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Cyber
U.S. Army contracts for predeployment training for troops - News
May 17, 2018
RESTON, Va. Science and technology engineering firm Leidos has won a prime contract potentially worth $210 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command ? Orlando to develop and provide simulated training environments for troops before they deploy to a battlefield environment.
Avionics
USMC takes delivery of first CH053 King Stallion helicopter from Sikorsky - News
May 17, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, reports that it delivered the first CH-53 King Stallion helicopter to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), the first of an expected 200 helicopters for the Marines' fleet.
Unmanned
ERAPSCO joint venture awarded $70.3 million in Navy sonobuoy contracts - News
May 16, 2018
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. and SCHAUMBURG, Ill. Ultra Electronics Holdings and Sparton Corporation have won subcontracts valued at $70.3 million under their ERAPSCO joint venture for the manufacture and delivery of sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy.
Comms
U.S. Navy contracts for communications services at its base in Djibouti, Africa - News
May 16, 2018
ROME, N.Y. Technology and systems provider Rome Research Corp. -- a subsidiary of PAR Technology -- has won a U.S. Navy SeaPort-e task order to provide telecommunications operations and maintenance services at the Global Information Grid facility at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa. The value of the task order is approximately $19.8 million over a one-year base period and four one-year options.
Unmanned
USDOT selects participants in UAS integration pilot program - News
May 15, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao recently announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has chosen 10 state, local, and tribal governments to participate in the DOT's unmanned aircraft aystems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program.
Avionics
NAVAIR signs agreement for support on F-35 fighter program - News
May 15, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Information-technology engineering company Decisive Analytics Corp. (DAC) has won a Blank Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract with NAVAIR Warfare Center Lakehurst, Aircraft Division to provide support to the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO).
Unmanned
U.S. Army signs $828 million contract with Lockheed Martin for Lot 13 precision-strike missile delivery - News
May 14, 2018
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has won an $828 million (not-to-exceed) contract from the U.S. Army for Lot 13 production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets and associated equipment.
Comms
Small-satellites launch market may surpass $62 billion by 2030, say analysts - News
May 14, 2018
LONDON. Industry analysts at Frost & Sullivan predict that the small-satellite launch market could total or surpass the $62 billion mark by 2030, according to a new report titled "Small-satellite Launch Services Market, Quarterly Update Q1 2018, Forecast to 2030."
Unmanned
Phase 3 of DARPA's "Gremlins" program: Full-scale demo of multiple low-$, reusable UASs - News
May 11, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is making progress toward its plan to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of multiple low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs), which it calls its "Gremlins" program.
Comms
USAF awards $23.9 million contract for ongoing development of comm systems counterthreat tech - News
May 11, 2018
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The U.S. Air Force has granted a contract worth $23.9 million to small engineering firm PreTalen (Dayton, Ohio) for continued development of an automated platform that analyzes wireless communication systems and warns of potential vulnerabilities.
Cyber
Cubic Global Defense gains additional $16 million in game-based training for U.S. Navy - News
May 10, 2018
ORLANDO. Cubic Corp. announced that its Cubic Global Defense (CGD) business division received eight additional delivery orders -- totaling $16 million -- under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to deliver immersive game-based courseware to support the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Cubic's Orlando facility is responsible for the development efforts of the Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment (IVSE) for LCS, in tandem with the U.S. Navy's Ready Relevant Learning initiative.
Comms
Market study: C4ISR systems projected to reach an estimated $112.5 billion by 2023 - News
May 10, 2018
DETROIT. The market for C4ISR [command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] systems is projected to grow at a higher rate than the total defense industry in the coming five years, to reach an estimated $112.5 billion in 2023, according to a new study from Stratview Research titled "C4ISR Systems Market by Platform Type (Land, Airborne, Naval, and Space), by Application Type, (Command and Control; Communication; Computers; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; and Electronic Warfare), by Solution Type (Products and Services), by End-User Type (Defense and Commercial), and by Region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World), Trend, Forecast, Competitive Analysis, and Growth Opportunity: 2018-2023."
Unmanned
Testing, research aims to make UAS flight safer, enhance air-traffic management - News
May 09, 2018
AURORA, Colo. Raytheon will act as a key partner in the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance's project to develop the first and most advanced unmanned aircraft system (UAS)-testing airspace corridor in the U.S. in New York state.
Unmanned
U.S. Navy orders 7,000-plus additional APKWS laser-guided rockets - News
May 09, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. BAE Systems has received a $175 million contract from the U.S. Navy for more than 7,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rockets.
A.I.
DARPA chooses teams to develop approaches to machine learning, artificial intelligence - News
May 09, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected teams to work on its Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) program, which the agency says seeks to develop fundamentally new machine learning (ML) approaches that allow systems to adapt continually to new circumstances without forgetting what they have previously learned.
Unmanned
German navy will deploy Puma UAS to enhance safety and surveillance - News
May 08, 2018
MONROVIA, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer AeroVironment and ESG Elektroniksystem-und Logistik -- a German system and software house -- announced that the German navy has acquired the AeroVironment Puma maritime UAS.
Comms
U.S. Air National Guard will get force options-training systems at every base - News
May 08, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Combat-training and communications company Cubic Global Defense will supply the United States Air National Guard (ANG) with PRISim Suite PortableTrainer systems.
Unmanned
U.S. Army grants Lockheed Martin $828 million contract to produce precision-strike rockets, equipment - News
May 08, 2018
DALLAS. Lockheed Martin will proceed on Lot 13 production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets and associated equipment under the terms of an $828 million (not-to-exceed) contract from the U.S. Army.
Radar/EW
Air Force moves ahead with defendable space missile-warning capabilities - News
May 07, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force is moving to award two sole-source contracts for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program, as it implements rapid-procurement practices. It is targeting the first Next-Gen OPIR launch in 2023.
Unmanned
InSight lander on its way to Mars - News
May 07, 2018
VANDENBURG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft -- built by Lockheed Martin and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- launched early in the morning on May 5 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket and has officially begun its six-month long journey to Mars. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive on the Red Planet on November 26, 2018.
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