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Comms
Wideband satcom contract signed between U.S. Army, Harris Corp. - News
January 02, 2019
MELBOURNE, Fla. The U.S. Army has awarded Harris Corp. a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that handle critical communications for troops around the world.
Unmanned
PAC-3 missile contract for as much as $1.8 billion signed between Lockheed Martin, U.S. Army - News
December 26, 2018
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has signed a potential $1.8 billion contract to produce and deliver missile interceptor systems to the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers.
Radar/EW
DARPA seeks designs to cool super-hot hypersonic vehicles - News
December 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced its Materials Architectures and Characterization for Hypersonics (MACH) program, which seeks to develop and demonstrate new design and material solutions for sharp, shape-stable, cooled leading edges for hypersonic vehicles. DARPA will hold a Proposers Day describing the program on January 22, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia.
Unmanned
Long-range missile delivered to U.S. Navy ahead of schedule - News
December 19, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin reports delivery of the first Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM) to U.S. Air Force operational units, achieving Early Operational Capability (EOC) status ahead of schedule.
A.I.
Automated test system to help DoD lower $2 billion intermittent-fault issue - News
December 18, 2018
BETHESDA, Md. and ROY, Utah. Lockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics Corp. recently signed an agreement to help the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) tackle an issue known as intermittent fault anomaly, an occurrence that currently drives an estimated $2 billion in annual DoD maintenance costs.
Radar/EW
Ground sensors market to register CAGR over 6 percent to 2022, says report - News
December 17, 2018
LONDON. Miniaturization of parts and components is identified as a key trend fueling the growth of the unattended ground sensors (UGS) market, forecast to grow by over $102.5 million by 2022, according to a new report from Technavio, "Global Unattended Ground Sensors Market 2018-2022."
Comms
Global space-robotics market could reach $4.6 billion by 2023 - News
December 14, 2018
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The space-robotics market, estimated to be $2.88 billion in 2018, is projected to reach $4.36 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 8.64% from 2018 to 2023, according to a new study from MarketsandMarkets, "Space Robotics Market by Solution, Services (Satellite Servicing, On-orbit Assembly & Manufacturing, De-orbiting Services, Re-supply, Surface Mobility, & Launch Support), Application, End-User, and region - Global Forecast to 2023."
Radar/EW
Intelligent SDRs for Navy aircraft, subs, UAVs get $10 million in delivery orders - News
December 14, 2018
FAIRFAX, Va. Radio-frequency (RF) products provider Azure Summit Technology has secured third and fourth delivery orders on its five-year, $48.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the U.S. Navy to support the AN/ZLQ-1 V2 Common Chassis for the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA), Persistent Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMUAS), and Submarine Sensor Systems programs.
Radar/EW
Display systems for Army vehicles to be supplied by Palomar Display Products - News
December 14, 2018
CARLSBAD, Calif. Palomar Display Products has signed two contracts totaling $1.3 million with the U.S. Army to deliver military display systems for the Army's armored vehicles.
Unmanned
Airbus UASs to get extended operation contract in Afghanistan and Mali - News
December 12, 2018
BREMEN, Germany. Germany's air force has extended the successful operation of the Heron 1 unmanned aerial systems (UASs) -- built and supported by by Airbus DS Airborne Solutions GmbH, an Airbus company -- in Afghanistan and Mali until midyear 2020.
Radar/EW
SM-3 Block IIA test successfully intercepts ballistic missile - News
December 12, 2018
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reports that U.S. Navy sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) successfully conducted Flight Test Integrated-03 (FTI-03), an operational live-fire test demonstrating the Aegis Weapon System Engage On Remote capability to track and intercept an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) target with an Aegis Ashore-launched Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor.
Radar/EW
Future USS Billings completes acceptance trials - News
December 11, 2018
MARINETTE, Wis. Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 15, the future USS Billings, has completed acceptance trials in the waters of Lake Michigan, its last significant milestone before delivery to the U.S. Navy during 2019.
Radar/EW
EW, avionics, smallsats, partnerships to be focus of Harris Corp.'s investments in Florida - News
December 11, 2018
MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corporation plans to invest more than $125 million in internal research and development (R&D) in its central Florida locations this fiscal year, say company officials, with the R&D activities primarily focusing on areas including electronic warfare (EW), robotics, avionics, and smallsats.
Comms
CubeSat market to reach $375 million by 2023, says report - News
December 10, 2018
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The global CubeSat market is projected to grow from $152 million in 2018 to $375 million by 2023, at a CAGR of 19.87 percent, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets, "CubeSat Market by Application (Earth Observation & Traffic Monitoring, Communication, Science & Technology and Education), End User (Government & Military, Commercial, Non-profit Organizations), Size, Subsystem, and Region -- Global Forecast to 2023."
Cyber
U.S. Army $3.5 billion supply-chain, logistics contract will include work from Lockheed Martin and IFS - News
December 06, 2018
LINKOPING, Sweden. Supply-chain and logistics software from IFS will be included in the $3.5 billion contract that Lockheed Martin has signed with the U.S. Army to provide logistics and sustainment functionality for supply-chain management, warehouse management, and purchasing functions.
Avionics
Ball Aerospace to build prototype data-processing framework for U.S. Air Force - News
December 04, 2018
BOULDER, Colo. Ball Aerospace has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to build an adaptable, open-source framework testbed to support ground processing needs.
Comms
SmallSat Express launch to study, among other things, rad-hard ICs in sun-synchronous orbit - News
December 03, 2018
VANDENBURG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Among the payloads brought to space on the Spaceflight Industries/SpaceX SmallSat Express launch on December 3 were nine radation-hardened CMOS silicon die from Vorago Technologies.
A.I.
Extending and enhancing troops' situational awareness and coordination - News
December 03, 2018
MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER (TWENTYNINE PALMS), Calif. An initial test of the Squad X Experimentation program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully demonstrated the ability to extend and enhance the situational awareness of small, dismounted units, according to reports from DARPA officials.
Radar/EW
Missile warning, defense systems pact signed between U.S. Air Force, Engility - News
December 03, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. Engility Holdings has signed a $71 million award with the U.S. Air Force to provide systems engineering and integration services to the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Remote Sensing Systems Directorate (RSSD).
Unmanned
UASs demonstrate autonomy and collaboration with minimal human interface - News
November 30, 2018
U.S ARMY, YUMA PROVING GROUND, Arizona. In a recent test series at Yuma Proving Ground, the in Arizona, the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA?) demonstrated the ability of CODE-equipped unmanned aerial systems (UASs) to adapt and respond to unexpected threats in an antiaccess area denial (A2AD) environment.
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