Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army has developed a new system for land mine identification that it says will reduce false alarm rates. Vadum, Inc., North Carolina State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Army Research Office all collaborated to develop the Vibration-ENhanced Underground Sensing system (Venus), the Army said

ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems, Inc., company specializing in secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced the receipt of a new U.S. patent covering various methods to protect controller area network (CAN)-based systems from malicious cyberattacks.

NEW YORK, N.Y. Persistent Systems, LLC, company specializing in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) solutions, announced that it has completed Phase I of the U.S. Army Robotic Command Vehicles (RCV) program.

TAMPA, Fla. CAE USA has won a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to support the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and its Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT 2.5) initiative.

CANADA. Elbit Systems’ Canada-based subsidiary GeoSpectrum Technologies is set to make the first delivery to a military customer of a through-water communications system featuring its C-Bass family of compact very low frequency (VLF) underwater transducers. The undisclosed NATO customer is expected to receive the long-range acoustic communications system before the end of August.

WASHINGTON. Damage control software to track the spread of the COVID-19 virus is being rolled out to U.S. Navy vessels, the Naval Sea Systems Command said. The software will be delivered in laptop computers to171 surface ships, and will be used to repurpose the existing Advanced Damage Control System (ADCS), officials said.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman's construction of the first B-21 Raider stealth bomber, slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is back on track, a U.S. Air Force official said. Randall Walden, director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, acknowledged that some B-21 subcontractors were affected by the pandemic

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth approximately $19 million to develop a prototype design for a new state-of-the-art Wargaming Center to be built at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

WASHINGTON. Alion Science and Technology announced that it has been awarded an $896 million task order under the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) SeaPort-NxG multiple award contract for the development, integration, management, and support of the Navy Integrated Training Environment (NITE).

RESTON, Va. Analyst1, provider of cybersecurity solutions, announced that the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected Analyst1 to spearhead its cyber defense operations transformation.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation won a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for the Gamebreaker program. This program seeks to develop and apply artificial intelligence (AI) to existing real-time strategy games to break a complex model or create an imbalance.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army is evaluating new air and missile defense systems — and testing laser weapons — after postponing some tests due to COVID-19. Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment and 3rd Bn., 6th Air Defense Artillery Air Missile Defense Test Detachment are involved in a limited user test of the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) that began in early July, according to a press release from the branch.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin announced that they have completed the second hypersonic air-to-ground weapon test on a B-52 Stratofortress bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The second AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, ARRW, was flight tested Saturday, officials said.

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va. CACI International Inc (CACI) announced that the Army’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems office (C-sUAS) Office (JCO) has selected its CORIAN system to protect Department of Defense (DoD) personnel and facilities against threats from unmanned aircraft systems/drones

DALLAS, Texas. VectorNav Technologies, embedded navigation solutions company, introduced a new line of inertial products: the VectorNav Tactical Embedded. Featuring a tactical-grade IMU and a multi-band GNSS receivers, the Tactical Embedded aims to deliver milliradian attitude accuracy and centimeter-level positioning capability in a miniature 15-gram package.

ATLANTA, Ga. Quantum Dynamics Enterprises, Inc. announced the introduction of the first propellantless drive for space flight. The Centrifugal Impulse Drive (CID) utilizes a new form of propulsion where electricity is turned directly into thrust to propel the spacecraft without expelling any mass.

RESTON, Va. Leidos, science and technology company, has won a task order by Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.

WASHINGTON. An aerial combat simulation between an F-16 pilot and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm is part of the government-sponsored "Alpha Dog Trials". Teams from eight defense contractors are scheduled to be involved in flying simulated F-16 fighter planes against AI-controlled planes in aerial combat, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), said Friday.

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. The U.S. Air Force this week concluded a test of tactics involving use of its highly classified RQ-170 surveillance drone with other stealth aircraft. The exercise, held Aug. 4 to Aug. 6 at Nellis Air Base, Nev., also included an Air Force B-2 bomber and F-22 and F-15 fighter planes, as well as the U.S. Navy's E/A-18G Growler electronic warfare plane, according to officials.

RESTON, Va. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has won a $950 million ceiling indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the maturation, demonstration, and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software, and algorithm development in order to enable Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).