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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.
Unmanned
MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft completes FAA-approved flight through national airspace - News
August 21, 2017
POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) reports that it flew a MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) from Laguna Airfield at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, through national airspace to its Gray Butte Flight Operations facility near Palmdale, California. The MQ-9B is a STANAG 4671 (NATO airworthiness standard for unmanned aircraft systems[UASs])-compliant version of the Predator B UAS line.
Unmanned
Navy achieves first free flight of LRASM tactical weapon - News
August 21, 2017
POINT MUGU SEA RANGE, Calif. The U.S. Navy, together with partner Lockheed Martin, recently conducted the first free-flight launch of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a B-1B Lancer over Point Mugu Sea Range in California.
Radar/EW
DARPA conducts initial test for elevated sensor mast on commissioned Navy vessel - News
August 18, 2017
NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Florida. The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's (DARPA?s) Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) research program recently demonstrated its prototype of a low-cost, elevated sensor mast aboard a commissioned U.S. Navy vessel for the first time, as the crew of USS Zephyr, a 174-foot Cyclone-class patrol coastal ship, evaluated the technology demonstration system over three days near Naval Station Mayport, Florida.
Radar/EW
USAF tests new radar receivers for combat rescue helicopters - News
August 18, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. Lockheed Martin recently attained Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6 for its AN/APR-52 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) -- designed for use on the HH-60W U.S. Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) -- following a successful demonstration at the U.S. Air Force Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Radar/EW
Naval maritime technologies highlighted at ANTX 2017 - News
August 17, 2017
PANAMA CITY, Florida and NEWPORT, R.I. Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) conducted Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) 2017 on August 15 and 16 concurrently at naval locations in Florida and Rhode Island.
Radar/EW
New aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth debuts in U.K. home port - News
August 17, 2017
PORTSMOUTH, England. The future flagship of Britain's navy, the future HMS Queen Elizabeth, sailed into her home port of Portsmouth for the first time on the morning of August 16.
Comms
NASA extends JPL contract to Q3 2018 - News
August 16, 2017
PASADENA, Calif. NASA has awarded a contract extension to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to extend the operations of NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL in Pasadena) through September 30, 2018.
Cyber
Study: Open-source intelligence assets growing in U.S., abroad - News
August 16, 2017
WASHINGTON. The market for Open Source Intelligence (referred to as OSINT) is being driven by investments in OSINT capabilities and state-of-the-art OSINT systems by national security, homeland security, public safety, and defense organizations as they increase their monitoring and research capabilities in open web, deep web, and darknet, according to a recent report by Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC), called "OSINT Market & Technologies 2017-2022."
Comms
Craft arrives at ISS following successful NASA/SpaceX launch - News
August 16, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. Experiments intended for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) arrived early Wednesday morning, August 16, following launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft two days prior.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy reports successful AN/SPY-6(V) missile-defense test - News
August 16, 2017
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Navy reports that it successfully conducted another ballistic missile defense (BMD) flight test at the end of July with the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR).
Comms
Lockheed Martin wins Special Operations Command contract worth as much as $8 billion - News
August 15, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin has been named as the prime contractor of U.S. Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) next-generation logistics and sustainment support program. The Special Operations Forces Global Logistics Support Services (SOF GLSS) program is USSOCOM's largest service contract vehicle, providing the full scope of logistics services required to support the U.S. Special Operations community.
Comms
Army adds to research award into spider-silk technology for battlefield use - News
August 15, 2017
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Biotechnology company Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has been granted the optional phase of its contract with the U.S. Army to design, produce, and deliver recombinant spider-silk materials tailored for the protective needs of soldiers on the battlefield. With the addition of the option, the total contract is now valued at more than $1 million.
Comms
DARPA launches program to streamline path of scientific discovery - News
August 14, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA?s) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) -- which has as its mission the identification and pursuit of high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines -- has announced the first programs under its new Disruptioneering effort, which pushes for faster identification and exploration of bold and risky ideas with the goal of accelerating scientific discovery.
Comms
Envistacom wins $10 million Army contract to manage tactical communications links - News
August 14, 2017
ATLANTA. Defense-technology company Envistacom has won a $10 million contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command ? Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) to provide mission-critical communications and operations support to the U.S. Army 2nd Theater Signal Brigade and 102nd Strategic Signal Battalion.
Unmanned
Kratos tests, intros UAS with enhanced capabilities - News
August 11, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions recently completed a series of flight tests on the next version of its UTAP-22 Mako unmanned aerial system (UAS) that was first introduced and demonstrated in late 2015.
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Radar/EW
KeyW awarded $24 million AFRL contract for sensor, ISR research - News
August 11, 2017
HANOVER, Md. Security-solutions provider KeyW has received a contract worth $24 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to conduct research in multisensor, multidomain fusion, including radio frequency, electro-optical and infrared sensing, and exploitation for airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
Comms
Harris Corp. delivers navigation payload for third GPS III satellite - News
August 11, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corporation has delivered the third of 10 planned advanced navigation payloads to Lockheed Martin for inclusion on the U.S. Air Force GPS III Space Vehicle 3 (GPS III SV03) satellite later this year.
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