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NSA certifies Harris manpack for secure radio transmission - News
March 15, 2017
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Harris Corp. has obtained National Security Agency (NSA) Type-1 certification for its Falcon III RF-300H wideband high-frequency (HF) manpack radio system. With the Type-1 NSA certification, Harris is allowed to perform transmission of classified images, maps, and other large data files from beyond-line-of-sight environments with the Falcon III.
Radar/EW
Royal Danish air force to equip F-16s with advanced targeting pods - News
March 15, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a contract to provide the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) with its LITENING multisensor targeting and surveillance for installation on the RDAF's F-16 aircraft.
Radar/EW
Australian navy's first Aegis-equipped Hobart-class destroyer concludes sea trial - News
March 15, 2017
ADELAIDE, Australia. Australia's navy and a team of industry partners recently completed five weeks of sea acceptance trials aboard the future HMAS Hobart, the first of Australia?s three new Aegis-equipped air warfare destroyers.
Avionics
Lockheed Martin's Airborne Multi-INT Lab gets new capabilities - News
March 14, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has upgraded its manned airborne testbed, the Airborne Multi-INT Lab (AML), in a bid to expedite the craft's ability to deliver real-time intelligence. Lockheed and partners use the AML to experiment with combinations of sensors, systems, and technologies to help customers develop ways to support a diverse range of contingency operations.
Cyber
Aptima and Milcord merger focuses on human-centered engineering for defense, intel - News
March 14, 2017
WOBURN, Mass. Aptima, a company that develops tools to enhance human-machine performance for the defense and intelligence communities, has announced its merger with Milcord, a government-technology company based in Waltham, Mass., specializing in knowledge management, human social-culture modeling, and cyberdefense. Under the agreement, Aptima will acquire Milcord?s portfolio of completed, active, and pending contracts and intellectual property developed under these contracts; the merged entity will continue under the Aptima corporate umbrella.
Comms
AFRL uses new Information Transfer Agreement to share software with industry - News
March 14, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate reports that it has used Information Transfer Agreements (ITA) to transfer its Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) simulation and modeling tool to 80 industry partners for development and evaluation.
Comms
NASA presses forward with plans for cislunar human outpost - News
March 13, 2017
GREENBELT, Md. In an address at the recent American Astronautical Society Goddard Memorial Symposium, Bill Gerstenmaier -- NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations -- told attendees that NASA is moving forward with plans for a cislunar ?gateway? outpost for future human missions, with decisions about how to develop it expected in the coming months. Gerstenmaier said that his agency is studying concepts for launching the first elements of the proposed outpost as secondary payloads on early flights of the Space Launch System (SLS).
Comms
DoD awards $47 million in defense-research equipment grants - News
March 10, 2017
WASHINGTON. The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced awards -- totaling $47 million -- to 160 university researchers at 84 institutions, through its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). DURIP supports the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment for universities as they conduct cutting-edge defense research and associated graduate-student research training.
Comms
NASA selects 133 proposals to spur space, business innovation - News
March 09, 2017
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER/Moffett Field, Calif. NASA has selected 133 proposals -- valued at approximately $100 million total -- from U.S. small businesses to conduct research and develop technologies that will enable NASA's future missions into deep space and will ultimately benefit the U.S. economy. These proposals were selected under Phase II of NASA?s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
Unmanned
Lockheed Martin tests updated JASSM - News
March 09, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin announced that its updated Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) recently completed two successful product-verification flight tests at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Radar/EW
Navy reports successful missile test fire - News
March 08, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy reports that it has conducted a successful structural test firing of the Surface to Surface Missile Module (SSMM) from Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS Detroit (LCS 7) off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.
Radar/EW
U.S. Air Force signs radar contract for more accurate air drops - News
March 08, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. QinetiQ North America (QNA) announces a $3 million contract win from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) for its Wind Profiling Portable Radar (WiPPR) technology. The QinetiQ WiPPR, says the company, can offer the Air Force the near-real-time wind measurements that it needs to enable C-130 and C-17 air crews to airdrop critical supplies more accurately and quickly to U.S. ground forces in remote or difficult-to-access locations.
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FLIR lands $54.2 million delivery order for hazard recon kits - News
March 08, 2017
WILSONVILLE, Ore. FLIR Systems has received a delivery order for 50 U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Dismounted Reconnaissance Sets, Kits, and Outfits (CBRN DR-SKO) systems, under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), in support of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) DR-SKO Program of Record.
Radar/EW
DCS, consortium to expand computational neuroscience research for Army - News
March 07, 2017
ALEXANDRIA, Va. A consortium of enterprises led by DCS Corp. has been awarded a $15 million ceiling increase to the Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance (CaN CTA) cooperative agreement aimed at expanding research into computational neuroscience for the U.S. Army. The recent increase brings the total potential value of the cooperative agreement to $65 million; in addition, DCS is also the prime contractor on the companion contract for technology transition, with a potential total value of $80 million.
Cyber
CACI wins $190 million task order to support DoD's IT services - News
March 07, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International has been awarded a task order, with a potential value of $190 million, to support the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Service Provider (JSP) Information Technology Service Delivery Support Requirement program. The task order runs for 3 1/2 years for CACI, a company that provides information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for intelligence, defense, and federal civilian users.
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Microgrid to demo resilient military-energy solutions - News
March 07, 2017
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL -- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio) and the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) have begun work at Pearl Harbor Base on the design of the Pacific Energy Assurance and Resiliency Laboratory (dubbed "PEARL"), a renewable-energy microgrid laboratory that is part of an ongoing effort to demonstrate new ways military facilities can address their energy needs in a cleaner and more cost-effective way. A microgrid is a small, independently sourced power system that -- while it remains attached to the main power grid -- can also work independently as needed without reliance on the main energy supply.
Comms
Defense sector to lead mission-management systems market, say analysts - News
March 06, 2017
AMSTERDAM. The global market for mission-management systems is projected to grow from $13.97 billion in 2016 to $27.50 billion by 2022, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.95 percent over the period, according to a report from ASDReports.
Comms
Sigma Labs, Aerojet Rocketdyne continue to team on U.S. Air Force applications - News
March 06, 2017
SANTA FE, N.M. Sigma Labs, a company that develops analytical tools and quality-inspection systems for aerospace components made using metal 3-D printing technology, has received a contract from Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, for a nonexclusive license of Sigma's PrintRite3D software applications. Terms of the award were not disclosed.
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Avionics
NASA tests Lockheed's quieter supersonic X-plane design - News
February 28, 2017
CLEVELAND. NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary design -- a supersonic plane designed for quieter overland flight -- at NASA?s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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