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Field Aerospace has won a potential $18.5 million contact to update the avionics suite of 208 T-1A Jayhawk aircraft and trainers for the U.S. Air Force. USAF asked the company to replace avionics of 16 flight trainers, 14 part task trainers and 178 standard aircraft in the service branch’s T-1A fleet, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The AF Life Cycle […] More
Cecil Haney, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former head of the U.S. Strategic Command, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis‘ board of directors. SPA CEO and President William Vantine said in a press release that Haney brings to the company his experience in military operations, defense acquisition, nuclear deterrence, missile defense, space, cyber and plans, policy and requirements. […] More
Darius Adamczyk, president and CEO of Honeywell, will succeed the retiring Dave Cote as chairman by the end of April. “The board concluded that Darius will provide decisive strategic leadership and strong execution of Honeywell’s significant portfolio change and deployment of our core technological strengths related to software, data analytics and the industrial internet of […] More
Ball Aerospace has built and delivered a flight cryocooler for the thermal sensor instrument of an Earth observation satellite that NASA aims to launch in December 2020. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland received the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 cryocooler ahead of a scheduled instrument integration and test, Ball Aerospace said Wednesday. The cryocooler is designed to lower the temperature […] More
Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday that federal agencies should have an exit strategy that would enable them to transition applications from one cloud service provider to another in order to facilitate the migration process and minimize disruption. “Every time I move from one cloud to another, if […] More
The U.S. Air Force has selected Garmin‘s international unit to supply aviator watches for pilots of the Lockheed Martin-built U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Garmin said Wednesday its D2 Charlie aviator watch is designed to serve as a back-up navigation system in the cockpit through the delivery of global navigation support, moving maps and other features. The company expects the Air Force […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force have tested a BAE Systems-made on-board software that works to deliver information to operators and pilots in environments where communications can be disrupted. BAE said Tuesday DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory conducted an 11-day flight test of the semi-autonomous Distributed Battle Management software. DBM is designed to […] More
The U.S. Air Force has announced it expects to complete Microsoft Windows 10 operating system transition by March 31 to meet requirements mandated by the Defense Department. The service branch said Tuesday it will decommission all systems not updated to Windows 10 by the deadline. The USAF will also have to replace the many computer assets within the […] More
Northrop Grumman has kicked off a search for participants that can create and test their swarm tactics for unmanned systems on Northrop’s open architecture test bed. The company said Tuesday it is developing a test bed for swarm technologies as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program. In December 2017, DARPA awarded contracts […] More
​Honeywell has opened a facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that will function as a test environment for network systems and a cyber defense training ground. The company said Tuesday its industrial cybersecurity center of excellence seeks to help customers address potential vulnerabilities and threats in process control networks as well as to train clients […] More
Lockheed Martin has selected CommAgility to supply integrated LTE hardware and software for the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor’s ongoing satellite communications project. CommAgility said Tuesday it will provide a customized variant of its SmallCellPHY software and AMC-4C6678-Serial RapidIO module to Lockheed. SmallCellPHY functions as a LTE physical layer for small cells and designed to comply with 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 10 standard. The […] More
A Maxar Technologies subsidiary has received a $6.36 million contract from Canada’s department of national defense to provide miniature maritime unmanned aircraft systems to the Canadian navy. The company said Tuesday its MDA subsidiary will also help DND develop training, equipment and resource as well as validate naval tactics and new capability development efforts under the contract. […] More
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