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Radar/EW

Royal Saudi's F-15 sensor spares contract won by Lockheed Martin - News

December 07, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Air Force officials selected Lockheed Martin to provide spares for the Royal Saudi Air Force's (RSAF) F-15 sensor suite in a contract valued an estimated $67.3 million. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2018.

Unmanned

Boeing expands autonomous capabilities with Liquid Robotics acquisition - News

December 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

ST. LOUIS. Officials at Boeing have agreed to acquire Liquid Robotics with the goal to grow the company's seabed-to-space autonomous capabitlies.

Avionics

T-50A aircraft begins flight operations in South Carolina - News

December 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

GREENVILLE, Sc. Flight operations for Lockheed Martin's T-50A have begun over Greenville, South Carolina with an initial test flight taking place on November 19th.

Radar/EW

Northrop Grumman orders additional components for USMC G/ATOR system - News

December 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Saab

AUSHBURN, Va. Saab Defense and Security USA, LLC. will deliver additional components and subsystems of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system to Northrop Grumman under a contract valued an estimated $18.6 million. The contract includes priced options for additional sets of assemblies and associated spares.

Cyber

DARPA launches Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise program - News

December 05, 2016

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

ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials are launching Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise (GS3) program, which aims to apply a combination of online game and social media technologies and techniques to engage a large number of experts and deep thinkers in a shared analytic process to rapidly identify, understand, and expand upon the potential implications and applications of emerging science and technology.

Radar/EW

Royal Netherlands air force to upgrade its AN/ALQ-131 electronic countermeasure pods - News

December 05, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. Engineers at Northrop Grumman will upgrade the AN/ALQ-131 electronic countermeasure (ECM) pods for the Royal Netherlands air force (RNLAF) F-16 aircraft fleet.

Cyber

Cybersecurity for U.S. power grid contracts won by Raytheon - News

December 05, 2016

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. Raytheon won multiple contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research and develop technologies to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid infrastructure.

Cyber

U.S. Navy selects SAIC to provide support for C4 and Cyber program - News

December 02, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SAIC

MCLEAN, Va. Officials at Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to support the Joint Staff J6 Directorate's Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) and Cyber Program in an indefinite/delivery, indefinite/quantity (IDIQ) contract valued an approximately $156 million.

Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin selects Textron Systems' A2PATS for F-35 EW simulation testing - News

December 02, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin Textron

HUNT VALLEY, Md. Lockheed Martin selected Textron Systems' Advanced Architecture Phase Amplitude and Time Simulator (A2PATS) for simulation testing of the F-35 Lightning II electronic warfare (EW) systems. Under contract, Textron Systems engineers will provide threat simulation capability in the F-35 Norwegian, Italian Reprogramming Lab (NIRL) located at Eglin Air Force base, in support of international partners.

Avionics

Rockwell Collins' avionics system selected to modernize Chilean navy's P-3 Orion - News

December 01, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

Unmanned

Nano-drone company Prox Dynamics bought by FLIR - News

December 01, 2016

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems FLIR Systems, Inc.

WILSONVILLE, Oregon. FLIR Systems, Inc. officials announced today that the company has bought Prox Dynamics AS of Oslo Norway, a developer and manufacturer of nano-class unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for about $134 million in cash. The Prox Dynamics business will become FLIR's Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) line of business operating within the company's Surveillance segment.

Radar/EW

Abaco Systems buys 4DSP as well as Technobox I/O product line - News

November 30, 2016

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Abaco Systems

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. It's been less than a year since Abaco left the GE umbrella when they were acquired by Veritas Capital out of New York City, but they have already started growing through acquisition with two embedded computing additions in the last month, acquiring 4DSP LLC of Austin, Texas as well as acquiring the Micro Mezzanine System (MMS) product line from Technobox in West Berlin, N.J.

Unmanned

Undersea warfare systems market to grow to $11.9 billion by 2026, analysts say - News

November 29, 2016

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

BANER, India. Market analysts at Absolute Reports say that the global undersea warfare systems market will be valued at $7.1 billion in 2016 and project it to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.36 percent over 2016-2026, to reach $11.9 billion by 2026.

Comms

Raytheon to expand Southern Arizona facility with two thousand job hires - News

November 29, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TUCSON, Ariz. Officials at Raytheon Co. announced the company's plan to expand by adding approximately two thousand jobs at its Southern Arizona operations facility at the Missile Systems business headquarters over a five-year period. The company plans to hire workers at all skill levels with an emphasis on engineering and other higher-wage, technical positions.

Comms

NASA and AT&T work together to research traffic management solutions - News

November 29, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA AT&T

VIENNA, Va. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and AT&T engineers are researching traffic management solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in order to find an Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) solution that supports the safe and secure operation of drones in the national airspace.