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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.
Cyber
DoD selects HackerOne for third Hack the Pentagon crowdsourcing contract - News
October 24, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO. Department of Defense (DoD) officials awarded a third crowdsourced security contract to HackerOne in order to help strengthen sensitive DoD assets.
Radar/EW
Lithium-ion battery solution selected for USSOCOM submersible vehicle - News
October 24, 2018
SAN DIEGO. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) officials selected General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to develop and deliver a prototype Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant (LiFT) battery system capable of powering the propulsion and support systems for manned undersea vehicles capable of transporting Special Operations Forces and payloads for a variety of missions.
A.I.
Computational model to predict human behavior developed by U.S. Army lab - News
October 23, 2018
U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY--ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.
Avionics
F-16 fighter-jet fleet in Romania to get integrated maintenance, modernization package - News
October 23, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Tapestry Solutions -- a subsidiary of Boeing -- has won a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an integrated maintenance system (IMS) for the Romanian air force?s (RoAF) fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft.
Cyber
DIA chooses nine companies to support R and D and engineering under $500 million HELIOS contract - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded positions to nine companies on a contract that will provide technical research and development (R&D), intelligence, strategic warning, and other operational tasks.
Cyber
Applied Insight acquires IT Firm Organizational Strategies Inc. - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. IT firm Organizational Strategies Inc. (OSI) has been acquired by Applied Insight (AI), a company that focuses on solving complex technology challenges for federal government customers and is also backed by The Acacia Group.
Avionics
U.S. Central Command to use GDMS software for tracking capabilities - News
October 22, 2018
SAN DIEGO. U.S. Army officials selected Boeing's subsidiary Tapestry Solutions to deliver In-Transit Visibility (ITV) for ground transportation logistics in the U.S. Central Command?s (CENTCOM) area of operations.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy contracts for portable camouflaging technology for vehicles - News
October 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Machine-learning engineering company Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) has won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop what DAC calls the Computer Learning Obfuscating Adversarial Kit (CLOAK) system, a portable camouflaging kit for vehicles that uses state-of-the-art adversarial imagery though physical-world manipulation and data synthesis.
Unmanned
UUVs used by U.S. Navy to get development and support from Alion Science and Technology - News
October 19, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Alion Science and Technology has won a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, Rhode Island) to develop, build, and support the U.S. Navy unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FoS). The value of the contract, including all option years, is $794 million.
Cyber
U.S. Coast Guard cutters will get encrypted automatic ID systems - News
October 18, 2018
WILSONVILLE, Ore. FLIR Systems, Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in support of the U.S. Coast Guard?s (USCG) Second Generation Automatic Identification System (AIS-2) program; the indefinite-delivery/indefinite/quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a ceiling value of $9.9 million to provide second-generation automatic identification system (AIS) transponders, associated peripherals, and spare parts for nearly 1,774 boats and 282 cutters in the USCG?s active fleet.
Cyber
Live-training systems for U.S. Army to get $465 million General Dynamics refresh and upgrade - News
October 18, 2018
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics and the U.S. Army Life Cycle Product Line Management (LCPM) Program have agreed on a contract worth $465 million for General Dynamics to provide enhanced life cycle management, including technology refresh and upgrades of live-training systems, within the U.S. Army Live Training Transformation Product Line.
Avionics
Avionics displays for Navy F/A-18s obtain additional support and sustainment contract - News
October 18, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Navy Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) have renewed an agreement to continue support on avionics displays for the Navy?s F/A-18 fleet of over 1,200 aircraft; the newest pact is a four-year extension of a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract that was signed more than 15 years ago.
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