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Radar/EW
Missile defense modeling and simulation software contract won by Teledyne - News
February 19, 2018
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) officials selected Teledyne Technologies Inc. for a $45.7 million task order for missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software.
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin moves to mature Freedom-variant FFG(X) conceptual design - News
February 19, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials approved Lockheed Martin's Freedom-variant Frigate (FFG(X)) design to move forward for the Navy's FFG(X) competition. The contract to mature the conceptual design is valued at $15 million.
Comms
Plug-in smartphone app enables military parachutists to land with greater precision - News
February 16, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A team of engineers at Draper Laboratories recently filed a patent for a smartphone app that automatically detects when parachutists make the critical transition from the plane to being under their parachute canopy.
Avionics
Pilots of the Lockheed U-2 aircraft will utilize D2 Charlie aviator watches - News
February 16, 2018
OLATHE, Kan. U.S. Air Force officials selected Garmin International, Inc., a Garmin Ltd. business unit, to deliver the company's D2 Charlie aviator for use by the pilots of the Lockheed U-2 aircraft.
Comms
GA-EMS completes first delivery of LiFT batteries for USSOCOM'S combat submersible vehicle - News
February 16, 2018
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Officials at General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) delivered the first batch of Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant (LiFT) batteries for the U.S. Special Operations Command?s (USSOCOM) new Dry Combat Submersible (DCS), a long endurance delivery vehicle capable of transporting personnel in a dry environment.
Radar/EW
Military display systems contract signed worth more than $8.7 million - News
February 16, 2018
CARLSBAD, Calif. Specialized military display maker Palomar Display Products has been awarded three contracts totaling more than $8.7 million to deliver military display systems for the M1 Abrams tank, M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and Light Armored Vehicle (LAV).
Comms
DoD to host Industry Day for cloud computing project - News
February 15, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) will host host an Industry Day for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud acquisition on March 7, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia.
Cyber
Hack the Air Force 2.0 invites 26 countries to participate, reports 106 vulnerabilities - News
February 15, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO. Officials at HackerOne released the results of the second Hack the Air Force bug bounty challenge. Hack the Air Force 2.0 is part of the Department of Defense?s (DoD) Hack the Pentagon crowd-sourced security initiative. Twenty-seven trusted hackers participated in the Hack the Air Force bug bounty challenge ? reporting 106 valid vulnerabilities and earning $103,883.
Cyber
Cybersecurity compliance for ballistic missile defense system contract won by DECISIVE ANALYTICS - News
February 15, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) officials selected DECISIVE ANALYTICS for a $59.5 million contract to provide cybersecurity compliance and risk management for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
A.I.
Keeping military personnel in the field safe from infectious agents - News
February 15, 2018
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) won a 12-month contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a next-generation portable diagnostic platform for military personnel to quickly self-perform testing for a variety of infectious diseases in the field.
Unmanned
Oshkosh receives $476 million contract for FMTV A2 variant vehicles - News
February 14, 2018
OSHKOSH, Wis. Officials at the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) selected Oshkosh Defense, LLC, an Oshkosh Corp. company, for a firm fixed price requirements contract spanning up to seven ordering years for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) A2 variant.
Radar/EW
Finnish forces' airborne surveillance system achieves operational capability - News
February 14, 2018
DENVER. The Finnish Defense Forces achieved final operational capability of the Lockheed Martin-built "Dragon Shield" airborne surveillance system. The milestone was achieved after the final flight test of the system, which evaluated compliance of the aircraft to civilian and military airworthiness requirements as well as system requirements verification.
Unmanned
Participants wanted for UAV swarm-based tactics test bed - News
February 14, 2018
BALTIMORE, Md. Northrop Grumman Corp. -- in its role as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency?s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program -- is set to launch its first open-architecture test bed and is seeking participants to create and test their own swarm-based tactics on the platform. In this project, Northrop Grumman is teamed with Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and the Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster, directed by Dr. Joseph LaViola at the University of Central Florida.
Avionics
Contract aims to increase safety, health of aviation personnel - News
February 14, 2018
PASADENA, Calif. Engineering consulting firm Tetra Tech has won a $40 million, single-award contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aerospace Medicine (AAM) to develop a new information system for tracking and analyzing medical information associated with pilots, air-traffic controllers, and other aviation-related personnel.
A.I.
Flight test demos semi-autonomous software in contested environments - News
February 13, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in association with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), completed a 11-day flight test with BAE Systems' newly developed semi-autonomous software that allows better management and control of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat in contested environments.
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