Industry News

Unmanned

Army, Orbital ATK showcase counter-UAS capabilities - News

January 19, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbital ATK

FORT SILL, Okla. The U.S. Army and aerospace/defense company Orbital ATK (Dulles, Virginia) recently participated in the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at the Fort Sill Army post.

Comms

U.S. Army approves full-rate production contract for PacStar's communications modules - News

January 18, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems PacStar

PORTLAND, Ore. U.S. Army officials approved the full-rate production of PacStar's 400-Series small form factor (SFF) tactical and deployable communications modules under the Army Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) program.

Cyber

DoD taps Kratos to modernize cyberspace defense support network - News

January 18, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

SAN DIEGO. National security contractor Kratos Defense & Security Solutions was awarded a full and open Task Order (TO) from a Department of Defense Command to modernize and expand a closed network that supports and protects a significant portion of a cyberspace weapon system. The TO is worth up to $10.5 million.

Radar/EW

NASA Goddard to increase computing capacity to 5 petaFLOPS under newest CSRA contract - News

January 18, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Technology/IT contractor CSRA acquired another compute expansion under its high performance computing (HPC) contract with NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); this latest HPC system expansion represents the 14th incremental expansion of the Scalable Compute Unit (SCU14) architecture used at the Goddard HPC center.

Comms

U.S. Army signs five-year contract for networked training, readiness support with Calibre - News

January 17, 2018

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

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Consulting and IT solutions company Calibre Systems has obtained a five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity prime contract with a ceiling value of $554 million to support the U.S. Army Training Support Systems Enterprise (TSS-E).

Comms

DAC to address full spectrum of acquisition & sustainment processes under DoD contract - News

January 17, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Decisive Analytics Corporation

ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L) selected DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corp. (DAC) to provide provide Life Cycle Product Support Policy and Program Related Support to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Material Readiness (DASD (MR)). The contract has a ceiling value of approximately $8 million and a total period of performance of up to five years including four option years.

Unmanned

IARPA launches project to detect complex activities using video - News

January 17, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

WASHINGTON. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has announced that it will mount a research effort to develop Deep Intermodal Video Activity (DIVA) to help narrow the gap between human visual perception and a computer?s ability to automatically recognize activities.

Unmanned

Scientists improve process in creating high-energy explosive - News

January 17, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army Research Laboratory

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists improved the overall chemical yield derived from diaminoglyoxime (DAG) and significantly increased the amount of material made per reaction, in response to the challenges in making high-energy explosives.

Comms

U.S. Army approves full rate production of Cubic's GATR satellite antennas - News

January 16, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cubic

SAN DIEGO. U.S. Army officials approved the full rate production (FRP) of Cubic Mission Solutions' (CMS) - a business division at Cubic Corp. - GATR satellite antenna systems under the Army's Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) program.

Radar/EW

Cobham to deliver electronic warfare, threat simulation training under NATO contract - News

January 16, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cobham

BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom. Officials at the Special Mission business unit at Cobham received a follow-on contract to delivery operational readiness training to NATO for up to five years.

Unmanned

CRA to build hands-free robotic interface for U.S. Army - News

January 16, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Charles River Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) has announced a follow-on contract to build a hands-free human-machine interface (HMI) for the U.S. Army. The contract will be in force for two years and is valued at $1 million.

Comms

U.S. Special Forces choose Viasat for $350 million networking, comms upgrade - News

January 16, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems ViaSat

CARLSBAD, Calif. Communications provider Viasat Inc.has won an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the U.S. Special Operations Forces to provide advanced equipment, systems, services, and support to modernize the units' ground/air situational awareness; tactical data links; terrestrial networking; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); tactical satellite communications; information assurance; network management; and cybersecurity. The contract has an initial ceiling of $350 million.

Cyber

DARPA program aims to make network-connected systems less vulnerable - News

January 15, 2018

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 launched a new program it calls Configuration Security (ConSec) that aims to develop a system to automatically generate, deploy, and manage inherently more secure configurations of components and subsystems for end-use in military platforms.

Radar/EW

Ballistic missile testing, modeling, & simulation work part of $641 million contract with MDA - News

January 15, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) officials selected Raytheon for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) tests related activities for multiple radar platforms that includes planning, executing, and analyzing sensor performance in BMDS flight tests and ground tests for each test event defined in the BMDS integrated master test plan. The contract has a max valued of $641,758,000.

A.I.

Human/AI collaborations improve via Army Research Laboratory program - News

January 15, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army Research Laboratory

ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists completed the Autonomy Research Pilot Initiative (ARPI) and developed ways to improve collaborations between humans and artificially intelligent agents.