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Northrop Grumman to compete in task orders under Army's mission training contract - News
November 27, 2017
HERNDON, Va. U.S. Army officials tapped Northrop Grumman Corp. for a multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) award to compete in task orders under the Mission Training Complex Capabilities Support contract.
A.I.
DARPA issues RFI to innovate in underground mapping, navigation - News
November 27, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a request for information (RFI) on potential concepts for innovative technology platforms designed to navigate and map urban underground infrastructure, man-made tunnels, natural cave networks, and other subterranean environments.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy LCS program orders additional Sea Giraffe AMB radar - News
November 27, 2017
STOCKHOLM. Defense and security company Saab has received a follow-on order from General Dynamics for delivery of the Saab Sea Giraffe AMB naval radar for the U.S. Navy?s Littoral Combat Ships LCS 28 and LCS 30. The initial contract was awarded in September 2011 to the company?s U.S, subsidiary, Saab Sensis, which covered the delivery of the radar as part of the Navy?s LCS program.
Avionics
CAE USA to support development of C-130J weapon systems trainers - News
November 22, 2017
TAMPA, Fla. Lockheed Martin officials tapped CAE USA to support the design, development, and manufacture of six C-130J weapon systems trainers (WSTs) under a subcontract for the United States Air Force and Air National Guard.
Comms
L3 Technologies to develop Free Space Optics capabilities for DoD - News
November 22, 2017
NEW YORK. Officials at L3 Technologies received multiple contracts to develop Free Space Optics (FSO) capabilities for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and space customers.
Comms
Multinational spectrum coordination now available on a mobile app - News
November 22, 2017
FORT MEADE, Md. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reports that the mobile application version of the "Mercury" tool ? a central repository used to coordinate electromagnetic spectrum frequencies during humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) operations ? is now available for download on both Apple and Android devices.
Avionics
Protecting pilots from laser attack - News
November 22, 2017
LONDON. Engineers at BAE Systems have developed what they call a low-cost, flexible system to block hostile laser attacks against aircraft and their crews.
Avionics
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye trainer contract won by Rockwell Collins - News
November 21, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. U.S Navy officials tapped Rockwell Collins to provide a new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Tactics Trainer in support of the E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training Systems (HITS) III program.
Comms
U.S. Army orders ISR receiver devices from IMT Vislink - News
November 21, 2017
SARASOTA, Fla. U.S Army officials selected IMT Vislink - a xG Technology, Inc's business unit - to supply hand-held intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) receiver devices.
Unmanned
NASA finishes 100 days of cryogenic vacuum testing on Webb space telescope - News
November 21, 2017
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, Texas. On November 18, NASA unsealed the 40-metric-ton doors of a cryogenic test chamber at the Johnson Space Center, marking the end of a 100-day cryogenic test phase for the James Webb Space Telescope, to make sure that the telescope's sensitive instruments will work as expected in the cold, airless environment of space. The cryogenic test phase was an important step toward the launch and operation of the telescope, which is considered to be a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Avionics
Sensors developed that can detect aircraft damage as it happens - News
November 20, 2017
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Researchers with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center have developed and tested networked acoustic emission sensors that can detect airframe damage on conceptual composite UH-60 Black Hawk rotorcraft.
Radar/EW
U.S. Air Force awards $349.6 million Joint STARS contract extension - News
November 20, 2017
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a 12-month, $349.6 million contract for Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR) of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) fleet, which is a command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C2ISR) aircraft designed to support combatant commanders in-theater.
Comms
DARPA's new program aims to turn plants into sensors - News
November 20, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched a new program to pursue technologies to engineer robust, plant-based sensors that are self-sustaining in their environment and can be remotely monitored using existing hardware. The program - Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) - aims to utilize simple plants as the next generation of intelligence gatherers.
Comms
Delta II rocket launches carrying NASA and NOAA satellites, sensors - News
November 20, 2017
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) for NASA and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lifted off on November 18 from Vandenburg AFB's Space Launch Complex-2.
Comms
Navy's new telemetry system will offer multirole capabilities - News
November 17, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Raytheon received a $79 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a new advanced telemetry system for the service's Range Support Aircraft. The high-tech plane will replace the Navy's aging telemetry test aircraft, which has been in service since the 1970s.
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