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Radar/EW
Rockwell Collins awarded three-year contract for military test ranges - News
July 26, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has been awarded an Interim Contractor Support (ICS) contract by the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) Program Office at Eglin Air Force Base that includes field support, repair, and security maintenance of the currently fielded CRIIS program for Air Force, Navy, and Army test ranges.
Radar/EW
Navy's electromagnetic railgun is ready for field demonstration - News
July 25, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced at the Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo that the Navy's electromagnetic railgun is ready for field demonstrations at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division's new railgun Rep-Rate Test Site at Terminal Range.
Radar/EW
Analog to network radar video data converter released by Cambridge Pixel - News
July 25, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Cambridge Pixel released the HPx-346. It is a compact, low power, standalone primary radar input and network distribution card.
Radar/EW
Navy research into phase change may pave way for better battlefield chemical sensors - News
July 25, 2017
WASHINGTON. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated that monolayer 2-D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) ? which are atomically thin semiconductors ? undergo a change from semiconductor-to-metallic phase when exposed to airborne chemical vapors.
Comms
ManTech wins $80 million NAVAIR contract to support air warfare, communications - News
July 25, 2017
HERNDON, Va. ManTech International has announced an $80.3 million contract with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR NAWCAD) to support the air-warfare and related capability development activities of NAVAIR's Mission and Engineering and Analysis Department.
Comms
Charles River Analytics building tools for decision-making under uncertain conditions - News
July 25, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has received a one-year contract extension -- awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and valued at close to $500,000 -- for a system supporting Probabilistic Model-Based Programming Techniques for Prediction, Analysis, and Control, or PROMPT. The system, says the company, is intended for use by system engineers to reason under uncertain conditions.
Avionics
Navy completes software fix on EMALS issue - News
July 25, 2017
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The Naval Air System Command's Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) team reports that it has finished testing and data review at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, validating a software fix that will ensure safe launches.
Cyber
U.S. Army taps Leidos to modernize software in artillery system - News
July 24, 2017
RESTON, Va. U.S. Army officials selected Leidos to provide systems engineering, software development, and integration on the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS).
Cyber
DoD official: We will deploy advanced algorithms to front lines to decode data before year-end - News
July 24, 2017
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) plans to deploy to the front lines new computer algorithms designed to extract objects of interest from massive amounts of moving or still imagery by the end of the year, according to U.S. Marine Corps Col. Drew Cukor, head of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Function Team in DoD?s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
Avionics
Kaman signs multi-year manufacturing contract for H-60 cockpits - News
July 21, 2017
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Kaman Aerospace Corporation (Kaman), a subsidiary of Kaman Corp., and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, officials entered into a multi-year (MY) agreement to continue manufacturing H-60 cockpits. It outlines the pricing and conditions for the cockpits under the Department of Defense MY IX H-60 procurement authorization.
Avionics
F-22 Raptors, other aircraft team for full-spectrum readiness exercise - News
July 21, 2017
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. A contingent of F-22 Raptor fighter jets from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, have joined combat air forces from across the nation at Nellis AFB for the joint, full-spectrum readiness exercise Red Flag 17-3. Department of Defense (DoD) officials say that the exercise facilitates readiness training on a higher level, as each unit brings specific expertise and talents to the table; Red Flag exercises teach them to work together as they would in the field, possibly for the first time, before facing an actual threat.
Unmanned
Lockheed Martin to build full-scale prototype of cislunar habitat - News
July 21, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin a Phase II contract to build a prototype of a cislunar --commonly regarded as the deep space between the earth and the moon -- habitat at Kennedy Space Center. Under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) habitat study contract, the prototype will integrate evolving technologies that will eventually be used in cislunar orbit to keep astronauts safe while onboard and operate the spacecraft autonomously when unoccupied.
Comms
SAIC wins C4ES task order worth $621 million - News
July 21, 2017
RESTON, Va. U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center officials selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) for a task order under the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Enterprise Support (C4ES) worth approximately $621 million.
Radar/EW
X-band radar market to hit $8.24 billion by 2025: Report - News
July 20, 2017
DUBLIN. The global X-band radar market is set to rise at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 4.9 percent over the next decade, to reach approximately $8.24 billion by 2025, according to an Accuray Research report offered by Research and Markets.
Radar/EW
Air Force adds GE to $409 million thermal/power/control research contract - News
July 20, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a spot to General Electric on a potential $409 million contract aimed at research and development on thermal, power, and controls systems for aircraft engines and airframes, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
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