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Finland-based defense company Patria has awarded BAE Systems a contract to manufacture 40-millimeter naval gun systems for installation on the Finnish fast attack craft fleet. BAE said Tuesday it will produce and deliver Bofors 40 Mk4 naval guns to Finland’s navy and its Hamina-class vessels as part of a mid-life upgrade and overhaul initiative. Patria serves as the prime contractor on the Hamina-class […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has transitioned a prototype of an unmanned anti-submarine warfare vessel to the Office of Naval Research for further development. DARPA said Tuesday the Sea Hunter vessel was developed under the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program to serve as the first unit of a potential new class of unmanned maritime vessels. ACTUV will […] More

PAE has received a potential three-year, $50 million task order to provide support services for the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center’s Contract Field Teams program. The company said Tuesday it will deliver flight line, flight management and aviation maintenance services in support of the program occurring at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington. Services under the contract aim […] More

IvySys Technologies has received a potential $4.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help create mathematical and computational strategies that can model adversarial activity. The DARPA Information Innovation Office’s four-year MAA program will use the new approaches in a push to acquire, deploy, […] More

Boeing‘s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary and Japan-based Socionext have partnered to develop a radar-enabled system that will be designed to protect consumer drones from collision. The Radar Flight Control Module will employ a single-chip 24 gigahertz radar that uses range measurement software to detect the presence, distance and speed of nearby objects, Socionext said Tuesday. Users will be able to […] More

A Deltek analysis of the Defense Department‘s proposed fiscal 2018 research, development and procurement budget indicates that DoD is seeking approximately $2.4 billion per year to fund programs that include artificial intelligence and machine learning systems through fiscal 2022. Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday  the requested funds would […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business has received an $80.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to increase production of the AGM-114 Hellfire  missile system. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will use the funds to set up its production line, procure additional tools and test equipment and hire more suppliers necessary to manufacture up to 11,000 Hellfire units annually. […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton is working with the Missile Defense Agency to strengthen the cybersecurity of U.S. ballistic missile defense system as part of a potential five-year, $91.5 million contract awarded in August 2017. Robert Smith, a senior vice president at Booz Allen, said in a statement published Tuesday the company aims to apply new cybersecurity approaches […] More

A joint venture of Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $69.6 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to update the configuration of three MV-22 Osprey aircraft units. Under the modification, the Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will apply Block C upgrades to MV-22 aircraft as part of a common configuration-readiness and modernization effort for the V-22 fleet, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Navy […] More

A new Frost & Sullivan analysis predicts the space industry to see the launch of at least 13,000 satellites and entry of over 60 new companies into the upstream market by 2030. The market research firm said Tuesday it expects the space market to experience growth by 2030 driven by small form factor sensors and payloads, less expensive […] More