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Radar/EW
Navistar Defense to deliver 115 medium tactical vehicles to Iraq - News
June 13, 2017
LISLE, Ill. U.S. Army officials selected Navistar Defense, LLC for a foreign military sales (FMS) contract valued at $18.8 million to provide 115 International 7000-MV Medium Tactical Vehicles (MTV) to Iraq.
Comms
PacStar & Aruba receive NSA-certification for its tactical server with security software - News
June 13, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore. National Security Agency (NSA) officials approved PacStar's 451 with Aruba VMC-TACT as a certified component for use in the NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program.
Unmanned
Army awards Raytheon $116.4 million contract to develop next phase of longer-range missile program - News
June 13, 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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