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Cyber

DARPA program aims to strengthen cybersecurity via automation - News

July 10, 2023

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launced a program it calls the Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) initiative, which intends to identify and fix high-severity, chainable computer vulnerabilities using new techniques driven by program analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to measure vulnerabilities within complex systems like web browsers and mobile operating systems. 

Radar/EW

Air surveillance radars to be provided to Sweden by Thales - News

July 07, 2023

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Thales has won a contract to delivery and install of SMART-L Multi Mission Fixed (MM/F) long-range radars for the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), according to a company statement.

Avionics

Global defense budgets to exceed $2.5 trillion by 2028: report - News

July 06, 2023

CHICAGO, Illinois. Global defense budgets will grow by more than $500 billion in the next five years, according to a new report.

Unmanned

UAS autonomy software pact signed by USAF, Darkhive - News

July 06, 2023

SAN ANTONIO. Autonomous uncrewed systems developer Darkhive won a $5 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract with the U.S. Air Force AFWERX Prime to integrate and test next-generation autonomy software on a variety of uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms.

A.I.

AI/ML sensors demonstrated for German army by Hensoldt - News

July 05, 2023

OBERKOCHEN, Germany. Hensoldt demonstrated the operational capabilities of land-based networked sensors powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), including the technology demonstration vehicle "MUV," at the German Army Combat Training Centre (GÜZ), according to a company statement.

Radar/EW

IR sensor tool kit from RTX gets initial order from U.S. Army - News

July 05, 2023

MCKINNEY, Tex. RTX won a contract with the U.S. Army worth $117.5 million to start low-rate initial production of 3rd-generation forward looking infrared (3GEN FLIR) B-Kit sensors to be installed on combat platforms. 

Unmanned

Comms pod for MQ-9 drones demonstrated for California agencies - News

July 03, 2023

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) demonstrated a communications pod for the MQ-9A Reaper uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for California agencies, the compay announced in a statement.

Comms

Hypersonic missile detection contract for U.S. Space Force won by L3Harris - News

June 30, 2023

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies has won a U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command contract to provide a sensor payload design for the medium Earth orbit (MEO) – Missile Track Custody (MTC) Epoch 1 program, the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

BAE Systems acquires Australian radar and comms company - News

June 30, 2023

CANBERRA, Australia. BAE Systems has bought Radio Frequency Systems (Australia), a former subsidiary of Radio Frequency Systems (Germany), after the parent company decided to withdraw from the defense sector, according to a statement by BAE Systems.

A.I.

Space Development Agency to get AI assist on space-based big data processing - News

June 29, 2023

SUNNYVALE, Calif. GSI Technology announced that it won an Other Transaction Agreement award with a total potential value of approximately $1.25 million with the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the development of a dual use Next-Generation Associative Processing Unit-2 (APU2) for Enhanced Space-Based Capabilities.

Radar/EW

Directed-energy weapons market to top $111 billion by 2030, study says - News

June 29, 2023

DUBLIN. Tthe global market for directed-energy weapons -- estimated at $21.4 billion in 2022 -- is projected to reach $111.4 billion by 2030, growing at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.9% over the study period, according to a new report from Research and Markets, "Directed Energy Weapons: Global Strategic Business Report." 

Cyber

Cyber, software contracts for intel and homeland security garner GDIT $580 million - News

June 29, 2023

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) announced that its Intelligence & Homeland Security Division won two contracts valued at $580 million.

Radar/EW

MOSA Industry & Government Summit/Expo to gather interoperability experts - News

June 28, 2023

ATLANTA. The MOSA Industry & Government Summit & Expo – scheduled for September 18-19, 2023, at the Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta in Atlanta – will feature conference sessions and exposition covering modular open system approach (MOSA) strategies, technology, and industry demonstrations.

Unmanned

Small UAS prototype gets another round of funding from U.S. Army - News

June 28, 2023

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Red Cat Holdings, Inc., a hardware-enabled software provider to the drone industry, announced that its subsidiary Teal Drones has signed a contract with the U.S. Army -- worth an additional $1.2 million -- to continue developing a new small uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) prototype for the Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.  

Comms

X-band SATCOM services contract for DoD won by SES - News

June 28, 2023

RESTON, Virginia. SES Space & Defense has won a five-year $134 million X-Band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Space Force, operating through the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO), the company announced in a statement.