The Georgia Tech Research Institute has awarded Leonardo DRS a contract to manufacture surface-to-air missile threat simulator technology for training use by the U.S. Air Force and its international military partners. Leonardo said Monday it will provide the Unmanned Threat Emitter Threat Kit 12 Remote Emitter system to the service branch’s training ranges. The UMTE […] More

Spirent Communications‘ federal business arm has introduced a new test system designed for the simulation of alternative radio frequency navigation signals in static or dynamic setting. Spirent Federal Systems said Tuesday the development of its alternative RF navigation simulator came after recent government recommendations highlighting use of non-global navigation satellite system RF signals to achieve […] More

Eight companies will take part in the modeling and simulation cohort of the Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate’s Catalyst Accelerator that will focus on digital engineering for space applications.  The program is intended to boost technology advancement and lead the government to industry technology transfer, Catalyst Accelerator said Friday. Under the eighth accelerator, […] More

Redwire has attained the initial operational capability status for its platform that is designed to accommodate digital engineering and simulation-based tests of space technologies. The Hyperion Operational Space Simulation Laboratory uses in-the-loop hardware and software to simulate artificial intelligence, cyber and other technologies designed for space architectures, Redwire said Thursday. National security and commercial space […] More

Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines that will power ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket continue to perform well in tests and that he expects the flight engines to be delivered before the end of 2021, SpaceNews reported Thursday. He told the publication the reason […] More

Boeing and Northrop Grumman conducted a virtual manned-unmanned teaming demonstration using the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueler, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft and the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. The Office of Naval Research sponsored the demonstration, which used Northrop’s portable E-2D simulator and simulations of Boeing’s MQ-25 and Super Hornet aircraft, Boeing said […] More

The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is funding research by Orchestra Macrosystems to help reduce non-combat musculoskeletal injuries among U.S. airmen. The training management software company said Friday that it will design a data capture capability to predict instances of MSKIs during U.S. Air Force training under a Small Business Innovative Research Phase […] More

The U.S. Army’s corporate laboratory has worked with Baltimore, Maryland-based technology company Syncopated Engineering to develop an emulator of radio frequency systems in an effort to protect soldiers and military platforms from adversarial threats. The Mockingbird emulation technology is designed to generate radio signals with random traffic patterns to deceive and confuse enemies that could […] More

Stellar Science was selected to conduct studies under a potential $48 million Redefining the Basic Analytical and Simulation Environment contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Albuquerque, New Mexico-based computer software company will research, develop and expand a modular and object-oriented framework for modeling, simulation and analysis of multi-domain operations, the Department of Defense […] More

CloudLinux‘s newly formed enterprise services business is providing operating system support to a United Launch Alliance-built rocket that sent a missile detection and early warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force into orbit. The company said Monday its TuxCare brand performs automated patches to help secure computing systems of ULA’s Atlas V launch vehicle. An […] More

Aevum has patented a technology that would allow a large unmanned aircraft system to reconfigure between different modes depending on mission needs, C4ISRnet reported Friday. The Ravn X drone is equipped with a new modular technology that allows it to assume modes for different types of uses: transporting smaller drones, delivering air cargo, supporting intelligence […] More

General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business will deliver portable molecular diagnostic systems to naval medical research units and partner locations in Peru and Cambodia as part of a contract from the Naval Medical Research Center's Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes program.

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