Seventeen companies and the National Security Space Association have forged an alliance to fundraise for humanitarian aid and relief efforts to help people in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. The Space Industry for Ukraine consortium said Tuesday it has raised almost $1 million to date and aims to deploy medical and food supplies, mobile refugee clinics […] More

Shield Capital has launched its first venture capital fund to support startups that are developing technologies for national security and commercial customers. The venture capital firm said Tuesday it exceeded the $120 million fund goal for Shield Capital Fund I. Shield Capital’s investment strategy is focused on early-stage companies working on technologies in artificial intelligence, […] More

With the growing list of actors in the space domain – across industry and government in the U.S. and worldwide – competition is intensifying and rapid technological innovation is needed to achieve and sustain dominance over adversarial forces and other global powers. “Space is not a benign environment, and our old ways won’t keep up,” […] More

Seven member companies of the Digital Interface Standards Working Group will consolidate to become part of the Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium. DIS companies that will join DIFI are Communications & Power Industries, DataPath, Datum Systems, Gilat Satellite Networks, SES, ST Engineering iDirect and Wavestream, the consortium said in a Dec. 22 news release. “We […] More

DynCorp International has secured a $60.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to maintain assets of multiple aircraft and provide associated logistics services. The company will perform the organizational level work for aircrew systems, subsystems, search and rescue equipment and support tools of E-2D Hawkeye, H-60 Seahawk, AV-8B Harrier II, P-3 Orion, C-130 Hercules, […] More

L3Harris Technologies will deliver intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance products to a Middle East customer under a recent $23 million foreign military sales order. The company said Monday it will provide the Integrated Tactical Area Communications Systems, ROVER transceivers, Falcon tactical radios and Hawkeye III very-small-aperture terminals, which will all be integrated into the customer’s deployed […] More

BAE Systems has introduced a 1.6 megapixel sensor with night vision technology designed to capture digital imagery for military surveillance and targeting in ultra-low-light environments. The “Hawkeye” HWK1411 device uses a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor for image generation, including under a sky of overcast starlight, and is built to work with soldier equipment or unmanned platforms, […] More

BAE Systems has secured a $26 million contract to provide the U.S. Navy with identification friend-or-foe transponders that will be integrated into the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for enhanced situational awareness and early warning capabilities. The company said Thursday it will supply the service branch with Beamforming Networks, which is part of the antenna control […] More

L3Harris Technologies has selected the defense unit of NXT Communications to provide an electronically steerable antenna intended to support mobile connectivity among warfighters of the Department of Defense. NXTCOMM Defense’s small form factor ESA has no moving parts and is designed to function in various satellites on the geosynchronous, low, medium and high earth orbit, […] More

AM General and Mandus Group will collaborate to integrate a “soft recoil” mobile howitzer system on two high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles under a firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army. The military service intends to put the Humvee 2-CT Hawkeye howitzers through a characterization test over the next year, AM General said Tuesday. Mandus Group’s soft […] More

Naval Air Systems Command has indicated its intent to award Northrop Grumman a sole-source contract to develop mission computer and display software for the U.S. Navy's E-2D tactical airborne early warning and control aircraft. The proposed cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will include software design, development, test and evaluation services to support the branch's initiative to demonstrate teaming between manned and unmanned platforms, according to a notice posted on SAM. gov.

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Raytheon Technologies has developed an open-architecture data management system designed to integrate with disparate platforms used by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army.

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