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  • AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements

    AeroVironment has supplied two Defense Department customers with company-built Raven and Puma AE unmanned aircraft systems that are compatible with M1/M2/M5 radio frequencies. The company said Tuesday it will also begin to offer M1/M2/M5-configured Wasp AE micro air vehicles in December then conduct deliveries in spring 2018. David Sharpin, vice president of AeroVironment’s tactical UAS business unit, […] More

  • Battelle Updates Handheld Counter-UAS Device; Dan Stamm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Updates Handheld Counter-UAS Device; Dan Stamm Comments

    Battelle has updated a man-portable device the nonprofit designed to help the departments of Defense and Homeland Security protect national airspace from unmanned aerial system threats. DroneDefender V2 is equipped with a multifunction selector switch and miniaturized electronics, Battelle said Monday. The new design works to extend the range and capacity of the handheld counter-UAS platform to […] More

  • Lockheed Debuts Canister-Launched Small UAS Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Debuts Canister-Launched Small UAS Platform

    Lockheed Martin has introduced a small unmanned aircraft system the company designed with partner Wirth Research in Havant, England. Outrider is designed to integrate with a canister launch platform and operate at a speed of up to 50 knots as well as function in small spaces, Lockheed said Tuesday. The system measures four inches wide and […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary to Provide Sustainment Parts for Navy Blackjack UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary to Provide Sustainment Parts for Navy Blackjack UAS

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has received a $21 million order to supply spare and sustainment parts necessary to maintain an RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system the U.S. Navy uses in naval special warfare fleet operations. Bingen, Washington-based Insitu is scheduled to finish work by June 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted approximately $1.4 million of the full […] More

  • SimiGon to Supply Simulation Development Tools for FAA UAS Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SimiGon to Supply Simulation Development Tools for FAA UAS Research

    SimiGon has received a $100,000 contract to provide the Federal Aviation Administration its SIMbox development tools for simulation and training for the agency’s unmanned aircraft systems research simulator. The contract serves to build on SimiGon’s effort to expand into the civilian aviation and UAS markets, the company announced Monday. SimiGon added FAA aims to use SIMbox as its primary platform […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force

    Rockwell Collins has delivered to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command a GPS platform designed to provide anti-jam protection capability to various aerial platforms. The Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver is based on open systems architecture that works to provide jamming resistance and anti-spoofing functionality to fixed-wing aircraft, transport planes, bombers, unmanned aircraft systems and other […] More

  • Battelle-Dedrone Partnership Aims to Combine UAS Detection and Defeat Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle-Dedrone Partnership Aims to Combine UAS Detection and Defeat Platforms

    Battelle and Dedrone have agreed to explore methods for the development of an airspace security platform that will combine unmanned aerial system detection and defeat technologies. The non-binding, non-exclusive partnership aims to build an integrated technology offering that will work to help protect sensitive infrastructure in the U.S. from drone threats, Battelle said Thursday. San Francisco-based Dedrone […] More

  • General Atomics Opens Flight Test & Training Center Hangar in North Dakota - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Opens Flight Test & Training Center Hangar in North Dakota

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to mark the opening of a new unmanned aircraft system hangar at the Grand Sky business park in North Dakota. The company said Tuesday its Flight Test and Training Center hangar is built to house GA-ASI operational hardware such as MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Predator B remotely […] More

  • Report: Microsoft Demos AI-Powered Autonomous Sailplane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Microsoft Demos AI-Powered Autonomous Sailplane

    Researchers from Microsoft have tested an unmanned aircraft system designed to use artificial intelligence to fly autonomously without relying on a motor, UASweekly.com reported Thursday. The UAS employs AI algorithms to detect naturally occurring thermals that can keep the system afloat in the same way that birds stay in the air, the report noted. Microsoft carried out a four-day test […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet

    Raytheon has received a potential $25.9 million contract to modify the Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite and retrofit the Enhanced Electro-Optical Receiver Unit on the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting support for EISS upgrades to Global Hawk Block 30 UAS. Work under the contract […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary to Build Additional ScanEagle Drones for Afghanistan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary to Build Additional ScanEagle Drones for Afghanistan

    Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has received a $19.6 million order from the U.S. Navy to deliver an additional five ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems to the government of Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Tuesday Insitu will also deploy field service representatives, operators and site activation teams as well as provide spares, support equipment and program management services to […] More

  • Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform

    The U.S. Navy‘s Special Warfare Command has awarded SkySafe a $1.5 million contract to test the company’s counter-unmanned aerial systems platform, FCW reported Thursday. SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan told FCW that the company’s anti-UAS system is designed to support installation on vehicles and use early detection and radio signal jamming to protect against enemy drones. Jordan added […] More