Intelligent Waves has won a spot on a potential $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force to support Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). “Leveraging our exceptional capabilities to deliver secure information sharing, for joint all-domain operations (JADO), is a strategic asset that more Defense and Intelligence Communities can now deploy with our subject matter expertise,” said Marqus Hutchinson, Intelligent Waves’ chief technical officer (CTO).
Read More »Mitre’s Yosry Barsoum: Public-Private Collaboration Key to Effective Spectrum Mgmt
Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute at Mitre, has said that public-private partnerships can help improve management of the U.S. electromagnetic spectrum.
Read More »Raytheon Builds Final Update for Electronic Warfare Sharing Tool
Raytheon has started the development of a capability update for an electronic warfare sharing tool as part of a two-year U.S. Army contract.
Read More »BAE Gets DARPA Machine Learning Tech Integration Contract; Dave Logan Quoted
BAE Systems has received a potential $4.7M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to incorporate machine learning into systems used to decipher radio frequency signals.
Read More »NASA Eyes Use of Cognitive Radio to Address Space Comms Challenges
NASA looks to use cognitive radios to meet increased demand for space data and optimize the efficiency of space communications systems. The agency said Saturday software-defined radios such as cognitive radios apply artificial intelligence to utilize unused but licensed portions of the electromagnetic spectrum without human intervention. Cognitive radios could also address communications …
Read More »Peraton to Support DoD’s Spectrum Sharing Initiative; Stu Shea Comments
Peraton has secured a pair of task orders worth $12.5 million combined to support the Defense Department in efforts to open up electromagnetic spectrum for commercial use. The Defense Spectrum Organization asked the company to develop and maintain a software platform designed to analyze electromagnetic compatibility and document spectrum analysis results under a three-year, …
Read More »DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on RF Transistor, Semiconductor Material Devt Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on March 29 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks to develop new radiofrequency and millimeter-wave transistors and semiconductor materials designed to meet electromagnetic spectrum-related requirements. Dan Green, a program manager at DARPA’s microsystems technology office, said in a …
Read More »Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments
Raytheon has demonstrated the interoperability of the company’s cyber and electromagnetic battle management tool with an electronic warfare asset management system used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it integrated the CEMBM tool into Raptor-X to showcase how the unified system could facilitate data sharing across the joint battlespace environment. “We’ve achieved …
Read More »HPE’s Earl Matthews: Analytics, Speed, Intell Key to Cyber Situational Awareness
Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has said speed, analytics, integration, resiliency, intelligence and expertise are the six attributes that are key to cyber situational awareness, Signal magazine reported Wednesday. Matthews, VP of enterprise security solutions for HPE’s U.S. public sector business, made the remarks Wednesday at the three-day MILCOM …
Read More »DARPA Unveils Initiative for Companies With Limited DoD Contracting Experience
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new process to encourage companies that have limited contracting experience with the Defense Department to propose novel technology platforms that could have potential applications for the commercial sector and DoD. DARPA’s microsystems technology office introduced the Commercial Performer Program Announcement in an …
Read More »Raytheon Launches Battle Mgmt System at Army Cyber Quest Event
Raytheon has unveiled a battle management platform the company built to integrate cyber and electromagnetic spectrum awareness features into the defense contractor’s Electronic Warfare Program Management Tool. The company said Monday it showcased the Cyber and Electromagnetic Battle Management platform at the U.S. Army‘s Cyber Quest event. CEMBM is designed to provide a shared situational understanding of electronic …
Read More »DARPA to Brief Proposers on Microelectronic Tech Programs
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on Sept. 20 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the microsystems technology office’s mission and three technical areas that MTO aims to address in the field of microelectronics. DARPA said Friday those areas of interest include the need to control and …
Read More »DARPA Seeks Participants for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge; Paul Tilghman Comments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled the $2 million Spectrum Collaboration Challenge that seeks to develop software-defined radios that could work with other simultaneously operating radios in the electromagnetic spectrum. The phased challenge will begin in 2017 and run for three years and has 30 slots available to interested participants who will contend to develop …
Read More »Harris Subsidiary Wins DSO Electromagnetic Spectrum Support Services Contract From DISA
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a Harris Corporation subsidiary a potential $41 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide electromagnetic spectrum services, applied engineering support and spectrum engineering services to the Defense Spectrum Organization. Exelis will perform services within the contract — including the delivery of firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable line items …
Read More »Alion to Support DISA’s Spectrum Mgmt Operations Under $137M IDIQ; Sean Pender Comments
Alion Science and Technology will help a Defense Information Systems Agency organization explore tools for spectrum management through the company’s position on a potential $137 million contract DISA awarded in May. Alion is one of eight vendors that will compete for task orders to provide electromagnetic spectrum engineering, technical services, planning, analysis and advocacy support to DISA’s Defense Spectrum …
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