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Polaris tapped to deliver military tactical vehicles to Latvia, Turkmenistan - News

January 25, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS. Polaris Government and Defense officials received contracts from the Latvian National Armed Forces and the Turkmenistan Special Operation Forces for military and commercial vehicles.
Unmanned

Anti-radiation missile system to undergo upgrade with Orbital ATK - News

January 24, 2018
DULLES, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected Orbital ATK to mature the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) configuration. The result of the developmental contract will be in a preliminary design prior to entry into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase.
Radar/EW

ManTech to deliver support for Navy's combat identification systems - News

January 24, 2018
HERNDON, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected ManTech International Corp. for a five-year, $35.9 million single indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide engineering and technical services for the Combat Integration & Identification Systems (CI&IDS) Division with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).
Avionics

Belgium looks to purchase 34 F-35 under $6.53 billion contract - News

January 23, 2018
WASHINGTON. State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Belgium of 34 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) aircraft for an estimated cost of $6.53 billion.
Radar/EW

ANSI & VITA ratify ANSI/VITA 68 VPX compliance channel standard - News

January 23, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY. Officials at the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical and intelligent embedded computing systems markets, VITA, announced the ratification by ANSI and VITA of ANSI/VITA 68.0-2017 ?VPX Compliance Channel? and ANSI/VITA 68.1- 2017 ?VPX Compliance Channel - Fixed Signal Integrity Budget Standard.? These standards have completed the VITA and ANSI processes reaching full recognition under guidance of VITA.
Comms

EHS to support adoption of DOD cloud architectures, services - News

January 23, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. Eagle Harbor Solutions LLC (EHS), a subsidiary of Koniag Government Services, will support the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG) and Defense Digital Service (DDS) as it executes the acquisition for the DoD enterprise cloud initiative in partnership with the Deputy Chief Management Officer.
Radar/EW

Harris to deliver international F-16 electronic warfare support - News

January 22, 2018
MELBOURNE, Fla. U.S. Air Force officials tapped Harris Corp. to provide engineering support services for the electronic warfare (EW) systems onboard the international variant of the F-16.
Comms

DARPA launches six research centers for microelectronics research - News

January 22, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. DARPA and officials at the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP) selected six centers that will undertake high-risk, high-payoff research that addresses existing and emerging challenges in microelectronic technologies.
A.I.

Extending lifetime of quantum systems is the goal of new DARPA program - News

January 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. DARPA?s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) announced the Driven and Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems (DRINQS) program, which aims to extend the lifetime of quantum systems and investigate a recent paradigm shift in quantum research that maintains that periodically driving a system out of equilibrium may stabilize its coherence.
Comms

U.S. Army approves full-rate production contract for PacStar's communications modules - News

January 18, 2018
PORTLAND, Ore. U.S. Army officials approved the full-rate production of PacStar's 400-Series small form factor (SFF) tactical and deployable communications modules under the Army Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) program.
Comms

DAC to address full spectrum of acquisition & sustainment processes under DoD contract - News

January 17, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L) selected DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corp. (DAC) to provide provide Life Cycle Product Support Policy and Program Related Support to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Material Readiness (DASD (MR)). The contract has a ceiling value of approximately $8 million and a total period of performance of up to five years including four option years.
Unmanned

Scientists improve process in creating high-energy explosive - News

January 17, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists improved the overall chemical yield derived from diaminoglyoxime (DAG) and significantly increased the amount of material made per reaction, in response to the challenges in making high-energy explosives.
Comms

U.S. Army approves full rate production of Cubic's GATR satellite antennas - News

January 16, 2018
SAN DIEGO. U.S. Army officials approved the full rate production (FRP) of Cubic Mission Solutions' (CMS) - a business division at Cubic Corp. - GATR satellite antenna systems under the Army's Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) program.
Radar/EW

Cobham to deliver electronic warfare, threat simulation training under NATO contract - News

January 16, 2018
BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom. Officials at the Special Mission business unit at Cobham received a follow-on contract to delivery operational readiness training to NATO for up to five years.
Radar/EW

Ballistic missile testing, modeling, & simulation work part of $641 million contract with MDA - News

January 15, 2018
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) officials selected Raytheon for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) tests related activities for multiple radar platforms that includes planning, executing, and analyzing sensor performance in BMDS flight tests and ground tests for each test event defined in the BMDS integrated master test plan. The contract has a max valued of $641,758,000.
A.I.

Human/AI collaborations improve via Army Research Laboratory program - News

January 15, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists completed the Autonomy Research Pilot Initiative (ARPI) and developed ways to improve collaborations between humans and artificially intelligent agents.
Unmanned

DARPA taps Raytheon for CODE's Phase 3 development - News

January 11, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials selected Raytheon to complete the development of the agency's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program during Phase 3.
Avionics

Rockwell Collins to provide supply chain management support at Robins Air Force Base maintenance depot - News

January 11, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Officials at Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) tapped Rockwell Collins to provide support for the Robins Air Force Base maintenance depot under a $22 million contract.
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