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Avionics

Air Force and Boeing test KC-46A tanker aircraft - News

March 22, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus team recently concluded testing of the Air Force's newest refueling aircraft at Travis Air Force Base (situated in the San Francisco Bay area). The military and Federal Aviation Administration certification testing effort was a combined effort between Boeing Test and Evaluation and the Detachment 1/418th Flight Test Squadron, which are colocated at Boeing's Seattle facility.

Radar/EW

Navy & Old Dominion University sign CRADA to assess security in cyber-electronic warfare systems - News

March 22, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

CRANE, Ind. Old Dominion University (ODU) and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) entered into a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with an end-goal to assess security risks for Cyber Electronic Warfare (Cyber-EW) systems in Navy piers and ports.

Unmanned

DARPA's DREaM program aims to take next step in transistor technology - News

March 21, 2017

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials will host a Proposers Day in support of the Dynamic Range-enhanced Electronics and Materials (DREaM) on March 29, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. The program is designed to provide openings to path-breaking advances in transistor technology that generate and receive radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave signals?which are central in defense-relevant domains such as communications, signals intelligence, and electronic warfare (EW).

Unmanned

Teledyne awarded $9.98 million to supply IR detectors for Jupiter mission - News

March 21, 2017

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

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has been awarded a $9.98 million contract from the French Space Agency -- the Centre National d??tudes Spatiales (CNES) -- to provide infrared detectors and electronics for the European Space Agency (ESA) JUICE mission to Jupiter. JUICE -- the ESA's acronym for JUpiter Icy moon Explorer -- is expected to launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030 to undertake a 3 1/2-year study of Jupiter and three of its moons: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.

Unmanned

UUV completes underwater mine-hunting trials - News

March 21, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics Mission Systems

QUINCY, Mass. General Dynamics Mission Systems reports that it has successfully completed a comprehensive evaluation of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), in coordination with the U.S. Navy.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy, Mercury agree to DRFM jammer contract - News

March 21, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Mercury Systems

ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received a follow-on, five-year, sole source basic ordering agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy to deliver advanced digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) subsystems that support frequency jamming in a multithreat environment.

Cyber

MacB to provide IT solutions in support of Air Force equipment management system - News

March 20, 2017

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

DAYTON, Ohio. U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) officials selected MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) to provide Information Technology (IT) solutions in support of the Air Force Equipment Management System (AFEMS).

Comms

Boeing WGS satellite aims to improve military comms for U.S., allies - News

March 20, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite was launched into orbit on March 18. This WGS-9 satellite, launched using a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, is aimed at enabling the United States and six allied nations to increase military communications capabilities to prevent, protect against, and respond to attacks.

Avionics

NAVAIR division to receive test and evaluation support from DCS - News

March 20, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

LEXINGTON PARK, Md. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials selected DCS Corp. to provide test and evaluation engineering services to the NAVAIR?s Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation Division (AIR- 5.1.6) within the Integrated System Evaluation Experimentation & Test (ISEET) Department.

Comms

Air Force invites industry to participate in light attack platform experiment - News

March 20, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. U.S. Air Force officials are inviting the industry to evaluate the military utility of light attack platforms in future force structure. The Invitation to Participate is part of a broader Air Force effort to explore cost-effective attack platform options.

Comms

Army JRTC awards $42 million contract to continue mission support services - News

March 17, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cubic

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., has received a contract award worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center?s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational and predeployment training exercise requirements from April 1 to August 24, with Phase Out requirements from August 25 to October 23, 2017.

Cyber

DoD cyber crime center to receive support from Lockheed Martin in contract extension - News

March 17, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

LINTHICUM, Md. The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) tasked Lockheed Martin to continue its role to support the Department of Defense?s (DoD) efforts against cyber criminals.

Cyber

CALIBRE systems to support Army in move to commercial cloud services - News

March 17, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Calibre Systems

ALEXANDRIA, VA. U.S. Army officials selected CALIBRE Systems as one of the awardees for the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation (ACCENT) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA). The award spans over the next three years and has an estimated value of $250 million.

Avionics

U.S Army purchases Boeing's AH-64E Apache helicopters in $3.4 billion contract - News

March 17, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

MESA, Ariz. U.S. Government officials and Boeing signed a five-year contract, through which the U.S. Army and a customer outside the U.S. will acquire the Apache attack helicopter. The contract is worth an estimated $3.4 billion.

Unmanned

DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News

March 17, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dynetics General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).