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Unmanned

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

October 11, 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Comms

University, Army researchers: We've generated the fastest-ever light pulse - News

October 05, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have generated what is being deemed the fastest light pulse ever developed.The 53-attosecond pulse, produced by professor Zenhgu Chang -- UCF trustee chair and professor in the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, College of Optics and Photonics, and Department of Physics together with his engineering group at the university, beats the team's record of a 67-attosecond extreme ultraviolet light pulse set in 2012. (One attosecond is one-quintillionth of a second.)
Unmanned

Small solar UAS deemed compliant, says Canadian transport authority - News

October 05, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Silent Falcon small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) from Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has been added to Transport Canada?s list of ?Compliant Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)?, a distinction allowing Silent Falcon to issue Statements of Conformity to its Canadian customers seeking to become what Canada calls Compliant UAV Operators.
Comms

C4ISR training services to be provided by Huntington Ingalls Industries - News

October 04, 2017
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. The Technical Solutions division at Huntington Ingalls Industries? received a $25 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple-award contract from the U.S. Navy to provide training services for tactical afloat shipboard, ashore and submarine command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems.
A.I.

British army, SparkCognition team up to streamline AI applications for defense - News

October 04, 2017
AUSTIN. British army and SparkCognition officials entered an agreement to provide a collaborative thought leadership on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in future warfare. This partnership focuses on how operations can be streamlined using AI technologies today.
Unmanned

U.S. Army signs $74.7 million contract for land surveillance systems to aid mobile troops - News

October 04, 2017
WILSONVILLE, Ore. Infrared-camera design and manufacturing firm FLIR Systems has won a $74.7 million firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Army to deliver TacFLIR surveillance cameras in support of the Army's EO/IR-Force Protection (FP) program. The Army will purchase the systems through Army Contracting Command, Redstone.
Cyber

U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command signs cybersecurity team to $81.3 million contract - News

October 04, 2017
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, will lead a team to provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity services to the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division. The single-award, task order contract has a potential value of approximately $81.3 million for five years.