FORT WORTH, Texas. - Elbit Systems (Haifa, Israel) announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, has won a contract worth approximately $35 million from the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) for repair of line-replaceable units (LRUSs) in support of the V-22 Osprey multirole combat aircraft.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded a follow on production contract for AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 systems by the U.S. Navy. The system is employed on Surface Combatants to defeat legacy and emerging anti-ship threats using non-kinetic/electronic attack methodologies.

CENTREVILLE, Va. Parsons Corporation has won a $50.6 million, six-year contract by the U.S. Air Force for the manufacturing, integration, and sustainment of 13 Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordnance (RADBO) systems.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), a business unit of General Dynamics, was awarded a $1.219 billion contract to produce, test, and deliver Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) systems to the U.S. Army. 

ESSINGTON, Penn. Aerospace company Dragonfly Pictures Inc. (DPI) and power component maker Vicor (Andover, Massachusetts) are currently trialling with the U.S. Navy a different class of unmanned aerial system (UAS) or drone: A hover-in-place tethered drone that is powered by an electrical cord connected to a base station.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Abaco Systems has received orders from a major prime contractor to support the upgraded computing capability of a European nation’s fleet of 70 fighter aircraft. 

LA DEFENSE, PARIS. The Thales Group, in conjunction with Leonardo (Rome, Italy) will equip Poland's naval helicopters with four FLASH (Folding Light Acoustic System for Helicopters) sonic systems, a dipping sonar that has antisubmarine warfare capability.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. Silvus Technologies, Inc. announced the receival of a $3 million order from the U.S. Army to provide the first commercial mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio deployed at scale in the Army's Middle-Tier Integrated Tactical Network.

ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems Inc. announced the TAC-3290 family of adaptive microwave tuners that are designed to deliver multi-mission operation to a range of applications such as signal intelligence (SIGINT) and radio frequency (RF) testing.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation has won a task order contract by the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency to help the organization quickly deliver actionable intelligence and enhance decision superiority.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the first flight of the Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), the fourth MQ-9B SkyGuardian air vehicle (the first three MQ-9B air vehicles are company-owned assets supporting the certification qualification).

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Abaco Systems announced a new version of the network management software OpenWare V6.4. The updates in version 6.4 provide new features including innovations allowing for a flexible SFP pluggable transceiver configuration support for the GBX25 6U VME managed Ethernet switch.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Parry Labs LLC has announced the successful demonstration of their hyperconverged mission computing technology, Stellar Relay, designed to enable Architecture, Automation, Autonomy Interfaces (A3I) capabilities for U.S. Special Operations Command in collaboration with the U.S. Army's Project Convergence. 

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona. As military radar, signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic warfare systems get more complex so does the associated signal integrity challenges. These signal integrity concerns didn't even exist 10-15 years ago. As signal density for connectors continues to get tighter as footprints get smaller problems such as crosstalk and geometry of launch greatly affect backplane performance. This webcast titled, "Signal Integrity in Military Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems," to be held on Thursday, October 8, at 2 pm Est., will address these challenges and how VITA standards and open architecture solutions are helping solve them.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.The U.S. Air Force has announced the completion of the Integrated Battle Station (IBS) on the B-1B Lancer fleet. The eight-year project has been completed earlier than anticipated, and 60 aircraft went through the modification process that began in late 2012.