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Comms
LGS Innovations wins $7.5 million DARPA dispersed computing contract - News
August 02, 2017
HERNDON, Va. Communications-solution provider LGS Innovations announced that it has been awarded a four-year, $7.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) program.
Comms
Air Force Research Lab calls for innovative alternative-energy options - News
August 02, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO) has issued a call for innovative alternative energy and energy-efficient technology solutions in a broad agency announcement, published recently on the Federal Business Opportunities website.
Unmanned
Air Force tests Minuteman III missile with launch from Vandenburg AFB - News
August 02, 2017
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A team of Air Force Global Strike Command personnel from the 90th Missile Wing (headquartered at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming) launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with a single test reentry vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on August 2 at 2:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Comms
Navy, Oak Ridge unveil first 3-D printed submarine hull - News
August 01, 2017
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Tenn. The U.S. Navy recently unveiled the military's first 3D-printed submarine hull, a joint project between the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), and the U.S. Navy?s Disruptive Technology Lab.
Radar/EW
GA-EMS will begin testing on 10 megajoule railgun - News
August 01, 2017
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that its new 10 megajoule (MJ) medium-range, multimission railgun system has completed final assembly and factory-acceptance test and will be transported to Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to begin testing.
Unmanned
Study predicts global antidrone market will reach $1.5 billion by 2023 - News
August 01, 2017
SEATTLE. The worldwide market for antidrone technology is expected to grow from $342.6 million in 2016 to $1.5 billion by 2023, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.9 percent, between 2017 and 2023, according to new research from MarketsandMarkets.
Avionics
Boeing sets up new avionics and electronics unit - News
July 31, 2017
CHICAGO. Aerospace company Boeing has announced the creation of a new group that will make flight controls and other electronics for military and civilian aircraft that are currently made by outside suppliers.
Comms
Cubic outfits Australian air force with combat training information pods - News
July 31, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense reports that it has outfitted the Royal Australian Air Force?s (RAAF's) Hawk 127 fleet with more than 60 P5 Combat Training Systems (CTS/TCTS) with Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) pods.
Avionics
First aircraft launch and recovery performed aboard the newly commissioned USS Ford - News
July 31, 2017
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy performed the first successful launch and recovery of a fighter jet aboard its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), during a brief test event held July 28.
Radar/EW
Marine Corps orders 23 additional aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicles from Oshkosh Defense - News
July 28, 2017
OSHKOSH, Wis. Oshkosh Defense has obtained a delivery order valued at more than $16 million from the U.S. Marine Corps for an additional 23 P-19R Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) vehicles.
Avionics
Gentex wins $13 million contract to deliver Apache aviator integrated helmets - News
July 28, 2017
CARBONDALE, Pa. Personal-protection/situational-awareness gear maker Gentex Corporation has won a $13 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the delivery of Apache Aviator Integrated Helmets (AAIH).
Comms
Army Research Lab energy discovery may aid soldiers in the field - News
July 27, 2017
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Scientists and engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) recently made a discovery that, if developed, could have important implications for future power and energy applications for military personnel in the field.
Unmanned
BAE Systems adds $73 million option on Air Force ICBM contract - News
July 27, 2017
ROCKVILLE, Md. BAE Systems has secured a contract option worth nearly $73 million in its work to integrate the U.S. Air Force's Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system.
Unmanned
Leidos completes testing on Air Force multisensor ISR platform - News
July 26, 2017
RESTON, Va. Science and technology company Leidos has completed testing of the sensor systems on the Air Force's AgilePod, a multi-intelligence, open architecture, reconfigurable prototype pod designed to increase the capabilities of the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and Air Force Special Operations communities.
Radar/EW
Rockwell Collins awarded three-year contract for military test ranges - News
July 26, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has been awarded an Interim Contractor Support (ICS) contract by the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) Program Office at Eglin Air Force Base that includes field support, repair, and security maintenance of the currently fielded CRIIS program for Air Force, Navy, and Army test ranges.
Radar/EW
Navy research into phase change may pave way for better battlefield chemical sensors - News
July 25, 2017
WASHINGTON. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated that monolayer 2-D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) ? which are atomically thin semiconductors ? undergo a change from semiconductor-to-metallic phase when exposed to airborne chemical vapors.
Comms
ManTech wins $80 million NAVAIR contract to support air warfare, communications - News
July 25, 2017
HERNDON, Va. ManTech International has announced an $80.3 million contract with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR NAWCAD) to support the air-warfare and related capability development activities of NAVAIR's Mission and Engineering and Analysis Department.
Comms
Charles River Analytics building tools for decision-making under uncertain conditions - News
July 25, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has received a one-year contract extension -- awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and valued at close to $500,000 -- for a system supporting Probabilistic Model-Based Programming Techniques for Prediction, Analysis, and Control, or PROMPT. The system, says the company, is intended for use by system engineers to reason under uncertain conditions.
Avionics
Navy completes software fix on EMALS issue - News
July 25, 2017
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The Naval Air System Command's Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) team reports that it has finished testing and data review at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, validating a software fix that will ensure safe launches.
Cyber
DoD official: We will deploy advanced algorithms to front lines to decode data before year-end - News
July 24, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) plans to deploy to the front lines new computer algorithms designed to extract objects of interest from massive amounts of moving or still imagery by the end of the year, according to U.S. Marine Corps Col. Drew Cukor, head of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Function Team in DoD?s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
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