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Avionics

New airborne research aircraft debuted by NRL - News

May 16, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Navy's science and technology research squadron, Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), recently unveiled the UV-18 ?Twin Otter? as the newest addition to the squadron?s fleet of aircraft research platforms.

Comms

Military wearables market to reach $6.4 billion by 2025, study says - News

May 16, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Markets and Markets

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The market for military wearables is projected to grow from $4.2 billion in 2019 to $6.4 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.17% from 2019 to 2025, according to a study from MarketsandMarkets, "Military Wearables Market by End User (Land, Airborne, and Naval), Technology (Communication and Computing, Connectivity, Navigation, Vision & Surveillance, Exoskeleton, Power & Energy Management), Wearable Type, Region -- Global Forecast to 2025."

Unmanned

Anti-submarine warfare training system selected by U.K. royal navy - News

May 14, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Saab Qinetiq

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. U.K.?s Royal Navy selected Saab and QinetiQ to deliver an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system. Delivery is expected to take place in 2019.

Radar/EW

USMC G/ATOR passes initial operational test and evaluation - News

May 14, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BALTIMORE. Northrop Grumman officials announced that the U.S. Marine Corps' (USMC) AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) Blocks 1 and 2 passed Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E).

Radar/EW

Cooperative engagement capability for U.S. Navy to be provided by Raytheon - News

May 13, 2019

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts. Raytheon in Largo, Florida, won a contract to design agent and engineering services efforts to support the U.S. Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC).

Radar/EW

CACI to leverage signal processing framework on new TENCAP technologies - News

May 10, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems CACI

ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at the General Services Administration?s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center selected CACI International Inc. for a $415 million contract to design and deploy new technologies for the U.S. Army?s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office.

Unmanned

Harris to supply its open systems COTS processor for the MQ-25 program - News

May 10, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems L3Harris Technologies

MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris will supply its mission management open systems processor to Boeing under a contract to support the U.S. Navy's MQ-25 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) refueling program

Unmanned

Raytheon garners OTA agreement to deliver Naval Strike Missiles to USMC - News

May 09, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TUCSON, Ariz. U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command tapped Raytheon to integrate the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) into the U.S. Marine Corps' (USMC) existing force structure under a $47.59 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement.

A.I.

AlphaDogfight Trials challenge kicks off new DARPA AI-focused program - News

May 09, 2019

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are launching the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which aims to increase warfighter trust in autonomous combat technology by using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its initial challenge scenario.

Unmanned

Military unmanned surface vehicles will drive 7% growth in unmanned vehicle market to 2024, study says - News

May 09, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems GlobalData

LONDON. The military unmanned vehicle market is set to deliver 7% growth between 2019 and 2024, driven mainly by unmanned surface vehicles, according to a recent study by GlobalData.

Comms

Command-and-control systems market worth $25.04 billion by 2025, study says - News

May 09, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Grand View Research

SAN FRANCISCO. The global command-and-control (C2) systems market is anticipated to reach $25.04 billion by 2025, a CAGR of 3.8% over the forecast period, states a new report by Grand View Research, "Command and Control Systems Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Platform (Land, Maritime, Space, Airborne), By Solution, By Application (Defense, Commercial), And Segment Forecasts, 2019-2025."

Unmanned

Raytheon tests rocket motor for DARPA's MAD-FIRES - News

May 08, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. Engineers at Raytheon completed testing of a hot fire rocket motor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Multi-Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System (MAD-FIRES).

Comms

Northrop Grumman team demos rapid spacecraft development - News

May 08, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) program, a Northrop Grumman-led team demonstrated rapid spacecraft development.

Avionics

F-22 Raptor fleet upgrades process is accelerated through Lockheed Martin, Red Hat partnership - News

May 08, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin Red Hat

BOSTON. Lockheed Martin teamed up with Red Hat to to modernize the application development process to bring new capabilities to the U.S. Air Force?s fleet of F-22 Raptor fighter jets.

Comms

Memory module for harsh environments shown by SMART Modular Technologies at Sea-Air-Space show - News

May 07, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems SMART Modular Technologies

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2019--NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND. Smart Modular Technologies launched at the Navy League?s Sea-Air-Space 2019 (SAS) exhibition a new entrant to its SMART RUGGED product offering, a 32 GB industrial-grade SO-DIMM that is aimed at ruggedized computing applications used in the defense, industrial, transportation, public safety, and similar arenas.