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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.

Unmanned

Orbital ATK moves to full-rate production of its hard target void sensing fuze - News

January 04, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Orbital ATK

DULLES, Va. U.S. Air Force officials selected Orbital ATK for its all-electronic FMU-167/B Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze (HTVSF) under a full-rate production (FRP) contract. The award is worth $23 million following the low-rate initial production contract awarded in 2016.

Unmanned

Aurora Flight Sciences to continue development of Orion UAS - News

January 04, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Aurora Flight Sciences

MANASSAS, Va. Aurora Flight Sciences will continue the development of the Orion Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) under a new U.S. Air Force contract valued at $48 million.

Comms

Defense Dept. mounts initiative to support university-industry research and cooperation - News

January 04, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an award competition for the Defense Enterprise Science Initiative (DESI), a pilot program that supports university-industry collaboration in the area of use-inspired basic research. DESI is sponsored by the Basic Research Office, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and executed in collaboration with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Army Research Office.

Radar/EW

SEAFAC signs $42 million contract to boost signature silencing program - News

January 04, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leidos

RESTON, Va. Information technology and engineering company Leidos was recently awarded a prime contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to support the Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility (SEAFAC) signature silencing program. The single-award, cost-plus fixed-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a five-year performance period and a total value of approximately $42 million.

Unmanned

Bomber Armament Tester contract awarded to BAE Systems, Marvin Test Solutions team - News

January 03, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Marvin Test Solutions

IRVINE, Calif. Marvin Test Solutions, Inc. -- which manufactures globally-deployed test solutions for military, aerospace, and manufacturing organizations -- announced that it is a member of the BAE Systems-led team that won the U.S. Air Force Bomber Armament Tester (BAT) program competition in late 2017. The contract value of more than $64 million provides for the design, development, manufacturing, and sustainment of the BAT system.

Unmanned

NAVAIR signs $255 million contract for additional MQ-4C UAVs - News

January 03, 2018

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

PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION, Md. Officials at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced a $255.3 million contract agreement with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (San Diego) for three additional MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Comms

NATO to meet integrated waveform baseline of its UHF SATCOM control stations - News

January 03, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems ViaSat

CARLSBAD, Calif. NATO officials tapped Viasat Inc. to upgrade its UHF satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline.

Radar/EW

USAF signs $333.4 million contract for follow-on radar surveillance - News

January 02, 2018

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

WALTHAM, Mass. Raytheon has signed a contract worth a potential $333.4 million (100 percent foreign military sales) with the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide operations and maintenance support services for a surveillance radar program.

Radar/EW

Global EW market to grow to $17.5 billion by 2027, say analysts - News

January 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Strategic Defence Intelligence

LONDON. The global electronic warfare (EW) market -- valued at more than $13 billion in 2017 -- will grow at a combined annual growth rate of more than 2.6 percent to be worth $17.7 billion by 2027, according to a forecast by analysts at Strategic Defence Intelligence.

Comms

Report: Tactical comms market to experience 17 percent CAGR through 2023 - News

December 29, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Research and Markets

MUMBAI. The global tactical communication market -- defined as equipment used in the transmission of military information through electric means -- is expected to grow at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 17 percent during the period 2016-2023, according to a new forecast by market research firm Occams Business Research and Consulting.

Radar/EW

South Korean AESA radar development program contract won by Saab - News

December 29, 2017

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Saab

SEOUL, South Korea. Saab experts will support algorithm development and evaluation for airborne active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter radar. for the South Korean Defence Development (ADD) agency. Under the contract Saab engineers will work with ADD and its contractual partner LIG Nex1.

Unmanned

USAF awards $110 million contract for networked cruise missile - News

December 27, 2017

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

DALLAS. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has granted Lockheed Martin a $110 million, five-year/Phase 1 contract to develop and demonstrate a lower-cost, networked cruise missile that will be called Gray Wolf.