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Partnerships, VITA, avionics computers featured by Curtiss-Wright at AUSA 2017 - News

October 12, 2017

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

WASHINGTON ? AUSA. Officials at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions made several announcements during this year?s Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA) that include partnerships, covering the latest information on the VITA cooling standard, and the introduction of the SPIRIT family for airborne computer applications.

Comms

Biocular viewing devices for tanks enable lower-strain viewing in the field - News

October 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kent Periscopes

WASHINGTON--AUSA. Kent Periscopes (St. Asaph, Wales) -- the U.K.-based supplier of unity vision periscopes, vehicle sights, and related equipment for military armored vehicles -- is talking up its straight biocular display at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA). Company officials say that the design provides users with higher-fidelity relaxed viewing for armored fighting vehicles in the field.

Comms

U.S. Navy to increase use of immersive game-based training - News

October 11, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cubic

SAN DIEGO. Simulation and training company Cubic announced that it has received four additional delivery orders -- totaling $22 million -- from an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the U.S. Navy?s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) with the creation and delivery of immersive game-based courseware.

Unmanned

Laser-guided rocket launcher concept can support combat operations - News

October 11, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Arnold Defense

WASHINGTON--AUSA. Arnold Defense has introduced FLETCHER, a land-vehicle-mounted, laser-guided, 2.75-inch rocket launcher concept to the U.S. defense market at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA).

Unmanned

Off-the-shelf brakes introduced, intended for heavy armored vehicles - News

October 11, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Alcon

WASHINGTON--AUSA. Specialist brake and caliper maker Alcon introduced its new CIR55 custom heavy armored vehicle brake caliper into the U.S. defense market at the Association of the United States Army Exhibition (AUSA). The recently introduced CIR55 has been designed and developed to fit 8x8-type military vehicles operating at 30 to 40-plus metric tons, gross vehicle mass (GVM).

Unmanned

AeroVironment to continue expansion of Blackwing UAS program under $2.5 million contract - News

October 11, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems AeroVironment, Inc.

WASHINGTON. At Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting and exposition, AeroVironment, Inc. officials announced the receipt of a contract award from the U.S. Navy on September 29, 2017 for continuation and expansion of its Blackwing small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) program.

Unmanned

BAE Systems receives $59.5 million order for its APKWS guidance kits - News

October 11, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

HUDSON, N.H. U.S. Navy officials opted for additional Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guidance kits to transform unguided 2.75-inch (70-millimeter) rockets into laser-guided precision munitions. The new contract is worth an estimated $59.5 million.

Radar/EW

VITA and ANSI ratify air flow through cooling standard for VPX - News

October 10, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems VITA Standards Organization

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. VITA, the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical and intelligent embedded computing systems markets, announces the ratification by ANSI and VITA of ANSI/VITA 48.8-2017, ?Mechanical Standard for Electronic VPX Plug-in Modules Using Air Flow Through Cooling.? The standard has completed the VITA and ANSI processes, reaching full recognition under guidance of VITA.

Avionics

USSOCOM avionics support contract won by Rockwell Collins - News

October 09, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

WASHINGTON. Officials at the Technology Application Contracting Office (TAKO) selected Rockwell Collins to provide avionics repair and logistics, field service support and spares management for the company's Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS), including expanded roles in field service and repair chain management for other installed avionics.

Comms

ST Kinetics, SAIC team up to develop ground combat vehicle prototype - News

October 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SAIC

RESTON, Va. ST Kinetics and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) are partnering to rapidly develop combat vehicle prototypes to meet the U.S. Army?s need as part of the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program. The goal is to develop and integrate a vehicle that offers the Army an innovative solution that provides infantry forces access to combat environments in 21st century operations.

Unmanned

DoD robotic systems contract won by Endeavor Robotics - News

October 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Endeavor Robotics

CHELMSFORD, Mass. Officials at Endeavor Robotics received the U.S. Department of Defense?s (DoD) Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc. II) contract. It is worth an estimated $100 million with an additional $58 million worth of deliverables.

Unmanned

Air Force awards contracts to update ICBM airborne launch-control system - News

October 06, 2017

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

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah. The Air Force recently awarded a pair of contracts aimed at upgrading the system that enables an aircraft to control the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a silo in the ground. The three-year contracts were awarded to Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Littleton, Colorado), and Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

Comms

Army awards $979 million contract for new landing craft - News

October 06, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Vigor

PORTLAND, Ore. Pacific Northwest shipbuilder Vigor has won a contract -- totaling as much as $979 million over 10 years -- to build the U.S. Army?s Maneuver Support Vessel (Light), MSV(L), a new generation of landing craft for the U.S. Army. The Vigor MSV(L) design will replace the Army's fleet of aging LCM-8 "Mike" boats.

Comms

DARPA initiates consortium for on-orbit servicing of satellites - News

October 05, 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 initiated the first phase of the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS) program. Advanced Technology International (ATI), based in Summerville, South Carolina, is leading the first phase of the contract to dive into the "rules of the road" concept widely accepted in the way people and vehicles travel.

Unmanned

First task order awarded on Army high-energy-laser contract - News

October 05, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems QWK Integrated Solutions

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. QWK Integrated Solutions, a joint venture of defense contractor Vencore and engineering and IT provider Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has won the High Energy Laser Technical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) task order on the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT), Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I) program Domain 1 contract.