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Radiant Mercury contracts for cross domain intel sharing won by Lockheed Martin - News
March 02, 2015
DENVER. U.S. Navy officials contracted Lockheed Martin engineers to continue their support of the Radiant Mercury system that enables secure sharing of sensitive data between unclassified and classified security domains.
Radar/EW
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System tracks and simulates 3 ballistic missile engagements - News
February 27, 2015
WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. The Missile Defense Agency announced that it launched three short-range ballistic missile targets near-simultaneously from NASA’sWallops Flight Facility. Two U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile defense (BMD) destroyers then acquired and tracked the targets, while another destroyer also participated in associated operations.
Comms
Australian army to use Joint Fires Observer/Joint Terminal Attack Controller simulator from Rockwell Collins - News
February 26, 2015
GEELONG, Australia. Rockwell Collins engineers are providing the Australian army with its mobile Joint Fires Observer (JFO)/Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) simulator.
Radar/EW
Perimeter of Middle Eastern air base to be secured by E-scan radars from Blighter - News
February 25, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester, Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East.
Avionics
Digital cockpit design, leveraged for UH-60L Black Hawk upgrade, on display at IDEX - News
February 24, 2015
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers are showcasing the company's digital cockpit solution, which is being leveraged in an upgrade of the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) this week in Abu Dhabi in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Once upgraded the aircraft will be called the UH-60V.
Radar/EW
Missile defense radar, AN/TPY-2, gets processor upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 23, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will allow the system to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between a missile's warhead, and non-threats such as countermeasures.
Comms
Army M1A2 Abrams tanks to use Palomar BICU displays - News
February 20, 2015
CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Army officials awarded Palomar Display Products, Inc. a contract to produce and deliver their Biocular Image Control Unit (BICU) displays for Army M1A2 Abrams tanks.
Unmanned
Beam control system from Boeing looks to improve laser weapon accuracy on Navy ships - News
February 19, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boeing experts have been contracted to design and develop a beam control system that could enable enhanced accuracy for laser weapons on U.S. Navy warships.
Cyber
Record number of cyber attacks hit Lockheed Martin in 2014 - Blog
February 18, 2015
ARLINGTON, VA. Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn Hewson, announced that Lockheed Martin was hit by 50 cyber attacks during 2014, the most the company has ever seen directed against it and Hewson says she expects the number to only increase.
Unmanned
New rules/regulations for small unmanned aircraft proposed by FAA - News
February 18, 2015
WASHINGTON. Department of Transportation’s (DoT's) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced a framework of new regulations that would enable routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in today’s airspace, while keeping flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.
Radar/EW
Navy P-8A to get open systems architecture upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 17, 2015
MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon engineers will be providing a flexible, application-based architecture (ABA) enhancement for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a $15.5 million system development contract.
Comms
DARPA Fab Lab to improve ship Navy repair and maintenance with 3D printers and other tools - News
February 16, 2015
WASHINGTON. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy officials agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, also called Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced “mar-mack”) in Norfolk, Va., under DARPA’s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) program.
Radar/EW
Due Regard Radar tested onboard Predator B aircraft by General Atomics - News
February 13, 2015
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR), which marks the first functional air-to-air radar on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that meets the requirements for “Due Regard” operations in international airspace. Enabling such technology will help in the long run integrate UAVs into international and domestic airspace.
Comms
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Avionics
Military simulation and training market to show moderate growth over next decade - News
February 12, 2015
AMSTERDAM. Analysts at ASD Reports say the global military simulation market should show moderate to strong growth through 2024 in their report titled "The Global Military Simulation and Virtual Training Market 2014–2024." In the report they see the market as have a CAGR of 3.48 percent, mostly driven by procurement of other military equipment such as submarines, aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, cyber security systems, and naval ships.
Avionics
Apache targeting and night vision system sustainment contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
February 11, 2015
ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin an $82 million performance based logistics (PBL) contract for AH-64 Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system sustainment.
Avionics
V-22 avionics integration, systems and software engineering support contract won by Raytheon - News
February 10, 2015
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. The U.S. Navy Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon a contract to support V-22 Osprey avionics integration, systems, testing, and software. Contract work will be executed by Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services personnel at its facility in Indianapolis.
Unmanned
NTDS developer Sabtech now called IXI Technology - News
February 10, 2015
YORBA LINDA, Calif. Michael Carter CEO and owner of Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) designer Sabtech, changed the company's name to IXI Technology as part of a strategic approach to designing advanced technology and as a way to enter new industrial markets worldwide.
Comms
Remote GPS receiver from Rockwell Collins works with commercial smartphones and military mobile devices - News
February 10, 2015
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Engineers at Rockwell Collins have designed a GPS receiver that can plug and play with commercial and military mobile devices -- the Remote Secure Receiver (RSR). Battlefield Airmen Office of the Air Force Special Operations Command officials recently ordered the RSR, which has a small, low=power military Selected Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS solution.
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