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DARPA to hold first annual ERI summit 2018 - News
April 06, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is holding the first annual Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit from July 23-25, 2018 in San Francisco, California.The three-day event will bring together those most impacted by the coming inflection in Moore?s Law, including senior representatives from the commercial sector, defense industrial base, academia, and government.
Avionics
TPG to acquire Wind River from Intel - News
April 06, 2018
ALAMEDA, Calif. Global alternative asset firm TPG will acquire Wind River from Intel, officials say. The transaction, for which Allen & Company LLC served as financial advisor to Intel, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.
Radar/EW
Multiple Mercury Systems facilities received aerospace AS9100D certification - News
April 06, 2018
ANDOVER, Mass. Officials at Mercury Systems announced that its facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, Cypress and Oxnard, California, West Lafayette, Indiana, and Geneva, Switzerland received the Aerospace Standard 9100D (AS9100D) certification, which adds to the existing AS9100C and/or ISO 9001 certifications the company currently holds at its other sites.
Avionics
Amended contract with Boeing supports RCAF Chinook fleet through 2023 - News
April 03, 2018
OTTAWA, Ontario. Canadian government and Boeing officials are amending a previous performance-based logistics (PBL) contract to support the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) fleet of CH-147F Chinooks.
Unmanned
DARPA kicks off second swarm sprint in OFFSET program - News
April 03, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials are moving forward with Phase II of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, which envisions small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments.
Comms
FAA WAAS will add 7th GEO satellite augmenting GPS navigation capabilities - News
April 02, 2018
RESTON, Va. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials issued a task order to Leidos to develop the 7th Generation geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite used for the FAA Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The task order has a four-year development phase, and one 10-year Operations and Maintenance phase with a total contract value of approximately $117 million.
Comms
Sensor monitoring system expected to increase defense depot worker's safety - News
March 29, 2018
WOBURN, Mass. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (LM-Aero) and Aptima are working together to improve worker's safety in the U.S. Air Force and other defense depots by developing a new Confined Space Monitoring System, which aims to deliver continuous real-time monitoring of worker locations, their vital functions, and surrounding environmental conditions, improving detection and injury prevention.
Unmanned
Thales, NASA work together to develop UTM system for NAS drone integration - News
March 29, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Thales officials signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to support development of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management (UTM) concepts, which will allow Thales to engage with NASA to refine the UTM concept architecture supporting drone integration into the U.S. National Air Space (NAS).
Comms
Northrop Grumman completes fielding of automated logistics system for the Army - News
March 28, 2018
RICHMOND, Va. Officials at Northrop Grumman Corp. announced the company has finished fielding the U.S. Army's Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) Increment I, consequently completing the deployment schedule.
A.I.
ARL, DCS win machine learning competition - News
March 28, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. DCS Corp. and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) teamed up to participate and win the Neurally Augmented Image Labelling Strategies (NAILS) challenge in Tokyo, an international machine learning research competition.
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Poland enters agreement to purchase Patriot, PAC-3 missiles - News
March 28, 2018
WARSAW, Poland. U.S. and Polish officials formalized agreements for Poland to purchase Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related support equipment and Raytheon's Patriot from the U.S. Army
Comms
Augmented reality to modernize Army rifleman marksmanship - News
March 28, 2018
PRINCETON, N.J. U.S. Army officials green-lit Phase II of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program for "Augmented / Mixed Reality for Live Fire Ranges." BANC3 will develop a Head Mounted Display (HMD) and Augmented Reality (AR) software app that will enable U.S. Army Basic Rifleman Marksmanship training to replace traditional silhouette targets with virtual targets. These enhancements will provide advanced training scenarios while significantly reducing maintenance.
Cyber
Radar/EW
Thales selects Interface Concept's ComEth4510a for radar application - News
March 22, 2018
QUIMPER, France. Thales engineers have integrated Interface Concept's ComEth4510a, a 6U OpenVPX Gigabit & 10/40 Gigabit L3+ Ethernet switch and IP Router in a radar application.
Avionics
The need for speed: Avionics connectors evolve to meet today's bandwidth requirements - Story
March 22, 2018
The constant push for increased bandwidth requirements mean that avionics engineers must continually design connectors that handle ever-higher data rates. As connector designs focus more squarely on data rates, all kinds of users are asking for the most cutting-edge technology - all within a small package.
Radar/EW
Navy releases two-ship RFP to HHI in order to define cost savings - News
March 21, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials released a CVN 80/81 two-ship buy Request for Proposal (RFP) to Huntington Ingalls Industries - Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) to further define the cost savings achievable with a two-ship buy.
Comms
U.S. Army taps businesses to enhance training and maintenance program - News
March 21, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. The Army Contracting Command ? Orlando, in support of the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) awarded the Army TADSS Maintenance Program (ATMP) contract to Lockheed Martin, Cubic Global Defense, PULAU Corp., as well as several large and small businesses that specialize in Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations (TADSS) maintenance and sustainment, through a mobile, technology-enabled workforce.
A.I.
DARPA creates N3 program to achieve high levels of brain-systems communications - News
March 20, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) officials created the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program to achieve high levels of brain-system communications. Officials hope that at the end of the four-year effort, the program will conclude with a demonstration of a bidirectional system being used in a defense-relevant task that could include human-machine interactions with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), active cyberdefense systems, or other properly instrumented Department of Defense (DoD) systems.
Unmanned
Navy looks to develop game to recruit unmanned vehicle operators - News
March 20, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the StealthAdapt project, which aims to identify individuals with the right skills to be an unmanned vehicles (UxV) operator. The Naval Aerospace Medical Institute and software company Adaptive Immersion Technologies are teaming up to for this project and will develop a computer game to identify these individuals.
Unmanned
SpaceX, ULA secure USAF launch service contracts - News
March 16, 2018
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. U.S. Air Force officials selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and United Alliance Launch (ULA) for two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts, which provide the government with total launch solution for these missions that includes launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations, and spaceflight certification. These missions are planned to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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