SALLY COLE, SENIOR EDITOR

Counter-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technologies are focusing on a multilayered defense. They’re also being tasked with providing a “counter” to countermeasures.

MIKE HACKERT, NAVAIR & BEN PEDDICORD, CERDEC & DR. ILYA LIPKIN, AFLCMC

Something exciting is happening in the service representative community. Representatives from three different programs, one from each of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) services, have come together with a common objective to solve their respective acquisition problems with an agreed-upon, open architecture standard. Here is Part 1 of a 3-part article covering the SOSA [Sensor Open System Architecture] Consortium’s efforts.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon officials are teaming up to pursue the Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) contract that will consolidate and modernize America's aging surveillance and air traffic control radars.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has won a modification worth $402.6 million to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract to exercise options for Air and Missile Defense Radar Program (AMDR) low-rate initial production (LRIP); the modification will provide for three AMDR LRIP units.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) has been awarded a spot on the U.S. Army’s so-called R4 cyberwarfare contract; GDMS will provide electronic and cyber capabilities to the Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials selected Harris Corp. to continue its support services on the USAF's ground-based electronic warfare (EW) systems and infrastructure.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S Army officials selected Leonardo DRS Inc. for a $67 million contract to deliver vehicle-based infrared sensors for surveillance and fire control systems for a variety of ground combat vehicles.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The global signals intelligence (SIGINT) market is expected to grow from $12.8 billion in 2018 to $15.6 billion by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1 percent during the forecast period, according to a study from MarketsandMarkets, "Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Market - Global Forecast to 2023."

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract worth $713 million for the production of an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) for the first phase of Poland’s WISŁA air- and missile-defense program.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Navy's Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) completed subsystem testing at Raytheon's Near Field Range in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Raytheon is working on development of a new version of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that flies on the U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft, under the terms of a $320 million undefinitized contract from the U.S. Air Force.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Comtech Telecommunications announced that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. -- part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment -- received a $2.3 million contract award for RF microwave control components from a major domestic prime contractor.

RAY ALDERMAN, VITA STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

By now, you know the kill web is a dynamic networked "system of systems," that can act (offensively or defensively) at the speed of computers against our enemy's tactics and strategies on the battlefield. There are a number of technical problems to be solved in communications, computer architectures, sensors, and software, but the engineering brainiacs are working on those. 

ABACO SYSTEMS

This white paper looks at how hypersonic flight will place radical new demands on the embedded computing systems on which they will rely – in terms of not only new levels of performance, but also of new levels of ruggedness.