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Avionics
NASA teams with Rockwell Collins to demo sonic-boom display - News
March 23, 2017
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. NASA and Rockwell Collins recently teamed to demonstrate the Sonic Boom Display at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The usability demonstration and pilot working group meeting marked a major milestone in the two-year project.
Radar/EW
Navy delivers upgraded Tomahawk weapons-control system - News
March 22, 2017
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The Navy has delivered an upgraded Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS) to the fleet; the Tomahawk cruise-missile control system has been in operation for more than a decade.
Avionics
Air Force and Boeing test KC-46A tanker aircraft - News
March 22, 2017
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus team recently concluded testing of the Air Force's newest refueling aircraft at Travis Air Force Base (situated in the San Francisco Bay area). The military and Federal Aviation Administration certification testing effort was a combined effort between Boeing Test and Evaluation and the Detachment 1/418th Flight Test Squadron, which are colocated at Boeing's Seattle facility.
Unmanned
Teledyne awarded $9.98 million to supply IR detectors for Jupiter mission - News
March 21, 2017
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has been awarded a $9.98 million contract from the French Space Agency -- the Centre National d??tudes Spatiales (CNES) -- to provide infrared detectors and electronics for the European Space Agency (ESA) JUICE mission to Jupiter. JUICE -- the ESA's acronym for JUpiter Icy moon Explorer -- is expected to launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030 to undertake a 3 1/2-year study of Jupiter and three of its moons: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
Unmanned
UUV completes underwater mine-hunting trials - News
March 21, 2017
QUINCY, Mass. General Dynamics Mission Systems reports that it has successfully completed a comprehensive evaluation of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), in coordination with the U.S. Navy.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy, Mercury agree to DRFM jammer contract - News
March 21, 2017
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received a follow-on, five-year, sole source basic ordering agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy to deliver advanced digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) subsystems that support frequency jamming in a multithreat environment.
Comms
Boeing WGS satellite aims to improve military comms for U.S., allies - News
March 20, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite was launched into orbit on March 18. This WGS-9 satellite, launched using a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, is aimed at enabling the United States and six allied nations to increase military communications capabilities to prevent, protect against, and respond to attacks.
Comms
Army JRTC awards $42 million contract to continue mission support services - News
March 17, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., has received a contract award worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center?s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational and predeployment training exercise requirements from April 1 to August 24, with Phase Out requirements from August 25 to October 23, 2017.
Unmanned
DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News
March 17, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin designs, tests 60 kW laser weapon - News
March 17, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has completed the design, development, and demonstration of a 60 kW-class beam combined fiber laser for the U.S. Army. In a recent test near its Bothell, Washington, facility, Lockheed's laser produced a single beam of 58 kW, which the company says represents a world record for a laser of this type. The Lockheed Martin team is preparing to ship the laser to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Huntsville, Alabama.
Unmanned
NASA reveals work on tiny folding robots for exploring extreme terrains - News
March 16, 2017
PASADENA, Calif. NASA and several partners are working on what the space agency calls an "origami-inspired" small robot that can fold itself to become as small as a smartphone but is rugged enough to handle harsh terrain on Mars and beyond.
Comms
Georgia Tech pairs with firm to build military jetpack - News
March 16, 2017
VAN NUYS, Calif. JetPack Aviation (JPA) -- a technology company that demonstrated its initial progress with a public jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty in 2015 -- has entered into a development agreement with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to design and build a soldier vertical mobility system (SVMS) for military applications.
Radar/EW
ONR awards Raytheon $11.8 million contract for work on sensor interconnectivity - News
March 15, 2017
TEWKSBURY, Mass. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded Raytheon a contract worth $11.8 million to develop networking technologies that will enable enhanced sensor interconnectivity and improved integrated-fires capabilities for naval operations.
Comms
NSA certifies Harris manpack for secure radio transmission - News
March 15, 2017
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Harris Corp. has obtained National Security Agency (NSA) Type-1 certification for its Falcon III RF-300H wideband high-frequency (HF) manpack radio system. With the Type-1 NSA certification, Harris is allowed to perform transmission of classified images, maps, and other large data files from beyond-line-of-sight environments with the Falcon III.
Radar/EW
Royal Danish air force to equip F-16s with advanced targeting pods - News
March 15, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a contract to provide the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) with its LITENING multisensor targeting and surveillance for installation on the RDAF's F-16 aircraft.
Radar/EW
Australian navy's first Aegis-equipped Hobart-class destroyer concludes sea trial - News
March 15, 2017
ADELAIDE, Australia. Australia's navy and a team of industry partners recently completed five weeks of sea acceptance trials aboard the future HMAS Hobart, the first of Australia?s three new Aegis-equipped air warfare destroyers.
Avionics
Lockheed Martin's Airborne Multi-INT Lab gets new capabilities - News
March 14, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has upgraded its manned airborne testbed, the Airborne Multi-INT Lab (AML), in a bid to expedite the craft's ability to deliver real-time intelligence. Lockheed and partners use the AML to experiment with combinations of sensors, systems, and technologies to help customers develop ways to support a diverse range of contingency operations.
Cyber
Aptima and Milcord merger focuses on human-centered engineering for defense, intel - News
March 14, 2017
WOBURN, Mass. Aptima, a company that develops tools to enhance human-machine performance for the defense and intelligence communities, has announced its merger with Milcord, a government-technology company based in Waltham, Mass., specializing in knowledge management, human social-culture modeling, and cyberdefense. Under the agreement, Aptima will acquire Milcord?s portfolio of completed, active, and pending contracts and intellectual property developed under these contracts; the merged entity will continue under the Aptima corporate umbrella.
Comms
AFRL uses new Information Transfer Agreement to share software with industry - News
March 14, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate reports that it has used Information Transfer Agreements (ITA) to transfer its Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) simulation and modeling tool to 80 industry partners for development and evaluation.
Comms
NASA presses forward with plans for cislunar human outpost - News
March 13, 2017
GREENBELT, Md. In an address at the recent American Astronautical Society Goddard Memorial Symposium, Bill Gerstenmaier -- NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations -- told attendees that NASA is moving forward with plans for a cislunar ?gateway? outpost for future human missions, with decisions about how to develop it expected in the coming months. Gerstenmaier said that his agency is studying concepts for launching the first elements of the proposed outpost as secondary payloads on early flights of the Space Launch System (SLS).
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