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Dept. of the Navy declares Joint Standoff Weapon at full operational capability - News
October 12, 2017
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The Department of the Navy recently declared the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 ready for full operational capability.
Radar/EW
Upgrades to NATO air surveillance radar to come - News
October 12, 2017
STOCKHOLM. Defense and security firm Saab has signed a contract with NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in Luxembourg to upgrade three SINDRE I air surveillance radars in Norway. Saab?s upgrade, say company officials, will include replacing obsolete hardware and upgrading software.
Comms
Biocular viewing devices for tanks enable lower-strain viewing in the field - News
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON--AUSA. Kent Periscopes (St. Asaph, Wales) -- the U.K.-based supplier of unity vision periscopes, vehicle sights, and related equipment for military armored vehicles -- is talking up its straight biocular display at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA). Company officials say that the design provides users with higher-fidelity relaxed viewing for armored fighting vehicles in the field.
Comms
U.S. Navy to increase use of immersive game-based training - News
October 11, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Simulation and training company Cubic announced that it has received four additional delivery orders -- totaling $22 million -- from an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the U.S. Navy?s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) with the creation and delivery of immersive game-based courseware.
Unmanned
Laser-guided rocket launcher concept can support combat operations - News
October 11, 2017
WASHINGTON--AUSA. Arnold Defense has introduced FLETCHER, a land-vehicle-mounted, laser-guided, 2.75-inch rocket launcher concept to the U.S. defense market at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA).
Unmanned
Off-the-shelf brakes introduced, intended for heavy armored vehicles - News
October 11, 2017
WASHINGTON--AUSA. Specialist brake and caliper maker Alcon introduced its new CIR55 custom heavy armored vehicle brake caliper into the U.S. defense market at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA). The recently introduced CIR55 has been designed and developed to fit 8x8-type military vehicles operating at 30 to 40-plus metric tons, gross vehicle mass (GVM).
Radar/EW
VITA and ANSI ratify air flow through cooling standard for VPX - News
October 10, 2017
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. VITA, the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical and intelligent embedded computing systems markets, announces the ratification by ANSI and VITA of ANSI/VITA 48.8-2017, ?Mechanical Standard for Electronic VPX Plug-in Modules Using Air Flow Through Cooling.? The standard has completed the VITA and ANSI processes, reaching full recognition under guidance of VITA.
Unmanned
Air Force awards contracts to update ICBM airborne launch-control system - News
October 06, 2017
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah. The Air Force recently awarded a pair of contracts aimed at upgrading the system that enables an aircraft to control the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a silo in the ground. The three-year contracts were awarded to Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Littleton, Colorado), and Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
Comms
Army awards $979 million contract for new landing craft - News
October 06, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore. Pacific Northwest shipbuilder Vigor has won a contract -- totaling as much as $979 million over 10 years -- to build the U.S. Army?s Maneuver Support Vessel (Light), MSV(L), a new generation of landing craft for the U.S. Army. The Vigor MSV(L) design will replace the Army's fleet of aging LCM-8 "Mike" boats.
Unmanned
First task order awarded on Army high-energy-laser contract - News
October 05, 2017
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. QWK Integrated Solutions, a joint venture of defense contractor Vencore and engineering and IT provider Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has won the High Energy Laser Technical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) task order on the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT), Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I) program Domain 1 contract.
Comms
University, Army researchers: We've generated the fastest-ever light pulse - News
October 05, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have generated what is being deemed the fastest light pulse ever developed.The 53-attosecond pulse, produced by professor Zenhgu Chang -- UCF trustee chair and professor in the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, College of Optics and Photonics, and Department of Physics together with his engineering group at the university, beats the team's record of a 67-attosecond extreme ultraviolet light pulse set in 2012. (One attosecond is one-quintillionth of a second.)
Unmanned
Small solar UAS deemed compliant, says Canadian transport authority - News
October 05, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Silent Falcon small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) from Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has been added to Transport Canada?s list of ?Compliant Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)?, a distinction allowing Silent Falcon to issue Statements of Conformity to its Canadian customers seeking to become what Canada calls Compliant UAV Operators.
Unmanned
U.S. Army signs $74.7 million contract for land surveillance systems to aid mobile troops - News
October 04, 2017
WILSONVILLE, Ore. Infrared-camera design and manufacturing firm FLIR Systems has won a $74.7 million firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Army to deliver TacFLIR surveillance cameras in support of the Army's EO/IR-Force Protection (FP) program. The Army will purchase the systems through Army Contracting Command, Redstone.
Cyber
U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command signs cybersecurity team to $81.3 million contract - News
October 04, 2017
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, will lead a team to provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity services to the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division. The single-award, task order contract has a potential value of approximately $81.3 million for five years.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy orders multimode radars for Coast Guard patrol cutters - News
October 04, 2017
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Saab Defense and Security has obtained a contract from the U.S. Navy to provide its Sea Giraffe Agile Multi Beam (AMB), Multi-Mode Radar (MMR) for deployment with the U.S. Coast Guard. The value of the initial order -- covering the procurement of two systems -- amounts to $16.8 million but with options for additional radars the contract may be worth as much as $118.5 million.
Avionics
Defense Logistics Agency awards $31.5 million contract for helmet-mounted HUD - News
October 03, 2017
FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit Systems of America has garnered an additional component contract worth $31.5 million from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime to provide Aviator Night Vision Imaging System Head-Up Displays (ANVIS HUD). Work on the systems will be performed over a two-year period.
Radar/EW
General Atomics acquires electromechanical technologies company - News
October 03, 2017
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics announced that it has acquired Syntronics (Fredericksburg, Virginia), a developer and manufacturer of custom electromechanical technologies including projectile and missile guidance systems, in-flight and ground-based shock-resistant instrumentation, and related software technologies. The acquired company will become part of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group (GA-EMS).
Radar/EW
DARPA reports its new radar sensor captures real-time video in any weather - News
October 03, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) report that the agency's Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) program recently completed flight tests, successfully demonstrating a new sensor that can capture real-time video through clouds.
Radar/EW
USAF signs $35.5 million contract to aid operation, maintenance of phased-array radar system - News
October 02, 2017
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.Technical services provider Summit Technical Solutions (STS) has won the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization Systems (PARCS) Operations, Maintenance, and Logistical Support (OM&S) contract from the United States Department of the Air Force, with work to begin immediately.
Unmanned
Engineers, students in U.K. team to design adaptable UAVs - News
October 02, 2017
CRANFORD, Bedfordshire, England. Students from Cranfield University (Cranfield, U.K.) have teamed with engineers from BAE Systems to design a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology that can alternate between fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight modes during the same mission.
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