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A.I.

ONR sponsors sleep/decision-making link research - News

March 16, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)

ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global are sponsoring new research by Professor Sean Drummond at the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN) in Australia. The goal is to find a link between sleep and decision-making skills.

Cyber

Connected naval gun tests successfully for protection from cybersabotage - News

March 16, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leonardo

ROME. Defense and security company Leonardo announced that its OTO 76/62 Super Rapid (SR) naval gun has been successfully run through an extensive vulnerability assessment campaign, thereby ensuring that the gun will be resilient to cyberattacks in the future.

Avionics

Special Ops aircrew training contract goes to Lockheed Martin - News

March 16, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO. Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide comprehensive training support services for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC); Lockheed Martin will support schoolhouse operations for various crew positions across multiple mission design series aircraft, aircrew training, and support for AFSOC Special Operation Forces (SOF) aircrews and assets.

Comms

U.S. Army selects proposals for virtual military training software - News

March 15, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Real Time Innovations (RTI) Tenosar Corporation SimBlocks.io

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army has chosen a team consisting of Real-Time Innovations, Tenosar Corporation, and SimBlocks.io to design software for the U.S. Army Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Program. The proposed solutions are for the Global Terrain/One World Terrain (OWT) project, which is designed to aid the Department of Defense (DoD) in creating the most realistic, flexible, and accurate representation of rural and urban environments for troop training.

Unmanned

Endeavor Robotics receives $9.2 million order for its small unmanned ground vehicles - News

March 15, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Endeavor Robotics

BOSTON. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) tapped Endeavor Robotics to deliver additional Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGVs) under a $9.2 million oder.

Comms

DISA taps 20 companies for ENCORE III IT solutions program - News

March 15, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Defense Information Systems Agency

WASHINGTON. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) officials selected 20 companies under the ENCORE III information technology (IT) solutions program. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a ceiling value of $17.5 billion where companies will compete for task orders to provide a full range of IT solutions and services.

Comms

Companies finalize alliance for small-sat manufacture - News

March 15, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Spaceflight Industries

SEATTLE. The Space Alliance -- a group formed by Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio, and Leonardo -- announced that it has officially taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries after having received all government approvals for the transaction.

Comms

Qatar government chooses COTS software from Boeing subsidiary for logistics, business readiness - News

March 15, 2018

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

SAN DIEGO. Boeing subsidiary Tapestry Solutions has signed a five-year agreement to implement an advanced Enterprise Resource Planning/Logistics Management Information System (ERP/LMIS) for the Qatar armed forces that will maximize readiness for troops on land, air,and sea.

A.I.

ARL scientists demo factors integers at faster pace, computing architectures have more options in SWaP-constrained environments - News

March 14, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are leveraging emerging brain-like computer architectures for an age-old number-theoretic problem known as integer factorization. The resulting factor is that Army scientists are opening up a new solution space that moves away from traditional computing architectures and towards devices that are able to operate within extreme size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained environments.

Avionics

U.S. Army helicopter upgrade program to implement Techaya switch for enhanced networking - News

March 14, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems MilSource

LOS ANGELES. MilSource, the sole distributor for Techaya ruggedized switching and routing solutions in the U.S., announced that Techaya was selected by a leading defense systems integrator to provide its MILTECH 912 to implement advanced Ethernet switching and networking capabilities for a U.S. Army helicopter upgrade program.

Avionics

Terma, Scandinavian Avionics team up to open Avionics Test Center - News

March 14, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Scandinavian Avionics

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Terma and Scandinavian Avionics officials announced they are teaming up to form the Avionics Test Center in Denmark to support the F-35 fighter aircraft maintenance capabilities.

Unmanned

State Dept. greenlights $270 million Sidewinder sale to UAE - News

March 14, 2018

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

WASHINGTON. The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- worth a potential $270.4 million -- of Raytheon-built AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Block II missiles, related components, and services from the U.S. government.

Radar/EW

DARPA DREaM program on track to develop new GaN transistors for use in radar, radio communications - News

March 14, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems HRL Laboratories

MALIBU, Calif. Research and development laboratory HRL Laboratories is working with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors with dramatically improved linearity and reduced power consumption for use in electronic devices in such applications as radio communications and radar.

Comms

Viasat SATCOM demo opens gateway to offer over 100Mbps speeds for military applications - News

March 13, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ViaSat

WASHINGTON. Viasat officials conducted a ViaSat-2 satellite communications (SATCOM) demonstration showing a number of cloud-based government applications. The demonstration - attended by U.S. Armed forces representatives - enabled over 100Mbps speeds on the ViaSat-2 satellite system. Viasat is now offering these capabilities to for government, defense, and military applications.

Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin completes TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar site acceptance test - News

March 13, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

RIGA, Latvia. Lockheed Martin officials announced they met on-time delivery of the first three radars to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Latvia with a successful site acceptance test of the third TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar (TPS-77 MRR).