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Unmanned

Navy conducts LRASM test from a B-1B Lancer aircraft - News

December 13, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Navy

POINT MUGU SEA TEST RANGE, Calif. The U.S. Navy recently completed another in a series of milestone test flights as it endeavors to fully test and certify its new Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), with a test flight from an Air Force B-1B Lancer on December 8 off the coast of southern California.

Unmanned

Equipment test shows off counter-UAV measures for airfields, battlefields - News

December 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems HENSOLDT

HAMBURG, Germany. Sensor company Hensoldt recently held a demonstration of its Xpeller counter-UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] system as part of a larger exhibition on the Airbus airfield in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.

Comms

DoD selects Battelle team for microelectronics security research contract - News

December 12, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Batelle

COLUMBUS, Ohio. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials tapped Battelle for two contracts worth an estimated $23 million to conduct research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory?s (AFRL) Sensors Directorate.

Radar/EW

U.S. Army Pacific Command issues $9 million task order for Kwajalein site - News

December 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems DdynCorp International

MCLEAN, Va. DynCorp International (DI) recently received a Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP IV) change order to the U.S. Army Pacific Command (PACOM) task order 06: Base Operation Services supporting the U.S. Army Garrison at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The change order began December 1, 2017 and runs through February 28, 2018, with a total work authorization of $9 million.

Comms

Distributed mission operations center contract won by General Dynamics - News

December 12, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics Information Technology

FAIRFAX, Va. U.S. Air Force officials selected General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)- a business unit of General Dynamics - for the Distributed Mission Operations Center ? Infrastructure, Development and Engineering support contract with a potential value of $47 million.

Comms

NRL R&D contract will focus on ocean dynamics and predictive oceanography - News

December 11, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Vencore

CHANTILLY, Va. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) officials selected Vencore Inc. for a five-year, $23 million contract to conduct research and development (R&D) of ocean dynamics and predictive oceanography.

Radar/EW

Northrop Grumman to perform risk reduction for radar technology - News

December 11, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BALTIMORE. Officials at the U.S. Army?s Lower Tier Program Office (LTPO) selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to perform risk reduction for radar technology and associated mission capabilities intended to replace the Army?s Patriot radars.

Comms

Navy authorizes $1.9 million in funding to support its Advanced Time Division Multiple Access Interface Processor Terminals - News

December 11, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Comtech EF Data Corp.

MELVILLE, N.Y. Comtech EF Data Corp. - a business unit under Comtech's Commercial Solutions segment - received a contract modification to support additional capabilities to the Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Interface Processor (ATIP) production terminals in support of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The modification will add an $1.9 million under an Engineering Support Services Contract Line Item (CLIN).

Comms

USAF senior leaders order direct review of Air Force programs to ensure optimal resource use - News

December 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Air Force

WASHINGTON. Senior leaders of the U.S. Air Force have called for a Zero-Based Review of all Air Force programs, budget accounts, and associated manpower authorizations as the military branch embarks on its Fiscal Year 2020 Program Objective Memorandum and Future Years Defense Plan.

Avionics

Israeli air force signs $74 million contract for upgraded transport-aircraft flight simulators - News

December 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems

HAIFA, Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has tapped Elbit Systems to provide and operate flight simulators for the upgraded C-130H and C-130J transport aircraft operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF).

Comms

U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigades to get new radio equipment - News

December 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Harris Corporation

ROCHESTER, N.Y. The U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs) has chosen equipment from Harris Corporation to supply the SFABs with combat-proven communication systems.

Comms

DARPA promulgates vision of sensor-based "Ocean of Things" - News

December 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its "Ocean of Things" program, which the agency says seeks to enable persistent maritime situational awareness over large ocean areas by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats that would form a distributed sensor network.

Avionics

Analysts: Aerospace sector in Malaysia to create more than 19,000 new jobs by 2037 - News

December 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Frost & Sullivan

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia. The Malaysian aerospace sector is expected to grow at a combined annual growth rate of 8.45 percent over the next 20 years, with much of that growth due to rapid expansion in fleet size and the rising trend of the migration of commercial maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) activities in the Asia-Pacific region, according to recent research from analysts Frost & Sullivan.

A.I.

Artificial intelligence & machine learning techniques to be explored in DARPA Causal Exploration program - News

December 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials tapped Raytheon BBN Technologies - a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Co. - to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to develop tools that may enable military planners to understand how cultural and other factors combine to cause conflicts. The work Agency's Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program.

A.I.

Performance analysis tools developed for IARPA's insider threat program - News

December 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Charles River Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Engineers at Charles River Analytics developed prediction and sensitivity analysis tools and algorithms under the Continuous Insider Threat Evaluation (SCITE) program for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).