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Unmanned
Leidos wins contract to support Navy, Marine acoustic programs - News
June 13, 2017
RESTON, Va. Technology services company Leidos has won a contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to provide operational support to NSWCCD acoustic trials and research activities for the Navy's Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility (SEAFAC).
Radar/EW
Nitride research may lead to new microelectronic technology and devices - News
June 12, 2017
WASHINGTON. A group of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) has continued to push forward with research regarding gallium nitride (GaN) technology for radio-frequency (RF) wireless technology and recently made an breakthrough in the ability to grow thin films of a transition metal nitride called niobium nitride (Nb2N).
Radar/EW
Defense, aerospace expected to hold greatest share of global optical sensing market through 2023 - News
June 12, 2017
SEATTLE. The global optical sensing market is projected to grow from $1.2 billion in 2016 to $3.46 billion by 2023 -- a combined annual growth rate of 15.47% between 2017 and 2023 -- according to a report published by MarketsandMarkets, "Optical Sensing Market by Industry (Aerospace & Defense, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Medical, Construction, and Consumer Electronics), Application, Method, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2023."
Avionics
Air Force requests $28 million to build, improve aircraft ranges - News
June 09, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has asked for -- in its fiscal year 2018 budget request -- funding for construction to improve aircraft ranges in Utah and Nevada. In testimony prepared for Congress, USAF Chief of Staff General David Goldfein and Service Secretary Heather Wilson said that the funding would enable the USAF to use the full range of capabilities available to F-35A aircrews.
Radar/EW
U.S. Air Force to upgrade F-16 AESA radar - News
June 09, 2017
BALTIMORE, Md. The U.S. Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman?s APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) as the active electronically scanned array (AESA) for its planned radar upgrade on its F-16 fighter aircraft. Northrop Grumman will upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense.
Unmanned
Raytheon awarded up to $600 million for missile-defense modernization program - News
June 09, 2017
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Raytheon has been awarded a contract valued at as much as $600 million to provide the U.S. Army with software support and sustainment in the area of modernizing missile defense and other strategic systems. The work is set to be performed at the Software Engineering Directorate (SED), U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
Comms
NASA awards $620 million contract to SAIC for engineering support - News
June 08, 2017
GREENBELT, Md. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to provide multidisciplinary engineering support services for the center. The single-award contract has a five-year base period of performance and an award ceiling of $620 million.
Avionics
CACI wins $94 million contract for Air Force fleet testing-system support - News
June 08, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Information-services company CACI International has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to provide full-service automated testing system support services to the U.S. Air Force 309th Electronics Maintenance Group under the Automated Test System Sustainment Initiative (ATSSI).
Cyber
NATO, Leonardo team for cybersecurity initiatives - News
June 08, 2017
ROME. Global defense and cybersecurity company Leonardo has signed an Industrial Partnership Agreement (IPA) with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) to share cybersecurity information with private-sector companies that operate in NATO and allied countries in order to mutually enhance situational awareness and the protection of NATO's networks and systems.
Cyber
Air Force awards $61 million IT contract to CSRA for global ISR mission - News
June 07, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. The U.S. Air Force has awarded a five-year, $61 million contract to information-technology provider CSRA Inc.for support of the Air Force's global intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission. The contract allows CSRA to continue as it has for 20 years, providing support to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force with its ISR-enabling capability.
Unmanned
Esri technology to be used in Navy remotely piloted vehicles for situational awareness - News
June 07, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif. Spatial-analytic software maker Esri has announced that its technology will be used for the first time with U.S. Navy unmanned marine systems to improve how information is gathered prior to ocean and near-shore operations.
Unmanned
NASA, partners test next phase of UAV traffic-management system - News
June 07, 2017
RENO-STEAD TEST RANGE, Nev. NASA and several aviation and industry partners report that they recently conducted successful tests of five different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) demonstrating multiple operational scenarios, including parachute-initiated emergency supply deliveries and aerial survey operations.
Cyber
GAO rules in favor of Systematic in IT award case - News
June 06, 2017
WASHINGTON. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected the protest of its original award to Systematic Inc. -- headquartered in Denmark but with a location in Centreville, Virginia -- of a U.S. Army Mission Command IT contract potentially worth up to $222 million to provide an architecture framework for the Common Operating Environment.
Unmanned
NASA selects three teams to explore UAS challenges, solutions - News
June 06, 2017
WASHINGTON. NASA has given the green light to three teams of researchers who have been working on solving issues encountered when using unmanned aircraft system (UASs): The teams will move forward and officially begin formal feasibility studies of their concepts. The teams, part of NASA?s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS), are expected to work on their solutions for 24 to 30 months.
Radar/EW
AOX awarded WFIRST coronagraph contract from Jet Propulsion Laboratory - News
June 06, 2017
DEVENS, Mass. Adaptive Optics Associates (AOX) -- a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp. -- has been awarded a sole-source contract to provide mission-critical optical technology for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) WFIRST coronagraph instrument. WFIRST is a planned infrared space observatory that will be equipped with a specialized optical-imaging coronagraph that will be able to directly image exoplanets over the course of its mission.
Radar/EW
DARPA, SIA initiative aims to advance transformative semiconductor technologies - News
June 02, 2017
WASHINGTON. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) are teaming to work on a $75 million project -- contained in the Department of Defense (DoD) proposed FY 2018 budget -- in support of a new public/private ?electronics resurgence? initiative.
Unmanned
Navy tests real-time mine-detecting UASs - News
June 02, 2017
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. The US Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) has embarked on testing an aerial mine-detection unmanned aerial system (UAS) with a twist: The UAS being tested would provide warfighters with real-time threat identification during combat operations.
Unmanned
Harris will supply Boeing P8-A aircraft with sonobuoy launchers - News
June 01, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corporation has been awarded contracts to provide Boeing with sonobuoy launching technology for the U.S. Navy?s P-8A anti-submarine aircraft, built by Boeing.
Cyber
General Dynamics wins $244 million Navy training services contract - News
June 01, 2017
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology -- a business unit of General Dynamics -- has obtained the training services contract for the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia. The single-award contract is valued at approximately $244 million for a one-year base period, with four optional additional years.
Unmanned
Missile defense test successfully intercepts ICBM target - News
May 31, 2017
VANDENBURG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) -- in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, and U.S. Northern Command -- reports the successful interception of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) target during a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the nation's ballistic missile defense system.
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