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IBM to acquire Red Hat for approximately $34 billion - News

October 29, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Red Hat IBM

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Missile Defense Agency

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET)

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

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

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

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Insitu Boeing Persistent Systems

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

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Perspecta Labs

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

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

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Blighter Surveillance Systems

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Charles River Analytics

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

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems HackerOne

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

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army Research Laboratory

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Tapestry Solutions

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

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Defense Intelligence Agency

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

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Applied Insight

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.