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AT&T has begun to develop a structure monitoring platform that is designed to help organizations remotely inspect structures such as roads and railways. The company said Tuesday it is currently testing the AT&T Smart Cities Structure Monitoring system, which will support the evaluation of structural and environmental factors affecting infrastructure in near real time. The offering includes LTE-powered sensors designed […] More

Andreas Bernhard, CH-53K chief engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business, has said Sikorsky has adopted software tools such as LCA and CATIA V5 and other digital technologies to produce a paperless design of the CH-53K helicopter, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. “It’s all model based; there are no more drawings,” he said at the SciTech […] More

The U.S. Navy is set to evaluate an anti-submarine warfare training system from Saab as part of the military branch’s Foreign Comparative Testing Program. Saab said Tuesday it will demonstrate the AUV62-AT system this summer as the Navy looks to replace the service branch’s current platform for an undersea warfare training range. Gorgen Johansson, a senior vice president at Saab and head […] More

Leidos has received an initial task order under a potential 87-month, $47 million contract to develop sensing technology as part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging program. The EO-CHIL program aims to counter anti-access and area denial threats environments with the use of extended-range […] More

Curtiss-Wright has received a potential $86 million contract to produce aerospace instrumentation tools to support data acquisition program at a U.S. Air Force test center. The company said Tuesday it will provide network switches, data acquisition systems, recorders, telemetry systems and ground station systems to the Edwards Air Force Base’s AFTC as part of the High Speed Data Acquisition […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected Battelle to create a software platform that can help thwart development of synthetic biological threats. Battelle said Tuesday it will develop the threat assessment platform in support of IARPA’s Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats program that aims to counter various threats from biotechnological advancements. Ginkgo Bioworks, […] More

Regan Campbell, FFG(X) program manager at the Naval Sea Systems Command, has said the U.S. Navy plans to award four to six contracts by March to advance work on the conceptual design of the future guided-missile frigate as the service prepares to award the final construction contract by 2020, USNI News reported Tuesday. The military […] More

Cubic‘s transportation systems business plans to expand its facility in Hyderabad, India, and double the number of its employees in the country as part of a regional footprint expansion push. The company said Tuesday the expanded facility will help grow CTS operations after the unit secured contracts to support fare payment systems in Boston and New […] More

Research and Markets has projected that technological advancements in the production of military and commercial drones will help fuel the worldwide drone market’s growth to $16.7 billion in value by 2022. The company said Wednesday that efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulatory agencies to formulate policies that support use of military unmanned aerial […] More

A joint venture between Virgin Group and Hyperloop One has partnered with HERE Technologies to develop a navigation application to be used for Hyperloop trips and other modes of transportation. Virgin Hyperloop One said Monday the application builds on HERE’s Mobile Software Development Kit for Business that grants mapping, location and navigation features for 136 countries, […] More

A Babcock-led industry team will vie for the British defense ministry’s $1.7 billion Type 31e general purpose light frigate program. Babcock said Monday the Team 31 industry group includes Thales, BMT, Harland & Wolff and Ferguson Marine. Team 31 will build on the achievements of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance — a partnership of Babcock, BAE Systems, […] More