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Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $3 million contract to perform studies and hardware demonstration in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile platform. The service branch awarded the contract as part of the ICBM Demonstration and Validation Post Boost Program, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Friday. The program seeks to develop new […] More
Intel and AT&T have partnered to evaluate how an unmanned aircraft vehicle can stream video and transmit flight information and telematics through the Long-Term Evolution wireless communications network. Intel will test the transmission functions of a Yuneec Typhoon H UAV fitted with Intel RealSense technology over AT&T’s core LTE network as part of the Intel Drone Zone, […] More
Ed Sayadian, president of mission networks at Harris Corp., has said Congress should continue to advance long-term investments in the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen programs and other aviation modernization initiatives. “Without this investment, the significant and important modernization gains will be threatened, subjecting passengers to unnecessary delays and sustaining aviation operations that are less environmentally […] More
Thales will work with Ultra Electronics Advanced Tactical Systems to provide a software platform and update the Defense Department’s Link-16 Pulse Deconfliction Server under a contract awarded by the General Services Administration. The Thales-built Web Reference Architecture software will work to help DoD schedule the operations of Link-16 terminal radios and related systems in compliance with spectrum certification requirements, Thales said […] More
Spain’s defense ministry has placed an order for four General Atomics-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles through a $243 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. The contract also covers MTS-B electro-optical/infrared sensors, two Block 30 ground control stations, line-of-sight datalink platforms and Block 20A Lynx multi-mode radar for the Spanish armed forces, General […] More
Harris Corp. has secured a contract to supply 900 mobile digital radios to Rockwall County, Texas in support of the jurisdiction’s efforts to update its radio platform for public safety operations. The contract is for the second phase of the APCO P25 project and covers the Harris-built XL-200P LTE-based radio, Symphony dispatch console platform and BeOn […] More
Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the company works to analyze large amounts of satellite images and data through deep-learning tools and crowdsourcing, GCN reported Wednesday. Frazier told GCN columnist Patrick Marshall in an interview that OpenCV computer vision software library, Caffe deep-learning framework and NVIDIA graphics processors are some of the deep-learning systems […] More
BAE Systems has teamed up with automobile firm Mahindra to build a new facility in India that will be used to assemble, integrate and test the BAE-built M777Â howitzers. BAE Systems’ move is in line with India’s plan to procure 145 M777A2 LW155 artillery guns for the Indian army through a foreign military sales contract with […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to provide information on training resources and data for algorithms that will work to help address artificial intelligence-related problems. IARPA said Feb. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice that it wants the AI research community to identify machine-learning problem domains that would benefit from new training resources. The […] More
Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer of the Defense Department, has committed 4 million seats in the department’s efforts to upgrade its information systems and devices to the Microsoft-built Windows 10 operating system. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president for Windows and devices group at Microsoft, writes in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the move aims to help DoD […] More
CenturyLink will offer its cloud infrastructure-as-a-service product to federal agencies through the company’s position on the General Services Administration‘s Networx contract vehicle. CenturyLink Government Cloud works to help agencies move their data workloads to the cloud through the VMware-built vCloud Government Services IaaS platform, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Tim Meehan, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s federal business, said the […] More
Harris Corp. will supply tactical vehicular radios, handheld radios and intercom systems to the Philippines’ armed forces under a $12 million contract. The contract covers the provision of Falcon III RF-7800V Combat Net Radio, RF-7800I intercom systems and handheld Falcon RF-7800V VHF Combat Net Radio to the Philippine army’s light armored division, Harris said Tuesday. […] More
