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  • Raytheon Wins Navy Contract for Radar Signal Studies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wins Navy Contract for Radar Signal Studies

    Raytheon Technologies has booked a potential $46.3 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to explore radar component designs under the Agnostic Signal Processing for Increased Radar Efficiency program. The company will study radar-related designs aimed at enabling flexible digital beamforming, advanced signal processing, novel signal synthesizer architectures and smaller digital receiver-exciter systems, the […] More

  • NTT DATA’s Shamlan Siddiqi on Six Focus Areas of Government IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT DATA’s Shamlan Siddiqi on Six Focus Areas of Government IT Modernization

    Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA’s public sector business, has said the federal government should advance information technology modernization in order to meet the needs and expectations of citizens. He wrote in a white paper that IT modernization is now a necessity and government agencies should plan for that modernization effort by focusing on six areas: data and intelligence; customer experience; internet of things; intelligent automation; cybersecurity; and IT optimization.

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  • Mercury Systems Launches Digital Transceiver for Electronic Warfare Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Launches Digital Transceiver for Electronic Warfare Missions

    Mercury Systems has introduced a digital transceiver that works to help warfighters perform electronic warfare and signal processing operations in hostile environments. The EnsembleSeries DCM6111 6U VPX digital transceiver complies with OpenVPX standards and features a system security engineering capability – BuiltSECURE - that seeks to facilitate the configuration and deployment of personalized security platforms, the company […] More

  • Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed's Tech Investment Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed’s Tech Investment Plans

    Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More

  • DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers

    The Defense Department has authorized the sale of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6  offering to international customers that seek to adopt the platform to support their shipbuilding programs. Raytheon said Tuesday SM-6 is designed to protect naval ships against ballistic and cruise missiles, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said international navies seek […] More

  • Kratos Lands Command, Control & Comms Contract With US Security Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands Command, Control & Comms Contract With US Security Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $17.5 million contract to provide command, control and communications services to an unnamed federal security agency. Kratos said Thursday its technology and training solutions division will carry out work at secure Kratos and customer facilities. TTS provides satellite and space system C3, signal processing, radio frequency interference […] More

  • Azure Summit Technology to Support SIGINT Mission Sensor for Navy Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Azure Summit Technology to Support SIGINT Mission Sensor for Navy Platforms

    Azure Summit Technology has secured a potential five-year, $48.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support a mission sensor developed for the military branch’s manned and unmanned platforms. The Defense Department said Friday the Common Chassis Signals Intelligence mission sensor will be used to facilitate collection of identification and localization intelligence data from electronic […] More

  • Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $9.5 million contract to provide satellite communications signal processing, monitoring and communications equipment to an unspecified government agency. Kratos said Tuesday it will manufacture equipment and systems under the contract at a protected company facility. The company also produces command and control, signal processing, monitoring, communications, radio frequency, […] More

  • Teresa Pace Joins ICAMR as Federal, State Programs Director; Chester Kennedy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teresa Pace Joins ICAMR as Federal, State Programs Director; Chester Kennedy Comments

    Teresa Pace, formerly principal systems architect and engineer for the integrated sensor systems sector at L-3 Communications, has joined International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research as director for federal and state programs. ICAMR said Wednesday Pace will be in charge of helping the academic-industry consortium secure contracts with federal and state government agencies. “Pace is […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Build Digital RF Memory Modulators for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Build Digital RF Memory Modulators for Navy

    A Mercury Systems subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $41.8 million contract to build 200 miniaturized digital radio frequency memory modulators for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday Mercury Defense Systems will also provide repair and evaluation services for the mini I/J band DRFMs. Miniaturized DRFMs work to help users produce high-fidelity threat simulation tools […] More

  • Leidos Awarded Air Force High-Frequency Emitter R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded Air Force High-Frequency Emitter R&D Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a potential three-year, $18.7 million contract to perform research and develop new techniques in an effort to identify and locate high-frequency emitters through geolocation techniques. The Air Force received seven proposals for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Phase two of this contract covers the development of a hardware system and […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Supply Radar Signal Processing Components to Defense Firm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Supply Radar Signal Processing Components to Defense Firm

    Mercury Systems has landed a $1.5 million contract to provide signal processing subsystems for a radar system being built by a defense company. The defense firm ordered server-class radar signal processors that are designed with an advanced telecommunications computing architecture, Mercury said Thursday. Didier Thibaud, president of Mercury’s commercial electronics subsidiary, said the unit builds […] More