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U.S. Army SATCOM systems to get software-based AI/ML boost - News
July 25, 2019
GERMANTOWN, Md. Hughes Network Systems has won an R&D contract worth $11.8 million from the U.S. Army to improve resiliency and interoperability among satellite communications systems used by the military.
Radar/EW
EW system will contain SBC from Abaco - News
July 24, 2019
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Abaco Systems announced that its rugged 3U VPX SBC347D single-board computer has been chosen by an international defense electronics company to be the core of a new electronic warfare (EW) system that will be deployed in manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and in fixed and mobile ground platforms.
Comms
Cyber and satellite ground system contract with USAF inked by Frontier Technology Inc. - News
July 24, 2019
BEAVERCREEK, Ohio. IT services firm Frontier Technology Inc. (FTI) has won a five-year, $47.2 million contract to support the U.S. Air Force?s cyberdefense and enterprise ground system activities as part of the Air Force's ongoing efforts to eventually move all of its satellites to a single ground services system..
Comms
Astronauts may take information systems from seabed to space - News
July 24, 2019
KEY LARGO, Fla. Scientists, engineers, and key partners of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) are collaborating by testing and adapting an NSWC PCD technology -- originally designed for undersea diving -- for potential use during space exploration missions.
Radar/EW
C4ISR contract for Navy ships potentially worth $2.45 billion awarded to six firms - News
July 24, 2019
WASHINGTON. Six companies have been included in a contract to provide installation services for all afloat command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and supporting systems for the U.S. Navy by way of Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR). The contract has a base period of five years and a potential value of $2.45 billion.
Radar/EW
Potential $673 million U.S. Army order for sensor ops and support won by AASKI Technology - News
July 23, 2019
TINTON FALLS,N.J. IT infrastructure company AASKI Technology has signed a task order with the U.S. Army worth a potential potential $673 million to help the Army operate and maintain sensors for multiple missions and in multiple positions.
Radar/EW
Unmanned ISR DSP subsystems order worth $12 million won by Mercury Systems - News
July 23, 2019
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has won a $12 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) subsystems for an unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) application.
Comms
SATCOM equipment for space to be worth $7 billion by 2025, study says - News
July 22, 2019
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The global market for satellite communications (SATCOM) equipment is projected to grow from $2.8 billion in 2019 to $7.0 billion by 2025, at a combined annual growth rate of 16.8 %, according to a study from MarketsandMarkets, "SATCOM Equipment Market for Space -- Global Forecast to 2025."
Comms
Advanced antenna for satellites garners $7.2 million prototype agreement - News
July 22, 2019
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has signed a $7.2 million prototype agreement with Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to develop a multi-band, multi-mission (MBMM) prototype phased array as part of a broader initiative to modernize the existing Air Force Satellite Control Network and bring new technology faster to warfighters.
Radar/EW
Sonobuoy contract for U.S. Navy may bring up to $1 billion for ERAPSCO - News
July 19, 2019
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. ERAPSCO -- a joint venture of Sparton and Ultra Electronics -- has won a contract worth a potential $1 billion to build and deliver 932,500 sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy.
Avionics
Military training and simulation market evolving toward LVC and TaaS models, study says - News
July 18, 2019
SAN ANTONIO. The global military training and simulation (T&S) market is witnessing rapid transformation, primarily driven by the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf technologies, demand for interoperable live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) networked architectures and the prevalence of new business models such as Training-as-a-Service (TaaS), according to a new market study by Frost & Sullivan, "Global Military Training and Simulation Market, Forecast to 2027."
Radar/EW
AESA radar on B-52 bombers will get upgrade from Raytheon - News
July 12, 2019
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Raytheon will design, develop, produce, and sustain active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems for the entire U.S. Air Force B-52 fleet.
Radar/EW
Missile computers to be delivered to U.S. Navy by Raytheon - News
July 12, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon has won a $17.77 million firm-fixed-price contract to procure 114 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) command launch computers for the U.S. Navy.
Radar/EW
Signals-intelligence contract for Army won by General Dynamics MIssion Systems - News
July 11, 2019
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) won a $296.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to produce Prophet Enhanced modernized signals-intelligence systems.
Radar/EW
Reflex Photonics launches a new blind mate active optical interconnect product line compatible with VITA and SOSA standards. - Product
July 11, 2019
KIRKLAND, Montreal, Canada. Reflex Photonics has launched a line of LightCONEX active optical blind mate interconnects compatible with the upcoming VITA 66.5 standard and supported by the Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) consortium.
Comms
U.S. Navy ships get additional work on intelligent-modeling systems - News
July 10, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) is getting the green light from from the U.S. Navy to move forward on a System for Naval Data Aggregation and Planning with Probabilistic Reasoning (SNAPPR), which CRA officials say creates probabilistic models of naval system components, the environment in which they operate, and the missions that they serve. CRA is partnering with Raytheon IDS for the three-year SNAPPR follow-on contract, which is valued at nearly $1.5 million.
Radar/EW
Military systems and artillery market to grow around 3.6% per year globally, study says - News
July 10, 2019
AMSTERDAM. The global market for military artillery and systems is expected to pass $76 billion during 2019- 2027, a combined annual growth rate of approximately 3.6%, according to a study by Market Forecast, "Global Artillery and Systems -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2027."
A.I.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence software project by DARPA will aid DoD logistics challenge - News
July 09, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has embarked on a project for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) it calls the "LogX program" that aims to develop and demonstrate software for real-time logistics and supply-chain system situational awareness (diagnosis), future state prediction (prognosis), and resilience at unprecedented scale and speed.
Radar/EW
Antiship missile update signed with U.S. Navy by Lockheed Martin - News
July 08, 2019
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin has garnered a $175 million contract with the U.S. Navy to update the Navy?s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) components and systems.
Comms
USAF tanker remote-vision system to continue tests for operability, safety - News
July 08, 2019
McCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kansas. A team from the Air Force Research Laboratory?s 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is scheduled to conduct tests for the KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker's Remote Visual System (RVS) during July 2019.
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