Joe Shepherd, vice president of directed energy innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton, said he believes the Department of Defense should increase funding for directed energy research efforts to $2 billion to encourage industry and academia to pursue work in the development of ultrashort pulse lasers and other capabilities. Shepherd wrote in a piece published Tuesday […] More

BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has released an embedded receiver product that works with military signals and supports positioning, navigation and timing systems. MicroGRAM-M is the same size as a postage stamp and has security features designed to protect the device from spoofing or jamming attacks, the company said Thursday. Greg Wild, director of navigation and […] More

Ultra Electronics has secured a $45 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver additional software-defined tactical radio systems for line-of-sight communications. Marine Corps Systems Command placed the order for Ultra Orion X500 radio systems under a potential $497 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in 2019 to support the U.S. Army’s TRILOS Radio program of […] More

An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $69.8 million contract to produce and supply transducers and installation kits to the U.S. Navy. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, Rhode Island, is the contracting activity and awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems through a full and open competition.

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Northrop Grumman used a surrogate unmanned aircraft system fitted with technology from U.K.-based Ultra to demonstrate anti-submarine warfare capability in October. The company said Tuesday it tested Ultra's ASW sonobuoys, processor and receiver on a crewed Bell 407 vertical lift aircraft modified to serve as a surrogate to the MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS.

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The Department of the Navy intends to offer and award a potential five-year, $16.5M contract to Ultra Electronics' advanced tactical systems business for software and system engineering services in support of the Command and Control Processor System's adjunct processor multi-link interface unit.

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An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a $31M order to supply software-defined tactical radio systems to the U.S. Marine Corps for line-of-sight communications. USMC ordered ORION X500 radios via a potential $497M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract Ultra TCS secured last year, the company said Monday.

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Raytheon has selected Ultra Electronics’ Gigasat subsidiary to manufacture and deliver tropospheric communication systems, which use radio signals, to the U.S. Army.

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An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a Defense Security Service award that recognizes security practices at contractor facilities. DSS selected Ultra Electronics USSI as one of the 51 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award recipients this year, the company said Friday.

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Ultra Electronics 3eTI will work to update centralized monitoring and cybersecurity systems across U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton under a new contract. 3eTI said Tuesday it will deliver technology to facilitate connectivity, monitoring, control and cyber defense functions of supervisory control and data acquisition systems within the base.

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Ultra Electronics 3eTI and Poly have partnered to introduce video teleconferencing systems designed to help federal customers automatically switch across different security classification networks. Ultra Electronics 3eTI said Monday its Criticom Integrated Secure Encryption Console works with Poly's RealPresence platform to manage video communications that involve sensitive mission data.

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The Capability Maturity Model Integration Institute has granted a Level 3 appraisal to Ultra Electronics USSI's product development group in recognition of effective processes. CMMI establishes standards aimed at sustaining the performance of business processes, the company said Wednesday.

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