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Radar/EW

Defense, aerospace expected to hold greatest share of global optical sensing market through 2023 - News

June 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

SEATTLE. The global optical sensing market is projected to grow from $1.2 billion in 2016 to $3.46 billion by 2023 -- a combined annual growth rate of 15.47% between 2017 and 2023 -- according to a report published by MarketsandMarkets, "Optical Sensing Market by Industry (Aerospace & Defense, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Medical, Construction, and Consumer Electronics), Application, Method, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2023."

Avionics

Air Force requests $28 million to build, improve aircraft ranges - News

June 09, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has asked for -- in its fiscal year 2018 budget request -- funding for construction to improve aircraft ranges in Utah and Nevada. In testimony prepared for Congress, USAF Chief of Staff General David Goldfein and Service Secretary Heather Wilson said that the funding would enable the USAF to use the full range of capabilities available to F-35A aircrews.

Radar/EW

U.S. Air Force to upgrade F-16 AESA radar - News

June 09, 2017

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

BALTIMORE, Md. The U.S. Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman?s APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) as the active electronically scanned array (AESA) for its planned radar upgrade on its F-16 fighter aircraft. Northrop Grumman will upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense.

Unmanned

Raytheon awarded up to $600 million for missile-defense modernization program - News

June 09, 2017

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

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Raytheon has been awarded a contract valued at as much as $600 million to provide the U.S. Army with software support and sustainment in the area of modernizing missile defense and other strategic systems. The work is set to be performed at the Software Engineering Directorate (SED), U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

Comms

NASA awards $620 million contract to SAIC for engineering support - News

June 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

GREENBELT, Md. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to provide multidisciplinary engineering support services for the center. The single-award contract has a five-year base period of performance and an award ceiling of $620 million.

Avionics

CACI wins $94 million contract for Air Force fleet testing-system support - News

June 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems CACI

ARLINGTON, Va. Information-services company CACI International has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to provide full-service automated testing system support services to the U.S. Air Force 309th Electronics Maintenance Group under the Automated Test System Sustainment Initiative (ATSSI).

Cyber

NATO, Leonardo team for cybersecurity initiatives - News

June 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leonardo

ROME. Global defense and cybersecurity company Leonardo has signed an Industrial Partnership Agreement (IPA) with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) to share cybersecurity information with private-sector companies that operate in NATO and allied countries in order to mutually enhance situational awareness and the protection of NATO's networks and systems.

Radar/EW

Northrop Grumman to upgrade National Guard F-16s with APG-83 AESA radar - News

June 07, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BALTIMORE. U.S. Air Force officials selected Northrop Grumman to upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s with the company's APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) as the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar upgrade.

Cyber

Air Force awards $61 million IT contract to CSRA for global ISR mission - News

June 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems CSRA, Inc.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. The U.S. Air Force has awarded a five-year, $61 million contract to information-technology provider CSRA Inc.for support of the Air Force's global intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission. The contract allows CSRA to continue as it has for 20 years, providing support to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force with its ISR-enabling capability.

Unmanned

Esri technology to be used in Navy remotely piloted vehicles for situational awareness - News

June 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Esri

REDLANDS, Calif. Spatial-analytic software maker Esri has announced that its technology will be used for the first time with U.S. Navy unmanned marine systems to improve how information is gathered prior to ocean and near-shore operations.

Unmanned

NASA, partners test next phase of UAV traffic-management system - News

June 07, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

RENO-STEAD TEST RANGE, Nev. NASA and several aviation and industry partners report that they recently conducted successful tests of five different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) demonstrating multiple operational scenarios, including parachute-initiated emergency supply deliveries and aerial survey operations.

Avionics

Elbit Systems of America to develop F-35 aircraft panoramic cockpit display - News

June 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics officials tasked Elbit Systems of America, LLC. to develop a cockpit display replacement for the F-35 aircraft. The development contract is for the Technology Refresh 3, Panoramic Cockpit Display Unit.

Cyber

Navy to receive first deployable P-8A Poseidon trainers - News

June 06, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

ARLINGTON, Va. U.S. Navy officials tasked Boeing to deliver the first deployable P-8A Poseidon trainers, allowing aircrew and operators to improve their mission readiness even while serving away from home.

Cyber

GAO rules in favor of Systematic in IT award case - News

June 06, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Systematic, Inc.

WASHINGTON. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected the protest of its original award to Systematic Inc. -- headquartered in Denmark but with a location in Centreville, Virginia -- of a U.S. Army Mission Command IT contract potentially worth up to $222 million to provide an architecture framework for the Common Operating Environment.

Unmanned

NASA selects three teams to explore UAS challenges, solutions - News

June 06, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

WASHINGTON. NASA has given the green light to three teams of researchers who have been working on solving issues encountered when using unmanned aircraft system (UASs): The teams will move forward and officially begin formal feasibility studies of their concepts. The teams, part of NASA?s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS), are expected to work on their solutions for 24 to 30 months.