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A.I.

NGA awards BAE Systems five-year contract for intel, analytics support - News

January 25, 2019
FORT BELVOIR, Va. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded BAE Systems a five-year, $250 million contract to continue providing full-motion Video (FMV) advanced analytic services, training, and intelligence production support to the agency; NGA's task in this area is to analyze FMV feeds to provide actionable intelligence in the pursuit of national security.
Radar/EW

Navy completes unmanned systems integration testing on board USS Independence - News

January 25, 2019
SAN DIEGO. The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Module Program completed shipboard integration testing of two unmanned systems on board USS Independence (LCS 2).
Radar/EW

SEWIP Block 3 production to begin following Milestone C decision - News

January 24, 2019
BALTIMORE. Northrop Grumman Corp. received authorization to proceed with low rate initial production (LRIP) of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 systems following a successful Milestone C decision for the SEWIP Block 3 AN/SLQ-32(V)7 program.
A.I.

Charles River Analytics creates tool to help AI communicate effectively with humans - News

January 23, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Developer of intelligent systems solutions, Charles River Analytics Inc. created the Causal Models to Explain Learning (CAMEL) approach under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) effort.
Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin, Fincantieri to build 16th Freedom-variant LCS - News

January 23, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Navy officials released funding for the construction of the 16th Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) under a fixed-price-incentive-fee contract with Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM).
Cyber

Cybersecurity efforts underway for USAF Global Hawk ground control stations - News

January 23, 2019
DULLES, Va. Raytheon officials received a subcontract to deploy sustainment and cybersecurity experts around the world to support the ground control systems and onboard sensors used by the U.S. Air Force fleet (USAF) of RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft.
Cyber

CACI selected to assist NSWCDD with computer program engineering services - News

January 23, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International Inc. signed a $73 million prime contract to provide computer program engineering services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).
Unmanned

French Armed Forces to start using FLIR's nano-UAS for military operations - News

January 22, 2019
WILSONVILLE, Ore. Officials at the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) selected FLIR Systems, Inc. to support the French Operational Pocket Drone (DrOP) program with a contract valued at $89 million.
A.I.

'Swarm and Search AI Challenge' launched by U.S., U.K. research institutes - News

January 22, 2019
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. Officials at the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Wright Brothers Institute, and the University of Dayton Research Institute launched an artificial intelligence (AI) challenge that will conclude with a final showdown on March 29 - 31, 2019.
Avionics

CMV-22B variant support services added to V-22 platform contract with Bell Boeing - News

January 21, 2019
PHILADELPHIA. Officials at the Bell Boeing Joint Program Office signed a firm-fixed-price requirements contract for performance-based logistics (PBL) and engineering support for the V-22 platform. The 11-month base contract with four one-year option periods is valued approximately $143.8 million.
A.I.

AI, machine learning boosting supply chain analytics market - News

January 21, 2019
NORTHBROOK, Ill. MarketsandMarkets officials released the report titled: "Supply Chain Analytics Market by Software (Supplier Performance Analytics, Demand Analysis and Forecasting, and Inventory Analytics), Services, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Industry Vertical, and Region - Global Forecast to 2023."
Radar/EW

Raytheon selected to repair F/A-18 aircraft radar systems - News

January 21, 2019
ALTHAM, Mass. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials placed a delivery order in the approximate amount of $24.3 million for the repair of the APG 65/73 radar systems in support of the F/A-18 aircraft.
Radar/EW

Land-based radar support contract won by Saab - News

January 21, 2019
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. U.K. Minitry of Defence (MoD) officials signed a contract with Saab for support and services related to the land-based Giraffe AMB radar systems. The contract period runs from 2019 to 2024.
Comms

DARPA launches GAPS to create physical guarantees when exchanging secure data - News

January 21, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials kicked of the Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS) program, which aims to develop hardware and software architectures that can provide physically provable guarantees around high-risk transactions, or where data moves between systems of different security levels.
Cyber

HII agrees to acquire Fulcrum IT Services - News

January 21, 2019
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Officials Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) entered into an agreement to acquire Fulcrum IT Services, LLC, an information technology and government consulting company headquartered in Centreville, Virginia.