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Australia's defense department inks $150 million contract for battle-management system support - News

January 25, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems

KINGSTON, Australia. Elbit Systems of Australia won a contract worth $150 million (AU$186 million) from the Australian Department of Defense?s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group to provide Through Life Support (TLS) services to the Australian Defense Force (ADF) for the Elbit-supplied Battle Management System Command and Control (BMS C2).

Unmanned

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demos SATCOM-enabled UAV launch and recovery - News

January 24, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced a successful recent demonstration of its satellite communications (SATCOM)-enabled Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability (ATLC) using its MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Unmanned

Anti-radiation missile system to undergo upgrade with Orbital ATK - News

January 24, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbital ATK

DULLES, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected Orbital ATK to mature the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) configuration. The result of the developmental contract will be in a preliminary design prior to entry into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase.

Comms

USAF F-16s to receive audio, noise-reduction systems - News

January 24, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Terma

ARLINGTON, Va. Defense and aerospace engineering company Terma North America won a contract worth $44.3 million to equip U.S. Air Force F-16s with its Terma 3D-Audio system.

Radar/EW

ManTech to deliver support for Navy's combat identification systems - News

January 24, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ManTech

HERNDON, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected ManTech International Corp. for a five-year, $35.9 million single indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide engineering and technical services for the Combat Integration & Identification Systems (CI&IDS) Division with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).

Avionics

Belgium looks to purchase 34 F-35 under $6.53 billion contract - News

January 23, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

WASHINGTON. State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Belgium of 34 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) aircraft for an estimated cost of $6.53 billion.

Radar/EW

ANSI & VITA ratify ANSI/VITA 68 VPX compliance channel standard - News

January 23, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems VITA Standards Organization

OKLAHOMA CITY. Officials at the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical and intelligent embedded computing systems markets, VITA, announced the ratification by ANSI and VITA of ANSI/VITA 68.0-2017 ?VPX Compliance Channel? and ANSI/VITA 68.1- 2017 ?VPX Compliance Channel - Fixed Signal Integrity Budget Standard.? These standards have completed the VITA and ANSI processes reaching full recognition under guidance of VITA.

Comms

EHS to support adoption of DOD cloud architectures, services - News

January 23, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Eagle Harbor Solutions LLC (EHS)

CHANTILLY, Va. Eagle Harbor Solutions LLC (EHS), a subsidiary of Koniag Government Services, will support the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG) and Defense Digital Service (DDS) as it executes the acquisition for the DoD enterprise cloud initiative in partnership with the Deputy Chief Management Officer.

Radar/EW

Harris to deliver international F-16 electronic warfare support - News

January 22, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Harris Corporation

MELBOURNE, Fla. U.S. Air Force officials tapped Harris Corp. to provide engineering support services for the electronic warfare (EW) systems onboard the international variant of the F-16.

Comms

DARPA launches six research centers for microelectronics research - News

January 22, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. DARPA and officials at the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP) selected six centers that will undertake high-risk, high-payoff research that addresses existing and emerging challenges in microelectronic technologies.

Unmanned

French government, naval consortium collaborate on first rotary-wing drone for a warship - News

January 22, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

PARIS. France's DGA (Direction g?n?rale de l?armement, the government agency tasked with procuring weapons systems) awarded a contract for technology development in the field of rotary-wing drones to the Naval Group and Airbus Helicopters consortium.

Comms

USAF missile-warning center "talking" with new SBIRS satellite - News

January 22, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Air Force

BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. The U.S. Air Force's 460th Space Wing has made contact with and is now "talking" to the fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite following the satellite's successful launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the evening of January 19, 2018.

Unmanned

USS Fitzgerald arrives in MS for repair, restoration - News

January 22, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Huntington Ingalls Industries

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy reports that the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on January 19 aboard the heavy-lift vessel MV Transshelf after having traveled from Yokosuka, Japan.

A.I.

Extending lifetime of quantum systems is the goal of new DARPA program - News

January 19, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. DARPA?s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) announced the Driven and Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems (DRINQS) program, which aims to extend the lifetime of quantum systems and investigate a recent paradigm shift in quantum research that maintains that periodically driving a system out of equilibrium may stabilize its coherence.

Cyber

GSA awards $165 million contract to bolster U.S. cyberdefense - News

January 19, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Booz Allen Hamilton

MCLEAN, Va. Booz Allen Hamilton has won a five-year, $165 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from the General Services Administration (GSA)/Federal System Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) to provide plans and policy, training, and administrative and staff support services to USCYBERCOM, a subordinate of the Department of Defense?s Strategic Command.