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Awards made on $2.5 billion Complex Commercial Satcom Solutions contract - News

May 17, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Services Administration (GSA)

WASHINGTON. The General Services Administration (GSA) has made multiple awards on its Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions (CS3) contract. The 10-year indefinite date/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract (five-year base plus a three-year option and a two-year option) enables U.S. federal agencies to purchase end-to-end, turnkey solutions incorporating commercial satellite communication services through the GSA.

Unmanned

Textron Systems completes testing & development of Fury weapon - News

May 16, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Textron

TAMPA, Fla. Officials at Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems, a business of Textron Inc., completed testing of the company's Fury lightweight precision guided glide munition against moving targets at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. This test marks the completion of the Fury weapon?s development.

Comms

Leonardo DRS gets multiple orders for its Link-11/Link-22 military comms systems - News

May 16, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leonardo DRS

ARLINGTON, Va. Leonardo DRS has announced that it received multiple orders from the U.S. military and the Italian navy for its Link-11 and Link-22 data terminal sets and associated communication equipment, systems, and services. Forces in the U.S. and other allied countries already use the Link-11 and Link-22 data systems as the primary way to exchange information among airborne, land-based, and shipboard tactical data systems.

Comms

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic awards SAIC $61 million task order - News

May 16, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems SAIC

CHARLESTON, S.C. The U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a task order worth up to $61 million to perform command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) engineering upgrades and integration for Army tactical vehicles. The task order has a one-year base period of performance and a six-month exercisable option.

Comms

DCS wins five-year contract to support Army tanks - News

May 16, 2017

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

WARREN, Mich. DCS Corp. has won a five-year prime contact to support the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC).

Radar/EW

NASA sounding rocket mission tests new technologies, sensors - News

May 16, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. A sounding rocket launch from NASA?s Wallops Flight Facility during the early morning hours of May 16 is intended to provide the flight testing needed for 24 experiments and new technologies.

Radar/EW

Experiment reveals advantage of quantum processing over classical processor - News

May 15, 2017

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

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional processor in a race to solve a puzzle, figuring out a secret combination up to 100 times faster by using exotic physics to sort through data that was deliberately packed with errors, according to the results of an experiment detailed in a recent academic paper by scientists from Raytheon and IBM.

Radar/EW

Raytheon selected to deliver 3-D long-range radar system to Air Force - News

May 15, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center officials selected Raytheon for a $52.6 million contract to deliver three-dimensional expeditionary long-range radar (3DELRR) system. The 3DELRR system will replace the AN/TPS-75 (Tipsy 75), as the principal Air Force ground-based sensor for long range surveillance, detection, and tracking of aerial targets in support of theater commanders.

Radar/EW

TACLAN field-computing device completes live-fire testing - News

May 15, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems iGov

RESTON, Va. iGov announced that it has completed Operational Utility Assessment (OUA) on its Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Family of System (FoS) Field Computing Device-Wearable (FCD-W). Testing was accomplished during Digitally-Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) testing at a Department of Defense (DoD) test range in Nevada.

Unmanned

General Atomics tests hypersonic railgun projectiles - News

May 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has successfully tested hypersonic projectiles with an enhanced guidance electronics unit (GEU) during multiple firings from its three megajoule (3 MJ) Blitzer railgun system.

Radar/EW

USS Abraham Lincoln undergoing sea trials following overhaul - News

May 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. After a four-year refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) got underway for sea trials on May 9.

Unmanned

Service-academy challenge pushes DARPA to test groups of unmanned vehicles - News

May 12, 2017

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

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. More than 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy recently participated in the "Service Academies Swarm Challenge," in which teams formed and tested the capabilities of swarms of highly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invited the young officers-in-training to develop and flight test novel ideas for how best to use UAV swarms in future wars.The three-day experiment concluded with an aerial battle in which the Naval Academy took home the win, a trophy, and bragging rights over its rival academies.

Unmanned

Joint Navy and Marine exercise demonstrates amphibious autonomous warfare - News

May 11, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. A recent exercise held at Camp Pendleton demonstrated emerging technology innovations in the area of autonomous amphibious warfare.

Unmanned

KBRwyle wins contract to support NASA exploratory missions - News

May 11, 2017

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

HOUSTON. Government-services business KBRwyle has won an engineering services contract from NASA to support upwards of 20 NASA exploration missions. The five-year contract has a maximum value of $442 million.

Unmanned

Organizations solicit proposals for UAS traffic-management systems - News

May 10, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

DALLAS. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have announced a Request for Information (RFI) on traffic-management systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).