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Unmanned
U.S. Navy designates Rhode Island's NUWC as DoD spot for maritime innovation - News
June 21, 2018
NEWPORT, Rhode Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport announced a three-year agreement with the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC -- Middletown, Rhode Island) under which UTIC will develop and implement leading-edge undersea and maritime technologies for the U.S. Navy.
Comms
Contract signed with Kratos to enable government satellite users to roam - News
June 20, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., under its Kratos RT Logic subsidiary, has won an award from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, MILSATCOM Systems Directorate, Advanced Concepts Division, for the Pilot Phase 2 program that will develop an enterprise solution to increase the capacity and resiliency of wideband satellite communications (SATCOM).
Radar/EW
U.S. Army will use L3's next-gen night-vision binocular goggles - News
June 20, 2018
NEW YORK. L3 Technologies has been awarded a three-year, $391 million contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to provide soldiers with next-generation binocular night vision goggles to enhance mobility for ground forces.
Cyber
Rockwell Collins gets go-ahead for detailed design work on Navy tactical training tool - News
June 20, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) program it undertook with the U.S. Navy and has obtained approval to begin detailed design work on the system.
Unmanned
U.S. Department of the Interior awards first-ever contract for small UAS services - News
June 20, 2018
BINGEN, Wash. Unmanned systems and software company Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing, has won a first-of-its kind contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to provide fire-suppression services within the contiguous 48 states and Alaska using its ScanEagle unmanned sircraft dystem (UAS).
Cyber
NASA awards advanced computing services contract with potential for 10 years, $1.2 billion - News
June 19, 2018
BELTSVILLE, Md. InuTeq LLC, the federal subsidiary of ASRC, has won the NASA Advanced Computing Services (NACS) contract. The single-award hybrid contract has a one-year base, followed by nine one-year options, with a potential value of approximately $1.2 billion.
Cyber
USMC awards contract to modernize training environment for convoy operations - News
June 18, 2018
ANN ARBOR, Mich. FAAC Incorporated, a subsidiary of Arotech Corp.?s Training and Simulation Division, has won a competitive contract from Marine Corps Systems Command Program Manager Training System to modernize the U.S. Marine Corps? Combat Convoy Simulators (CCS).
Cyber
Thales, Microsoft announce defense cloud platform for armed forces - News
June 18, 2018
LA DEFENSE, France. Multinational defense and cybersecurity contractor Thales has announced a partnership with Microsoft under which the companies will build a cloud platform designed to help armed forces and other defense clients store and secure classified and sensitive data within their information technology infrastructure.
Cyber
Project aims to drastically improve computing by improving topological material, reducing noise - News
June 15, 2018
MALIBU, Calif. Research and development lab HRL Laboratories -- a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors -- is embarking on a project aimed at developing topological building blocks that will keep fragile quantum information safe from environmental effects.
Unmanned
Drone risk tolerance assessment in national airspace becomes focal point in report - News
June 15, 2018
WASHINGTON. A newly released congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine states that introducing drone operations into U.S. airspace can provide substantial benefits to society, such as preventing derailments, inspecting cell phone towers, delivering medical devices to patients in cardiac distress, and assisting firefighters.
Comms
Military SDR from Rockwell Collins passes crucial DoD test - News
June 14, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins reports that its AN/PRC-162(V)1 software-defined radio (SDR) is now the first tactical ground radio to pass one of the critical tests needed to meet the security requirements required for operation with the Department of Defense (DoD) final version of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Avionics
Lockheed Martin chooses Raytheon to perform F-35 sensor system upgrade - News
June 14, 2018
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin has chosen Raytheon to develop and deliver the next-generation Distributed Aperture System (DAS) for the F-35 fighter jet. Northrop Grumman had previously held the contract for the F-35 DAS.
Radar/EW
USAF signs $866 million contract to sustain missile warning/missile defense and space tracking radars - News
June 14, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a competitive bid from the U.S. Air Force to sustain and modify a worldwide network of ground-based radars deemed critical to the success of the Air Force's missile warning/missile defense and space tracking missions.
Comms
Integrated targeting system from Rockwell Collins aimed at mobile battlefield use - News
June 14, 2018
PARIS, EUROSATORY 2018. Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is showcasing its new FasTAK tactical combat targeting system and secure communications gateway at the Eurosatory 2018 exhibition, held this week in Paris.
Unmanned
UUV swarms demonstration in Navy test facility approved - News
June 13, 2018
FALL RIVER, Mass. Undersea robotics company Aquabotix has signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to gain access to the Navy's Narragansett Bay Test Facility (NBTF) in Newport, Rhode Island, including its ranges and personnel, in order to test and demonstrate the Aquabotix?s SwarmDiver product and other relevant technologies.
Comms
New test assemblies, 5G testing solutions from W.L. Gore at IMS 2018 - News
June 13, 2018
IMS 2018--PHILADELPHIA. W.L. Gore and Associates is featuring several aerospace and defense testing and 5G products at this week's International Microwave Symposium in Philadelphia, including its new Phaseflex microwave/RF test assemblies (Type 0N) for high density test/interconnection, which the company says ensures consistent, repeatable measurements with stable electrical performance up to 50 GHz.
Radar/EW
pSemi intros GaN FET driver for fast switching to solid-state LiDAR - News
June 13, 2018
IMS 2018--PHILADELPHIA. pSemi Corporation (a Murata company, formerly known as Peregrine Semiconductor) announced at this week's International Microwave Symposium (IMS) the availability of the PE29101 gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistor (FET) driver for solid-state light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems.
Radar/EW
Keysight Technologies highlights radar, EW simulation innovations at IMS 2018 - News
June 13, 2018
IMS 2018--PHILADELPHIA. Test and measurement technology company Keysight Technologies (based in Santa Rosa, California) is showcasing design and test solutions aimed at accelerating millimeter wave innovation at this week's International Microwave Symposium (IMS), held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Radar/EW
Vetronics market to reach $3.13 billion in global revenue during 2018 - News
June 12, 2018
LONDON. A recent study by business intelligence provider Visiongain, "Military Land Vehicle Electronics (Vetronics) Market Report 2018-2028," finds that the global military vehicle electronics (vetronics) market will generate revenues of $3.31 billion in 2018.
Avionics
Boeing will invest in UAS startup to further drone standards, safety - News
June 12, 2018
CHICAGO. Boeing announced that it will invest in Kittyhawk (San Francisco, California), a startup that offers a unified approach to the safe operation of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UASs).
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