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Avionics
Rockwell Collins radar, choice of Canadian air force fleet, will not impact existing avionics - News
May 31, 2018
OTTAWA, Ontario. Aerospace engineering firm Cascade Aerospace (Abbostford, British Columbia) has chosen Rockwell Collins to install a modern weather radar system for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) C-130H fleet. The radar system will include the WXR-2100 MultiScan and the new MFD-255 and MFD-268 multifunction displays.
Comms
Communications companies partner for C5I task order for Navy - News
May 30, 2018
DAYTON, Ohio and HOLLYWOOD, Md. IT and national-security firms MacAulay-Brown (MacB) and Smartronix are set to partner on a tactical and remote command, control, communications, computers, collaboration, and intelligence (C5I) Edge Systems (TARCES) task order for the U.S. Navy.
Comms
NATO chooses Airbus for major comms contract - News
May 30, 2018
BRUSSELS. The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency has awarded Airbus a contract worth ?40 million ($46.4 million) for the delivery of the first phase of the new NATO Communications Infrastructure Project; the contract also includes options for future phases of the project worth up to ?50 million ($58.02 million).
Comms
USS Manchester becomes 12th littoral combat ship in U.S. Navy fleet - News
May 29, 2018
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. The USS Manchester, the U.S. Navy's latest Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS), was commissioned on Saturday, May 26, at the New Hampshire State Pier.
Unmanned
Ballistic-missile target from Kratos supports THAAD exercise, say Army and MDA - News
May 29, 2018
U.S. ARMY WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N. M. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Army report that the Kratos Space & Missile Defense Systems (SMDS) -- a division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions in San Diego -- successfully supported a tracking exercise involving the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in April 2018. THAAD is an element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system intended to counter short- and medium-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase.
Comms
Ada and GNAT Pro selected to help run NASA CLARREO Pathfinder mission - News
May 29, 2018
BOULDER, Colo. The University of Colorado?s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) has selected the Ada language and Ada's GNAT Pro for the ARM Cortex product for NASA?s Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder mission.
Comms
Market outlook: Global tactical communications market valued at around $15.4 billion by 2028 - News
May 25, 2018
LONDON. The global tactical communications market, with an expected value of around $13 billion in 2018, will grow at a combined annual growth rate of approximately 1.7 percent per year to a total value of about $15.4 billion by 2028, according to a new market study from Strategic Defence Intelligence titled "The Global Tactical Communications Market 2018-2028."
Unmanned
U.S. Army awards unmanned aerial target drone contract, potential for $93.3 million - News
May 25, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services (DRSS) Division has been awarded a prime contract for the U.S. Army's Aerial Target Systems 2 (ATS-2) contract. The combined firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract has a ceiling of $93.3 million over a potential five-year period of performance.
Unmanned
Polaris and partners win spot in U.S. Army robotic trial program - News
May 24, 2018
MEDINA, Minn. Polaris Government and Defense -- along with its teammates Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems, known collectively as Team Polaris -- has won a contract from the U.S. Army to supply its optionally manned MRZR X multimode vehicle platform as one of the robotic systems used by infantry brigade combat teams for the next year of trials as part of the Army's Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) program.
Unmanned
U.S. military branches order $111 million in AeroVironment mini-UAS hardware, support - News
May 24, 2018
TAMPA, Fla. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) provider AeroVironment -- which supplies UASs to both military and commercial users -- won contract awards from the U.S. Army during April 2018 for procurement of the company?s Switchblade Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System (LMAMS) and Contractor Logistics Support. This most recent announcement brings the total value of Switchblade awards to $111 million since August 2017.
Unmanned
"Game of Drones" demo to investigate, showcase new UAS capabilities - News
May 23, 2018
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada. Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and its partners, Ascent Vision and RADA Technologies, will participate in the SOFWERX ThunderDrone Rapid Prototyping Event (RPE) III demonstration, to be held at Nellis Air Force Base in June 2018. SOFWERX is a Partnership Intermediary Agreement between Doolittle Institute and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), created to investigate new technology for U.S. warfighters.
Cyber
Parsons agrees to acquire Polaris Alpha - News
May 23, 2018
PASADENA, Calif. Security and defense contractor Parsons has agreed to acquire defense/intelligence firm Polaris Alpha.
Radar/EW
JTAGS gets enhanced early missile warning capabilities in Japan - News
May 23, 2018
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan. The U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman Corp. report that they have deployed enhanced Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) capabilities in Japan in order to advance battlespace awareness and missile defense.
A.I.
NAWCAD engineer working with AI to sort radar interference - News
May 22, 2018
NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. An engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is working on developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that could potentially teach itself how to recognize and remove external interference from radar signals.
Unmanned
UAS win: $38 million for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions - News
May 22, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Security implementation company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions reports that its Unmanned Systems Division (KUSD) recently won approximately $38 million in high-performance unmanned aerial drone aircraft, systems, and related product contract awards.
Avionics
Graphics module aimed at use in avionics, video streaming, surveillance - News
May 21, 2018
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. Ruggedized graphics/video company Eizo Rugged Solutions has released its Condor GR4 3U VPX 3G-SDI capture board, a rugged single-slot graphics/capture board with four 3G-SDI inputs and outputs that the company intends for use in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications such as avionics, manned and unmanned video streaming, and security/surveillance.
Unmanned
Turkish navy gets autonomous underwater vehicle upgrade from Teledyne Gavia - News
May 18, 2018
REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Teledyne Gavia announced that it recently delivered Teledyne Blueview MB2250 modules and associated Teledyne PDS software for all Gavia autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operated by the Turkish Navy Mine Countermeasures Command in Erdek, Turkey.
A.I.
DARPA, Polaris Alpha teaming to develop AI for the battlefield - News
May 18, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Technology provider Polaris Alpha has won a $2.3 million subcontract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the agency seeks to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for fast-changing battlefield environments.
Cyber
U.S. Army contracts for predeployment training for troops - News
May 17, 2018
RESTON, Va. Science and technology engineering firm Leidos has won a prime contract potentially worth $210 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command ? Orlando to develop and provide simulated training environments for troops before they deploy to a battlefield environment.
Avionics
USMC takes delivery of first CH053 King Stallion helicopter from Sikorsky - News
May 17, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, reports that it delivered the first CH-53 King Stallion helicopter to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), the first of an expected 200 helicopters for the Marines' fleet.
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