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  • 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

  • CrowdOptic, SOFWERX Partner to Develop Target-Locating Mobile App for USSOCOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrowdOptic, SOFWERX Partner to Develop Target-Locating Mobile App for USSOCOM

    CrowdOptic has entered into an alliance with SOFWERX to deploy a mobile application that will work to help U.S. Special Operations Command field operatives relay data on specified targets to central command. The app will utilize CrowdOptic’s focal clustering technology and proprietary algorithms to deliver live-streams of targets and their GPS location, CrowdOptic said Thursday. “SOF partner forces typically rely on personal cell […] More

  • Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms

    Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. has received a two-year, $12.4 million order from the U.S. Navy to develop and test intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for current maritime platforms of the military service branch. The Navy plans to integrate the sensors into naval platforms to support various operations of the Special Operations Command, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments

    The U.S. Navy has selected an AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft system for deployment from submarines to operate in anti-access and aerial denial environments. AeroVironment built Blackwing for a joint capability technology demonstration sponsored by the Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command known as Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets, AeroVironment said Monday. Kirk Flittie, vice president and general manager for AeroVironment’s […] More

  • General Atomics Lithium-Ion Battery Tech Receives DNV GL Certification; Paul Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lithium-Ion Battery Tech Receives DNV GL Certification; Paul Clark Comments

    A General Atomics-developed battery technology has received certification from the international certification body Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd following on-hull demonstration tests on a U.S. Special Operations Command undersea vehicle. DNV GL certified General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery after it completed more than 60 hours of at-sea “underway under battery power” operations, General Atomics said Monday. Paul Clark, LiFT program senior manager […] More