s camera and sensor equipment if […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Open Architecture-Based C4ISR Could Help in Interoperability, Situational Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Open Architecture-Based C4ISR Could Help in Interoperability, Situational Awareness

    Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has told C4ISR & Networks that an integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system could help achieve interoperability and enhance situational awareness for troops. Wenzel said in an interview published Thursday that agencies and military organizations should advance the use of government-owned […] More

  • Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract

    Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $49 million contract to build prototype sensors for the U.S. Navy to use during force-protection, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Northrop Grumman, Consolidated Resource Imaging and Manufacturing Techniques will compete for task orders to develop and deliver sensor systems for different clients. The contract has a […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dave Dzaran, Integrity Applications Inc. CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dave Dzaran, Integrity Applications Inc. CEO

    Dave Dzaran leads engineering and software services contractor Integrity Applications Inc. as the company’s president and CEO. Dzaran works with IAI’s board of directors and senior executive team to craft and implement corporate strategies, assess financial performance and oversee the firm’s operations. He is a two-decade veteran of systems acquisition and integration and program management related to space-based intelligence, […] More

  • Raytheon, US Navy Test Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, US Navy Test Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated how a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile captures reconnaissance photos and performs midflight retargeting of objects. The missile sent the captured battle damage indication imagery to fleet headquarters via its UHF satellite communication datalink following the missile’s launch from USS Gridley, Raytheon said Oct. 5. Raytheon and the Navy […] More

  • Navy Vet Dan Cloyd Joins Northrop as Naval Aviation, ISR Programs Corporate Director; Timothy Jones Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Vet Dan Cloyd Joins Northrop as Naval Aviation, ISR Programs Corporate Director; Timothy Jones Comments

    Dan Cloyd, former director of maritime operations at the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, has been named corporate director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and naval aviation programs at Northrop Grumman. Northrop said Friday Cloyd will report to Timothy Jones, vice president of aviation and ISR programs, and will coordinate corporate strategies with the U.S. Navy. […] More

  • CyPhy Works Draws In-Q-Tel Investment for Hovering Robot; Matt England Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyPhy Works Draws In-Q-Tel Investment for Hovering Robot; Matt England Comments

    In-Q-Tel has made an investment in CyPhy Works to help the Massachusetts-based robotics company further develop a robotics platform for use in intelligence missions. CyPhy Works’ hovering robot has a microfilament tether designed to provide Ethernet-based access to users and facilitate long-distance communications, IQT said Monday. “The demand for mobile, persistent and reliable reconnaissance and […] More

  • Robert Zitz of Leidos to Present on ‘Enabling Anticipatory Intell' at ISR Automation Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Zitz of Leidos to Present on ‘Enabling Anticipatory Intell’ at ISR Automation Symposium

    Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief systems architect at Leidos, will be among the guest speakers at an upcoming gathering of security experts from industry, government and the academe. The executive’s remarks on Day 2 of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Automation Symposium will focus on anticipatory intelligence, the technologies used to forecast/model global […] More

  • FLIR Surveillance Awarded Navy Infrared Imaging System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Surveillance Awarded Navy Infrared Imaging System Contract

    FLIR Surveillance has received a 10-year, $49.9 million contract to supply an imaging infrared system to the U.S. Navy. The Combatant Craft Forward Looking Infrared variant 2 imaging platform has image processing tools and optics that work to detect infrared radiation or light that emanates from surface targets during day and night, the Defense Department said Friday. CCFLIR2 […] More