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Radar/EW
Global electronic warfare market to reach $30.32 billion by 2022, study says - News
March 12, 2018
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The electronic warfare (EW) market is projected to grow from an estimated $24.20 billion in 2017 to $30.32 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.61 percent during that time period, according to a new market study, "Electronic Warfare Market by Capability (Electronic Support, Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection), Platform (Airborne, Naval, Ground, Space), Product (EW Equipment, EW Operational Support), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022" from MarketsandMarkets.
Unmanned
Missile Defense Agency signs $80 million contract with Lockheed Martin-led team for ballistic re-entry vehicles - News
March 12, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Lockheed Martin will lead a team that will work on an $80.6 million fixed-price contract with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on modified ballistic re-entry vehicles and separation modules for missile defense tests.
Unmanned
U.S. DoD awards Booz Allen key role in $8.27 billion chemical/biological defense contract - News
March 09, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a key place on the $8.27 billion Joint Enterprise Research Development, Acquisition and Procurement (JE RDAP) contract.
Avionics
Contract aims to improve aircrew helmet systems, pilot safety - News
March 09, 2018
CARBONDALE, Penn. Gentex Corporation -- which produces personal protection and situational awareness solutions for defense forces, emergency responders, and industrial personnel -- has won a three-year contract from Bristow Helicopters (Dyce, Scotland) to manage and perform maintenance on their U.K. inventory of Gentex?s ALPHA 900 Cross Platform Helmet Systems.
Unmanned
Aerovironment UAS deal with Middle East country worth $44.5 million - News
March 09, 2018
MONROVIA, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) company AeroVironment, Inc. recently announced that a major country in the Middle East has awarded the company a contract valued at $44.5 million to provide Puma II AE small UASs featuring the new Mantis i45 sensor.
Unmanned
U.S. Army will work with Leidos on C4ISR support, testing - News
March 07, 2018
RESTON, Va. IT/engineering company Leidos announced that it won a follow-on task order by the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide mission support services to the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Prototyping Integration and Testing Division (PI&TD).
Radar/EW
Australia to upgrade long-range coastal radar network with BAE Systems - News
March 07, 2018
CANBERRA, Australia. Australian government officials announced that BAE Systems Australia will lead a $1 billion project to upgrade the country?s long-range, high-frequency radar network.
Comms
Next-gen satellite constellations from SSL will carry Northrop Grumman space navigation systems - News
March 05, 2018
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a contract from space technology design/build firm Space Systems Loral (SSL) to supply its space navigation system for SSL's next-generation satellite constellation.
Radar/EW
IARPA project aims to develop superconducting circuit-design tools - News
March 05, 2018
WASHiNGTON. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) -- an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- announced what it calls the ?SuperTools? program, a multiyear research effort to develop comprehensive software tools for designing and analyzing superconducting electronics circuits.
Unmanned
USAF signs $96 million task order with Polaris Alpha for ISR, software operations - News
March 05, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Defense and intelligence contractor Polaris Alpha has won $96 million in U.S. Air Force task orders that involve work in software development, maintenance, and enhancements for command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations.
Unmanned
NAVAIR inks $24.3 million in contract mods for unmanned aerial drone systems - News
March 02, 2018
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has signed a $24.3 million contract modification with Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' Unmanned Systems Division (USD) to exercise an option for the low-rate initial production of the Subsonic Aerial Target BQM-177A and technical data.
Avionics
U.S. Navy, Boeing sign contract to modernize F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet - News
March 02, 2018
ST. LOUIS. Boeing has finalized a contract with the U.S. Navy to modernize the Navy's fleet of 568 F/A-18 aircraft, which is intended to extend the life of existing Super Hornets from 6,000 to 9,000-plus flight hours.
Unmanned
U.S. Navy orders high-energy laser weapons for shipboard use - News
March 01, 2018
BOTHELL, Wash. Lockheed Martin won a U.S. Navy contract valued initially at $150 million -- with options worth up to $942.8 million -- for the development, manufacture, and delivery of two high-power laser weapon systems that will integrate intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-unmanned aerial system (counter-UAS) capabilities.
A.I.
Airbus/IBM venture designing first AI assistant for astronauts - News
February 28, 2018
BREMEN, Germany. Airbus and IBM are developing CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN), an artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistant for astronauts for the DLR Space Administration in Germany (The German Aerospace Center [German: Deutsches Zentrum f?r Luft- und Raumfahrt or DLR] is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of the Federal Republic of Germany.)
Comms
Dept. of Homeland Security contracting for biometric ID services - News
February 28, 2018
MACLEAN, Va. Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $95 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to develop the first two increments of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system. Northrop Grumman's role during the 42-month project will be systems developer and integrator.
Comms
DoD announces open source software experiment - News
February 27, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the launch of Code.mil, an open source initiative that allows software developers around the world to collaborate on unclassified code written by federal employees in support of DoD projects.
Comms
U.S. Army orders several thousand mobile satellite transceivers for battlefield use - News
February 27, 2018
MELVILLE, N.Y. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. won an initial $11.7 million order to immediately provide several thousand of its next generation MT-2025 mobile satellite transceivers in support of the U.S. Army's Blue Force Tracking-2 (BFT-2) system.
Comms
U.S. Navy signs $492 million in contract options for nuclear subs - News
February 27, 2018
LYNCHBURG, Va. Nuclear-component company BWXT reports that its BWXT Nuclear Operations Group has signed contract options totaling approximately $492 million with the the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program for the manufacture of naval nuclear-reactor components.
Unmanned
Global market for military counter-UAV systems will reach $1.223 billion by 2026, says one scenario in market study - News
February 26, 2018
AMSTERDAM. The global market for military counter-unmanned aerial vehicles (C-UAVs) will grow from its current $379 million to $1.223 billion by 2026, according to one scenario in the report "Global Counter-UAV (C-UAV) Systems Market Forecast to 2026" from Market Forecast. The overall combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8 percent would hold fairly consistent over the whole period.
Comms
KBR acquires SGT in move to expand support for high-priority missions - News
February 26, 2018
HOUSTON. Government-services contractor KBR has agreed to acquire Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT), a company that provides technology solutions, engineering services, mission operations, and scientific/ IT software in the U.S. government-services market. SGT has a distinguished heritage delivering technology solutions and services to the U.S. government for space programs, national security and civilian operations.
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