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Comms

GPS-based system for ground troops to be evaluated by U.S. Army - News

August 30, 2018

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

FREMONT, Calif. Ravenswood Solutions won a $1.3 million contract in support of the U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command [JMC -- a subordinate of the larger Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC)] -- for communications support services during a Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) to take place this fall at Fort Bliss, Texas, and the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Avionics

F-35C Lightning II aircraft undergoes testing on carrier USS Abraham Lincoln - News

August 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy reports that F-35C Lightning II aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 125 are conducting their Operational Test-1 (OT-1) with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 and Carrier Strike Group 12 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), currently underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

Avionics

FACE-conformant navigation systems to be installed on U.S. Navy, Marine aircraft through accord with Rockwell Collins - News

August 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Collins Aerospace

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has secured a contract that will equip multiple U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft with safety-critical Required Navigation Performance Area Navigation (RNP-RNAV) capabilities through a contract issued by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Air Combat Electronics program office (PMA-209).

A.I.

Raytheon BBN's neural network will be able to explain itself - News

August 29, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing a neural network that explains itself for the Defense Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Explainable Artificial Intelligence program (XAI).

Unmanned

Teledyne's Pathfinder DVL selected for U.S. Navy order - News

August 29, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Teledyne RD Instruments Riptide Autonomous Solutions

SAN DIEGO. ?Riptide Autonomous Solutions officials selected Teledyne RD Instruments' (TRDI) new ultra-compact 600 kHz Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log (DVL).

Avionics

Aviation engineering contract signed between Engility, U.S. Navy - News

August 29, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Engility Holdings

CHANTILLY, Va. Engility announced that it had won earlier this year an $85 million Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Code AIR-4.1?Systems Engineering Department contract that will support NAWCAD Code AIR 4.1 by providing systems engineering, analysis, development, and testing of naval-aviation warfare systems.

A.I.

Thermal-based machine learning, AI investment made by FLIR - News

August 29, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems FLIR Systems, Inc.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. Sensor-technology company FLIR Systems has made a strategic investment and will partner with CVEDIA, Singapore-based developers of machine-learning applications used to equip sensor systems with artificial intelligence (AI).

Comms

DoD signs 15 companies to $28 billion tech R and D contract - News

August 29, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has signed 15 companies to its unrestricted full-and-open track of a potential nine-year, $28 billion contract vehicle for technology research and development (R&D) services.

Radar/EW

Updated $208.3 million sensor addition will boost F-15 threat tracking ability - News

August 28, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

CHICAGO. The Boeing Co. has won a contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) -- worth a potential $208.3 million -- to provide sensors designed to help F-15 fighter aircraft pilots detect and track airborne threats.

Comms

SRI International, MarketsandMarkets collaboration aims to bring holistic view of the effects of emerging tech - News

August 28, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

CHICAGO. SIR International and MarketsandMarkets officials are teaming up to deliver more comprehensive marketplace and revenue intelligence, analyses, research and development services to clients across the globe in all industries, advanced technologies, and information sciences.

Radar/EW

Naval Research Lab, MacB team up to design and test pulsed power sources - News

August 28, 2018

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

DAYTON, Ohio. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Plasma Physics Division will be working with MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB), an Alion company, to research, design, develop, integrate, and test pulsed power sources.

Unmanned

Precision-guided munitions added to NATO allies' toolkit - News

August 28, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

BRUSSELS. The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) recently received the first lot of Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs), a group of weapons acquired through a NATO project involving 11 allies and one NATO partner at a cost of approximately $20 million.

Comms

Tactical-communications market to reach $15.4 billion in value by 2028 - News

August 28, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

LONDON. The global tactical-communications market is expected to be valued at approximately $13.0 billion in 2018 and will grow at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 1.7 percent, to a value of approximately $15.4 billion by 2028, according to a market study from Strategic Defence Intelligence, "The Global Tactical Communications Market 2018-2028."

Unmanned

Advances in micro-UAS tech made via Army, Bell CRADA - News

August 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Bell Textron

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc company, researchers collaborated to advance development of a micro unmanned aerial system (UAS). The UAS is a miniature, lightweight reconnaissance vehicle that soldiers can carry onto the battlefield and deploy in a confined space.

Radar/EW

Future USS Sioux City, USS Wichita delivered to U.S. Navy - News

August 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

MARINETTE, Wis. U.S. Navy officials accepted delivery of the future USS WICHITA (LCS 13) and USS SIOUX CITY (LCS 11), two Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), during a ceremony at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard.