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A.I.
ONR sponsors sleep/decision-making link research - News
March 16, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global are sponsoring new research by Professor Sean Drummond at the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN) in Australia. The goal is to find a link between sleep and decision-making skills.
Unmanned
Endeavor Robotics receives $9.2 million order for its small unmanned ground vehicles - News
March 15, 2018
BOSTON. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) tapped Endeavor Robotics to deliver additional Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGVs) under a $9.2 million oder.
Comms
DISA taps 20 companies for ENCORE III IT solutions program - News
March 15, 2018
WASHINGTON. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) officials selected 20 companies under the ENCORE III information technology (IT) solutions program. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a ceiling value of $17.5 billion where companies will compete for task orders to provide a full range of IT solutions and services.
A.I.
ARL scientists demo factors integers at faster pace, computing architectures have more options in SWaP-constrained environments - News
March 14, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are leveraging emerging brain-like computer architectures for an age-old number-theoretic problem known as integer factorization. The resulting factor is that Army scientists are opening up a new solution space that moves away from traditional computing architectures and towards devices that are able to operate within extreme size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained environments.
Avionics
Terma, Scandinavian Avionics team up to open Avionics Test Center - News
March 14, 2018
COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Terma and Scandinavian Avionics officials announced they are teaming up to form the Avionics Test Center in Denmark to support the F-35 fighter aircraft maintenance capabilities.
Comms
Viasat SATCOM demo opens gateway to offer over 100Mbps speeds for military applications - News
March 13, 2018
WASHINGTON. Viasat officials conducted a ViaSat-2 satellite communications (SATCOM) demonstration showing a number of cloud-based government applications. The demonstration - attended by U.S. Armed forces representatives - enabled over 100Mbps speeds on the ViaSat-2 satellite system. Viasat is now offering these capabilities to for government, defense, and military applications.
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin completes TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar site acceptance test - News
March 13, 2018
RIGA, Latvia. Lockheed Martin officials announced they met on-time delivery of the first three radars to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Latvia with a successful site acceptance test of the third TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar (TPS-77 MRR).
Comms
European Iris program aims to modernize air traffic management by 2020 - News
March 08, 2018
LONDON. European Space Agency (ESA) officials selected Inmarsat to develop satellite communication services that enable 4-D trajectory air traffic management in European airspace from 2020.
Comms
U.S. Army geospatial intelligence support contract won by Leidos - News
March 08, 2018
RESTON, Va. U.S. Army officials selected Leidos to support geospatial requirements, standards, and systems across the service. The hybrid contract (cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price) is worth an estimated $200 million.
A.I.
NASA taps into small businesses for tech development, research - News
March 08, 2018
WASHINGTON. Officials at NASA selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
Comms
Navy, Universities enter educational partnership to advance science, technical careers - News
March 07, 2018
WEST BETHESDA, Md and INDIAN HEAD, Md. U.S. Navy officials entered into an educational partnership agreement with the University of Iowa and Morgan State University (MSU). The focus of each partnership will aid in the education experience of the students and advance science and technical careers.
Comms
DISA grants CSRA, Oracle provisional authorization for Impact Level 5 data - News
March 07, 2018
FORT MEADE, Md. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) officials granted CSRA LLC and Oracle Federal Managed Cloud Services a Department of Defense (DoD) Provisional Authorization (PA) for Impact Level 5 Systems (DoD PA IL5).
Avionics
F-35B Lightning deploys with U.S. Navy ship, prepares for flight qualifications - News
March 06, 2018
EAST CHINA SEA. U.S. Navy officials announced then first deployment of the F-35B Lightning II with a naval ship and a Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Indo-Pacific. For the first time, a detachment of F-35B Lightning II's with Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) arrived aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on March 5th.
Cyber
Cyber operations, infrastructure support contract for Air Combat Command won by Telos - News
March 06, 2018
ASHBURN, Va. Security solutions provider Telos Corp. received the NETCENTS-2 Network Operations & Infrastructure Solutions small business contract, a five-year, $108 million contract to provide planning, infrastructure systems, networks operations and support for Air Combat Command.
Comms
FAA traffic control system will get a technical refresh from Raytheon - News
March 06, 2018
DULLES, Va. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials modified an existing contract with Raytheon to perform Technical Refresh 1 of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS). The contract is worth an estimated $73 million.
A.I.
Army, university scientists look to create scientific discipline to assess battlefield information - News
March 06, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and university scientists from Polytechnic Institute, Notre Dame, and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign are looking to create social sensing as a scientific discipline. Army officials say this emerging science space will help commanders assess and comprehend the accuracy and true meaning of information on the battlefield.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy adds USS Manchester to the LCS fleet - News
March 02, 2018
MOBILE, Ala. U.S. Navy officials accepted delivery of the littoral combat ship (LCS), USS Manchester (LCS-14). Delivery marks the official transfer of LCS 14 from the shipbuilder, an Austal USA-led team, to the Navy. It is the final milestone prior to commissioning, which is planned for May in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Radar/EW
USMC approves early field of G/ATOR systems - News
March 02, 2018
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) officials approved early field of Northrop Grumman's AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR). This milestone follows the delivery of the final Lot 1 and Lot 2 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) G/ATOR system to the Marines. The USMC will field their first two systems by delivering them to Marine Air Control Squadrons 1 and 2 for operational use.
Comms
Thales, Cubic partner for UK training and simulation bid - News
March 02, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a Cubic Corp. business division, is teaming up with Thales in the U.K. to bid for the Training and Simulation Systems Programme (TSSP) Joint Fires Synthetic Training (JFST) project.
Unmanned
Royal navy's Type 26 combat ship will be equipped with Lockheed Martin's MK 41 VLS - News
March 01, 2018
HAVANT, England. Officials at BAE Systems selected Lockheed Martin to equip the Royal navy's new Type 26 Global Combat Ship with the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS).
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