Fulcrum will provide program management, engineering, technical and professional services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a potential $900 million contract the command awarded in June. The company will support global special operations forces as part of the SOCOM-Wide Mission Support Group contract, which includes a five-year ordering period, Fulcrum said Tuesday. Fulcrum CEO Jeff Handy said the company’s […] More

Raytheon, NATS, SSE and Vattenfall have implemented a new system designed to help mitigate the impact of wind turbines on radar performance at the Great Dun Fell and Lowther Hill radar sites. Air Traffic Management reported Thursday the R&D coalition developed Project RM to address interference caused by turbines that appear as “clutter” on radar screens and will work to help […] More

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform system integration work for the second phase of the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program. The CODE program aims to develop collaborative autonomy algorithms and open software architectures designed to help a single commander stimulate unmanned aircraft systems to perform both individual […] More

A Technavio report forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 29 percent for the directed-energy weapons market by 2020 due to the continuous demand for DEW systems and equipment in law enforcement. The report published April 2016 by Research and Markets states that demand for non-lethal weapons is a primary driver in the market, with the U.S., Russia, Israel and Japan expected […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed. DARPA said Tuesday the agency is interested in a vehicle with track and suspension technologies, agile motion systems, 360-degree data visualization technology and a signature management system […] More

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has started to test a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather prediction and environmental monitoring satellite in a simulated setting. The Joint Polar Satellite System satellite will undergo a series of acoustic, vibration, and electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests at a facility Boulder, Colorado where the company built the spacecraft, Ball Aerospace said Friday. […] More

The research subsidiary of Vencore has been awarded a $3.7 million contract to develop cryptographic obfuscation techniques for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Vencore Labs will work with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary to create program obfuscation methods designed to protect software from reverse engineering attacks under DARPA’s SafeWare program, Vencore said Friday. […] More

The Center for a New American Security has appointed nine executives from the defense, consulting and financial industries to the organization’s board of advisers. CNAS said Thursday that each appointee will serve a three-year term and aims to help inform the debate over U.S. national security issues. “Their engagement on key topics will be invaluable to furthering […] More

The market value for military communications systems is forecast to reach $40.82 billion by the end of 2020, up from $23.02 billion during 2015, a MarketsandMarkets report says. MarketsandMarkets said Monday the introduction of Ka-band, advanced extra high-frequency satellite and Internet protocol-based networking technologies will help trigger a potential 12.1-percent compound annual growth rate for the […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded nine companies contracts to build new systems for dismounted service personnel to collaborate with other troops and detect potential threats during military operations. DARPA said Thursday it made the awards through the agency’s Squad X Core Technologies program to develop lightweight, integrated platforms that will work to provide situational awareness functions for […] More

Research and Markets has published a new report that projects the global flight navigation system market to grow 5.87 percent year over year from 2014 through 2019. The report highlights market trends such as avionics designed to handle more air traffic and non-directional beacon radio transmitters, Research and Markets said Nov. 13. Research and Markets […] More

Ashok Sankar, director of cybersecurity at Raytheon-Websense, has recommended organizations rethink their security strategies and refocus on resilience amid a changing threat environment, ComputerWeekly.com reported Thursday. Warwick Ashford writes that Sankar told an audience at the 2015 RSA Conference in the United Arab Emirates that security must adapt as companies adopt technologies such as mobile and cloud. “As technology innovations promise […] More