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Radar/EW
Aegis Combat System receives certification for its Baseline 9.C1 - News
January 12, 2016
MOORESTOWN, N.J. Missile Defense Agency officials with U.S. Navy Officials certified Baseline 9.C1, the latest evolution of the Aegis Combat System for the U.S. destroyer fleet.
Cyber
TROJAN SPIRIT Program will continue to receive support in $81 million contract - News
January 11, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Army TROJAN SPIRIT Program will continue to receive support from CACI International Inc. The three-year contract with the Army's Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) is worth an estimated $81 million.
Radar/EW
Production starts on SEWIP Block 1B3 system for U.S. Navy - News
January 11, 2016
PITTSFIELD, Mass. General Dynamics will start production and deliver Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 1B3 system upgrades to the U.S. Navy over the next five years.
Avionics
Contract with NAVAIR supports standard of RNP RNAV aligned with FACE Technical Standard - News
January 08, 2016
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins will support government development of a standard of interfaces for Required Navigation Performance Area Navigation (RNP RNAV) capability aligned to the FACE Technical Standard under a contract with the U.S. U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
Radar/EW
BAE Systems will develop electronic warfare system for C-130J aircraft - News
January 08, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) officials tasked BAE Systems engineers to develop new electronic warfare system for the C-130J aircraft. The contract is the first phase to upgrade aircraft system survivability and the capability to detect, identify, locate, deny, degrade, disrupt and defeat threat systems in operational significant environments.
Avionics
Engineers will upgrade U.S. Army AH-64E Apache helicopter cockpits - News
January 07, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin engineers will upgrade the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) giving pilots color in the cockpit on a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache helicopter.
Radar/EW
NAVAIR Advanced Airborne Sensor testing continuing on Navy P-8A Poseidon - News
January 07, 2016
PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Navy personnel are continuing the integration and testing of the Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR's) first Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS), dubbed the APS-154, aboard the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Testing will confirm that the P-8A and AAS can operate safely and efficiently together.
Unmanned
Air Force Research Laboratory invites new approaches to tech in 2016 - News
January 06, 2016
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. Air Force Research Laboratory officials held four different engagements in 2015 to establish long-term vision, shared government and industry objectives, and invite new approaches to solving technology challenges. This year officials plan to reach out to more industry partners to equip U.S. military forces in the future.
Comms
CACI engineers continue IT support to DIA under $6 billion contract - News
January 06, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Engineers at CACI International Inc. will continue to provide information technology support for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on the Enhanced Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (E-SITE) contract vehicle. The multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ), five-year contract has an estimated $6 billion ceiling value.
Radar/EW
Harris officials order Cobham's RF microelectronics for EW program - News
January 05, 2016
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harris Corp. officials ordered RF microelectronics from Cobham to support an electronic warfare (EW) program, which is valued at an estimated $35 million.
Radar/EW
Spanawave purchases multiple product lines from Giga-tronics - News
January 04, 2016
SAN RAMON, Calif. Spanawave Corp. acquired Giga-tronics’ power meter, ampli-fiers, sensors, and legacy signal generator product lines. The product lines will transfer in phases beginning with certain sensor and amplifiers immediately and the final product line will transfer sometime in July 2016. Purchase of the product lines totals an estimated $1.5 million, and half of the payment is expected between June and July 2016.
Avionics
DoD to procure 78 C-130J Super Hercules under multiyear contract - News
January 04, 2016
MARIETTA, Georgia. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials announced that more than $1 billion in funding for the first 32 aircraft under a a C-130J Multiyear II contract. The overall contract, valued at about $5.3 billion, provides 78 Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Air Force (30 MC-130Js, 13 HC-130Js and 29 C-130J-30s) and the U.S. Marine Corps (six KC-130Js). The U.S. Coast Guard will also have an option to acquire five HC-130Js under the contract.
Comms
Assembling atom-sized pieces for micromachines goal of DARPA A2P program - News
December 31, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials are looking to develop technologies and processes to build nanometer-scale pieces whose dimensions are near the size of atoms—into systems, components, or materials that are at least millimeter-scale in size. The big hurdle to this goal is that many common materials, when fabricated at nanometer-scale, exhibit unique and attractive “atomic-scale” behaviors but lose them when they are built at product scale dimensions such as a few centimeters. So DARPA launched the Atoms to Product (A2P) program and chose ten groups to go and solve this challenge.
Radar/EW
Tactical ISTAR contract won by Elbit Systems for Asia-Pacific nation - News
December 30, 2015
HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. won a contract to provide an airborne, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) solution to an unnamed Asia-Pacific country.
Unmanned
DARPA unmanned VTOL aircraft program for small ships won by Northrop Grumman - News
December 29, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. A team lead by Northrop Grumman Corp. won phase 3 of the DARPA Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program, which will enable small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates to have their own unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to run intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions around the clock.
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Cyber
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