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Radar/EW

Finnish forces' airborne surveillance system achieves operational capability - News

February 14, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

DENVER. The Finnish Defense Forces achieved final operational capability of the Lockheed Martin-built "Dragon Shield" airborne surveillance system. The milestone was achieved after the final flight test of the system, which evaluated compliance of the aircraft to civilian and military airworthiness requirements as well as system requirements verification.

Unmanned

Participants wanted for UAV swarm-based tactics test bed - News

February 14, 2018

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

BALTIMORE, Md. Northrop Grumman Corp. -- in its role as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency?s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program -- is set to launch its first open-architecture test bed and is seeking participants to create and test their own swarm-based tactics on the platform. In this project, Northrop Grumman is teamed with Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and the Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster, directed by Dr. Joseph LaViola at the University of Central Florida.

Avionics

Contract aims to increase safety, health of aviation personnel - News

February 14, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Tetra Tech

PASADENA, Calif. Engineering consulting firm Tetra Tech has won a $40 million, single-award contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aerospace Medicine (AAM) to develop a new information system for tracking and analyzing medical information associated with pilots, air-traffic controllers, and other aviation-related personnel.

A.I.

Flight test demos semi-autonomous software in contested environments - News

February 13, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in association with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), completed a 11-day flight test with BAE Systems' newly developed semi-autonomous software that allows better management and control of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat in contested environments.

Avionics

DoD FY 2019 budget proposal overview - News

February 13, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

WASHINGTON. Department of Defense (DoD) officials released a breakdown of the proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, which puts aside $686 billion for the Department. The recently enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 lifts the budgetary caps in order for the military to be resourced at a funding level commensurate with the DoD's mission.

Comms

DARPA awards $4.7 million grant to transform augmented-reality glasses - News

February 13, 2018

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

NEW YORK. An interdisciplinary team from Columbia University School of Engineering is working with colleagues at Stanford, UMass Amherst, and Trex Enterprises Corp. to develop an alternative solution for use in augmented reality (AR) glasses.

Comms

ARL selects ICF as one of two awardees for information and computational sciences ID/IQ - News

February 13, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems ICF

FAIRFAX, Va. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has chosen global consulting and digital services provider ICF as one of two awardees eligible to compete for scientific and engineering support services under a new indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy releases final RFP for DDG 51 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers - News

February 12, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Navy

WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials released the final request-for-proposal (RFP) for the DDG 51 Fiscal Years (FY) 2018 - 2022 Multiyear Procurement (MYP) for Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

Avionics

Singapore and FAA civil officials sign revised aviation safety agreement - News

February 12, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

WASHINGTON. Officials with the U.S. Department of Transportation?s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), attending the Singapore Airshow this week, signed a revised Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement that will enhance the two countries long-standing cooperation in airworthiness.

Comms

DoD awards cloud solutions, services contract with $950 million ceiling - News

February 12, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems REAN Cloud

HERNDON, Va. Global cloud systems integrator REAN Cloud has finalized a five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for up to $950 million, in a deal aimed at enabling agencies within DoD to procure cloud solutions and services directly from REAN Cloud in a new, streamlined process.

Comms

General Dynamics to buy IT contractor CSRA in $6.8 billion deal - News

February 12, 2018

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

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with IT contractor CSRA under which General Dynamics will acquire all outstanding shares of CSRA; the transaction is valued at $9.6 billion, including the assumption of $2.8 billion in CSRA debt.

Radar/EW

Leveraging open-source tech to create flexible electronic systems - News

February 09, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) reports that it has developed the first-ever functional samples of flexible Arduino circuit board systems made by employing a flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing process. The AFRL led the project, with NextFlex, America?s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Institute, also on the team.

Radar/EW

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia selects Northrop Grumman for electronic warfare simulation contract - News

February 09, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BUFFALO, N.Y. Officials at Northrop Grumman Corp. received a $75 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) support services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Radar/EW

U.S., allies order upgrades to Patriot missile - News

February 09, 2018

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

DALLAS. The U.S. military and allied forces will upgrade their missile defense capabilities under a $524 million contract modification for production and delivery of Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors. The contract modification adds on to the $944 million contract awarded in December 2017 for PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE production and delivery.

Radar/EW

Thales selected to develop next-generation sonar system for French navy - News

February 08, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Thales

LA DEFENSE, France. French defence procurement agency (DGA) officials selected Thales for a 42-month contract to conduct a set of studies and technological developments for a sonar system to be equipped on France's future third-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SNLE 3G).