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Homeland Security

Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

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Contract Awards

Ascent Vision Technologies' XMADIS Marine Air Defense Integrated System. Photo: AVT

Air Force Awards Ascent Vision $23M for C-UAS Systems Ascent Vision Technologies says it has won an Air Force contract worth over $23 million to deliver a suite of counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) vehicles. Montana-based Ascent said it will provide its eXpeditionary Mobile Air Defense Integrated System, called X-MADIS, with deliveries beginning in 2020. The X-MADIS can detect, locate, track, identify and defeat small UAS systems using radar, optics, radio frequency detection and electronic command and control mitigation of the…

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