MAE Defense Exec

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MAE Defense Exec

AUGUST 4, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Army wants industry input on JADC2 battlefield concept

Congress skeptical about Navy unmanned surface vessels

Army’s Future Vertical Lift project may transform industry

Armored vehicles may destroy several targets in seconds

Marines establish cyber security battalion

EXECUTIVE SUITE

Instrumentation Range27July2020

Air Force asks BAE Systems to upgrade instrumentation range components and subsystems in $495.5 million deal

Contract covers instrumentation tracking systems worldwide to include radars, telemetry, flight termination systems, data acquisition, and GPS.

PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Moving Vehicles30July2020

Detection and imaging of moving ground targets with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is aim of MTR project

MTR will include airborne data collection experiments to test and evaluate algorithms to detect moving ground targets that involve military vehicles.

Remote Sensing Satellite21July2020

Industry asked for enabling technologies in space-based sensing to measure underground nuclear tests

Focus is on attenuation and waveform earth models; yield estimation and discrimination; seismic source physics; and ground truth for location.

Military Software3Aug2020

Researchers issue formal solicitation on V-SPELLS project to upgrade legacy software with secure components

V-SPELLS seeks to upgrade existing software components piece-by-piece and ensure these enhancements are compatible with secure verified code.

Vehicle Camouflage29July2020

Army looking for camouflage to shield moving military vehicles from enemy electro-optical sensors and radar

Army experts say they need camouflage to protect vehicles against enemy multispectral sensors that can detect a variety of electromagnetic signatures.

DESIGN-IN CASE STUDIES

Marine Beach Assault3Aug2020

Navy chooses tactical radio system from Ultra Electronics for ship-to-shore communications with U.S. Marines

ATCS, based on the Ultra Orion X500 radio, will provide line-of-sight secure shipboard communications for Marine Corps amphibious command and control.

Black Kite29July2020

Navy picks Logos Technologies to provide wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor for RQ-21A unmanned aircraft

The Logos Cardcounter is based on the BlackKite ultra-lightweight WAMI sensor designed to detect and track land vehicles moving on the battlefield.

MQ4C28July2020

Curtiss-Wright to provide avionics computer for Navy MQ-4C unmanned patrol plane in $7.5 million contract

The Curtiss-Wright AMMS has a high-speed embedded computing suite for high -performance processing, and a modular, scalable open-systems architecture.

E2D28July2020

Leonardo DRS to provide networking terminals for E-2D aircraft to help combine Navy sensors and weapons

CEC combines sensors and weapons into an integrated real-time network that expands the battlespace, enhances situational awareness, enables intercepts.

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS

Telemetry Encryption31July2020

L3Harris tapped to provide NSA Type 1 encryption for trusted computing in U.S. Air Force telemetry systems

L3Harris to provide transmission and RF interference testing, upgrades, repair, and support to protect Air Force telecommunications electronics.

ERDIFAR22July2020

Ultra Electronics to develop sonobuoy prototype to detect and identify extremely quiet enemy submarines

Advanced new sonobuoy is expected to offer passive detection at tactically significant ranges to detect and identify extremely quiet submarine targets.

General Dynamics MUTTUGV17July2020

Army asks General Dynamics to design unmanned combat vehicle for battlefield cargo in $249 million contract

The S-MET will modernize the Army’s inventory of robots to enable infantry brigade combat teams to move faster, farther, and with less exhaustion.

Air Force Cyber16July2020

Air Force trusted computing experts eye potential $950 million project for cyber enabling technologies

The ACT 3 program will emphasize enabling technologies for prototype technologies for operational environments, and ways to buy limited quantities.

MORE STORIES

San Antonio9July2020

Navy shipboard electronics experts choose Lyme Computer for rugged networking hardware on surface warships

The industrial-grade networking equipment for Navy surface warships will carry the brand name of Siemens RuggedCom in Concord, Ontario.

Herrick8July2020

Herrick chooses SOSA-aligned high-performance embedded computing from Wolf for adaptive waveform processing

Wolf will supply Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)-aligned VPX3U-RTX5000-SWITCH module for Herrick adaptive waveform processing applications.

Drone Killers14July2020

U.S. military anti-drone systems seek common command-and-control technologies to counter enemy UAVs

Military has spent millions to stop $100 quadcopters, but the result is a hastily stitched patchwork of defenses that don’t work well with one another.

Stealth Fighter13July2020

Designers of future 6th-generation jet fighter consider artificial intelligence (AI), long-range sensors

Massive increases in sensor ranges, data-sharing, and long-range connectivity will continue to bring as-of-yet unprecedented advantages to warfare.

ACQUISITION & LOGISTICS

Sonobuoys20July2020

Navy to replenish supply of airborne-launched AN/SSQ-125 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) multistatic sonobuoys

The AN/SSQ-125 sonobuoy is a source in a multistatic field, and can generate a variety of waveforms, and works with other Navy air-launched sonobuoys

Ford Carrier14July2020

Raytheon to maintain discontinued DBR shipboard radar system until newly designed EASR radar comes online

Navy officials are replacing the DBR aboard large surface warships with the more-economical Raytheon Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR).

Stalker HD5514July2020

Trillium to provide cooled mid-wave infrared (MWIR) electro-optical sensors for Lockheed Stalker small UAVs

The Stalker UAV weighs 24 pounds, has a 12-foot wingspan, can fly at 45 miles per hour at 12,000 feet, and can carry sensors as heavy as 5.5 pounds.

Airborne ASW10July2020

Signal Systems Corp. to develop enabling technologies for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) airborne sonar

Signal Systems to develop enabling technologies for continuous active sonar signal processing, multi-static sonar, and spread-spectrum techniques.

LTAMDS9July2020

Orolia chosen to provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for hypersonic missile-defense radar

Raytheon chose Orolia based on the company's expertise in resilient timing and configurable ruggedized PNT systems for challenging environments.

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