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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.

Avionics

NAVAIR signs $47 million ManTech contract for heavy-lift helicopter tech support - News

July 31, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems ManTech

HERNDON, Va. Technology services provider ManTech announced a four-year, $47 million award with the U.S. Information Analysis Center (DoD IAC) Defense Systems Technical Area Task (DS TAT) multiaward contract to provide technical support and collaboration for the U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) H-53 heavy lift helicopter program (PMA-261).

Radar/EW

GaN ground radar now operational for Marine Corps - News

July 31, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BALTIMORE, Md. Northrop Grumman reports that it has delivered the first AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) that incorporates advanced high power and high efficiency gallium nitride (GaN) antenna technology, further improving the system?s operational capabilities.

Avionics

Navy aircraft launch and recovery systems progress through tests - News

July 31, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy reports that its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) continue to progress through comprehensive test programs.

A.I.

Predicting geopolitical events with greater accuracy the goal of IARPA, Raytheon project - News

July 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Unmanned

Unmanned battlefield convoys to get prototypes, testing - News

July 30, 2018

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

DALLAS. Lockheed Martin has won a contract with the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to act as the Integrated Systems Developer for its Expedient Leader Follower (ExLF) program.

Comms

Army tasks General Dynamics to upgrade 100 M1A1 Abrams tanks - News

July 30, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. U.S. Army officials selected General Dynamics Land Systems to upgrade an additional 100 M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks to the M1A2 System Enhancement Package Version 3 (SEPv3) configuration.

Unmanned

Army researchers create 3D shape-shifting robotics that can crawl, roll, jump - News

July 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

ADELPHI, Md. The Army's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), located at MIT, developed a 3D printing platform that can enable both the modeling and design of complex magnetically actuated devices.

Comms

Deepwave releases AI radio developed for RF deep learning applications - News

July 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Deepwave Digital, Inc.

PHILADELPHIA. Deepwave Digital, Inc. officials released the Artificial Intelligence Radio - Transceiver (AIR-T), a software-defined radio (SDR) designed and developed for radio frequency (RF) deep learning applications.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy receives 150th shipboard IFF antenna from BAE Systems - News

July 27, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

HUDSON, N.H. To date, U.S. Navy officials received 150 OE-120 Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) antennas from BAE Systems used by sailors to identify friendly aircraft and vessels, and supports shipboard air traffic management systems for both IFF and secondary surveillance radars.