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Radar/EW

U.S. Army tanks to get active combat protection systems - News

June 28, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leonardo DRS

ARLINGTON, Va. Leonardo DRS has won a contract with the U.S. Army -- worth a reported $193 million -- to provide the Army with TROPHY active protection systems for its Abrams tanks to support immediate operational requirements.

Unmanned

Triton UAS sale to Australia reported by U.S. Navy - News

June 28, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, Patuxent River, Md. The U.S. Navy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Australian government to purchase as many as six MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems (UASs).

Cyber

TPG Capital completes Wind River acquisition - News

June 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Wind River

ALAMEDA, Calif. Officials at TPG Capital completed the acquisition of Wind River. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

Unmanned

Triton UAS will go to Australia's defense department - News

June 27, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman has sold a Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to Australia's defense department.

Comms

Warfighting gaps, advance defense capabilities covered in DoD contract - News

June 27, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Booz Allen Hamilton

MCLEAN, Va. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a prime position on a $900 million contract to provide engineering and technical support to the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) program, which assesses joint military operations to identify warfighting gaps and recommend solutions for the joint force.

Radar/EW

Army looks to upgrade 116 Stryker vehicles to the A1 configuration - News

June 26, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics Land Systems

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. U.S. Army officials modified an existing contract with General Dynamics Land Systems to upgrade 116 Stryker flat-bottom vehicles to the Stryker A1 configuration. The modified contract is worth $258 million.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy accepts delivery of future USS Indiana, the 16th Virginia-class submarine - News

June 26, 2018

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

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. U.S Navy officials accepted delivery of the nuclear-powered fast attack submarine by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). The future USS Indiana (SSN-789) is the 16th Virginia-class submarine built as part of the teaming agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat and the eighth delivered by Newport News.

Comms

U.S. Air Force awards AFSPC-52 launch services contract to SpaceX - News

June 26, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND SPACE AND MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER/LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The U.S. Air Force has awarded an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contract worth $130 million to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX, Hawthorne, California) to handle launch services to deliver an Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite to its intended orbit.

Unmanned

U.S. Army awards Lockheed Martin $364 million contract for ATACMS missiles - News

June 26, 2018

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

DALLAS. Lockheed Martin has won a $364 million production contract for Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles to be supplied to the U.S. Army and a Foreign Military Sales customer. The program will enable the military services to upgrade their existing Block 1 missiles with new technology and double their range, while extending the missiles' useful life by more than 10 years and providing the most update surface-to-surface missile capability.

Avionics

NASA acoustic tests claim 70 percent reduction in airframe noise - News

June 26, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

WASHINGTON. NASA reports that it has conducted a series of flight tests that successfully demonstrate technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports.

Avionics

Navy completes KC-130J weapon test with newly Harvest Hawk configuration - News

June 25, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. U.S. Navy officials announced the Tactical Airlift Program Office (PMA-207) Integrated Warfighting Capability (IWC) Weapons team completed a five-week developmental and integrated test (DT/IT) live fire event utilizing a newly configured KC-130J with the Harvest Hercules Airborne Weapons Kit (HAWK) Plus (HH+) installed. The results demonstrated the HH+ completed multiple sorties, demonstrating successful strikes on both fixed and moving targets.

Unmanned

Navy approves non-dilutive hardware integration funding to Aquabotix for unexploded ordnance solutions - News

June 25, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Aquabotix

FALL RIVER, Mass. U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) officials approved a non-dilutive hardware integration funding to Aquabotix Technology Corp. -- a UUV Aquabotix Ltd wholly-owned subsidiary -- to deliver a solution geared towards unexploded ordnance missions for the Navy.

Radar/EW

AFRL taps MacB to conduct & mature research on advanced sensors, EW technologies - News

June 25, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems MacAulay-Brown, Inc.

DAYTON, Ohio. Officials at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Spectrum Warfare Systems Engineering Branch (RYWD) tapped MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) for the Effective Sensor Technology Evaluations and Enabling Methodologies (ESTEEM) program task order where engineers will develop and mature research methodologies for rapid assessment of advanced sensors and electronic warfare (EW) technologies.

A.I.

DARPA program progresses towards fully automated rapid molecule production - News

June 22, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Researchers in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Make-It program demonstrated significant progress toward fully automated rapid molecule production, which could speed the pace of chemical discovery for a range of defense products and applications.

Comms

FAA's GEO 5 WAAS payload operational and integrated into network - News

June 22, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

DULLES, Va. The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting 5 (GEO 5) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation payload is now operational and fully integrated into the WAAS network, officials announce.