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U.S. Army selects proposals for virtual military training software - News
March 15, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
Comms
University, NSWC Dahlgren partnership seeks to further 3-D manufacturing research, tech - News
March 13, 2018
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Students and professors at the University of Virginia (UVA) and engineers and scientists from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) are working together through the Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) to develop a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of additive manufacturing (3-D printing).
Avionics
U.S. Army orders 35 UH-72A Lakota helicopters from Airbus Helicopters - News
March 13, 2018
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Airbus Helicopters, Inc. recently won a contract valued at approximately $273 million to deliver 35 additional UH-72A Lakota rotary-wing aircraft to the U.S. Army.
Radar/EW
Global electronic warfare market to reach $30.32 billion by 2022, study says - News
March 12, 2018
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The electronic warfare (EW) market is projected to grow from an estimated $24.20 billion in 2017 to $30.32 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.61 percent during that time period, according to a new market study, "Electronic Warfare Market by Capability (Electronic Support, Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection), Platform (Airborne, Naval, Ground, Space), Product (EW Equipment, EW Operational Support), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022" from MarketsandMarkets.
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