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Radar/EW

Space Force capabilities to be modernized by L3 Harris - News

April 03, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems L3Harris Technologies

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23 million contract to modernize and sustain critical space infrastructure used by the military to keep track of activities and objects in space.

Unmanned

Additional unmanned MQ-25s ordered by U.S. Navy - News

April 03, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

CHICAGO, Ill. The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a contract modification for three additional MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling aircraft, bringing the total number of aircraft Boeing is manufacturing to seven.

Comms

Multi-band Gaia 5.5m ground station order announced - News

April 02, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbit Communication Systems

ISRAEL. Orbit Communication Systems Ltd., a global provider of compact ground stations and tracking aeronautical and maritime terminals, announced a new order for a multi-band Gaia 5.5 m ground station.

Unmanned

AI-enabled, radar-based interceptor UAV shipped - News

April 02, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Fortem Technologies, Inc.

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah. Fortem Technologies, Inc., counter-drone security and defense solutions company, announced the shipment of the new AI-enabled F700 DroneHunter. Designed to combat ineffective ground station jamming, the F700 is intended to be a deterrent against the rising number of adversarial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

Cyber

Cybersecurity for military vehicles the object of Army CRADA - News

April 02, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Shift5

ARLINGTON, Va. Cybersecurity company Shift5 announced that it has reached a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), the U.S. armed forces' research and development facility for advanced technology in ground vehicle systems.

Avionics

F-16 Identification Friend or Foe system to be upgraded - News

April 01, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

KOREA. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Republic of Korea to upgrade its F-16 Block 32 aircraft with Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), Link 16 Tactical Datalink (TDL), and related equipment for an estimated cost of $194 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification.

Comms

Army comms network supported under GTACS II - News

April 01, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Envistacom

ATLANTA, Ga. Envistacom, LLC announced a Prime contract award by U.S. Army Contracting Command on the 10-year $5.1 billion Global Tactical Communications Systems (GTACS) II contract vehicle that supports the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), and Project Manager Tactical Network (PM Tactical Network).

Unmanned

MQ-9B SkyGuardian completes first production-representative - News

April 01, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed the first production-representative MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). First flight of this aircraft took place on March 30, 2020 at GA-ASI’s Flight Operations Facility in El Mirage, Calif.

Cyber

Probabilistic modeling goal of DARPA's Brandeis program - News

March 31, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Charles River Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Charles River Analytics Inc., developer of intelligent systems solutions, partnered with Galois, Inc. to integrate probabilistic modeling into the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Brandeis program.

A.I.

Automation software to be integrated into UAV program - News

March 31, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SteelCloud

ASHBURN, Va. SteelCloud LLC announced that its ConfigOS STIG compliance software has been selected to automate STIG compliance for a Department of Defense Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program.

Comms

NAVAIR and Hughes enhance communications contract for U.S. Coast Guard ISR, satcom - News

March 30, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Hughes Network Systems

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) has awarded Hughes Network Systems a $3.5 million follow-on contract to provide satellite communications systems integration for the U.S. Coast Guard on its HC-27J aircraft.

Unmanned

UGVs to be delivered to the U.K. for autonomous R&D - News

March 30, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Milrem Robotics

UNITED KINGDOM. Milrem Robotics will deliver two unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) of the United Kingdom.

Comms

Upgraded GPS operational control system paves way for M-Code roll-out - News

March 30, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

WASHINGTON. As part of the U.S. military’s effort to modernize the Global Positioning System (GPS), the U.S. Space Force has been upgrading its existing GPS Ground Operational Control System (OCS). The Space Force recently announced Operational Acceptance of the GPS Contingency Operations (COps) upgrade, developed by Lockheed Martin. COps enabled control of the operational GPS constellation, now containing 21 M-Code capable GPS satellites.

Cyber

Predator Mission Trainer installed at flight training center - News

March 30, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has installed a new Predator Mission Trainer (PMT) at its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) in Grand Forks, N.D. The aircraft flight simulator, produced by CAE, will be used to train operators of MQ-9 Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA).

Radar/EW

Optical interconnects to bolster digital microelectronics - News

March 27, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Intel Corporation U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

WASHINGTON. Researchers from Intel and Ayar Labs working on DARPA’s Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) program have replaced the traditional electrical input/output (I/O) of a state-of-the-art field programmable gate array (FPGA) with efficient optical signaling interfaces.