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USMC F-35, Navy ship interoperability demo established digital air connection - News
October 30, 2018
TEWKSBURY, Mass. The U.S. Navy and Raytheon completed a demonstration showing that Raytheon's Ship Self Defense System established a digital air connection between a sea-based U.S. Navy ship and an airborne U.S. Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35B aircraft.
Comms
ASU, ARL researches tout superhero-like strength with new alloys - News
October 30, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Arizona State University (ASU) and U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) researchers teamed up to designed a super strong alloy of copper and tantalum that can withstand extreme impact and temperature.
Comms
DoD COTS software, hardware $564 million support contract won by Perspecta - News
October 30, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. Officials General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Assisted Acquisition Services Region 03 on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) selected Enterprise Services LLC, a Perspecta Inc. subsidiary, to continue providing maintenance and integration services of mission-critical hardware and software. The contract is a five-year task order with a maximum ceiling value of $564 million if all options are exercised.
Avionics
Boeing to continue work on F/A-18 Super Hornet, Growler - News
October 29, 2018
PLANO, Texas. U.S. Naval Air Systems Command officials modified an existing contract with Boeing to continue its maintenance work on U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The new contract is valued at $204 million, if all options are exercised.
Radar/EW
Hawkeye aircraft sensor development won by ManTech - News
October 29, 2018
HERNDON, Va. Officials at ManTech announced a $45 million four-year contract for technical advancement of sensors used by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Hawkeye aircraft (PMA-231) for the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane.
Cyber
West Point, MacB sign CRADA aimed at cyber operations - News
October 29, 2018
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Maryland. Officials at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Enlighten IT Consulting -- a MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) subsidiary, an Alion Company.
Cyber
IBM to acquire Red Hat for approximately $34 billion - News
October 29, 2018
ARMONK, N.Y. and RALEIGH, N.C. Red Hat and IBM officials entered into a definitive agreement, under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.
Radar/EW
Aegis Combat System SM-3 successfully trials against medium-range ballistic missile - News
October 29, 2018
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG-113) recently conducted a successful intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test off the west coast of Hawaii. SM-3 is the only ballistic missile interceptor that can be launched at sea and on land.
Radar/EW
Radar, EW comms jammer pods for Growler aircraft announced by U.S. Navy - News
October 29, 2018
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy awarded Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET) contracts valued at about $36 million each to L3 Technologies Communications Systems West and Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems in support of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) capability.
Radar/EW
ISR sensor signal processing webcast Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 2 pm Est - News
October 26, 2018
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona. Military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors are essential to not only winning battles but maintaining the peace and keeping adversaries in check. As threats continue to evolve and get more sophisticated so must ISR sensor processing systems. A webcast, titled "Embedded Signal Processing for Military ISR Sensor Systems," on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 2 pm Est. embedded signal processing experts will cover how military electronics designers are by leveraging the latest commercial signal processing technology in rugged, open architecture designs.
Comms
Insitu UAVs to incorporate Persistent Systems MANET technology - News
October 25, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y. Officials at Insitu, a Boeing Company, and Persistent Systems, LLC. entered in a five-year agreement to incorporate Persistent?s Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology into their line of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the ScanEagle, ScanEagle2, ScanEagle3, Integrator, and RQ-21A Blackjack.
Radar/EW
Perspecta to continue signal processing system support in NAVAIR engineering contract - News
October 25, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. U.S. Navy officials tasked Perspecta Inc. to continue work providing scientific, engineering, and technical management services in support of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a one-year base and four option years with a ceiling value of $36 million.
Radar/EW
U.S. Army AN/TPQ-50 radar systems contract won by SRC Inc. - News
October 25, 2018
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Officials at the U.S. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground selected SRC Inc. to deliver AN/TPQ-50 radar systems.
Unmanned
DoD counter-UAV contract will use Blighter radar tech - News
October 25, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. British company Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd. -- which designs and makes electronic-scanning (e-scan) radars and surveillance solutions -- is under contract to supply its counter-UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] radar technology to Liteye Systems (Centennial, Colorado and Colchester, U.K.) as part of Liteye's recently signed multimillion-dollar contract with the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver numerous containerized anti-unmanned aircraft systems (known as C-AUDS) to the DoD by the end of the fourth quarter of 2018.
Unmanned
DARPA swarm effort signs Charles River Analytics contract for enhanced algorithms, tactics - News
October 24, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has won a contract option to integrate its SATURN [Swarm Algorithms and Tactics for Urban Reconnaissance and Isolation] capabilities into DARPA's Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
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Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies
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