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U.S. Army SMDC initiates $3 billion contract process - News
March 28, 2017
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) recently announced the eight indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) prime contractor awardees that it had chosen for the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I) Domain 1 contract award. The eight companies met with USASMDC/ARSTRAT, along with the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone, to kick off the task-order process for the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) integrated system development.
Avionics
Rockwell Collins avoidance rerouter software certified FACE conformant - News
March 28, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has announced that its Avoidance Re-router (ARR-2500) software product has been deemed conformant to Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard Edition 2.1, the latest edition of the conformance program.
Comms
Booz Allen Hamilton wins $59 million Navy contract to enhance information capabilities - News
March 27, 2017
McLEAN, Va. Booz Allen Hamilton has won a five-year, $59 million professional support services contract from the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) under which Booz Allen will provide acquisition, program, contracts, installation, and operations management expertise to the 21 Department of Defense (DoD) programs and projects executed by the Battlespace Awareness & Information Operations Program office (PMW 120).
Unmanned
Naval Research Lab instruments mount successfully on ISS - News
March 27, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) reports that the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully installed NRL?s Limb-Imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric Extreme Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrograph (LITES) and its Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation and Ultraviolet Photometer Co-located (GROUP-C) research instruments.
Comms
Global aerospace and defense revenues likely to rise during 2017, say analysts - News
March 24, 2017
NEW YORK. The global aerospace and defense (A&D) sector is likely to experience stronger growth in 2017, following multiple years of positive yet subdued growth, say analysts with multinational professional-services firm Deloitte.
Radar/EW
QinetiQ wins Navy contract for control hardware and software for Navy aircraft carrier - News
March 24, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. QinetiQ North America (QNA) has confirmed that it has entered into a $41 million definitized contract with General Atomics (GA -- San Diego, California) to deliver control hardware and software for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) that is set to be installed on the Navy?s next aircraft carrier, the future John F. Kennedy (CVN 79). This announcement follows the initial $16 million contract announced in December 2015.
Cyber
DARPA contracts with Vencore Labs for advanced cyberdefense research - News
March 24, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it has awarded Vencore Labs, Inc., with multiple contracts to deliver research in the area of cyberdefense against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The contracts are valued at $17.7 million and will be performed as part of DARPA?s Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) program over the next three years.
Radar/EW
Qioptic wins $100 million contract from U.K. Ministry of Defense - News
March 23, 2017
ST. ASAPH, Wales. Qioptic has announced that Britain's Defense Ministry awarded it a contract worth $100 million for STAS (Surveillance and Target Acquisition ? Support). The contract has options for an additional five years of support, which would increase the contract by a further $84 million.
Avionics
NASA teams with Rockwell Collins to demo sonic-boom display - News
March 23, 2017
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. NASA and Rockwell Collins recently teamed to demonstrate the Sonic Boom Display at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The usability demonstration and pilot working group meeting marked a major milestone in the two-year project.
Radar/EW
Navy delivers upgraded Tomahawk weapons-control system - News
March 22, 2017
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The Navy has delivered an upgraded Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS) to the fleet; the Tomahawk cruise-missile control system has been in operation for more than a decade.
Avionics
Air Force and Boeing test KC-46A tanker aircraft - News
March 22, 2017
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus team recently concluded testing of the Air Force's newest refueling aircraft at Travis Air Force Base (situated in the San Francisco Bay area). The military and Federal Aviation Administration certification testing effort was a combined effort between Boeing Test and Evaluation and the Detachment 1/418th Flight Test Squadron, which are colocated at Boeing's Seattle facility.
Unmanned
Teledyne awarded $9.98 million to supply IR detectors for Jupiter mission - News
March 21, 2017
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has been awarded a $9.98 million contract from the French Space Agency -- the Centre National d??tudes Spatiales (CNES) -- to provide infrared detectors and electronics for the European Space Agency (ESA) JUICE mission to Jupiter. JUICE -- the ESA's acronym for JUpiter Icy moon Explorer -- is expected to launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030 to undertake a 3 1/2-year study of Jupiter and three of its moons: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
Unmanned
UUV completes underwater mine-hunting trials - News
March 21, 2017
QUINCY, Mass. General Dynamics Mission Systems reports that it has successfully completed a comprehensive evaluation of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), in coordination with the U.S. Navy.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy, Mercury agree to DRFM jammer contract - News
March 21, 2017
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received a follow-on, five-year, sole source basic ordering agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy to deliver advanced digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) subsystems that support frequency jamming in a multithreat environment.
Comms
Boeing WGS satellite aims to improve military comms for U.S., allies - News
March 20, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite was launched into orbit on March 18. This WGS-9 satellite, launched using a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, is aimed at enabling the United States and six allied nations to increase military communications capabilities to prevent, protect against, and respond to attacks.
Comms
Army JRTC awards $42 million contract to continue mission support services - News
March 17, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., has received a contract award worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center?s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational and predeployment training exercise requirements from April 1 to August 24, with Phase Out requirements from August 25 to October 23, 2017.
Unmanned
DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News
March 17, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin designs, tests 60 kW laser weapon - News
March 17, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has completed the design, development, and demonstration of a 60 kW-class beam combined fiber laser for the U.S. Army. In a recent test near its Bothell, Washington, facility, Lockheed's laser produced a single beam of 58 kW, which the company says represents a world record for a laser of this type. The Lockheed Martin team is preparing to ship the laser to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Huntsville, Alabama.
Unmanned
NASA reveals work on tiny folding robots for exploring extreme terrains - News
March 16, 2017
PASADENA, Calif. NASA and several partners are working on what the space agency calls an "origami-inspired" small robot that can fold itself to become as small as a smartphone but is rugged enough to handle harsh terrain on Mars and beyond.
Comms
Georgia Tech pairs with firm to build military jetpack - News
March 16, 2017
VAN NUYS, Calif. JetPack Aviation (JPA) -- a technology company that demonstrated its initial progress with a public jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty in 2015 -- has entered into a development agreement with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to design and build a soldier vertical mobility system (SVMS) for military applications.
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