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Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin, Fincantieri to build 16th Freedom-variant LCS - News

January 23, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Navy officials released funding for the construction of the 16th Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) under a fixed-price-incentive-fee contract with Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM).

Cyber

Cybersecurity efforts underway for USAF Global Hawk ground control stations - News

January 23, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

DULLES, Va. Raytheon officials received a subcontract to deploy sustainment and cybersecurity experts around the world to support the ground control systems and onboard sensors used by the U.S. Air Force fleet (USAF) of RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft.

Cyber

CACI selected to assist NSWCDD with computer program engineering services - News

January 23, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems CACI

ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International Inc. signed a $73 million prime contract to provide computer program engineering services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).

Unmanned

French Armed Forces to start using FLIR's nano-UAS for military operations - News

January 22, 2019

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

WILSONVILLE, Ore. Officials at the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) selected FLIR Systems, Inc. to support the French Operational Pocket Drone (DrOP) program with a contract valued at $89 million.

A.I.

'Swarm and Search AI Challenge' launched by U.S., U.K. research institutes - News

January 22, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. Officials at the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Wright Brothers Institute, and the University of Dayton Research Institute launched an artificial intelligence (AI) challenge that will conclude with a final showdown on March 29 - 31, 2019.

Avionics

CMV-22B variant support services added to V-22 platform contract with Bell Boeing - News

January 21, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

PHILADELPHIA. Officials at the Bell Boeing Joint Program Office signed a firm-fixed-price requirements contract for performance-based logistics (PBL) and engineering support for the V-22 platform. The 11-month base contract with four one-year option periods is valued approximately $143.8 million.

A.I.

AI, machine learning boosting supply chain analytics market - News

January 21, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Markets and Markets

NORTHBROOK, Ill. MarketsandMarkets officials released the report titled: "Supply Chain Analytics Market by Software (Supplier Performance Analytics, Demand Analysis and Forecasting, and Inventory Analytics), Services, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Industry Vertical, and Region - Global Forecast to 2023."

Radar/EW

Raytheon selected to repair F/A-18 aircraft radar systems - News

January 21, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

ALTHAM, Mass. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials placed a delivery order in the approximate amount of $24.3 million for the repair of the APG 65/73 radar systems in support of the F/A-18 aircraft.

Radar/EW

Land-based radar support contract won by Saab - News

January 21, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Saab

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. U.K. Minitry of Defence (MoD) officials signed a contract with Saab for support and services related to the land-based Giraffe AMB radar systems. The contract period runs from 2019 to 2024.

Comms

DARPA launches GAPS to create physical guarantees when exchanging secure data - News

January 21, 2019

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials kicked of the Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS) program, which aims to develop hardware and software architectures that can provide physically provable guarantees around high-risk transactions, or where data moves between systems of different security levels.

Cyber

HII agrees to acquire Fulcrum IT Services - News

January 21, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Huntington Ingalls Industries

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Officials Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) entered into an agreement to acquire Fulcrum IT Services, LLC, an information technology and government consulting company headquartered in Centreville, Virginia.

Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin continues LRASM production in $172 million contract - News

January 18, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Navy and Air Force officials signed a $172 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the continued production of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).

Comms

SiOnyx to deliver night vision cameras for IVAS program - News

January 18, 2019

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

BEVERLY, Mass. U.S. Army officials selected SiOnyx, LLC. to deliver its digital night vision cameras for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. The contract is worth $19.9 million.

Radar/EW

F/A-18 classic Hornet fleet begins AESA radar upgrade in 2020 - News

January 18, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) officials selected Raytheon's APG-79(v)4 AESA radar to equip its F/A-18C/D classic Hornet fleet.

Avionics

Avionics from Collins Aerospace will ride on NASA's QueSST demonstrator aircraft - News

January 17, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Collins Aerospace

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide avionics for NASA's new X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft; Lockheed Martin is developing the X-59 in order for NASA to collect data that could make supersonic commercial travel over land possible through low-sonic-boom technology.