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Unmanned
USS Fitzgerald arrives in MS for repair, restoration - News
January 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy reports that the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on January 19 aboard the heavy-lift vessel MV Transshelf after having traveled from Yokosuka, Japan.
Cyber
GSA awards $165 million contract to bolster U.S. cyberdefense - News
January 19, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Booz Allen Hamilton has won a five-year, $165 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from the General Services Administration (GSA)/Federal System Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) to provide plans and policy, training, and administrative and staff support services to USCYBERCOM, a subordinate of the Department of Defense?s Strategic Command.
Unmanned
Army, Orbital ATK showcase counter-UAS capabilities - News
January 19, 2018
FORT SILL, Okla. The U.S. Army and aerospace/defense company Orbital ATK (Dulles, Virginia) recently participated in the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at the Fort Sill Army post.
Cyber
DoD taps Kratos to modernize cyberspace defense support network - News
January 18, 2018
SAN DIEGO. National security contractor Kratos Defense & Security Solutions was awarded a full and open Task Order (TO) from a Department of Defense Command to modernize and expand a closed network that supports and protects a significant portion of a cyberspace weapon system. The TO is worth up to $10.5 million.
Radar/EW
NASA Goddard to increase computing capacity to 5 petaFLOPS under newest CSRA contract - News
January 18, 2018
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Technology/IT contractor CSRA acquired another compute expansion under its high performance computing (HPC) contract with NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); this latest HPC system expansion represents the 14th incremental expansion of the Scalable Compute Unit (SCU14) architecture used at the Goddard HPC center.
Comms
U.S. Army signs five-year contract for networked training, readiness support with Calibre - News
January 17, 2018
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Consulting and IT solutions company Calibre Systems has obtained a five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity prime contract with a ceiling value of $554 million to support the U.S. Army Training Support Systems Enterprise (TSS-E).
Unmanned
IARPA launches project to detect complex activities using video - News
January 17, 2018
WASHINGTON. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has announced that it will mount a research effort to develop Deep Intermodal Video Activity (DIVA) to help narrow the gap between human visual perception and a computer?s ability to automatically recognize activities.
Unmanned
CRA to build hands-free robotic interface for U.S. Army - News
January 16, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) has announced a follow-on contract to build a hands-free human-machine interface (HMI) for the U.S. Army. The contract will be in force for two years and is valued at $1 million.
Comms
U.S. Special Forces choose Viasat for $350 million networking, comms upgrade - News
January 16, 2018
CARLSBAD, Calif. Communications provider Viasat Inc.has won an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the U.S. Special Operations Forces to provide advanced equipment, systems, services, and support to modernize the units' ground/air situational awareness; tactical data links; terrestrial networking; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); tactical satellite communications; information assurance; network management; and cybersecurity. The contract has an initial ceiling of $350 million.
Cyber
DARPA program aims to make network-connected systems less vulnerable - News
January 15, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program it calls Configuration Security (ConSec) that aims to develop a system to automatically generate, deploy, and manage inherently more secure configurations of components and subsystems for end-use in military platforms.
Comms
Romanian army signs $1 billion-plus contract for armored wheeled vehicles - News
January 15, 2018
MADRID. General Dynamics European Land Systems has signed an agreement with the armed forces of Romania to deliver up to 227 PIRANHA 5 eight-wheeled armored vehicles in six different configurations.
Comms
DARPA Hallmark program aims to better manage space assets - News
January 12, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Hallmark program -- which the agency describes as a plan to develop revolutionary tools and technologies to plan, assess, and execute U.S. military operations in space -- has completed initial research and awarded Phase 1 contracts to 11 organizations. DARPA is now seeking additional technologies for potential inclusion in the Hallmark program.
Radar/EW
Aegis Ashore system, long-range radar paired to boost intelligence, situational awareness - News
January 12, 2018
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin reports that it has connected key components of its Aegis Ashore and Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) technologies, with a demonstration of the technologies' joint ability to increase the operational performance, efficiency, and reliability of Aegis Ashore.
Unmanned
ESA plans to explore Mars using lasers - News
January 11, 2018
PARIS. The European Space Agency (ESA) is now investigating how lasers would be best used in future space missions.
Comms
Boeing donates $10 million to support veterans' programs and services - News
January 11, 2018
DALLAS. Boeing has awarded $10 million to the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative in support of veterans' programs and services. The Boeing donation is part of a $30 million multiyear investment intended to support veteran recovery and rehabilitation programs and military transition services.
Unmanned
Navy tests joint air-to-ground missile on AH-1Z helicopter - News
January 10, 2018
NAVAL AIR STATION, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy recently successfully completed its first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) flight test, using the AH-1Z "Viper" attack helicopter, in a demo at Patuxent River.
Unmanned
AFRL and Leidos to collaborate on electro-optical sensing technology - News
January 10, 2018
RESTON, Va. Engineering/science/IT company Leidos won a prime contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide sensor technology under the Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging (EO-CHIL) program. The single-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has an 87-month performance period and a total contract ceiling of $47 million.
Unmanned
IARPA awards Phase II of $10.7 million contract to remotely detect explosives, other toxic threats - News
January 09, 2018
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Block MEMS/Engineering has been awarded Phase II of a contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Programs Activity (IARPA) Program for the standoff detection of explosives and toxic chemical threats. IARPA chose Block for Phase II in a competitive down-selection process.
Radar/EW
Thales integrates Kontron's 6U VPX blade computer into radar application - News
January 09, 2018
TOULON, France. A 6U VPX dual eight-core Intel Xeon D processor blade computer made by embedded computing and Internet of Things company Kontron has been successfully integrated and tested in a radar application by defense electronics corporation Thales.
Radar/EW
CASA radar: Detecting danger at a distance - News
January 09, 2018
MALIBU, Calif. Research and development lab HRL Laboratories has announced the development of a high-resolution, low-power radar antenna array (coded aperture subreflector array or CASA) that the company says can potentially see weapons or explosives concealed on a person at tactically safe distances. HRL Laboratories is owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors; the R&D lab specializes in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics.
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