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DARPA mounts next phase of Electronics Resurgence Initiative - News
November 06, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has rolled out the second phase of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) ? a five-year, upwards of $1.5 billion investment in the future of domestic electronic systems.
Unmanned
More Patriot missile systems to ship to Romania - News
November 06, 2018
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon has entered an agreement with the government of Romania and the U.S. Army to purchase of three additional Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems from the U.S. Army. Similarly to when Romania bought its first Patriot missile system in May of 2018, the additional units were procured via the U.S. Department of Defense's foreign military sales (FMS) process.
Radar/EW
Aegis Combat System SM-3 successfully trials against medium-range ballistic missile - News
October 29, 2018
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG-113) recently conducted a successful intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test off the west coast of Hawaii. SM-3 is the only ballistic missile interceptor that can be launched at sea and on land.
Radar/EW
Radar, EW comms jammer pods for Growler aircraft announced by U.S. Navy - News
October 29, 2018
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy awarded Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET) contracts valued at about $36 million each to L3 Technologies Communications Systems West and Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems in support of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) capability.
Unmanned
DoD counter-UAV contract will use Blighter radar tech - News
October 25, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. British company Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd. -- which designs and makes electronic-scanning (e-scan) radars and surveillance solutions -- is under contract to supply its counter-UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] radar technology to Liteye Systems (Centennial, Colorado and Colchester, U.K.) as part of Liteye's recently signed multimillion-dollar contract with the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver numerous containerized anti-unmanned aircraft systems (known as C-AUDS) to the DoD by the end of the fourth quarter of 2018.
Unmanned
DARPA swarm effort signs Charles River Analytics contract for enhanced algorithms, tactics - News
October 24, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has won a contract option to integrate its SATURN [Swarm Algorithms and Tactics for Urban Reconnaissance and Isolation] capabilities into DARPA's Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
A.I.
Computational model to predict human behavior developed by U.S. Army lab - News
October 23, 2018
U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY--ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.
Avionics
F-16 fighter-jet fleet in Romania to get integrated maintenance, modernization package - News
October 23, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Tapestry Solutions -- a subsidiary of Boeing -- has won a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an integrated maintenance system (IMS) for the Romanian air force?s (RoAF) fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft.
Cyber
DIA chooses nine companies to support R and D and engineering under $500 million HELIOS contract - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded positions to nine companies on a contract that will provide technical research and development (R&D), intelligence, strategic warning, and other operational tasks.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy contracts for portable camouflaging technology for vehicles - News
October 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Machine-learning engineering company Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) has won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop what DAC calls the Computer Learning Obfuscating Adversarial Kit (CLOAK) system, a portable camouflaging kit for vehicles that uses state-of-the-art adversarial imagery though physical-world manipulation and data synthesis.
Unmanned
UUVs used by U.S. Navy to get development and support from Alion Science and Technology - News
October 19, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Alion Science and Technology has won a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, Rhode Island) to develop, build, and support the U.S. Navy unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FoS). The value of the contract, including all option years, is $794 million.
Cyber
U.S. Coast Guard cutters will get encrypted automatic ID systems - News
October 18, 2018
WILSONVILLE, Ore. FLIR Systems, Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in support of the U.S. Coast Guard?s (USCG) Second Generation Automatic Identification System (AIS-2) program; the indefinite-delivery/indefinite/quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a ceiling value of $9.9 million to provide second-generation automatic identification system (AIS) transponders, associated peripherals, and spare parts for nearly 1,774 boats and 282 cutters in the USCG?s active fleet.
Cyber
Live-training systems for U.S. Army to get $465 million General Dynamics refresh and upgrade - News
October 18, 2018
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics and the U.S. Army Life Cycle Product Line Management (LCPM) Program have agreed on a contract worth $465 million for General Dynamics to provide enhanced life cycle management, including technology refresh and upgrades of live-training systems, within the U.S. Army Live Training Transformation Product Line.
Avionics
Avionics displays for Navy F/A-18s obtain additional support and sustainment contract - News
October 18, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Navy Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) have renewed an agreement to continue support on avionics displays for the Navy?s F/A-18 fleet of over 1,200 aircraft; the newest pact is a four-year extension of a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract that was signed more than 15 years ago.
A.I.
DARPA program seeks to teach machines common sense - News
October 18, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has launched the Machine Common Sense (MCS) program to explore recent advances in cognitive understanding, natural language processing, deep learning, and other areas of artificial intelligence (AI) research in an effort to crack the code of a critical component lacking in AI ? human-style common sense.
A.I.
Altair acquires simulation design firm SIMSOLID - News
October 17, 2018
TROY, Mich. Design-software maker Altair Engineering has acquired SIMSOLID, whose products work on CAD assemblies to provide fast, accurate, and robust structural simulation without requiring geometry simplification, cleanup, or meshing.
Avionics
Helicopter market in military, public-service sectors to recover gradually to 2026 - News
October 17, 2018
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The market for military and public-services helicopters is facing a slow recovery globally, following nearly 10 years of stagnation and delayed programs in key regions, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan, "Global Military and Public Services Helicopters Market, Forecast to 2026."
Radar/EW
GaN-based radar from Lockheed Martin reaches technical milestone prior to delivery to MDA - News
October 17, 2018
MOORESTOWN, N.J. Lockheed Martin reports that its Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) has completed a closed-loop satellite track with tactical hardware and software; the test marks a major milestone, as the LRDR program continues to meet its technical goals and works toward its expected 2020 delivery to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in Clear, Alaska.
Comms
NASA and KBRWyle team on geodesy precision-measuring effort - News
October 16, 2018
HOUSTON. KBRwyle -- the global government services arm of KBR, Inc. -- has won a $48 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to construct, deploy, and commission the next-generation Space Geodesy (SG) Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) ground systems.
Radar/EW
Enhanced projectile from U.S. Army/Raytheon team defeats targets in hard-to-reach spots - News
October 15, 2018
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon and the U.S. Army recently completed development of a new capability for cannon artillery by upgrading the combat-proven Excalibur precision-guided projectile: The team's Excalibur Shaped Trajectory (EST) variant will enable soldiers to eliminate targets in hard-to-reach locations by selecting the projectile's terminal or final phase attack angle.
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