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  • S. Danny Rajan: Exelis Extends Gorgon Stare Infrared Sensor Range - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    S. Danny Rajan: Exelis Extends Gorgon Stare Infrared Sensor Range

    Exelis will provide five additional infrared sensors for the U.S. military’s wide-area unmanned surveillance program under a $25 million contract. The Gorgon Stare infrared sensing technology is designed to facilitate a five-mile diametrical coverage area from the previous increment of 2.5 miles in range, Exelis said Wednesday. S. Danny Rajan, director of regional surveillance at Exelis, […] More

  • Minda Suchan: Exelis Designed Sensor to ID Gases in 'Hard-to-Reach' Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Minda Suchan: Exelis Designed Sensor to ID Gases in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Areas

    Exelis has finished a series of flight tests on a sensor and processing system the company built to detect potentially hazardous substances and gases by pointing in multiple directions. The company’s team in Rochester, N.Y. placed several types of materials around the region to evaluate how the sensor recorded and stored data for processing on board […] More

  • Boeing to Develop Automated Airport Traveler Cart - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Develop Automated Airport Traveler Cart

    Boeing is developing a self-running carriage for travelers to reach short-distance destinations in an airport, Wichita Business Journal reported Wednesday. Daniel McCoy writes Boeing recently moved to obtain a patent for the automated vehicle intended for persons with mobility issues. Boeing would design the vehicle to receive gate information and carry one to two passengers to […] More

  • Raytheon to Design Net-Linked Sensors, Radar Tech for Naval Research Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Design Net-Linked Sensors, Radar Tech for Naval Research Lab

    Raytheon will help the U.S. Navy design network-linked sensors for the branch’s communication, electronic warfare and surveillance activities under an $8.5 million contract. The Office of Naval Research picked Raytheon to build a flexible distributed array radar technology to detect targets and produce firm-track ranges, Raytheon said Tuesday. ONR wants the FlexDAR system to have […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and South Korea’s aerospace research body have started to build two air quality sensors that are intended to aid in environmental monitoring operations. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution tool is being built to gather atmospheric pollution data across North America, Mexico City, Canadian tar and oil sands, the Atlantic […] More

  • OceanWorks International Hands Spare Ocean Nodes to Harris CapRock - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OceanWorks International Hands Spare Ocean Nodes to Harris CapRock

    OceanWorks International has delivered additional ocean floor nodes to Harris CapRock Communications for running and maintaining CSnet International‘s offshore communications system. Scientists work to gather real-time data from seafloor sensors by using the offshore communications backbone infrastructure, OceanWorks International said Friday. The OceanWorks-built communications system consists of five seafloor nodes that form the seafloor observatory. […] More

  • Eric Webster: Exelis-GeoMetWatch Team to Offer Weather Agencies Commercial Geo-Sounding Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Webster: Exelis-GeoMetWatch Team to Offer Weather Agencies Commercial Geo-Sounding Tech

    Exelis has partnered with GeoMetWatch to develop geostationary satellite sounding instruments that would retrieve atmospheric data for weather forecasting purposes. GeoMetWatch’s partner organizations will host Exelis-made sensors on weather monitoring satellites through GeoMetWatch’s licensing agreement with the Commerce Department, GeoMetWatch said Wednesday. The Commerce Department has granted GeoMetWatch a license to operate up to six […] More

  • Andrew Russette: BAE Extends Govt Big Data Storage System to Commercial Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Russette: BAE Extends Govt Big Data Storage System to Commercial Market

    BAE Systems will offer a big data storage system originally developed for government and military agencies to commercial customers. TeraStar is built to store large amounts of data gathered from sensors and be compatible with different types of storage media devices, BAE said Monday. “We originally developed the TeraStar data storage system to fit the […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech

    Raytheon’s vision systems business unit will develop infrared sensor technologies for the U.S. Army’s night vision and electronic sensors directorate, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes scientists at Raytheon will work to research and build III-V infrared focal plane array systems under a two-year contract with the Army Contracting Command‘s Aberdeen Proving […] More