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Astro Aerospace will provide L-band mesh reflectors for Inmarsat 6 satellites - News

March 30, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman Astro Aerospace Airbus Defence & Space

CARPINTERIA, Calif. Northrop Grumman's business unit, Astro Aerospace will provide Airbus Defence and Space with nine meter L-band mesh reflectors for two Inmarsat 6 satellites.

Unmanned

TARDEC & AM General enter partnership for autonomous driving vehicle - News

March 30, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems AM General

TROY, Mich. U.S. Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and AM General officials entered a partnership to develop and demonstrate an autonomous driving vehicle that may revolutionize how soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, along with equipment and supplies, are transported inside U.S. military facilities.

Radar/EW

Patent for warfighter's wearable battery issued to Inventus Power - News

March 30, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

WOODRIDGE, Ill. The U.S. Patent Office issued the Patent Number 9,564,761 B2 to Inventus Power?s Primary Conformable Wearable Battery (P-CWB) with removable command module.

Comms

German companies team for digitization of Germany's ground forces - News

March 29, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rheinmetall Waffe Munition

MUNICH and DUESSELDORF, Germany. German defense-electronics companies Rheinmetall and Rohde & Schwarz have entered a partnership that aims at leading the digitization of Germany?s ground armed forces. The two enterprises established a joint venture to compete for two major German procurement projects: "MoTaKo," which stands for ?mobile tactical communications,? and ?MoTIV,? short for ?mobile tactical information network.?

Comms

AAR wins $909 million, 15-year contract from Air Force - News

March 29, 2017

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

WOOD DALE, Ill. Aviation services company AAR Corp. has won a 15-year, $909 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force for its Landing Gear Performance-Based Logistics One program. Work is expected to run through 2032.

Radar/EW

SLS RS-25 rocket engine undergoes critical test - News

March 28, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

NASA-STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. The powerful RS-25 engine that will be used on NASA?s new super-heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) underwent a critical test recently at NASA?s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; the test included the first trial of the new flight-model engine controller and flight-configuration software. Four RS-25 engines, manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne, are set to help propel the SLS rocket into deep space and beyond.

Radar/EW

U.S. Army SMDC initiates $3 billion contract process - News

March 28, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) recently announced the eight indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) prime contractor awardees that it had chosen for the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I) Domain 1 contract award. The eight companies met with USASMDC/ARSTRAT, along with the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone, to kick off the task-order process for the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) integrated system development.

Unmanned

Initial integration of Army's MAPS soft-kill demonstrator complete - News

March 28, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman engineers teamed up and completed the initial integration for the U.S. Army's Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) soft-kill demonstrator.

Avionics

Rockwell Collins avoidance rerouter software certified FACE conformant - News

March 28, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins has announced that its Avoidance Re-router (ARR-2500) software product has been deemed conformant to Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard Edition 2.1, the latest edition of the conformance program.

Unmanned

Navy tasks Aerojet Rocketdyne to mature energy management systems for UUVs - News

March 27, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Aerojet Rocketdyne

SACRAMENTO, Calif. U.S. Navy officials selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., to mature and demonstrate capabilities of a power and energy management system that will allow underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) to be charged wirelessly undersea. The contract is worth an estimated $1.6 million.

Comms

Cobham releases auto-test and alignment capabilities for Motorola APXTM "B" Radios - News

March 27, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cobham

LAS VEGAS. Cobham officials released a new automated test and alignment software application to support the new Motorola APX "B" Radios during this year's exhibition at the Motorola Channel Partner Expo 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Comms

Booz Allen Hamilton wins $59 million Navy contract to enhance information capabilities - News

March 27, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Booz Allen Hamilton

McLEAN, Va. Booz Allen Hamilton has won a five-year, $59 million professional support services contract from the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) under which Booz Allen will provide acquisition, program, contracts, installation, and operations management expertise to the 21 Department of Defense (DoD) programs and projects executed by the Battlespace Awareness & Information Operations Program office (PMW 120).

Unmanned

Naval Research Lab instruments mount successfully on ISS - News

March 27, 2017

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

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) reports that the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully installed NRL?s Limb-Imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric Extreme Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrograph (LITES) and its Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation and Ultraviolet Photometer Co-located (GROUP-C) research instruments.

Cyber

DARPA turns to chemistry to innovate the next computing concept - News

March 24, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its Molecular Informatics program, which seeks a new paradigm for data storage, retrieval, and processing. The focus is to investigate and exploit the wide range of structural characteristics and properties of molecules to encode and manipulate data instead of the traditional way of using binary digital logic of computers based on the Von Neumann architecture.

Comms

Global aerospace and defense revenues likely to rise during 2017, say analysts - News

March 24, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NEW YORK. The global aerospace and defense (A&D) sector is likely to experience stronger growth in 2017, following multiple years of positive yet subdued growth, say analysts with multinational professional-services firm Deloitte.