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Radar/EW
Navy fires first Tomahawk cruise missiles from new submarine payload tubes - News
July 18, 2017
TUCSON, Ariz. The U.S. Navy has test-fired two Tomahawk cruise missiles from new submarine payload tubes on the Virginia-class sub USS North Dakota (SSN-784), reports Raytheon, the maker of the Tomahawk missile. The tests -- run recently in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida -- demonstrated the submarine's ability to load, carry, and vertically launch Tomahawk missiles from the new Block III Virginia Payload Tube.
Comms
ManTech wins $21 million from USMC for systems integration effort - News
July 18, 2017
HERNDON, Va. Technology integration firm ManTech International has won a five-year, $21 million task order from the Systems Engineering, Interoperability, Architecture and Technology (SIAT), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Systems Command, to handle systems engineering, interoperability, architecture, and technology support on the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center's (DoD IAC) Defense Systems Technical Area Task (DSTAT) Multi-Award Contract (MAC).
Avionics
Leonardo shares in $51.6 million contract to upgrade radar on U.K. fighter jets - News
July 17, 2017
ROME. Global defense and aerospace firm Leonardo will be included in a contract between NATO Eurofighter 2000 and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) and Eurofighter to upgrade the Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS) capabilities on the U.K.?s Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets. The two-year, 45-million-euro ($51.6 million) contract includes capability work by Leonardo, integration activities by BAE Systems, and U.K. defense ministry trials.
Avionics
Leidos to integrate and test ARL-E airborne surveillance system - News
July 17, 2017
RESTON, Va. -- Science and engineering firm Leidos has been awarded a task order from the U.S. Army to integrate, test, and demonstrate the three complete Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) systems under the ARL-E program of record. The single-award cost-plus fixed-fee task order has a one-year base period of performance, two nine-month options, and a total contract value of approximately $64 million if the options are exercised.
Radar/EW
ESA runs final tests as LISA Pathfinder spacecraft readies for shutdown - News
July 14, 2017
DARMSTADT, Germany. The final days of the European Space Agency (ESA) LISA Pathfinder mission have actually been some of its busiest, as controllers on the ground conduct final tests and get ready to switch off the gravitational-testing craft on July 18 after 16 months of scientific effort.
Cyber
Special Operations Command to use enhanced training, mission-planning tool - News
July 13, 2017
SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND, FORT MACDILL, TAMPA, Fla. U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has installed the Common Database Builder (CDB) technology product -- made by training and engineering firm Visual Awareness Training and Consulting (VATC) -- at several government sites within SOCOM and other agencies, including the organization that produces and maintains 3-D visualization databases and enhanced geospatial data for simulated training exercises with Special Operations Forces.
Radar/EW
DARPA awards contracts to develop implantable neural interface - News
July 11, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts to five research organizations and one company that will support its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, which aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide precise communication between the human brain and the digital world. DARPA had previously reported that it expected to spend as much as $60 million on the NESD program.
Comms
Data Link Solutions wins $47.5 million contract to provide tactical radio to U.S. Navy, allies - News
July 11, 2017
WAYNE, N.J. The U.S. Navy?s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command awarded Data Link Solutions (DLS) -- a joint venture between BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins -- a $47.5 million contract to provide Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems (MIDS JTRS) to U.S. forces and allied partners.
Cyber
U.S. Army grants Lockheed Martin $288 million contract for vehicle training program - News
July 10, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $288 million contract to modernize its live training program. Lockheed Martin, acting as principal contractor, will partner with Saab to provide a simplified training solution that combines multiple vehicle crew training systems into a single product line.
Comms
Mercury Systems acquires Richland Technologies - News
July 10, 2017
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Richland Technologies LLC (RTL), a company based in Duluth, Georgia that specializes in safety-critical and high-integrity systems, software, and hardware development plus safety-certification services for mission-critical applications. RTL also offers safety-certifiable embedded graphics software for military and commercial aerospace applications.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman inks torpedo contract with U.S. Navy - News
July 07, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $9.6 million contract, with options up to $40.5 million, to produce the transducer array/nose shell assembly of the MK 48 heavyweight torpedo, the main offensive weapon deployed from all U.S. Navy submarines.
Unmanned
Lockheed Martin contracts with U.S. Army on Phase 2 of long-range missile program - News
July 07, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $73.8 million contract from the U.S. Army for Phase 2 of the Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) program.
Comms
Comtech Telecommunications obtains $14.5 million contract add-on for USMC satellite services - News
July 06, 2017
MELVILLE, N.Y. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Command & Control Technologies group -- which is part of Comtech?s Government Solutions segment -- has received a $14.5 million contract modification from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) that will result in the exercise of the fourth-year option under an existing contract to provide Ku satellite bandwidth and support services for the U.S. Marine Corps Tactical Satellite Communications Network.
Avionics
Boeing, FedEx Express team to test technologically updated freight plane - News
July 06, 2017
SEATTLE. Boeing and FedEx Express -- a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. -- are slated to work together to fly the next ecoDemonstrator aircraft; the ecoDemonstrator program serves as a series of flying testbeds designed to improve the environmental performance and safety of future airplanes.
Avionics
CH-53K King Stallion starts transition to Naval Air Station - News
July 05, 2017
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. Lockheed Martin announced that its CH-53K King Stallion cargo helicopter program has successfully completed its first extended "cross-country" flight from Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida, facility to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, the first of several such flights that will occur during 2017 and 2018 as the CH-53K flight test program transitions to the flight-test facilities at Patuxent River.
Avionics
Lockheed Martin obtains $74 million in Navy contract modifications - News
July 05, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has won two contract modifications worth approximately $73.9 million (combined) from the U.S. Navy to provide materials and services to support the low-rate initial production (LRIP) of F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft.
Radar/EW
BAE Systems wins $4.8 billion contract to build new Type 26 Global Combat Ships for U.K. - News
July 05, 2017
GLASGOW, Scotland. BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.K. defense ministry worth 3.7 billion pounds ($4.8 billion ) to manufacture the first three ships for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship program. Steel is set to be cut on the first ship in Glasgow in the next several weeks.
Avionics
Sikorsky inks five-year contract to build Black Hawks for U.S. Army and FMS - News
July 03, 2017
STRATFORD, Conn. Sikorsky Aircraft has signed a five-year contract with the U.S. government to deliver 257 H-60 Black Hawk helicopters to the U.S. Army and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.
Radar/EW
Newest naval littoral combat ship to be christened LCS Billings - News
June 30, 2017
MARINETTE, Wis. The U.S. Navy will christen its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), USS Billings (LCS 15), during a July 1 ceremony in Marinette, Wisconsin, the home of shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine. The future USS Billings, the name of which honors the largest city in Montana, will be the first ship bearing that name in naval service.
Unmanned
United Launch Alliance wins launch of Air Force STP-3 mission - News
June 30, 2017
CENTENNIAL, Colo. The U. S. Air Force announced that it has awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) the contract to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission; the contract resulted from a competitive award under the Air Force?s Phase 1A procurement strategy.
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