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Accenture and SAP have agreed to team up to co-develop a digital platform designed to help defense agencies advance their digital transformation initiatives. The companies will develop the digital defense platform based on SAP’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning offering built on SAP HANA in-memory platform, Accenture said Thursday. “What our co-development with SAP does is […] More

Emcore has received a contract from a U.S. defense contractor to design an inertial  measurement unit to support airborne line-of-sight and navigation functions of a fighter aircraft targeting pod. The company said Thursday it will also deliver hardware by the end of the year for use in flight demonstrations slated to occur early in 2019. Emcore […] More

A member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council has selected CAE to establish a simulation center for joint command and staff training efforts. CAE said Wednesday it will equip the Joint Multinational Simulation Center with the company’s GlobalSim technology. The center is intended to prepare commanders, officers and operators from different military services and staff colleges for tactical and strategic missions. […] More

Lockheed Martin has updated its small quadrotor unmanned aerial system with sensors designed to process still imagery and streaming video in real time. Indago 3 includes the Noctis system composed of dual forward looking infrared cameras and a digital zoom for both narrow and wide fields of view, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rich Bonnett, Indago program manager at Lockheed’s Procerus Technologies […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Summit Technical Solutions a potential $45 million contract to provide non-commercial integrated information technology services to Defense Department agencies. DoD said Wednesday the Army Contracting Command received 14 bids for the contract through an online solicitation process. The company will perform work through Jan. 15, 2024, and the service branch […] More

The University of North Dakota has expanded a partnership with Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary in a move to expand UND’s unmanned aircraft system curriculum and fleet. Insitu said Wednesday the university will incorporate Catalina, INEXA Control and TacitView software platforms into its aviation program by fall 2019, UND also intends to adopt the ScanEagle 3 platform to augment the university’s current fleet of more […] More

The Air Force Global Strike Command has approved Kratos Defense and Security Solutions‘ aerial gunnery simulator to aid training of special mission aviators. Jose Diaz, senior vice president at Kratos’ training solutions business, said in a statement published Tuesday the AGT Simulator seeks to address AFGSC’s annual continuation training requirements. The company trains special mission aviators at […] More

Boeing‘s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has adopted a software platform Lockheed Martin developed to help operators manage numerous unmanned vehicles for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Aurora Flight Sciences purchased the Vehicle Control Station product in a move to accelerate its autonomous technology development efforts, Lockheed said Tuesday. VSCi is built upon an open architecture framework and designed […] More

UTC Aerospace Systems has launched an optical payload system for small autonomous drones that need to comply to the size, weight and power requirements of the Defense Department, foreign militaries and civilian unmanned aerial system customers. The N.C.-based company said Monday the TASE250 system is designed to offer longwave infrared and visible imaging capabilities that […] More

NASA has selected Sagetech to provide a transponder technology in support of the agency’s initiative to explore detect-and-avoid methods to ensure safety of unmanned aircraft system operations in national airspace. Sagetech said Monday it will provide the company’s MXS transponder for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System Project of NASA with other government […] More

A business unit of General Dynamics has secured a potential 10-year, $36.3 million contract to repair or replace mission systems installed on multiple U.S. Navy aircraft platforms. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also provide program support for Advanced Mission Computer systems onboard F/A-18 E/F, EA 18G and AV-8B, the Defense Department said Friday. The performance-based logistics contract […] More