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Avionics
F-16V foreign military sale totaling $3.86 billion approved to Bahrain - News
September 12, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. State Department has approved a request from Bahrain to procure 22 new Lockheed Martin F-16V Fighting Falcons and to upgrade its existing fleet of 20 similar aircraft, in two separate deals valued at a combined $3.86 billion.
Cyber
KeyW company wins $18 million contract to handle DoD software-engineering support - News
September 11, 2017
HANOVER, Md. Sotera Defense Solutions -- a subsidiary of the KeyW Holding Corporation -- has been awarded a three-year, $18 million task order to provide business- systems software engineering and sustainment services to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Center (SEC). This is the fifth task order awarded to the combined company under the $7 billion Software and Systems Engineering Services Next Generation (SSES NexGen) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract.
Cyber
Virtual training hub at Mayport supports east coast LCS crews - News
September 11, 2017
NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. The U.S. Navy has installed several new virtual trainers to help instruct sailors in their homeport location while a formal training center is constructed on base as it works to support the growing group of littoral combat ship (LCS) crews being stationed on the U.S. east coast.
Radar/EW
Digital Fusion Solutions to participate in high-energy laser demo - News
September 11, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Digital Fusion Solutions -- a subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions -- has been named as a member of the national-security joint venture QWK Integrated Solutions, LLC and will participate in a base period task order under QWK's U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration Contract (D3I) Prime Contract to assist SMDC with the design of a high energy laser tactical vehicle demonstrator (HEL TVD) system.
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Point Mugu Sea Range adds system to aid in weapons test, development - News
September 11, 2017
NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION, POINT MUGU, Calif. The U.S. Navy's Point Mugu Sea Range has adopted a new directed energy test atmospherics-based system that may turn out to revolutionize the Navy's ability to measure and predict weather conditions on the range, which is a critical factor in supporting the test and development of weapons systems.
Cyber
Army re-signs with IBM for $135 million cloud computing contract - News
September 11, 2017
ARMONK, N.Y. The U.S. Army's Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) has awarded IBM a contract to continue to provide it with cloud services, software development, and cognitive computing, as it supports the technical infrastructure for one of the U.S. federal government's biggest logistics systems.
Radar/EW
DoD certifies ViaSat's IFF flight-environment generator - News
September 07, 2017
CARLSBAD, Calif. ViaSat announced that the Department of Defense (DoD) AIMS Program Office has certified its ViaSat Radio Frequency Generator 1000 (VRG-1000), a system that replicates a crowded airspace, enabling organizations to perform realistic Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) testing. Designers can use the VRG-1000 to replicate a true-to-life lab environment in their work to reduce flight test time and overall flight testing costs.
Avionics
Solid rocket booster avionics for SLS passes qualification test - News
September 07, 2017
DULLES, Va. Orbital ATK recently finished a milestone qualification test of the avionics system for the solid rocket boosters the company has developed and is now manufacturing for NASA?s Space Launch System (SLS).
Avionics
Helicopter-based electronic warfare system passes Navy review - News
September 06, 2017
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Lockheed Martin reported that its Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare (AOEW) system has passed its Preliminary Design Review from the U.S. Navy on schedule, which means that the system has demonstrated outstanding sustained performance. The AOEW system will provide Navy MH-60 helicopters with enhanced electronic warfare (EW) surveillance and countermeasure capabilities against anti-ship missile (ASM) threats.
Comms
Northrop Grumman awarded $265 million USAF airborne comms contract - News
September 06, 2017
HERNDON, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a contract worth $265 million from the U.S. Air Force to handle aircraft maintenance and logistics support of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system.
Radar/EW
General Dynamics, Army agree to Abrams tank modernization project - News
September 05, 2017
LIMA, Ohio. General Dynamics Land Systems recently received two large contract awards from the U.S. Army for upgrades to the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank brigade.
Comms
ViaSat deploys end-to-end Link 16 comms system on Canadian naval frigates - News
September 05, 2017
CARLSBAD, Calif. Broadband services and technology company ViaSat announced that it has delivered an end-to-end Link 16 communications system to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for its Halifax-class frigates.
Cyber
CACI obtains $51 million task order to develop software for Air Force cyber operations - News
September 01, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Information-systems provider CACI International has been awarded a $51 million task order to provide software development support to the 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron (90th COS), a subordinate unit of the 24th Air Force, the Air Force?s component to U.S. Cyber Command. The three-year task order was awarded under the Air Force's Network-Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) contract vehicle.
Avionics
State Dept. approves $360 million upgrade program for Australia's MH-60R helicopters - News
September 01, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Australia to support an upgrade program for its fleet of MH-60R multimission helicopters; the estimated cost of the program is $360 million.
Avionics
Dream Chaser undergoes captive carry test - News
September 01, 2017
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Dream Chaser -- a reusable automated cargo lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems -- underwent a captive carry test at NASA?s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB on August 30. The test was part of the spacecraft?s Phase Two flight test efforts to advance the orbiter closer to space flight, according to a press release from SNC.
Radar/EW
Radar-simulator market to grow to $2.85 billion by 2022, says study - News
August 31, 2017
VANCOUVER, Wash. The radar simulator market is projected to grow from $2.21 billion in 2016 to $2.85 billion by 2022, at a CAGR [combined annual growth rate] of 4.36 percent, according to a new market study from MarketsandMarkets, "Radar Simulator Market by Product (System Testing, Operator Training), Application (Commercial, Military), Component (Hardware, Software), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022."
Avionics
USMC awards General Dynamics $105 million command and control contract - News
August 31, 2017
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems a full-rate production contract for the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) program, a command and control system that visually combines ground and aviation command and control data for greater situational awareness and faster decision-making.
Radar/EW
Navy, Lockheed Martin test Aegis Combat System against ballistic missiles - News
August 30, 2017
PACIFIC MISSILE FIRING RANGE, Hawaii. The USS John Paul Jones -- with support from the U.S. Navy, the Missile Defense Agency, and Lockheed Martin -- successfully fired two Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Dual I missiles against a medium-range ballistic missile target from the Aegis Combat System on August 29, according to Lockheed Martin officials.
Comms
AFRL awards BlackSky $16.4 million contract for intel brokering platform - News
August 30, 2017
SEATTLE. Spaceflight Industries reports that its BlackSky division has garnered a two-year, $16.4 million cost-plus-prime contract with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop and deliver a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform that will provide on-demand analytics, collection, and information services from global data sources.
Radar/EW
Army HMMWV foreign military sale valued at $2.2 billion for AM General - News
August 30, 2017
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Vehicle maker AM General has received a five-year, firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sale (FMS) requirements contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to manufacture approximately 11,560 new High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs, commonly known as the Humvee). The total value of the contract is approximately $2.2 billion.
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