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Radar/EW
U.S. Navy modifies existing contracts to add three additional LCS vessels to the fleet - News
September 20, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials modified Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contracts with Lockheed Martin and Austal USA this month. Lockheed Martin will build an additional LCS, while Austel will build two more ships.
Avionics
Cubic to deliver F-35 air combat training systems to Lockheed Martin - News
September 20, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Lockheed Martin officials selected Cubic Global Defense -- a Cubic Corp. business unit -- to deliver its Air Combat Training System (ACTS) for the F-35 Lightning II. Cubic is scheduled to deliver more than 500 F-35 Training Subsystems over the next four years as part of Lockheed Martin?s F-35 production Lots 12-14.
Comms
Navy divers now able to digitally track dives via new software application - News
September 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global TechSolutions program and industry partners have created a new tool called the Scuba Binary Dive Application (SBDA) 100 to digitally plan, record, and report dive-profile information to Dive/Jump Reporting System (DJRS).
Unmanned
EMCORE selected to deliver fiber optic gyroscope modules - News
September 19, 2018
ALHAMBRA, Calif. Raytheon officials selected EMCORE Corp. to deliver high-performance Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) modules for use in airborne optical targeting systems. The four-year contract is worth approximately over $18 million.
Avionics
Army, CoreAVI collaboration resulted in FACE-complient CMS for UH-60 Blackhawk program - News
September 18, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. U.S. Army officials selected Core Avionics & Industrial Inc.'s (CoreAVI) Crew Mission Station (CMS) for a Limited User Evaluation (LUE). The selection comes after a technology demonstration program for UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft.
Radar/EW
GaN MMIC process is focus in AFRL, BAE Systems agreement - News
September 18, 2018
NASHUA, N.H. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and BAE Systems officials signed a cooperative agreement for Phase 1 of a technical effort to transition gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology developed by the U.S. Air Force to our Advanced Microwave Products (AMP) Center.
Avionics
USAF KC-135R legacy tankers gains real-time information capabilities in cockpit - News
September 17, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials selected Rockwell Collins to advance advance communications capabilities for its KC-135R fleet with the implementation of a Real Time Information in the Cockpit (RTIC) system.
Unmanned
USAF MQ-9 unmanned aircraft adds capability to automatically take-off and land - News
September 17, 2018
SAN DIEGO. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) MQ-9 Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) automatically took-off and landed in a demonstration held last month. The Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability (ATLC) was developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to enhance mission capability.
Avionics
P-8A Poseidon training system to get updated software, courseware - News
September 17, 2018
PLANO, Texas. U.S. Navy officials selected Boeing to update the courseware and software of the Navy's P-8A Poseidon training system. Under the four-year, $194 million contract, Boeing will upgrade devices at three locations for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force to reflect the latest configuration of the Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Comms
USAF SBIRS satellite achieves operational acceptance - News
September 14, 2018
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. U.S. Air Force officials announced the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (GEO-3) successfully achieved Air Force Space Command operational acceptance.
Avionics
NASA's supersonic aircraft to be equipped with CoreAVI's VkCore - News
September 13, 2018
TAMPA, Fla. NASA officials selected Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (CoreAVI) to provide its safety critical Vulkan driver ? VkCore SC ? for deployment into NASA?s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft.
Unmanned
Japan's Aegis BMD completes flight test with upgraded configuration - News
September 13, 2018
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii. Officials at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept flight test, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii.
A.I.
Machine learning algorithms used to find radio bursts in SETI initiative - News
September 12, 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Researchers at the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have applied machine learning techniques to detect 72 new fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from the "repeater" FRB 121102. The findings are part of the Breakthrough Listen initiative that aims to find signs of intelligent life in the universe.
Comms
SAIC and Engility officials announce merger - News
September 11, 2018
RESTON, Va. & CHANTILLY, Va. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) and Engility Holdings Inc. officials entered into a definitive agreement under which SAIC will acquire Engility in an all-stock transaction valued at $2.5 billion ($2.25 billion net of the present value of tax assets).
Unmanned
Close-In Weapons Systems installation support contract won by Serco - News
September 11, 2018
HERNDON, Va. Department of Defense (DoD) officials tasked Serco Inc. to continue to provide installation support for Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS) on U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and U.S. Coast Guard vessels. This single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract has a one-year base period plus four one-year option periods, with a ceiling value of $51 million, if all option years are exercised.
Comms
U.S. Army global acquisition and logistics operations support contract won by Serco - News
September 10, 2018
RESTON, Va. U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC) officials selected Serco Inc. to provide global acquisition and logistics operations support. The three-year task under the OASIS contract vehicle has a one-year base period and two one-year option periods, with an estimated total value to Serco of $43 million, if all options are exercised.
Comms
Raytheon, HawkEye 360 band together to deliver commercial tech, precise data to government sector - News
September 10, 2018
DULLES, Va. Officials at the Intelligence, Information and Services business unit at Raytheon are collaborating with HawkEye 360 Inc. -- a commercial small satellite company -- in an ongoing effort to provide commercial technologies and more precise data to the government sector.
Unmanned
Exoskeleton tech makes advances via Lockheed Martin, university partnership - News
September 10, 2018
ADELAIDE, Australia. Lockheed Martin Australia and Deakin University?s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research (IISRI) entered into a 12-month research partnership that has resulted in extending the capability of the company's FORTIS Exoskeleton.
Comms
U.S. Army places $55 million order for GATR inflatable satellite communication systems - News
September 07, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Corp. officials announced its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division received orders worth more than $55 million to deliver its inflatable satellite communication and networking systems to the U.S. Army.
A.I.
Tackling Moore's Law goal of DARPA initiative - Story
September 06, 2018
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials kicked off the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) summit in July 2018 by selecting teams to tackle the three technology pillars - materials/integration, architectures, and design - that will ultimately address Moore's Law. The prediction by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in 1965 that transistors were shrinking so fast that every year twice as many could fit onto a chip was adjusted in 1975 adjusted to a doubling every two years, and is now defined as a doubling every 18 months.
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