Industry News

Radar/EW

KC-390 aircraft to be equipped with electronic warfare suite - News

October 31, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it won a contract valued at approximately $50 million from the Portuguese Ministry of Defense to supply the Portuguese Air Force (PtAF) with a complete Electronic Warfare (EW) suite and Customer Logistics Support for the new KC-390 multi-mission aircraft.

A.I.

Human-algorithm teaming system developed for ONR - News

October 30, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Decisive Analytics Corporation

ARLINGTON, Va. Decisive Analytics Corporation?s Analytic Technologies Sector has been awarded a $1.75 million contract to develop the Text to Tracks (T2T) program for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The goal of this work is to integrate a human-algorithm teaming system that allows warfighters to vet and adjust automatically generated proposals for updates to the Tactical Common Picture (TCP).

Cyber

Cybersecurity work for Army to be continued by Perspecta Labs - News

October 30, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Perspecta Labs

CHANTILLY, Va. Perspecta Inc. announced that its innovative research arm, Perspecta Labs, won a task order from the U.S. Army as the Applied Research and Experimentation Partner (AREP) for the cybersecurity Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA) program. The program has a maximum potential value of $25 million over a five-year period of performance if all options are exercised.

Unmanned

Airborne dual-band decoy for U.S. Navy delivered by Raytheon - News

October 30, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon won a $33 million U.S. Navy Demonstration of Existing Technology contract to develop a modern towed decoy for the F/A-18 E/F over the next 27 months.

Radar/EW

Best in Show awards selected at AOC 2019 - News

October 29, 2019

Comms

IMD support services to be provided to U.S. Air Force by SRC - News

October 29, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SRC

DAYTON, Ohio. SRC, Inc., won a General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement to provide intelligence mission data (IMD) support services to the U.S. Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). The agreement has a $376 million ceiling over five base years and five additional option years.

Unmanned

Lithium-ion battery for Raytheon's CUAS laser provided by Spear - News

October 29, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Spear Power Systems, Inc.

GRANDVIEW, Mo. Spear Power Systems, Inc. (Spear) has provided an advanced lithium-ion battery system to Raytheon for the a counter-unmanned aerial system (CUAS) delivered to the U.S. Air Force.

Radar/EW

Radar tool from Northrop Grumman to train crews on air defense shown at AOC 2019 - News

October 29, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Northrop Grumman is showing its Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) at the AOC Convention this week; the JTE simulates both single- and double-digit surface-to-air and anti-aircraft artillery radar systems to accurately train combat air crews to defeat or avoid Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) around the world in a warlike training environment.

Cyber

Cyberattack-defense tools from Perspecta get NAVAIR nod - News

October 29, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Perspecta Labs

CHANTILLY, Va. Perspecta Labs, the applied research arm of Perspecta Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to enhance and mature its Bus Defender solution for operational testing in airborne platforms. According to company information, the Bus Defender tool detects and blocks cyberattacks and attempts to carry out adversary missions via MIL-STD-1553 buses while ensuring and maintaining proper bus transmission and operation.

Radar/EW

RF analytics tools from HawkEye 360 aim to give users insight into previously hidden spectrum activity - News

October 28, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems HawkEye 360

56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC.Radio frequency (RF) data-analytics company HawkEye 360 (Herndon, Virginia) is showing its suite of tools that enable RF analytics that can give users insight into previously hidden spectrum activity.

Radar/EW

Pentek shows latest intelligent signal recording for SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT use at AOC 2019 show - News

October 28, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Pentek, now part of Mercury

56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Pentek (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey) announced at the AOC show a new entrant to its family of Talon signal recording and playback systems, the RTR 2654 26.5 GHz RF Sentinel Intelligent Signal Scanning rackmount recorder.

Radar/EW

Fast VPX transceiver from Teledyne Defense Electronics to debut at AOC 2019 convention - News

October 28, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Teledyne

56th ANNUAL AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Teledyne Defense Electronics (Mountain View, California) is introducing a modular 6U VPX transceiver with the fast tuning and low phase noise performance at this week's Association of Old Crows (AOC) Symposium.

Radar/EW

SIGINT and countermeasure products to be shown at AOC 2019 convention by ComSec LLC - News

October 28, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems ComSec

56th AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Technical-surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) company ComSec (Virginia Beach, Virginia) is showing several of its TSCM and SIGINT product lines -- aimed at use in government, military, and law-enforcement applications -- at this week's Association of Old Crows International Symposium and Convention.

Avionics

First NH90 Sea Lion delivered to the German Navy - News

October 25, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus

NETHERLANDS. Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 Sea Lion naval multi-role helicopter to the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), with a further two to be delivered by the end of the year.

Comms

L3Harris to develop space hub end cryptographic unit for USAF - News

October 25, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems L3Harris Technologies

MELBOURNE, Fla. The U.S. Air Force has selected L3Harris Technologies to deliver the space hub end cryptographic unit (ECU) for the Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS) SHIELD program. The Air Force PTS program will implement Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) over a fully-processed satellite payload, enabling adaptive, anti-jam communications channels.