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  • FLIR Launches New Ground Surveillance Offerings; Kevin Tucker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Launches New Ground Surveillance Offerings; Kevin Tucker Comments

    FLIR Systems has introduced two ground surveillance platforms the company designed to help military organizations secure borders and protect troops, United Press International reported Wednesday. Richard Tomkins writes the company unveiled its LTV-X light tactical vehicle and the Ranger R6SS portable radar at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference held in Florida. “Both products are designed to maximize detection, responsiveness and […] More

  • Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy

    Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded an $8.9 million contract to research and develop new algorithms for the U.S. Navy’s aerial and biometric surveillance efforts. The Defense Department said Monday the university will research tracking, surveillance and identification systems intended to address challenges in resolution, occlusion, pose and aging as part of the UROPA-TSI program. Carnegie Mellon will conduct […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Sources for Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Industry Sources for Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle System

    The U.S. Navy seeks information on potential industry sources that can help develop a prototype of the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle system designed to support the service branch’s underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday that it wants information on structures and materials […] More

  • SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms

    SRI International has been awarded a one-year, $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to research methods for the development of surveillance, tracking, security and access control systems. The company aims to help develop a modular and open architecture approach for the military service to build sensors and aviation platform systems, the Defense Department said Monday. SRI will […] More

  • Dynetics Unveils New Reconfigurable Surveillance Radar; Greg Lester Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Unveils New Reconfigurable Surveillance Radar; Greg Lester Comments

    Dynetics has unveiled a new reconfigurable surveillance radar that works to help owners or operators of critical infrastructure monitor a larger area without the use of multiple short-range sensors. The new surveillance technology called GroundAware CS4 includes a radar sensitivity feature that could help detect threats beyond 2.2 miles across a 120-degree view, the company said Wednesday. Dynetics […] More

  • Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments

    Saab has rolled out a three-dimensional naval radar technology the company designed to help maritime users perform air and surface surveillance operations. The Sea Giraffe 1X active electronically scanned array radar is built to integrate with small patrol ships and requires a small number of line-replaceable units and little power to operate, Saab said Tuesday. “Traditionally, smaller patrol […] More

  • Boeing, Paramount Group Enter Aircraft Mission System Development Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Paramount Group Enter Aircraft Mission System Development Partnership

    Boeing has teamed up with South Africa-based defense and aerospace firm Paramount Group to develop an integration mission platform for a military variant of the Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft. Boeing said Tuesday it will design the mission system for the Mwari aircraft to support light strike operations as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance […] More

  • Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract

    Lockheed Martin has won a potential $10.6 million contract to manufacture multispectral electro-optic infrared countermeasures to be installed on the U.S. Navy’s combined EO/IR surveillance and response system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform work in Bothell, Washington through March 1, 2020. The Office of Naval Research said in a FedBizOps notice […] More

  • Research and Markets: Command-and-Control Systems Market to Hit $16B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Command-and-Control Systems Market to Hit $16B by 2020

    A new report by Research and Markets predicts the global market for command-and-control systems to experience a compound annual growth rate of 3.68 percent over the next four years. Research and Markets said Monday the worldwide C2 market has nearly 14 percent share of the total market for C4ISR platforms and is projected to hit $16.5 billion by 2020 from […] More

  • General Atomics to Supply Reaper Drones to Spain; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Supply Reaper Drones to Spain; Linden Blue Comments

    Spain’s defense ministry has placed an order for four General Atomics-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles through a $243 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. The contract also covers MTS-B electro-optical/infrared sensors, two Block 30 ground control stations, line-of-sight datalink platforms and Block 20A Lynx multi-mode radar for the Spanish armed forces, General […] More

  • Airbus to Build 'Pseudo-Satellite' for UK Defense Ministry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Build ‘Pseudo-Satellite’ for UK Defense Ministry

    Airbus Defense and Space has received an order for two Zephyr 8 pseudo-satellites from the U.K. Defense Ministry to help provide land and sea surveillance to the client. The solar-powered Zephyr 8 high-altitude craft operates as guided by a ground controller in order to deliver surveillance, hosting communications links support, Airbus said Thursday. Airbus Defense […] More

  • Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office

    The U.S. Navy has issued a solicitation for research and development programs that will work to support the mission of the combating terrorism technical support office. A broad agency announcement published Feb. 2 on FedBizOpps indicated that CTTSO is interested in R&D projects that deal with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives, advanced analytic capabilities […] More