Industry News

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, Inc.

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.

Radar/EW

U.S. Air Force ICBM contract won by Lockheed Martin - News

October 25, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

BETHESDA, Md. The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $108 million contract for the Mark21A Reentry Vehicle (Mk21A) Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) contract. The potential value of the contract is estimated at $138 million: $108 million awarded in the three-year contract and $30 million as a potential one-year contract.

A.I.

DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge won by U of Florida team - News

October 25, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

LOS ANGELES. After three years of competition, the "GatorWings" team from the University of Florida prevailed in the final head-to-head competition of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) -- a long-term challenge run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to find the team whose artifcial intelligence (AI)-managed radio system collaborated best when matched up with the diverse lineup of systems other teams had built and brought to the finale.

Comms

GPS III satellite to provide Air Force with situational awareness - News

October 24, 2019

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The Global Positioning System (GPS) enterprise reached another milestone when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit. The COps system will allow the U.S. Air Force to operationally command and control the GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites currently in the constellation.