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Unmanned
Mine-hunting sonar system completes developmental testing - News
February 27, 2019
PANAMA CITY, Fla. U.S. Navy officials announced that the AN/AQS-20C mine-hunting sonar system has completed development testing at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division.
Unmanned
ARL, Lockheed Martin agreement to focus on defense optical tech, protective coatings - News
February 27, 2019
ADELPHI, Md. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lockheed Martin entered into a five-year cooperative agreement, titled "Self-Assembly of Nanostructures for Tunable Materials."
Avionics
Wind River releases Helix Virtualizing Platform - News
February 27, 2019
ALAMEDA, Calif. Officials at Wind River released the Helix Virtualization Platform (Helix Platform), which combines the company's commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) and embedded Linux distribution into an edge compute software platform.
Comms
Army signs five-year license deal with production of Ravenwood's FlexTrain system - News
February 25, 2019
FREMONT, Calif. Officials at the Army Contracting Command ? Orlando (ACC-ORL) selected Ravenswood Solutions for the production of two brigade-sized FlexTrain instrumentation systems and a five-year license to use Ravenswood's associated ORION software. The sole source contract is valued at $39.9 million.
Radar/EW
Textron, IMSAR-led team demo synthetic aperture radar equipped on the Aerosonde UAS - News
February 22, 2019
HUNT VALLEY, Md. IMSAR and Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. business unit, team up to to integrate and demonstrate the IMSAR?s NSP-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system on Textron Systems? Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS)
Comms
BAE Systems to start initial production of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle - News
February 22, 2019
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. BAE Systems received two contract modifications from the U.S. Army for the low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV). The contract is worth up to $575 million to support the U.S. Army?s Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCT) missions.
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin, Diehl, Saab team up to develop the Falcon air defense weapon system - News
February 21, 2019
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Lockheed Martin, Diehl Defence, and Saab officials announced the Falcon air defense weapon system as the short and medium-range air defense solution for current and emerging threats.
Cyber
Perspecta to provide cyberspace operations support to ARCYBER - News
February 20, 2019
CHANTILLY, Va. U.S. government services provide Perspecta Inc. received the U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Cyberspace Operations Support task order. The program represents new work for the company and has a one-year base and four, one-year options, with a maximum ceiling value of $905,700,984.
Cyber
GDIT to support FAA's DVARS program design and implementation efforts - News
February 20, 2019
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials tasked General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to design, implement, install, and maintain their Data, Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System (DVARS). The single-award, indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract holds a total estimated value of $99 million. It includes a two-year base period with five one-year options.
Unmanned
NASA taps organizations for final phase UAS traffic management system - News
February 20, 2019
WASHINGTON. The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems in Las Vegas and the Lone Star UAS Center for Excellence & Innovation in Corpus Christi, Texas will host the final phase of NASA's four-year series technical demonstrations involving small unmanned aerial systems (UASs).
A.I.
DARPA launches new AI program to create systems that react to novelty in open worlds - News
February 19, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty (SAIL-ON) program, which intends to research and develop the underlying scientific principles and general engineering techniques and algorithms needed to create artificial intelligence (AI) systems that act appropriately and effectively in novel situations that occur in open worlds.
Radar/EW
HENSOLDT to equip German Corvettes with its radar, IFF systems - News
February 18, 2019
ULM, Germany. The German procurement authority BAAINBw [Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support] has selected HENSOLDT to deliver a second batch of its TRS-4D Rotator naval radar and its MSSR 2000 ID friend-or-foe identification system (IFF) to equip the German navy?s K130 corvettes.
A.I.
Strike weapons system engineering support contract won by SimVentions - News
February 18, 2019
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected SimVentions to provide systems engineering, software development, and test and evaluation capabilities to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), Weapons Control and Integration Department, Strike Weapons Systems Division, as well as to various Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) programs and projects.
Radar/EW
Designing multifunction radar and EW systems means staying ahead of the tech curve - Story
February 18, 2019
Huge data demands - including those from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications - are pushing radar and electronic warfare (EW) developers to seek new ways to deliver multifunction systems that also meet strict size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements.
Avionics
National Guard RC-26B ISR aircraft to get avionics refresh from Elbit - News
February 15, 2019
FORT WORTH. M7 Aerospace LLC, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America, will provide an avionics refresh for the U.S. Air National Guard's RC-26B fixed-wing aircraft used for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations.
Cyber
NATO extends Leonardo contract to continue cyber detection, management capabilities - News
February 15, 2019
ROME. NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) officials signed the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) Cyber Security Support Services (CSSS) contract with Leonardo to continue to deliver cyber-incident detection and management capabilities.
Comms
Ampex to deliver multichannel video recorders in support of Canadian FWSAR project - News
February 15, 2019
HAYWARD, Calif. Airbus Defense and Space officials selected Ampex Data Systems, a division of Delta Information Systems Inc., to supply TuffServ222 (TS222) Multichannel Video Recorders, in support of the Government of Canada?s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement (FWSAR) project.
Comms
U.S. Army $406 million software-defined radio contract won by Raytheon - News
February 15, 2019
FORT WAYNE, Ind. U.S. Army officials selected Raytheon to deliver ARC-231A software-defined radio (SDR) systems under a $406 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
Radar/EW
Japan requests AEGIS Weapon Systems in FMS valued at $2.1 billion - News
February 14, 2019
WASHINGTON. State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Japan of two AEGIS Weapon Systems (AWS), two Multi-Mission Signal Processors (MMSP), and two Command and Control Processor (C2P) Refreshes and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.150 billion.
Comms
U.S. Navy taps Aptima to deliver new learning technologies, methods of instruction - News
February 14, 2019
WOBURN, Mass. U.S. Navy officials selected Aptima to develop numerous training advances to improve naval force readiness. The contract is worth up to $18.4 million.
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