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Cyber

Cybersecurity contracts awarded to Airbus - News

January 28, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus CyberSecurity

FRANCE. Airbus CyberSecurity won five contracts with organizations in the industrial, finance, and institutional sectors, some of which are operators of essential services. These contracts concern the surveillance and protection of their information systems and networks from an Airbus CyberSecurity Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Radar/EW

ASW sonars to equip Pohjanmaa class corvettes - News

January 28, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Patria

FINLAND. Patria has been awarded a contract for the design and delivery of new Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Sonars by Saab, the Squadron 2020 Combat System Contractor.

Radar/EW

SOSA-aligned switch and FPGA processing boards to show at TSOA-ID - News

January 27, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Annapolis Micro Systems

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Annapolis Micro Systems is set to show its 100GbE 6E10 6U OpenVPX switch and 6XB2 6U OpenVPX FPGA processing board in a live conformance and interoperability demo at the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) on January 29, 2020 at Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Unmanned

Mil-spec flash storage for airborne systems contract agreed for $36 million - News

January 27, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems One Stop Systems (OSS)

ESCONDIDO, Calif. One Stop Systems (OSS) has signed a sole-source contract with the U.S. Navy to design a new military-spec flash storage array for airborne sensor data collection.

Comms

GPS contract for NIWC awarded to Booz Allen - News

January 27, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Booz Allen Hamilton

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy's Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC Pacific), in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a $178 million contract to provide technical engineering services toward the modernization of advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) systems.

Radar/EW

Hypersonic-missile research and demo pact signed by Northrop Grumman, DARPA - News

January 27, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARLINGTON, Va. the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has signed a contract worth $13 million with Northrop Grumman Systems for the research, development, and demonstration of a technology critical for enabling an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic threats in the upper atmosphere.

Radar/EW

Fire Control Radar support contract won by Longbow - News

January 27, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems LONGBOW LLC

ORLANDO, Fla. Longbow LLC, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman, received a $235.8 million contract to support Fire Control Radar systems for Apache helicopters for 11 foreign governments, the Department of Defense announced.

A.I.

AI-based platform to detect cyberattacks - News

January 24, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Thales

FRANCE. Thales introduced Cybels Analytics, a cybersecurity platform relying on artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data analytics technologies. The platform is designed to detect cyber attacks in real time or in differed time (hunting). It operates as a single platform that allows individual users to adapt the AI algorithms to the specific operational context of each sector.

Comms

DARPA's WARP program to protect wideband RF systems - News

January 24, 2020

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

WASHINGTON. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) introduced its Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program, which seeks to enhance protections for wideband receivers operating in congested and contested electromagnetic (EM) environments.

Comms

ISR contract for Air Force awarded to Huntington Ingalls - News

January 24, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Huntington Ingalls Industries

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Huntington Ingalls won a task order to provide airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to the U.S. Air Force in the European and African theatres of operation, the contractor announced.

Unmanned

Gray Eagle UAS demonstrates multi-domain operations - News

January 23, 2020

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

SAN DIEGO, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the first in a series of internally-funded Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) demonstrations using a company-owned Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). GE-ER is a long-range variant of the U.S. Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS.

Radar/EW

RAT 31 DL/M radar to be supplied to Indonesian Air Force - News

January 23, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leonardo

INDONESIA. Leonardo has signed a contract with Indonesian company PT Len Industri (Persero) to provide a RAT 31 DL/M radar system for the Indonesian Air Force (IAF). The IAF will operate the radar to strengthen the air defense system of the Republic of Indonesia.

Radar/EW

Multi-domain, airborne sensor capability tested by Lockheed Martin - News

January 22, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. Two U.S. Air Force F-35s were integrated with the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), providing an airborne sensor capability to detect, track, and intercept near simultaneous air-breathing threats. The test marked the first time F-35s were used as sensors during an IBCS live fire test against multiple airborne targets.

Cyber

Security platform AmiShare to better encrypt USAF data - News

January 22, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kinnami

WASHINGTON. Kinnami, a data security firm, won a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to optimize its technology to enhance and protect the integrity of USAF data against growing data threats.

Unmanned

Unmanned ship idea from DARPA draws ideas from industry - News

January 22, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held a Proposers' Day for its newest idea regarding unmanned warships: the "NOMARS" [No Manning Required Ship] program.