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Military Embedded Systems

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Radar/EW

U.S. Navy EW systems on E-2D Hawkeye aircraft to get $50.9 million in additional support - News

November 01, 2019
OWEGO, N.Y. Lockheed Martin has won a second multiyear contract to produce additional AN/ALQ-217 electronic support measure (ESM) or electronic warfare (EW) systems for the U.S. Navy?s E-2D aircraft program.
Radar/EW

Space-sensor program at Missile Defense Agency taps four firms for prototype development - News

November 01, 2019
WASHINGTON. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has chosen four companies to design space sensors that can track hypersonic and ballistic missiles. Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each received a $20 million contract to design a prototype sensor payload by the deadline of October 31, 2020.
Cyber

Military cybersecurity market will grow to $16 billion by 2023, study says - News

October 31, 2019
SANTA CLARA, Calif. The global military cybersecurity market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6% to reach $16.01 billion by 2023, according to a study from Frost & Sullivan, "Global Military Cybersecurity Market, Forecast to 2023."
Radar/EW

Radar tool from Northrop Grumman to train crews on air defense shown at AOC 2019 - News

October 29, 2019
56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Northrop Grumman is showing its Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) at the AOC Convention this week; the JTE simulates both single- and double-digit surface-to-air and anti-aircraft artillery radar systems to accurately train combat air crews to defeat or avoid Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) around the world in a warlike training environment.
Cyber

Cyberattack-defense tools from Perspecta get NAVAIR nod - News

October 29, 2019
CHANTILLY, Va. Perspecta Labs, the applied research arm of Perspecta Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to enhance and mature its Bus Defender solution for operational testing in airborne platforms. According to company information, the Bus Defender tool detects and blocks cyberattacks and attempts to carry out adversary missions via MIL-STD-1553 buses while ensuring and maintaining proper bus transmission and operation.
Radar/EW

RF analytics tools from HawkEye 360 aim to give users insight into previously hidden spectrum activity - News

October 28, 2019
56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC.Radio frequency (RF) data-analytics company HawkEye 360 (Herndon, Virginia) is showing its suite of tools that enable RF analytics that can give users insight into previously hidden spectrum activity.
Radar/EW

Pentek shows latest intelligent signal recording for SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT use at AOC 2019 show - News

October 28, 2019
56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Pentek (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey) announced at the AOC show a new entrant to its family of Talon signal recording and playback systems, the RTR 2654 26.5 GHz RF Sentinel Intelligent Signal Scanning rackmount recorder.
Radar/EW

Fast VPX transceiver from Teledyne Defense Electronics to debut at AOC 2019 convention - News

October 28, 2019
56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Teledyne Defense Electronics (Mountain View, California) is introducing a modular 6U VPX transceiver with the fast tuning and low phase noise performance at this week's Association of Old Crows (AOC) Symposium.
Radar/EW

SIGINT and countermeasure products to be shown at AOC 2019 convention by ComSec LLC - News

October 28, 2019
56th AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Technical-surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) company ComSec (Virginia Beach, Virginia) is showing several of its TSCM and SIGINT product lines -- aimed at use in government, military, and law-enforcement applications -- at this week's Association of Old Crows International Symposium and Convention.
A.I.

DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge won by U of Florida team - News

October 25, 2019
LOS ANGELES. After three years of competition, the "GatorWings" team from the University of Florida prevailed in the final head-to-head competition of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) -- a long-term challenge run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to find the team whose artifcial intelligence (AI)-managed radio system collaborated best when matched up with the diverse lineup of systems other teams had built and brought to the finale.
Cyber

U.S. Navy air combat training system moves one step closer to deployment - News

October 22, 2019
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has successfully passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) program with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Naval Aviation Training Systems (PMA-205) program office.
Radar/EW

EW/EMS engineering and tech support from CACI ordered by U.S. Army - News

October 17, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International has won a five-year task order valued at as much as $88 million to support the U.S. Army Communications--Electronics Command Software Engineering Center?s Army Reprogramming Analysis Team (ARAT) Program Office.
A.I.

Data filtering, AI, ML-based technologies aim to help DoD analyze huge data loads - News

October 17, 2019
SUNNYVALE, Calif. IIoT connectivity company Real-Time Innovations (RTI) won two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contracts worth $2 million to advance the capabilities of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Unmanned

UAS survivability the focus of AKHAN/Lockheed Martin collab on diamond-based coatings - News

October 16, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. AKHAN Semiconductor, together with Lockheed Martin, announced at the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition that it had successfully demonstrated a new diamond-based coating technology that will enhance survivability of manned and unmanned military aircraft systems.
Unmanned

Multi-modal sensor pod for ISR on aircraft unveiled by Logos Technologies at AUSA 2019 - News

October 16, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. Logos Technologies unveiled at the AUSA 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition its new multi-modal sensor pod (MMSP) and revealed plans for the first flight of its BlackKite IR wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) pod.
Unmanned

C4ISR trends at DoD leaning toward modernization, R&D, study says - News

October 16, 2019
SANTA CLARA, Calif. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budget spend requests in the area of C4ISR [command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] reveal a trend toward modernization, with less procurement for additional current platforms and more research for long-term replacements, according to a recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan, "US DoD C4ISR Market, Forecast to 2024."
Comms

Transceiver upgrade from L3Harris to benefit Army comms systems - News

October 15, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide ROVER 6 transceiver equipment upgrades to support the Army?s One System Remote Video Terminal program, which is aimed at improving situational awareness for soldiers in the field, according to an announcement by L3 Harris at the AUSA 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition.
Comms

U.S. Army's manned ground vehicles will get new navigation system from Collins Aerospace - News

October 15, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. Collins Aerospace Systems -- a United Technologies unit -- announced that it has been chosen by the U.S. Army to provide a next-generation Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) for manned ground vehicles.
Radar/EW

Mercury Systems announces $15 million investment in custom trusted microelectronics innovation - News

October 15, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. Mercury Systems announced that it will make a $15 million capital investment to expand its trusted custom microelectronics business, bringing cutting-edge commercial silicon technology to the Department of Defense (DoD); the technology applies to all defense platforms and programs and will enable development of fast, affordable, and secure and trusted chip-scale open system architecture (OSA) devices to accelerate future modernization efforts.
Radar/EW

GLSDB ready for production following third test launch, say Saab and Boeing - News

October 15, 2019
AUSA 2019--WASHINGTON. Following conclusion of a recent third test launch of their ground-launched small diameter bomb (GLSDB) in September, Boeing and Saab now believe they have the data necessary to move the munition into production, company officials said at AUSA on Monday.
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