Industry News

Radar/EW

Intelligent SDRs for Navy aircraft, subs, UAVs get $10 million in delivery orders - News

December 14, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Azure Summit Technology

FAIRFAX, Va. Radio-frequency (RF) products provider Azure Summit Technology has secured third and fourth delivery orders on its five-year, $48.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the U.S. Navy to support the AN/ZLQ-1 V2 Common Chassis for the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA), Persistent Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMUAS), and Submarine Sensor Systems programs.

Radar/EW

Display systems for Army vehicles to be supplied by Palomar Display Products - News

December 14, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Palomar Display Products

CARLSBAD, Calif. Palomar Display Products has signed two contracts totaling $1.3 million with the U.S. Army to deliver military display systems for the Army's armored vehicles.

Comms

Serco awarded two $46 million task orders to assemble IT Networks in hardened shipboard racks - News

December 14, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Serco, Inc.

HERNDON, Va. Officials at the Department of the Navy Program Executive Office (PEO) for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) program office selected Serco Inc. for two production task orders worth approximately $46 million. Under the task orders, Serco will source and assemble the required IT Network systems in hardened shipboard racks.

Comms

ASU-led team to identify emerging tech to improve military medical patient care - News

December 14, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

TEMPE, Ariz. In partnership with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) officials selected the Arizona State University (ASU) W.P. Carey School of Business, Active Innovations, LLC, Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), and Expression Networks, LLC to facilitate modernization of the open architecture, web-based Defense Medical Logistics ? Enterprise Solution (DML?ES).

Radar/EW

DARPA seeks proposals to bring ERI program innovations to defense applications - News

December 13, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials are hosting a Proposers Day on December 19 to convene leaders within the defense industry base (DIB) to discuss opportunities to further develop and demonstrate Electronics Resurgence Initiative's (ERI) technological advances for Department of Defense (D0D) needs.

Radar/EW

Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) contracts won by D-TA Systems - News

December 12, 2018

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems D-TA Systems, Inc.

OTTAWA, Ontario. D-TA Systems won three Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) projects worth more than $14 million this year.

Unmanned

Airbus UASs to get extended operation contract in Afghanistan and Mali - News

December 12, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus

BREMEN, Germany. Germany's air force has extended the successful operation of the Heron 1 unmanned aerial systems (UASs) -- built and supported by by Airbus DS Airborne Solutions GmbH, an Airbus company -- in Afghanistan and Mali until midyear 2020.

Radar/EW

SM-3 Block IIA test successfully intercepts ballistic missile - News

December 12, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reports that U.S. Navy sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) successfully conducted Flight Test Integrated-03 (FTI-03), an operational live-fire test demonstrating the Aegis Weapon System Engage On Remote capability to track and intercept an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) target with an Aegis Ashore-launched Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor.

A.I.

AI in warfare book released - News

December 12, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SparkCognition

AUSTIN, Texas. At this years' Time Machine 2018 (TM18) conference, SparkCognition officials released a new book titled: ?Hyperwar: Conflict and Competition in the AI Century,? a collection of essays by defense and emerging tech leaders that addresses the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare today and in the future.

Comms

DLA grants QML Q/Q+ qualification to Cobham's UT32M0R500 microcontroller - News

December 12, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cobham

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions' (Cobham) UT32M0R500 Arm Cortex-M0+ 32-bit processor completed the qualification process and received Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Qualified Manufacturer?s List (QML) Q and Q+ qualification.

Radar/EW

Future USS Billings completes acceptance trials - News

December 11, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

MARINETTE, Wis. Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 15, the future USS Billings, has completed acceptance trials in the waters of Lake Michigan, its last significant milestone before delivery to the U.S. Navy during 2019.

Radar/EW

EW, avionics, smallsats, partnerships to be focus of Harris Corp.'s investments in Florida - News

December 11, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Harris Corporation

MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corporation plans to invest more than $125 million in internal research and development (R&D) in its central Florida locations this fiscal year, say company officials, with the R&D activities primarily focusing on areas including electronic warfare (EW), robotics, avionics, and smallsats.

Unmanned

B-21 weapon system undergoes critical design review - News

December 11, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider program conducted a critical design review on its weapon systems November 28-30, 2018. The event served as a multidisciplined technical review to ensure the Air Force?s newest bomber has a stable and mature design as the program moves forward into manufacturing and flight test.

Comms

CubeSat market to reach $375 million by 2023, says report - News

December 10, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The global CubeSat market is projected to grow from $152 million in 2018 to $375 million by 2023, at a CAGR of 19.87 percent, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets, "CubeSat Market by Application (Earth Observation & Traffic Monitoring, Communication, Science & Technology and Education), End User (Government & Military, Commercial, Non-profit Organizations), Size, Subsystem, and Region -- Global Forecast to 2023."

Avionics

Wright-Patterson AFB to host F-35 support organization - News

December 07, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. U.S. Air Force officials selected Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio, as the preferred location for the F-35 Lightning II Hybrid Product Support Integrator (HPSI) organization which supports the entire F-35 enterprise to include joint and international partners.