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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.

Comms

USAF taps Viasat for Link 16 MIDS LVT support services - News

June 22, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ViaSat

CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials selected Viasat Inc. for an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract worth up to $42 million for the purchase of supplemental units, maintenance, and support services for Viasat's AN/USQ-140(V) Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems (MIDS) Low Volume Terminals (LVT).

Radar/EW

Canadian Forces to upgrade naval MASS countermeasure systems - News

June 22, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rheinmetall Waffe Munition

D?SSELDORF, Germany. Canadian Forces officials selected Rheinmetall to upgrade the Canadian navy's Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS), a countermeasure system installed on its Halifax-class frigates. The contract is worth an estimated CAD20 million ($15 million).

Unmanned

R&D and energy companies teaming on drone research to protect infrastructure, security concerns - News

June 22, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems SRC, Inc. Xcel Energy

SYRACUSE, New York. Not-for-profit research and development company SRC, Inc. is partnering with Xcel Energy to deploy state-of-the-art unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection technology to protect critical infrastructure.

Cyber

USAF awards $50 million cyber support task order - News

June 22, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems ICF

FAIRFAX, Va. Consulting and digital services provider ICF has won a new task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide comprehensive cyber support across the Air Force enterprise.

Radar/EW

USMC Amphibious Combat Vehicles bid won by BAE Systems, Iveco Defence Vehicles - News

June 21, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems Iveco Defence Vehicles

STAFFORD, Va. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) officials selected BAE systems and teammate Iveco Defence Vehicles to deliver 30 Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV), with options for a total of 204 vehicles. The contract for the initial 30 vehicles is estimated at $198 million, but if all options are exercised the contract's value is worth up to $1.2 billion.

Radar/EW

Ensuring microelectronics are counterfeit resistant, goal of Navy R&D - News

June 21, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

INDIANAPOLIS. A new cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) will drive the development of trusted microelectronics that are are counterfeit resistant and immune to a wide variety of attacks. The Indiana Innovation Institute (IN3) and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) have joined forces with Purdue University and Indiana University under the CRADA.