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Leonardo leads team to equip British army vehicles with added protections - News
September 19, 2017
ROME. Leonardo will head a team of companies chosen by the British government?s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) in what it's calling the "Icarus" technology demonstration project (TDP), which is aimed at protecting British army vehicles against current and future weapons.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman to acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 billion - News
September 18, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman has announced that it will acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the assumption of $1.4 billion in net debt.
Unmanned
Marine Corps infantry using small quadcopters to enhance ground-troop awareness - News
September 18, 2017
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. The Marine Corps is now supplying infantry units with small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) quadcopters -- or vertical take-off and lift (VTOL) craft -- in an effort to enhance situational awareness for troops on the ground.
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Cyber
SAIC wins two NASA IT contracts worth $161 million - News
September 15, 2017
RESTON, Va. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has won two contracts from NASA for development, sustainment, and maintenance of information technology (IT) software, systems, and support for the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA?s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Taken together, the contracts have a total potential value of approximately $161 million.
Comms
Rockwell Collins demos compact directional comms link - News
September 15, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins recently demonstrated a new, compact directional communication link for an audience of prime U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contractors and government research laboratories.
Comms
German defense ministry chooses Rockwell Collins NavHub for military vehicles - News
September 14, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins will install its NavHub navigation system in a variety of military vehicles for the German Ministry of Defense, the partners announced recently.
Cyber
Northrop Grumman expands San Antonio footprint to support USAF cyber operations - News
September 14, 2017
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Northrop Grumman announced that it has signed a five-year lease with Port San Antonio to occupy 7,700 square feet in a facility near its major customer, the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
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Skunk Works' Project Hunter exercise highlights battlespace awareness - News
September 14, 2017
PALMDALE, Calif. The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works recently participated in the Northern Edge military exercise as a demonstration of open systems architecture and its usefulness in enhancing battlespace awareness to reduce warfighters' data-to-decision time line.
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Raytheon to upgrade Tomahawk missiles to hit moving seaborne targets - News
September 13, 2017
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon has won a $119 million contract to begin integrating a new multimode seeker into the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile, which will enable the weapon to engage moving maritime targets.
Cyber
U.S. Navy signs Charles River Analytics to detect informational warfare - News
September 13, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) and the Office for Naval Research (ONR) have announced that CRA has won a contract focusing on social media analysis and pattern detection.
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Northrop Grumman on tap to provide RF signal tech for Navy EW simulations - News
September 13, 2017
BUFFALO, N.Y. Northrop Grumman has been chosen to provide advanced radio frequency (RF) signal generation technology to the U.S. Navy as part of the Navy's Next-Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator (NEWEG) program.
Unmanned
Raytheon, Ducummun partner for missile fire-control systems - News
September 12, 2017
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon Missile Systems will team with aerospace and defense contractor Ducommun to build fire-control systems for the Raytheon Naval Strike Missile (NSM), the company's offering for the U.S. Navy?s over-the-horizon requirement for its littoral combat ships and future frigates.
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.
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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.
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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.
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