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Radar/EW

U.S. Navy signs destroyer-modernization contracts with BAE Systems - News

January 08, 2018

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

NORFOLK, Va. and SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has signed several contracts with the U.S. Navy to perform modernization and upgrades on the guided missile destroyers USS Howard (DDG 83) and USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79).

Comms

DARPA program to focus on disease outbreak infrastructure, prevention - News

January 08, 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) is debuting a new program -- dubbed Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT) -- that seeks to support military readiness by going after new viral infectious diseases at the source; advance understanding of viruses and their interaction with animals, insects, and humans; and build infrastructure to deliver proactive interventions to reduce the risk from emerging and reemerging pathogens.

Radar/EW

Army awards $945 million contract for advanced Patriot missiles - News

January 08, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control business unit recently secured a $945 million modification contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command to exercise the production option of fiscal 2018 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles.

Unmanned

U.S. Air Force signs rocket development deal for national-security space missions - News

January 05, 2018

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

DULLES, Va. The U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Orbital ATK to provide the framework and plan for data exchanges needed to certify Orbital ATK?s Next Generation Launch (NGL) system to carry national security space missions.

Unmanned

Army awards $93 million unmanned drone contract to Kratos division - News

January 05, 2018

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

SAN DIEGO. National-security solutions company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced today that its Composite Engineering subsidiary (Roseville, California, part of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division) was awarded a $93 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to build advanced subscale aerial drone systems, an unmanned target aircraft with launchers and associated ground equipment and spares.

Comms

DoD orders advanced capacitors to aid in nonlethal force protection, vehicle checkpoints - News

January 05, 2018

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

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has won a contract from the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) through the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) to develop and supply advanced high-energy-density capacitors intended for integration into a nonlethal Pre-Emplaced Vehicle Stopper (PEVS) system for use in force protection and vehicle checkpoint operations.

Unmanned

Orbital ATK moves to full-rate production of its hard target void sensing fuze - News

January 04, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbital ATK

DULLES, Va. U.S. Air Force officials selected Orbital ATK for its all-electronic FMU-167/B Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze (HTVSF) under a full-rate production (FRP) contract. The award is worth $23 million following the low-rate initial production contract awarded in 2016.

Unmanned

Aurora Flight Sciences to continue development of Orion UAS - News

January 04, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Aurora Flight Sciences

MANASSAS, Va. Aurora Flight Sciences will continue the development of the Orion Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) under a new U.S. Air Force contract valued at $48 million.

Comms

Defense Dept. mounts initiative to support university-industry research and cooperation - News

January 04, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an award competition for the Defense Enterprise Science Initiative (DESI), a pilot program that supports university-industry collaboration in the area of use-inspired basic research. DESI is sponsored by the Basic Research Office, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and executed in collaboration with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Army Research Office.

Radar/EW

SEAFAC signs $42 million contract to boost signature silencing program - News

January 04, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leidos

RESTON, Va. Information technology and engineering company Leidos was recently awarded a prime contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to support the Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility (SEAFAC) signature silencing program. The single-award, cost-plus fixed-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a five-year performance period and a total value of approximately $42 million.

Unmanned

Bomber Armament Tester contract awarded to BAE Systems, Marvin Test Solutions team - News

January 03, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Marvin Test Solutions

IRVINE, Calif. Marvin Test Solutions, Inc. -- which manufactures globally-deployed test solutions for military, aerospace, and manufacturing organizations -- announced that it is a member of the BAE Systems-led team that won the U.S. Air Force Bomber Armament Tester (BAT) program competition in late 2017. The contract value of more than $64 million provides for the design, development, manufacturing, and sustainment of the BAT system.

Unmanned

NAVAIR signs $255 million contract for additional MQ-4C UAVs - News

January 03, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION, Md. Officials at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced a $255.3 million contract agreement with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (San Diego) for three additional MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Comms

NATO to meet integrated waveform baseline of its UHF SATCOM control stations - News

January 03, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ViaSat

CARLSBAD, Calif. NATO officials tapped Viasat Inc. to upgrade its UHF satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline.

Radar/EW

USAF signs $333.4 million contract for follow-on radar surveillance - News

January 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

WALTHAM, Mass. Raytheon has signed a contract worth a potential $333.4 million (100 percent foreign military sales) with the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide operations and maintenance support services for a surveillance radar program.

Radar/EW

Global EW market to grow to $17.5 billion by 2027, say analysts - News

January 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Strategic Defence Intelligence

LONDON. The global electronic warfare (EW) market -- valued at more than $13 billion in 2017 -- will grow at a combined annual growth rate of more than 2.6 percent to be worth $17.7 billion by 2027, according to a forecast by analysts at Strategic Defence Intelligence.