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Boeing donates $10 million to support veterans' programs and services - News

January 11, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

DALLAS. Boeing has awarded $10 million to the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative in support of veterans' programs and services. The Boeing donation is part of a $30 million multiyear investment intended to support veteran recovery and rehabilitation programs and military transition services.

Unmanned

U.S. Navy to evaluate Saab's anti-submarine warfare system through FCT program - News

January 10, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Saab

WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials will evaluate Saab's anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system, the AUV62-AT, through the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program. The demonstration is planned for summer 2018, with an option to continue testing into 2019.

Radar/EW

Aerospace instrumentation technology contract won by Curtiss-Wright - News

January 10, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Curtiss-Wright

CHARLOTTE, N.C. U.S. Air Force officials tapped Curtiss-Wright Corp. for a a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $86 million to provide its aerospace instrumentation technology for use on the High Speed Data Acquisition System (HSDAS) program at the Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) ? Air Force Test Center (AFTC) .

Unmanned

Navy tests joint air-to-ground missile on AH-1Z helicopter - News

January 10, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Navy

NAVAL AIR STATION, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy recently successfully completed its first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) flight test, using the AH-1Z "Viper" attack helicopter, in a demo at Patuxent River.

Unmanned

AFRL and Leidos to collaborate on electro-optical sensing technology - News

January 10, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leidos

RESTON, Va. Engineering/science/IT company Leidos won a prime contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide sensor technology under the Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging (EO-CHIL) program. The single-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has an 87-month performance period and a total contract ceiling of $47 million.

Unmanned

IARPA awards Phase II of $10.7 million contract to remotely detect explosives, other toxic threats - News

January 09, 2018

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

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Block MEMS/Engineering has been awarded Phase II of a contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Programs Activity (IARPA) Program for the standoff detection of explosives and toxic chemical threats. IARPA chose Block for Phase II in a competitive down-selection process.

Radar/EW

Thales integrates Kontron's 6U VPX blade computer into radar application - News

January 09, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kontron

TOULON, France. A 6U VPX dual eight-core Intel Xeon D processor blade computer made by embedded computing and Internet of Things company Kontron has been successfully integrated and tested in a radar application by defense electronics corporation Thales.

Radar/EW

CASA radar: Detecting danger at a distance - News

January 09, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems HRL Laboratories

MALIBU, Calif. Research and development lab HRL Laboratories has announced the development of a high-resolution, low-power radar antenna array (coded aperture subreflector array or CASA) that the company says can potentially see weapons or explosives concealed on a person at tactically safe distances. HRL Laboratories is owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors; the R&D lab specializes in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics.

Avionics

Oman will upgrade software subsystems on its F-16 - News

January 08, 2018

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

WASHINGTON. State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Oman of items and services to support an incremental Operational Flight Profile (OFP) software upgrade for F-16 subsystems, as well as Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), and secure communications equipment for Mode 5 operations for an estimated cost of $62 million.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy signs destroyer-modernization contracts with BAE Systems - News

January 08, 2018

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

NORFOLK, Va. and SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has signed several contracts with the U.S. Navy to perform modernization and upgrades on the guided missile destroyers USS Howard (DDG 83) and USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79).

Comms

DARPA program to focus on disease outbreak infrastructure, prevention - News

January 08, 2018

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

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is debuting a new program -- dubbed Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT) -- that seeks to support military readiness by going after new viral infectious diseases at the source; advance understanding of viruses and their interaction with animals, insects, and humans; and build infrastructure to deliver proactive interventions to reduce the risk from emerging and reemerging pathogens.

Radar/EW

Army awards $945 million contract for advanced Patriot missiles - News

January 08, 2018

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

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control business unit recently secured a $945 million modification contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command to exercise the production option of fiscal 2018 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles.

Unmanned

U.S. Air Force signs rocket development deal for national-security space missions - News

January 05, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbital ATK

DULLES, Va. The U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Orbital ATK to provide the framework and plan for data exchanges needed to certify Orbital ATK?s Next Generation Launch (NGL) system to carry national security space missions.

Unmanned

Army awards $93 million unmanned drone contract to Kratos division - News

January 05, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

SAN DIEGO. National-security solutions company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced today that its Composite Engineering subsidiary (Roseville, California, part of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division) was awarded a $93 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to build advanced subscale aerial drone systems, an unmanned target aircraft with launchers and associated ground equipment and spares.

Comms

DoD orders advanced capacitors to aid in nonlethal force protection, vehicle checkpoints - News

January 05, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has won a contract from the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) through the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) to develop and supply advanced high-energy-density capacitors intended for integration into a nonlethal Pre-Emplaced Vehicle Stopper (PEVS) system for use in force protection and vehicle checkpoint operations.