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Unmanned

Army awards Raytheon $116.4 million contract to develop next phase of longer-range missile program - News

June 13, 2017

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

TUCSON, Ariz. The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon Missile Systems a $116.4 million contract to enter into the technological maturation and risk-reduction phase of the Long-Range Precision Fires (LRPF) next-generation missile program. This next phase includes testing of the missile components to ensure that the design is ready for engineering and manufacturing development, along with live-fire demonstrations by the end of 2019.

Unmanned

Leidos wins contract to support Navy, Marine acoustic programs - News

June 13, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Leidos

RESTON, Va. Technology services company Leidos has won a contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to provide operational support to NSWCCD acoustic trials and research activities for the Navy's Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility (SEAFAC).

Unmanned

Huntington Ingalls Industries & Boeing team up for U.S. Navy's large UUV program - News

June 12, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Huntington Ingalls Industries Boeing

ARLINGTON, Va. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and Boeing representatives are teaming up to design and produce Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) in support of the U.S. Navy?s Extra Large UUV program.

Unmanned

U.S. Navy opts in for additional BAE Systems' APKWS laser-guided rockets - News

June 12, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

HUDSON, N.H. U.S. Navy officials awarded BAE Systems a $180.5 million contract to continue producing Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rockets to meet the growing U.S. and international demand for the systems.

Radar/EW

Nitride research may lead to new microelectronic technology and devices - News

June 12, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

WASHINGTON. A group of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) has continued to push forward with research regarding gallium nitride (GaN) technology for radio-frequency (RF) wireless technology and recently made an breakthrough in the ability to grow thin films of a transition metal nitride called niobium nitride (Nb2N).

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.