Industry News

Radar/EW

Raytheon opens new radar development facility - News

August 06, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon officials announced the opening of a new radar development facility in Andover, Massachusetts. The $72 million, 30,000 square foot facility features advanced automation technology to support complex radar testing and integration.

Comms

U.S. Navy satellite system gets go-ahead for expanded operational use - News

August 03, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy announced that U.S. Strategic Command has approved the next-generation narrowband satellite communication system. The five-satellite on-orbit system is called the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).

A.I.

Behavior-modeling tools under development with Missile Defense Agency - News

August 03, 2018

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

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has obtained additional funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to build behavior modeling capabilities for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Comms

SAIC's follow-on Navy contract covers engineering support services for tactical networks - News

August 02, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SAIC

RESTON, Va. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific officials selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to continue to provide engineering services to the U.S. Navy?s afloat and ashore assets. The contract is worth approximately $116 million.

Radar/EW

Navy tasks QinetiQ to demo sidescan sonar technology - News

August 02, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems QinetiQ North America

WALTHAM, Mass. Officials at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), selected QinetiQ North America (QNA) to demonstrate advanced, low power, sidescan sonar technology under a contract that will leverage the company's DOLPHIN technology.

Radar/EW

NASA awards two SBIR grants to Vorago Technologies for research into rad-hard technology - News

August 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems VORAGO Technologies

AUSTIN, Texas. Vorago Technologies -- a maker of extreme-temperature and radiation-hardened embedded electronics -- has won two NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grants.

Comms

$717 billion Defense Authorization Bill for FY 19 passes Congress with bipartisan support, says DoD - News

August 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) reports the passage of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with bipartisan support: a vote of 87-10 in the Senate and 359-54 in the House. The FY19 NDAA authorizes a $717 billion national defense budget that builds up the U.S. military, increases lethality, strengthens strategic alliances and partnerships, and reforms the way the military conducts business.

Radar/EW

Mercury Systems acquires Germane Systems for $45 million - News

August 01, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Mercury Systems

ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems officials announced the acquisition of Germane Systems, LC.

Cyber

U.S. DoD awards $551 million contract for COTS cybersecurity products and services - News

August 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems McAfee

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded has awarded three companies spots on a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) worth up to $551 million over five years to provide McAfee cybersecurity products across the DoD.

Radar/EW

Future USS Charleston successfully undergoes acceptance trials - News

August 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Charleston (LCS 18) successfully completed acceptance trials recently in the Gulf of Mexico, following a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey, according to authorities from Naval Sea Systems Command.

Unmanned

U.S. Air Force awards $96.1 million contract for decoy missiles - News

August 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon has won a $96.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce 250 miniature air-launched decoy (MALD) missiles.

Cyber

DARPA program is applying systematic functional grammars to increase cyber resiliency - News

July 31, 2018

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

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Grammar-Based Elicitation and Analysis of Requirements for Cyber Assured Systems Engineering (GearCASE) effort, Charles River Analytics Inc. is applying systemic functional grammars to increase cyber resilience.

A.I.

Booz Allen tasked with employing AI, ML techniques to support military operations - News

July 31, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Booz Allen Hamilton

MCLEAN, Va. Officials at the Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) selected Booz Allen Hamilton to provide an Enterprise Machine Learning Analytics and Persistent Services (eMAPS) solution that will enable the U.S. Government Program Office, Defense Department partners, and the intelligence community to rapidly employ artificial intelligence (AI), neural, and deep neural networks.

Avionics

U.S. Army Black Hawks to receive Doppler GPS navigation upgrades - News

July 31, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

WAYNE, N.J. U.S. Army officials selected BAE Systems to upgrade the Black Hawk helicopter's ASN-128 Doppler GPS Navigation System with touch screen computer display units (CDU).

Comms

U.S. Navy ships to equip with portable satcom systems - News

July 31, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Leonardo DRS, Inc. announced that it has won a contract worth up to $10 million to produce mobile Shipboard Carry-On/Off Satellite Communication Systems (SCOSS) for U.S. Navy ships.