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Avionics
NASA acoustic tests claim 70 percent reduction in airframe noise - News
June 26, 2018
WASHINGTON. NASA reports that it has conducted a series of flight tests that successfully demonstrate technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports.
Unmanned
R&D and energy companies teaming on drone research to protect infrastructure, security concerns - News
June 22, 2018
SYRACUSE, New York. Not-for-profit research and development company SRC, Inc. is partnering with Xcel Energy to deploy state-of-the-art unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection technology to protect critical infrastructure.
Cyber
USAF awards $50 million cyber support task order - News
June 22, 2018
FAIRFAX, Va. Consulting and digital services provider ICF has won a new task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide comprehensive cyber support across the Air Force enterprise.
Unmanned
Missile Defense Agency awards technical and engineering contract to MacB - News
June 21, 2018
DAYTON, Ohio. Engineering and cybersecurity consultancy MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) has won a technical and engineering services contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Cyber
DISA awards SETI unrestricted competition pool to 14 large companies, totaling $7.5 billion - News
June 21, 2018
FORT MEADE, Md. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently awarded its $7.5 billion Systems Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) contracts to 14 large businesses as it works to streamline engineering expertise to research, design, develop, integrate, and optimize critical Department of Defense (DOD) information technology capabilities, systems, and solutions.
Unmanned
U.S. Navy designates Rhode Island's NUWC as DoD spot for maritime innovation - News
June 21, 2018
NEWPORT, Rhode Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport announced a three-year agreement with the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC -- Middletown, Rhode Island) under which UTIC will develop and implement leading-edge undersea and maritime technologies for the U.S. Navy.
Comms
Contract signed with Kratos to enable government satellite users to roam - News
June 20, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., under its Kratos RT Logic subsidiary, has won an award from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, MILSATCOM Systems Directorate, Advanced Concepts Division, for the Pilot Phase 2 program that will develop an enterprise solution to increase the capacity and resiliency of wideband satellite communications (SATCOM).
Radar/EW
U.S. Army will use L3's next-gen night-vision binocular goggles - News
June 20, 2018
NEW YORK. L3 Technologies has been awarded a three-year, $391 million contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to provide soldiers with next-generation binocular night vision goggles to enhance mobility for ground forces.
Cyber
Rockwell Collins gets go-ahead for detailed design work on Navy tactical training tool - News
June 20, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) program it undertook with the U.S. Navy and has obtained approval to begin detailed design work on the system.
Unmanned
U.S. Department of the Interior awards first-ever contract for small UAS services - News
June 20, 2018
BINGEN, Wash. Unmanned systems and software company Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing, has won a first-of-its kind contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to provide fire-suppression services within the contiguous 48 states and Alaska using its ScanEagle unmanned sircraft dystem (UAS).
Cyber
NASA awards advanced computing services contract with potential for 10 years, $1.2 billion - News
June 19, 2018
BELTSVILLE, Md. InuTeq LLC, the federal subsidiary of ASRC, has won the NASA Advanced Computing Services (NACS) contract. The single-award hybrid contract has a one-year base, followed by nine one-year options, with a potential value of approximately $1.2 billion.
Cyber
USMC awards contract to modernize training environment for convoy operations - News
June 18, 2018
ANN ARBOR, Mich. FAAC Incorporated, a subsidiary of Arotech Corp.?s Training and Simulation Division, has won a competitive contract from Marine Corps Systems Command Program Manager Training System to modernize the U.S. Marine Corps? Combat Convoy Simulators (CCS).
Cyber
Thales, Microsoft announce defense cloud platform for armed forces - News
June 18, 2018
LA DEFENSE, France. Multinational defense and cybersecurity contractor Thales has announced a partnership with Microsoft under which the companies will build a cloud platform designed to help armed forces and other defense clients store and secure classified and sensitive data within their information technology infrastructure.
Cyber
Project aims to drastically improve computing by improving topological material, reducing noise - News
June 15, 2018
MALIBU, Calif. Research and development lab HRL Laboratories -- a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors -- is embarking on a project aimed at developing topological building blocks that will keep fragile quantum information safe from environmental effects.
Unmanned
Drone risk tolerance assessment in national airspace becomes focal point in report - News
June 15, 2018
WASHINGTON. A newly released congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine states that introducing drone operations into U.S. airspace can provide substantial benefits to society, such as preventing derailments, inspecting cell phone towers, delivering medical devices to patients in cardiac distress, and assisting firefighters.
Comms
Military SDR from Rockwell Collins passes crucial DoD test - News
June 14, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins reports that its AN/PRC-162(V)1 software-defined radio (SDR) is now the first tactical ground radio to pass one of the critical tests needed to meet the security requirements required for operation with the Department of Defense (DoD) final version of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Avionics
Lockheed Martin chooses Raytheon to perform F-35 sensor system upgrade - News
June 14, 2018
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin has chosen Raytheon to develop and deliver the next-generation Distributed Aperture System (DAS) for the F-35 fighter jet. Northrop Grumman had previously held the contract for the F-35 DAS.
Radar/EW
USAF signs $866 million contract to sustain missile warning/missile defense and space tracking radars - News
June 14, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a competitive bid from the U.S. Air Force to sustain and modify a worldwide network of ground-based radars deemed critical to the success of the Air Force's missile warning/missile defense and space tracking missions.
Comms
Integrated targeting system from Rockwell Collins aimed at mobile battlefield use - News
June 14, 2018
PARIS, EUROSATORY 2018. Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is showcasing its new FasTAK tactical combat targeting system and secure communications gateway at the Eurosatory 2018 exhibition, held this week in Paris.
Unmanned
UUV swarms demonstration in Navy test facility approved - News
June 13, 2018
FALL RIVER, Mass. Undersea robotics company Aquabotix has signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to gain access to the Navy's Narragansett Bay Test Facility (NBTF) in Newport, Rhode Island, including its ranges and personnel, in order to test and demonstrate the Aquabotix?s SwarmDiver product and other relevant technologies.
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