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Comms
Elbit Systems acquires IMI Systems for $495 million - News
November 26, 2018
HAIFA, Israel. International high-tech contractor Elbit Systems has completed its acquisition of defense-systems company IMI Systems (Ramat Ha Sharon, Israel) for a purchase price of approximately $495 million (NIS 1.8 billion), with an additional payment of approximately $27 million (NIS 100 million) contingent upon IMI meeting agreed performance goals.
Unmanned
U.S. Marine Corps buys 32 small UAS "eyes in the sky" from InstantEye Robotics - News
November 26, 2018
ANDOVER, Mass. InstantEye Robotics has secured a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in support of PMA-263, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) Program Office, to field 32 InstantEye Mk-3 GEN5-D1 SUAS systems (64 aircraft) in response to an urgent-needs request by the Marine Corps for field-user evaluation.
Radar/EW
SIGINT contract for $413 million signed between U.S. Army and CACI Int'l. - News
November 21, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International has won a $413 million prime contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) on behalf of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) to provide support for ground-based intelligence and communications systems within the Army?s TROJAN STRONG family of systems (FoS).
Comms
Nanosatellites will extend communications reach for military forces - News
November 21, 2018
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The U.S. Navy has launched a nanosatellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base that is intended to expand the range of ultra-high frequency (UHF) communications into the polar regions.
A.I.
AI and blockchain-powered airspace-management tool will aid autonomous-vehicle traffic - News
November 21, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas. Boeing and SparkCognition have announced that they will launch SkyGrid, a new company that aims to develop a software platform to ensure the safe, secure integration of autonomous cargo and passenger air vehicles in the global airspace.
Avionics
USAF fixed-wing helmet improvement challenge chooses finalists, moves to next phase - News
November 20, 2018
LAS VEGAS. AFWERX -- the U.S. Air Force?s program dedicated to solving some of the toughest problems it faces via collaborations between the nation?s top intrapreneurs, industry experts, academic professionals, and nontraditional contributors -- recently hosted innovators who submitted components, materials, and technologies specifically aimed at improving the USAF Fixed Wing Helmet used by its pilots and aircrew.
Unmanned
Military UAV market to be worth $26.8 billion by 2025, study says - News
November 20, 2018
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The global market for military drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is projected to grow from $12.1 billion in 2018 to $26.8 billion by 2025, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.00 percent from 2018 to 2025, according to a new study by MarketsandMarkets, "Military Drones Market by Type, Application (ISRT, Delivery and Transportation, Combat Operations, Battle Damage Management), Range (VLOS, EVLOS, BLOS), Propulsion Type, Launching Mode, Endurance, MTOW, Region - Global Forecast to 2025."
Radar/EW
Video-processing, HPEC solutions for military users emerge from Abaco-EIZO collab - News
November 20, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. and ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. Abaco Systems and EIZO Rugged Solutions have announced that they are collaborating on products that will result in Abaco expanding its existing NVIDIA-based board and system family.
Avionics
Black Hawk helicopters to get upgrades of blades, controls, systems - News
November 12, 2018
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Calspan Systems Corp. has won a $6 million contract from Siemens Government Technologies to upgrade the U.S. Army?s Helicopter Blade Balance Stand, which is located at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Unmanned
Nuclear R and D detonation, detection systems contract won by Perspecta - News
November 07, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. Mission-services and operations contractor Perspecta Inc. has won a prime contract from the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) to continue work on the Expert Scientific and Analytical Support (ESAS) II program. The award -- with a ceiling value of $49.8 million -- has a two-year base period and two additional two-year option periods.
Comms
DARPA mounts next phase of Electronics Resurgence Initiative - News
November 06, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has rolled out the second phase of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) ? a five-year, upwards of $1.5 billion investment in the future of domestic electronic systems.
Unmanned
More Patriot missile systems to ship to Romania - News
November 06, 2018
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon has entered an agreement with the government of Romania and the U.S. Army to purchase of three additional Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems from the U.S. Army. Similarly to when Romania bought its first Patriot missile system in May of 2018, the additional units were procured via the U.S. Department of Defense's foreign military sales (FMS) process.
Radar/EW
Aegis Combat System SM-3 successfully trials against medium-range ballistic missile - News
October 29, 2018
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG-113) recently conducted a successful intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test off the west coast of Hawaii. SM-3 is the only ballistic missile interceptor that can be launched at sea and on land.
Radar/EW
Radar, EW comms jammer pods for Growler aircraft announced by U.S. Navy - News
October 29, 2018
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy awarded Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET) contracts valued at about $36 million each to L3 Technologies Communications Systems West and Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems in support of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) capability.
Unmanned
DoD counter-UAV contract will use Blighter radar tech - News
October 25, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. British company Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd. -- which designs and makes electronic-scanning (e-scan) radars and surveillance solutions -- is under contract to supply its counter-UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] radar technology to Liteye Systems (Centennial, Colorado and Colchester, U.K.) as part of Liteye's recently signed multimillion-dollar contract with the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver numerous containerized anti-unmanned aircraft systems (known as C-AUDS) to the DoD by the end of the fourth quarter of 2018.
Unmanned
DARPA swarm effort signs Charles River Analytics contract for enhanced algorithms, tactics - News
October 24, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has won a contract option to integrate its SATURN [Swarm Algorithms and Tactics for Urban Reconnaissance and Isolation] capabilities into DARPA's Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
A.I.
Computational model to predict human behavior developed by U.S. Army lab - News
October 23, 2018
U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY--ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.
Avionics
F-16 fighter-jet fleet in Romania to get integrated maintenance, modernization package - News
October 23, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Tapestry Solutions -- a subsidiary of Boeing -- has won a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an integrated maintenance system (IMS) for the Romanian air force?s (RoAF) fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft.
Cyber
DIA chooses nine companies to support R and D and engineering under $500 million HELIOS contract - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded positions to nine companies on a contract that will provide technical research and development (R&D), intelligence, strategic warning, and other operational tasks.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy contracts for portable camouflaging technology for vehicles - News
October 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Machine-learning engineering company Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) has won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop what DAC calls the Computer Learning Obfuscating Adversarial Kit (CLOAK) system, a portable camouflaging kit for vehicles that uses state-of-the-art adversarial imagery though physical-world manipulation and data synthesis.
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