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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.
Comms
Army Futures Command technology curation contract won by Alion - News
October 18, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Officials at the U.S. Army Contracting Command selected Alion Science and Technology for a $49.8 million Army Futures Command (AFC) contract to support the development of new Army concepts, capabilities, and systems using emerging technologies.
Cyber
BISim to demo cloud-enabled, virtual training capabilities for the U.S. Army - News
October 18, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Army officials tasked Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to demonstrate technologies for a cloud-enabled, virtual world training capability under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) extension to meet the requirements of the Army?s revolutionary Synthetic Training Environment (STE) initiative.
Comms
Licensing agreement incorporates Kratos-developed CDL waveforms into Harris nanoSVDL radios - News
October 18, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Kratos RT Logic -- a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. subsidiary -- officials licensed its Common Data Link (CDL) waveforms to Harris Corp. for use in Harris? nanoSVDL radios.
A.I.
DARPA program seeks to teach machines common sense - News
October 18, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has launched the Machine Common Sense (MCS) program to explore recent advances in cognitive understanding, natural language processing, deep learning, and other areas of artificial intelligence (AI) research in an effort to crack the code of a critical component lacking in AI ? human-style common sense.
Comms
U.S. Army tasks SNC to develop MEDHUB system - News
October 17, 2018
SPARKS, Nev. U.S. Army officials selected Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to develop develop the capability to capture and store critical patient status and treatment information for up to six patients on a single device, and communicate the information securely from the point-of-injury and throughout transport to the receiving medical treatment facility.
A.I.
Altair acquires simulation design firm SIMSOLID - News
October 17, 2018
TROY, Mich. Design-software maker Altair Engineering has acquired SIMSOLID, whose products work on CAD assemblies to provide fast, accurate, and robust structural simulation without requiring geometry simplification, cleanup, or meshing.
Avionics
Helicopter market in military, public-service sectors to recover gradually to 2026 - News
October 17, 2018
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The market for military and public-services helicopters is facing a slow recovery globally, following nearly 10 years of stagnation and delayed programs in key regions, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan, "Global Military and Public Services Helicopters Market, Forecast to 2026."
Radar/EW
GaN-based radar from Lockheed Martin reaches technical milestone prior to delivery to MDA - News
October 17, 2018
MOORESTOWN, N.J. Lockheed Martin reports that its Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) has completed a closed-loop satellite track with tactical hardware and software; the test marks a major milestone, as the LRDR program continues to meet its technical goals and works toward its expected 2020 delivery to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in Clear, Alaska.
Radar/EW
Leonardo DRS selected for multiple IDIQ contracts to support ground combat electro-optical/infrared systems - News
October 17, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at Leonardo DRS announced the receipt of multiple contracts for the Department of Defense (DoD) Electro-Optical/Infrared programs totaling up to $800 million.
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Radar production and test capacity to be expanded in the Netherlands by Thales
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Communications systems to be supplied for German forces by L3Harris
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Comms satellites bid wins Boeing $2 billion Space Force contract
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