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Avionics

S-70M Black Hawk helicopter receives FAA type certification in the Restricted Category - News

March 05, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

ATLANTA. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials granted Sikorsky?s S-70M Black Hawk helicopter the FAA?s type certification in the Restricted Category.

Radar/EW

Army CREW Duke system to receive updated RMI kits under $20 million contract - News

March 05, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SRCTec, LLC

SYRACUSE, N.Y. SRCTec, LLC will deliver reliability, maintainability, and improvement (RMI) kits to update the AN/VLQ-12 countermeasures set under a $20 million U.S. Army contract.

Avionics

Helmet mounted display systems selected for the Army's Air Soldier System - News

March 05, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems

HAIFA, Israel. U.S. Army officials selected Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a Elbit Systems Ltd. subsidiary, to provide a wide field of view Common Helmet Mounted Display (CHMD) system.

Comms

ManTech to acquire Kforce Government Solutions - News

March 05, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ManTech

HERNDON, Va. Officials at ManTech International Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kforce Government Solutions, Inc. (KGS), formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kforce, Inc. for $115 million in cash.

Radar/EW

Army integrates countermeasures, sensor into MAPS framework - News

March 04, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army completed the integration of three countermeasures and a cueing sensor into the Modular Active Protection Systems (MAPS) framework with the support from Lockheed Martin and its industry partners. The integration was completed during a six-week "rodeo" conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Unmanned

Next generation of radar sensors to be developed by Northrop Grumman - News

March 04, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. U.S. Army officials selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to develop the AN/APR-39E(V)2, the next generation of radar threat warning sensors.

A.I.

DARPA to leverage quantum devices to help solve complex optimization problems - News

March 04, 2019

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

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program to exploit quantum information processing before fully fault-tolerant quantum computers exist.

Cyber

BAE Systems selected to bid in $898 million IDIQ cyber engineering contract - News

March 04, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

MCLEAN, Va. BAE Systems will be able to compete for future cyber engineering task orders awarded under a seven and a half-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ), U.S. Navy contract.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy places $5.5 million follow-on order for DRFM jammers - News

March 01, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Mercury Systems

ANDOVER, Mass. U.S. Navy officials released an additional $5.5 million in funds to Mercury Systems for follow-on orders against its previously announced $152 million five-year sole-source basic ordering agreement (BOA) to deliver advanced Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) jammers.

Comms

Army places $75 million FMTV order with Oshkosh Defense - News

March 01, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Oshkosh Defense

OSHKOSH, Wis. Officials at the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) placed a $75 million order with Oshkosh Defense, LLC, an Oshkosh Corp. company, for 354 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) A1P2 trucks and trailers.

Radar/EW

F-35 electronic warfare system updates complete - News

February 28, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

NASHUA, N.H. Upgrades to the F-35 electronic warfare (EW) systems have been completed by BAE Systems, officials announce.

Unmanned

Mine-hunting sonar system completes developmental testing - News

February 27, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane Division

PANAMA CITY, Fla. U.S. Navy officials announced that the AN/AQS-20C mine-hunting sonar system has completed development testing at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division.

Unmanned

ARL, Lockheed Martin agreement to focus on defense optical tech, protective coatings - News

February 27, 2019

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

ADELPHI, Md. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lockheed Martin entered into a five-year cooperative agreement, titled "Self-Assembly of Nanostructures for Tunable Materials."

Comms

Military simulation and virtual training market to reach $15.07 billion by 2025, study says - News

February 27, 2019

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

SAN FRANCISCO. The worldwide military simulation and virtual training market size is expected to reach $15.07 billion by 2025, according to a study conducted by Grand View Research, "Military Simulation and Virtual Training Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Platform Type (Flight, Vehicle, Battlefield, Virtual Boot Camp), By Application (Ground, Air, Naval), And Segment Forecasts, 2018 - 2025."

Avionics

Wind River releases Helix Virtualizing Platform - News

February 27, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Wind River

ALAMEDA, Calif. Officials at Wind River released the Helix Virtualization Platform (Helix Platform), which combines the company's commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) and embedded Linux distribution into an edge compute software platform.