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Radar/EW
Missile defense, air defense for Poland to be supplied by Northrop Grumman - News
March 20, 2019
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract worth $713 million for the production of an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) for the first phase of Poland?s WIS?A air- and missile-defense program.
Unmanned
IARPA announces competition to improve UAV-captured imagery - News
March 20, 2019
WASHINGTON. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) -- an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- has announced the UG2+ Prize Challenge, a competition that leverages a unique computer vision data set of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), glider, and ground (UG2) data.
Cyber
Perspecta's enterprise-logging architecture to enhance USAF cyber situational awareness - News
March 20, 2019
CHANTILLY, Va. Perspecta Inc.has won the Enterprise Logging Phase 2 (EL2) contract with the United States Air Force (USAF) -- awarded under USAF Network-Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) NetOps -- which has a one-year base and four single-year options with a maximum ceiling value of $71 million.
Avionics
Aircraft-support contract for global Army operations won by Leidos - News
March 20, 2019
RESTON, Va. Leidos has secured a spot in a large contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone to provide global aircraft logistics and maintenance in theaters of operations.
Comms
Cubic Corp. will acquire Nuvotronics in bid to strengthen protected-communications offerings - News
March 20, 2019
SAN DIEGO. Defense and military contractor Cubic Corp. has announced that it will acquire Nuvotronics, a provider of microfabricated radio-frequency (RF) products, for approximately $64 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments, with additional earn-out payments of up to $8 million based on future performance.
Comms
DARPA, AFRL green-light Ball Aerospace for phase 2 of space-domain program - News
March 20, 2019
BOULDER, Colo. Ball Aerospace will move forward on the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Hallmark program, which aims to develop technologies that deliver real-time space-domain awareness informing command/control and protection of space assets.
A.I.
AI, AR, quantum computing will drive DoD spending to 2023, says report - News
March 19, 2019
SANTA CLARA, Calif. A new market study from Frost & Sullivan, "US DoD C4ISR, 2018?2023," predicts that U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spending on C4ISR [command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] technologies will have a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.3 percent through 2023.
Unmanned
Smart sensors for military, defense markets on track to grow to $310.7 million by 2029 - News
March 18, 2019
LONDON. The market for smart sensors used in the military and defense arenas is projected to reach $310.7 million in 2029, according to a new market forecast from Visiongain, "Smart Sensors in Military and Defense Market Report 2019-2029."
Comms
IEM wins spot on $37 billion DoD national-security services contract - News
March 18, 2019
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, North Carolina. Homeland-security and disaster-management consulting firm IEM has won a spot on a $37 billion U.S. Army contract to support a wide array of Department of Defense (DoD) national security services through the Army's Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract.
Comms
Military communications market to grow to $38 billion by 2026: Report - News
March 15, 2019
NEW YORK. The global market for military communications is expected to grow from $30 billion in 2018 to $38 billion by 2026, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.4 percent during the forecast period, according to a recent market study by Reports and Data, "Military Communications Market By Communication Type (Airborne Communication, Air-Ground Communication, Underwater Communication, Ground-Based Communication And Shipborne Communication), Components (Military Satcom Systems, Military Radio Systems, Military Security Systems And Communication Systems) - Global Forecast 2026."
Unmanned
Supersonic, hypersonic missiles market worth $11.1 billion in 2019, report says - News
March 15, 2019
LONDON. The global market for supersonic and hypersonic missile systems market will total $11.1 billion in 2019, according to a report from Visiongain, "Supersonic and Hypersonic Missiles Market Report 2019-2029."
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy awards Raytheon additional $402 million contract for SPY-6 radars - News
March 15, 2019
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has won a modification worth $402.6 million to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract to exercise options for Air and Missile Defense Radar Program (AMDR) low-rate initial production (LRIP); the modification will provide for three AMDR LRIP units.
Unmanned
U.S. Army chooses QinetiQ North America for small ground robot project - News
March 15, 2019
WALTHAM, Mass. QinetiQ North America (QNA) has garnered an initial contract to build a new small unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) for the U.S. Army, an initiative that marks one of the first UGV programs of record for the Army..
Avionics
BAE Systems mission computer will run processing technology from Teledyne e2v, Wind River, and CoreAVI - News
March 14, 2019
AEROSPACE TECH WEEK 2019 -- MUNICH. Teledyne e2v, Wind River, and CoreAVI announced that they will provide key technologies for BAE Systems? new mission computer, which serves as the central hub that processes all mission-critical data on an aircraft.
Avionics
AdaCore announces extended support for Wind River VxWorks - News
March 12, 2019
AEROSPACE TECH WEEK 2019 -- MUNICH. Software-development and -verification tool company AdaCore has announced the roadmap of its flagship GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment for the latest version of the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), with immediate support for the ARM 64-bit processor.
Avionics
CoreAVI, Airbus Defence and Space partner to bring GPU compute for autonomous systems to market - News
March 12, 2019
AEROSPACE TECH WEEK 2019 -- MUNICH. CoreAVI and Airbus Defence and Space have joined forces to enable the use of GPU compute in airborne systems and applications that require the highest RTCA DO178C/EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A safety certifications.
Cyber
Leidos wins $962 million U.S. Navy cybermission engineering contract - News
March 11, 2019
RESTON, Va. Leidos has won a $962 million contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN) Atlantic to provide engineering and information warfare services for cybermissions.
A.I.
DARPA seeks info on 3-D mapping, surveying tools for SubT Challenge - News
March 11, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information on state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies for advanced mapping and surveying in support of its Subterranean (SubT) Challenge, during which the agency is working on ways in which georeferenced data ? geographic coordinates tied to a map or image ? can improve the speed and accuracy of warfighters in time-sensitive active combat operations and disaster-related missions in the subterranean domain -- or underground.
Unmanned
Autonomous aircraft market to be worth $23.7 billion by 2030, study says - News
March 11, 2019
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The autonomous aircraft market is projected to grow from an estimated $3.6 billion in 2018 to $23.7 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 17.06 percent during the period covered, according to a market study from MarketsandMarkets, "Autonomous Aircraft Market by Technology (Increasingly Autonomous, and Fully Autonomous), End Use (Commercial, Combat & ISR, Cargo, Passenger Air Vehicle, Personal Air Vehicle, Air Medical Services), Component, and Region -- Global Forecast 2030."
Unmanned
Raytheon nabs $63.3 million DARPA contract for hypersonic weapons program - News
March 07, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon has signed a $63.3 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue to develop a ?tactical boost glide? (TBG) hypersonic weapons program.
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