Cubic's mission solutions unit has been awarded a $38 million contract to provide a high-capacity backbone prototype for the U.S. Air Force's Joint Aerial Layer Network, the company announced Monday.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Cubic a potential five-year, $9M contract to build a surface data terminal for integration onto two Nimitz-class supercarriers. Cubic said Wednesday it will provide the Sharklink SDT as part of the military service's Communication Data Link System–Technical Refresh program.

Cubic's mission solutions business holds a spot on a potential $950M multiple-award contract to help the U.S. Air Force build and demonstrate systems for new command and control infrastructure designed to support joint military operations worldwide.

Cubic has joined a global group of organizations aiming to promote corporate sustainability in line with the United Nations.

Cubic has begun to ship updated networking, compute and power systems designed to function at the tactical edge even in austere environments. “Guided by continuous customer collaboration, we have made some key enhancements to compute performance and power management in the product line that we believe will better meet and exceed the current and future requirements of an emerging internet of battlefield things,” said Mike Barthlow, senior vice president and general manager of rugged internet of things at Cubic's mission solutions unit.

Cubic and the University of Alabama in Huntsville College of Nursing have partnered to assess a prototype ventilator device that will work to address potential ventilator shortages amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Valiant Global Defense Services has secured a three-year, $60M contract modification to continue mission support services at Fort Polk.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mike Tywman, senior vice president and president of Cubic Mission Solutions, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving growth for the company, acquiring Nuvotronics and pushing Cubic’s technical services to help the Defense Information Systems Agency. 

Cubic’s mission solutions business has won a spot on a potential 10-year, $5.1B contract to provide satellite communication platforms and services to the U.S. Army.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Cubic’s mission solutions arm a potential $99.3M contract to provide technical services for the agency’s video dissemination system for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

Cubic’s mission solutions business has picked Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary to develop an amplifier module for the F-35 aircraft’s full-motion video data link.

Cubic’s mission solutions business has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Special Operations Command’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics unit to investigate airborne payload technologies for the Department of Defense.

A communications relay offering built by Cubic’s mission solutions business has been recognized by the U.S. Navy for demonstrating its capacity to support potential vertical lift systems.

Cubic’s global defense business has received recognition for work on a virtual training platform during an event that took place last Thursday.

Mike Knowles, head of Cubic’s global defense business, said the company aims to secure a contract from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy in 2020 to integrate its training platform with the F-35 fighter aircraft, Defense News reported Wednesday.