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Avionics

CH-53K King Stallion helicopter production to begin - News

September 04, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

STRATFORD, Conn. The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, selected Lockheed Martin for a Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot 1 contract to build two production CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. The contract is worth $303,974,406 million.

A.I.

Air Force shares UAV software with focus on improved human/machine interface - News

September 01, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The 711th Human Performance Wing?s (711 HPW) Airman Systems Directorate entered into five information transfer agreements (ITAs) with commercial companies to share and provide access to its Vigilant Spirit Control Station (VSCS) software package, which allows operators to control multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) at once.

Avionics

ManTech selected for $39.6 million NAVAIR diagnostic and safety testing contract - News

September 01, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ManTech

HERNDON, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected ManTech International Corp. for a $39.6 million contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) for Systems Integration, Diagnostics and Safety Hazard Testing services for the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).

Radar/EW

Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock completes acceptance trials - News

September 01, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

MARINETTE, Wis. The future USS Little Rock, the fifth Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) built by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine, completed acceptance trials earning the right to fly brooms atop its mast signifying a clean sweep of the ship's sea trials.

Cyber

CACI obtains $51 million task order to develop software for Air Force cyber operations - News

September 01, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems CACI

ARLINGTON, Va. Information-systems provider CACI International has been awarded a $51 million task order to provide software development support to the 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron (90th COS), a subordinate unit of the 24th Air Force, the Air Force?s component to U.S. Cyber Command. The three-year task order was awarded under the Air Force's Network-Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) contract vehicle.

Avionics

State Dept. approves $360 million upgrade program for Australia's MH-60R helicopters - News

September 01, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Australia to support an upgrade program for its fleet of MH-60R multimission helicopters; the estimated cost of the program is $360 million.

Avionics

Dream Chaser undergoes captive carry test - News

September 01, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Sierra Nevada Corporation

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Dream Chaser -- a reusable automated cargo lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems -- underwent a captive carry test at NASA?s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB on August 30. The test was part of the spacecraft?s Phase Two flight test efforts to advance the orbiter closer to space flight, according to a press release from SNC.

Comms

PICMG ratifies CompactPCI Serial Space specification - News

August 31, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems PICMG

WAKEFIELD, Mass. PICMG officials announced that the CompactPCI Serial Space specification has been ratified by its members. It is a ruggedized version of CompactPCI Serial that specifically addresses the extreme environment requirements for outer space.

Radar/EW

Radar-simulator market to grow to $2.85 billion by 2022, says study - News

August 31, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

VANCOUVER, Wash. The radar simulator market is projected to grow from $2.21 billion in 2016 to $2.85 billion by 2022, at a CAGR [combined annual growth rate] of 4.36 percent, according to a new market study from MarketsandMarkets, "Radar Simulator Market by Product (System Testing, Operator Training), Application (Commercial, Military), Component (Hardware, Software), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022."

Avionics

USMC awards General Dynamics $105 million command and control contract - News

August 31, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems a full-rate production contract for the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) program, a command and control system that visually combines ground and aviation command and control data for greater situational awareness and faster decision-making.

Radar/EW

Navy, Lockheed Martin test Aegis Combat System against ballistic missiles - News

August 30, 2017

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

PACIFIC MISSILE FIRING RANGE, Hawaii. The USS John Paul Jones -- with support from the U.S. Navy, the Missile Defense Agency, and Lockheed Martin -- successfully fired two Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Dual I missiles against a medium-range ballistic missile target from the Aegis Combat System on August 29, according to Lockheed Martin officials.

Comms

AFRL awards BlackSky $16.4 million contract for intel brokering platform - News

August 30, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Spaceflight Industries

SEATTLE. Spaceflight Industries reports that its BlackSky division has garnered a two-year, $16.4 million cost-plus-prime contract with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop and deliver a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform that will provide on-demand analytics, collection, and information services from global data sources.

Radar/EW

Army HMMWV foreign military sale valued at $2.2 billion for AM General - News

August 30, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems AM General

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Vehicle maker AM General has received a five-year, firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sale (FMS) requirements contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to manufacture approximately 11,560 new High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs, commonly known as the Humvee). The total value of the contract is approximately $2.2 billion.

Comms

BISim to deliver VBS3 perpetual licenses for U.S. Army games for training program of record - News

August 29, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Bohemia Interactive Simulations

ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Army officials selected Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to deliver perpetual licenses of Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) and related services to its Games For Training (GFT) VBS3 Concurrency Program of Record. The contract spans over a five-year period.

Comms

Comtech receives additional funding to deliver communications infrastructure - News

August 29, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Comtech Telecommunications

MELVILLE, N.Y. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. received a contract modification from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (C3T) to deliver enhanced communications infrastructure for U.S. forces in the Central Command (CENTCOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR).