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Unmanned
Teledyne awarded $9.98 million to supply IR detectors for Jupiter mission - News
March 21, 2017
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has been awarded a $9.98 million contract from the French Space Agency -- the Centre National d??tudes Spatiales (CNES) -- to provide infrared detectors and electronics for the European Space Agency (ESA) JUICE mission to Jupiter. JUICE -- the ESA's acronym for JUpiter Icy moon Explorer -- is expected to launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030 to undertake a 3 1/2-year study of Jupiter and three of its moons: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
Unmanned
UUV completes underwater mine-hunting trials - News
March 21, 2017
QUINCY, Mass. General Dynamics Mission Systems reports that it has successfully completed a comprehensive evaluation of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), in coordination with the U.S. Navy.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy, Mercury agree to DRFM jammer contract - News
March 21, 2017
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received a follow-on, five-year, sole source basic ordering agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy to deliver advanced digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) subsystems that support frequency jamming in a multithreat environment.
Cyber
MacB to provide IT solutions in support of Air Force equipment management system - News
March 20, 2017
DAYTON, Ohio. U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) officials selected MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) to provide Information Technology (IT) solutions in support of the Air Force Equipment Management System (AFEMS).
Comms
Boeing WGS satellite aims to improve military comms for U.S., allies - News
March 20, 2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite was launched into orbit on March 18. This WGS-9 satellite, launched using a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, is aimed at enabling the United States and six allied nations to increase military communications capabilities to prevent, protect against, and respond to attacks.
Avionics
NAVAIR division to receive test and evaluation support from DCS - News
March 20, 2017
LEXINGTON PARK, Md. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials selected DCS Corp. to provide test and evaluation engineering services to the NAVAIR?s Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation Division (AIR- 5.1.6) within the Integrated System Evaluation Experimentation & Test (ISEET) Department.
Comms
Air Force invites industry to participate in light attack platform experiment - News
March 20, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. U.S. Air Force officials are inviting the industry to evaluate the military utility of light attack platforms in future force structure. The Invitation to Participate is part of a broader Air Force effort to explore cost-effective attack platform options.
Comms
Army JRTC awards $42 million contract to continue mission support services - News
March 17, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., has received a contract award worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center?s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational and predeployment training exercise requirements from April 1 to August 24, with Phase Out requirements from August 25 to October 23, 2017.
Cyber
DoD cyber crime center to receive support from Lockheed Martin in contract extension - News
March 17, 2017
LINTHICUM, Md. The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) tasked Lockheed Martin to continue its role to support the Department of Defense?s (DoD) efforts against cyber criminals.
Cyber
CALIBRE systems to support Army in move to commercial cloud services - News
March 17, 2017
ALEXANDRIA, VA. U.S. Army officials selected CALIBRE Systems as one of the awardees for the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation (ACCENT) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA). The award spans over the next three years and has an estimated value of $250 million.
Avionics
U.S Army purchases Boeing's AH-64E Apache helicopters in $3.4 billion contract - News
March 17, 2017
MESA, Ariz. U.S. Government officials and Boeing signed a five-year contract, through which the U.S. Army and a customer outside the U.S. will acquire the Apache attack helicopter. The contract is worth an estimated $3.4 billion.
Unmanned
DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News
March 17, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin designs, tests 60 kW laser weapon - News
March 17, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin has completed the design, development, and demonstration of a 60 kW-class beam combined fiber laser for the U.S. Army. In a recent test near its Bothell, Washington, facility, Lockheed's laser produced a single beam of 58 kW, which the company says represents a world record for a laser of this type. The Lockheed Martin team is preparing to ship the laser to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Huntsville, Alabama.
Comms
ONR sponsors crowdsourcing collaboration focusing on 'Singularity' - News
March 16, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) will sponsor the launch of a multiplayer online war game. The goal is to recruit a community of more than one thousand players to collaborate on solving real-world problems that the U.S. Navy faces. Officials say, "Think of military-themed multiplayer games, and first-person shooter successes like 'Call of Duty' or 'Halo' likely come to mind."
Unmanned
NASA reveals work on tiny folding robots for exploring extreme terrains - News
March 16, 2017
PASADENA, Calif. NASA and several partners are working on what the space agency calls an "origami-inspired" small robot that can fold itself to become as small as a smartphone but is rugged enough to handle harsh terrain on Mars and beyond.
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Unmanned
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Agentic AI capabilities to be integrated into defense platforms by BAE Systems, Scale AI
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Electronic warfare autonomy software demonstrated by L3Harris, Shield AI
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