C4ISR News

KeyW has secured a six-year multimillion dollar task order to support the U.S. Army‘s  training systems as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin under a potential $3.53 billion contract. Hanover, Md.-based KeyW said Tuesday it will assist the Army program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation in efforts to sustain the reliability of Soldier Systems Constructive […] More

Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company will help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts at Wright-Patterson AF […] More

Raytheon has received a $10 million contract to design a 100-kilowatt laser weapon system potential integration onto the U.S. Army‘s fleet of medium tactical vehicles. The company said Monday it will conduct preliminary design work as part of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program. Roy Azevedo, vice president of intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems at Raytheon’s […] More

Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSL’s space infrastructure and civil space, wrote […] More

Raytheon has secured a potential two-year, $29.7 million contract to develop a naval prototype for the U.S. Navy’s Low Cost UAV Swarming Technology program. The Navy will obligate $7.1 million in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award,  the Defense Department said Tuesday. LOCUST prototyping work will occur at the company’s […] More

Boeing‘s venture capital arm has invested in Matternet, a company developing an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for urban logistics use. The California-based startup raised $16 million through a recent Series A funding round led by HorizonX Ventures, Boeing said Tuesday. Matternet received authorization last year to operate a UAV platform over Switzerland’s densely populated areas and has delivered medical samples to Swiss hospitals […] More

A Lockheed Martin-built weather satellite that launched in March is equipped with Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units that work to provide attitude control and sensor pointing capabilities for the spacecraft. Dean Ebert, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s mission systems business, said in a statement published Monday the Scalable SIRU is […] More

Boeing has conducted a second round of at-sea tests for an autonomous vehicle the company built in pursuit of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone program, Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The service branch awarded separate contracts to a Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Industries team and Lockheed Martin to conduct design efforts under the first phase of the Orca Extra Large Unmanned […] More