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Comms
Army taps Leonardo DRS for its vehicle-based infrared sensors - News
April 04, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. U.S Army officials selected Leonardo DRS Inc. for a $67 million contract to deliver vehicle-based infrared sensors for surveillance and fire control systems for a variety of ground combat vehicles.
Radar/EW
Hughes signs U.S. Army CRADA for third phase of Blue Force Tracking program - News
April 04, 2019
GERMANTOWN, Md. The U.S. Army and Hughes Network Systems, LLC. entered into a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for the third phase of the Blue Force Tracking (BFT-3) program.
Cyber
Intel, Lockheed Martin jointly release hardened security solution - News
April 04, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO. Intel and Lockheed Martin entered into a collaborative agreement to deliver a hardened security solution based on new 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors to help protect against cyber threats while providing more consistent service performance.
Avionics
USAF 2018 acquisition annual report released taking aim at speed of acquisition reform - News
April 04, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. U.S. Air Force officials released the Fiscal Year 2018 Air Force Acquisition Annual Report, which focuses heavily on the role of speed and discipline in acquisition reform.
Radar/EW
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin team up to pursue contract win under multiagency SENSR program - News
April 03, 2019
WALTHAM, Mass. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon officials are teaming up to pursue the Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) contract that will consolidate and modernize America's aging surveillance and air traffic control radars.
Unmanned
DeepStrike missile for the U.S. Army passes its preliminary design review - News
March 26, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz. The U.S. Army and Raytheon completed a preliminary design review (PDR) for the DeepStrike surface-to-surface missile, moving the weapon toward its first flight tests planned for later this year.
Unmanned
CT technology-based weapon prototype demonstrator delivered to U.S. Army - News
March 26, 2019
HUNT VALLEY, Md. Officials at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Armaments Center and Joint Services Small Arms Program (JSSAP) received the first Next Generation Squad Weapon-Technology (NGSW-T) prototype demonstrators from Textron Systems, a business of Textron Inc.
Cyber
U.S. Navy taps Charles River Analytics to develop a cyberattack detection system - News
March 26, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. U.S. Navy officials selected Charles River Analytics to build a cyber detection system to safeguard the Navy's mission-critical system under the Detecting Anomalies in Application Memory Space (DAAMS) effort. The contract -- with options exercised -- is worth approximately $1.5 million.
Cyber
Air Force 'white hat' event focused on its REMIS maintenance system - News
March 25, 2019
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. U.S. Air Force officials announced at that the Reliability and Maintainability Information System program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, underwent an intentional hack by certified ethical hackers hired under a contract to conduct an analysis of what would happen if an insider ?went rogue.?
A.I.
DARPA teams up with NSF to develop ASICs tailored for machine learning applications - News
March 25, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Agency Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Science Foundation (NSF) are teaming up to collaborate on a new program titled: Real Time Machine Learning (RTML), which seeks to reduce the design costs associated with developing Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) tailored for emerging machine learning (ML) applications by developing a means of automatically generating novel chip designs based on ML frameworks.
Comms
Army National Guard adds 739 new HMMWVs under $89 million contract - News
March 22, 2019
SOUTH BEND, Ind. U.S. Army National Guard officials selected manufacturer of light tactical vehicles, AM General, to deliver 739 new M1152A1 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) as a part of their modernization initiatives under a contract valued at $89 million.
Comms
Navy to host outreach events to establish new connections with small businesses - News
March 22, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Navy is hosting a trio of outreach events through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Institute (UML RI), in Lowell, Massachusetts, April 8-11, 2019.
Avionics
Boeing receives $4 billion multiyear contract for 78 F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet aircraft - News
March 21, 2019
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. U.S. Navy officials signed a multiyear procurement (MYP) contract with Boeing for 78 F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet aircraft that includes 72 aircraft between fiscal years 2019-2021 and six from fiscal year 2018.
Unmanned
Leidos to provide aviation systems readiness support to NAVAIR - News
March 21, 2019
RESTON, Va. U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials selected Leidos to provide flexible, ready, and rapidly deployable capabilities for aviation systems worldwide. The multiple award, hybrid contract has a five-year base period of performance with five optional years, and a total potential value of $12.6 billion.
Radar/EW
Subsystem testing complete for the Navy's Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar - News
March 21, 2019
TEWKSBURY, Mass. The U.S. Navy's Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) completed subsystem testing at Raytheon's Near Field Range in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Comms
DARPA's RSPACE program moves to Phase 3 to improve air battlespace awareness - News
March 21, 2019
BURLINGTON, Mass. BAE Systems is moving to Phase 3 under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program titled Resilient Synchronized Planning and Assessment for the Contested Environment (RSPACE). Under the Phase 3 contract, worth approximately $3.1 million, BAE Systems will continue developing autonomy software to improve the resiliency of air mission planning for the military.
Unmanned
BAE Systems receives $225 million order for additional APKWS kits - News
March 19, 2019
HUDSON, N.H. BAE Systems received a $225 million order from the U.S. Navy for additional Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) kits.
Avionics
A.I.
Charles River Analytics to advance AI tools for military combat medicine - News
March 11, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The U.S. Army awarded Charles River three related contracts to design artificial intelligence-based components for an Automated Ruggedized Combat Casualty Care (ARC3) system.
A.I.
Advancing AI solutions is part of Carnegie Mellon, ARL $72 million research agreement - News
March 11, 2019
ADELPHI, Md. Officials at the Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory, the U.S. Army's corporate laboratory (ARL), announced that Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will lead a consortium of multiple universities to work in collaboration with the Army lab to accelerate research and development (R&D) of advanced algorithms, autonomy, and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance national security and defense.
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