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U.S. Army taps businesses to enhance training and maintenance program - News
March 21, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. The Army Contracting Command ? Orlando, in support of the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) awarded the Army TADSS Maintenance Program (ATMP) contract to Lockheed Martin, Cubic Global Defense, PULAU Corp., as well as several large and small businesses that specialize in Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations (TADSS) maintenance and sustainment, through a mobile, technology-enabled workforce.
Comms
U.S. Army places $97 million order for BAE Systems night-vision, thermal-weapon sight tools - News
March 21, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Army has placed two orders with BAE Systems (Nashua, New Hampshire) totaling $97 million for new night-vision goggles and thermal weapon sights; together the tools will enable soldiers to rapidly and covertly acquire targets in all kinds of weather and lighting conditions.
Unmanned
U.S. Army exercise successfully demos directed energy counter-UAV system - News
March 21, 2018
FORT SILL, Okla. A recent U.S. Army exercise saw 45 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones knocked out of the sky after a high-power microwave and laser dune buggy from Raytheon advanced engaged and destroyed them.
Comms
Hypres, UMass partner to link low-power superconductors to standard electronics - News
March 20, 2018
ELMSFORD, New York. Superconductor IC maker HYPRES recently partnered with the University of Massachusetts Amherst to accomplish a high-speed, energy-efficient digital data link between superconducting ICs and standard room-temperature electronics.
Cyber
DoD awards five-year cybersecurity training contract with Chiron Technology Services - News
March 20, 2018
COLUMBIA, Md. Cyber services and training company Chiron Technology Services has won a five-year, sole-source contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver cyber training that supports the readiness of U.S. military forces to operate at top efficiency in cyberspace.
Comms
Luxembourg's first military satellite now operational - News
March 20, 2018
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. GovSat-1, Luxembourg?s first military satellite, has now become operational following its January 31 launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A.I.
DARPA creates N3 program to achieve high levels of brain-systems communications - News
March 20, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) officials created the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program to achieve high levels of brain-system communications. Officials hope that at the end of the four-year effort, the program will conclude with a demonstration of a bidirectional system being used in a defense-relevant task that could include human-machine interactions with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), active cyberdefense systems, or other properly instrumented Department of Defense (DoD) systems.
Unmanned
Navy looks to develop game to recruit unmanned vehicle operators - News
March 20, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the StealthAdapt project, which aims to identify individuals with the right skills to be an unmanned vehicles (UxV) operator. The Naval Aerospace Medical Institute and software company Adaptive Immersion Technologies are teaming up to for this project and will develop a computer game to identify these individuals.
Radar/EW
Future USS Tulsa passes acceptance trials - News
March 19, 2018
MOBILE, Ala. U.S. Navy officials report that the future Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Tulsa (LCS 16) recently successfully completed acceptance trials following a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the naval Board of Inspection and Survey.
Cyber
USAF contracts with KBRWyle for support on cyberthreats, air-traffic safety - News
March 19, 2018
HOUSTON. Professional services/technology firm KBR Inc. has won a $34.1 million task order from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide analytical and engineering weapons systems support to assist the USAF with air-traffic safety and cyberthreats.
Unmanned
SpaceX, ULA secure USAF launch service contracts - News
March 16, 2018
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. U.S. Air Force officials selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and United Alliance Launch (ULA) for two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts, which provide the government with total launch solution for these missions that includes launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations, and spaceflight certification. These missions are planned to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
A.I.
DARPA program aims to clarify adversaries' intentions during simmering conflicts - News
March 16, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA?s) Strategic Technology Office has announced a new program it calls COMPASS, which stands for Collection and Monitoring via Planning for Active Situational Scenarios.
A.I.
ONR sponsors sleep/decision-making link research - News
March 16, 2018
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
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
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.
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