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Unmanned
DARPA taps Raytheon for CODE's Phase 3 development - News
January 11, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials selected Raytheon to complete the development of the agency's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program during Phase 3.
Avionics
Rockwell Collins to provide supply chain management support at Robins Air Force Base maintenance depot - News
January 11, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Officials at Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) tapped Rockwell Collins to provide support for the Robins Air Force Base maintenance depot under a $22 million contract.
Unmanned
ESA plans to explore Mars using lasers - News
January 11, 2018
PARIS. The European Space Agency (ESA) is now investigating how lasers would be best used in future space missions.
Comms
Boeing donates $10 million to support veterans' programs and services - News
January 11, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Avionics
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