The U.S. Marine Corps has received an amphibious combat vehicle variant from BAE Systems and will test the performance of the new model in command-and-control mission scenarios. BAE developed the ACV-Command platform with workstations to support on-the-move digital communications and analysis work for combat operations.
Read More »Mercury Systems Unveils Ruggedized Server for Tactical Edge-Level Data Processing
Mercury Systems has introduced a new rackmount server technology designed to withstand harsh environments and ensure the integrity of data for artificial intelligence and electronic warfare applications.
Read More »Navy Announces Requirement for New Vertical Lift Capability
The U.S. Navy has asked industry for insights to help inform an analysis effort seeking to identify potential vertical lift alternatives as it prepares to replace its existing fleet of Sikorsky-built MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters and Northrop Grumman-made MQ-8B/C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles, FlightGlobal reported Friday.
Read More »Lockheed Taps Northrop, BAE to Equip F-35 With Comms, Navigation, EW Systems
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin to enable new functionality that supports the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II multi-role fighter. BAE Systems is also part of the collaborative agreement. Northrop, Lockheed and BAE will equip the fighter jet with Northrop’s AN/ASQ-242 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Identification (ICNI) and BAE’s AN/ASQ-239 Electronic Warfare/Countermeasures (EW/CM) system to deliver optimal operational utility.
Read More »PAE Wins $98M Contract for USAFE-AFAFRICA Electronic Warfare Training Support; John Heller Quoted
PAE has secured a potential five-year, $98 million contract for electronic warfare operations training and infrastructure maintenance support to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe & Air Forces Africa. The company said Thursday it received a $55.7 million initial task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help USAFE-AFAFRICA manage EW range infrastructure located in Germany and facilitate mobile training across Africa and Europe.
Read More »Army Needs Market Info for EW Systems Integration Effort
The U.S. Army has released a request for information in support of its plan to implement an integration framework for electronic warfare systems, seeking data for designing, building, integrating, testing and maintaining the EW Planning and Management Tool system. The service branch said Tuesday in a SAM notice it wants to integrate EW systems into a unified, modular platform by further developing the tool.
Read More »Raytheon Technologies Aiming to Help Military Pilots Respond to Threats via ‘Converged EW’ Approach
Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space unit has embarked on a project to develop a threat detection approach for military aircraft operators that will fuse electronic warfare, cyber and signals intelligence tools into a single open-architecture system, dubbed Converged EW.
Read More »Northrop Unveils Digitally Integrated ALQ-131C Electronic Warfare Countermeasures Tech
Northrop Grumman has updated its ALQ-131C electronic countermeasures pod to include an exportable framework and a digital electronic warfare architecture to support operations across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Read More »Army Issues Draft RFP for Electronic Warfare, Signal, Cyber Capabilities Dev’t Support
The U.S. Army has issued a draft solicitation seeking industry support to develop and modernize electronic warfare, cyber space and signal capabilities, Inside Defense reported Monday.
Read More »Mercury Systems Launches ‘System in Package’ Chip Offering for 5G, Electronic Warfare Applications
Mercury Systems has unveiled an electronic system offering that features customizable elements to support technologies used in electronic warfare, radar and 5G network applications.
Read More »BAE-Leonardo Team Secures $420M Contract to Build UK’s Combat Aircraft Radar System
BAE Systems and Leonardo have been awarded a potential $420M contract to develop the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), the European Common Radar System Mark 2 (ECRS Mk2) for the Royal Air Force's (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons, BAE said Thursday. Under the contract, the two companies will work to develop a standard radar to be integrated on to RAF Typhoons.
Read More »Steve Schorer: MacB Acquisition Prompts Alion to Focus More on Tech Work
Steve Schorer, chairman and CEO of Alion Science and Technology and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the acquisition of MacAulay-Brown has helped the company to focus more on technology work, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence and electronic warfare, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
Read More »Navy’s Growler Aircraft Completes Maiden Flight With Raytheon Technologies’ Next-Gen Jamming System
The U.S. Navy has demonstrated a Raytheon Technologies-built jamming system aboard an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft for the first time at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.
Read More »Army Begins Terrestrial Layer System Program’s First Phase With Two Contract Awards
The U.S. Army awarded other transaction agreements to Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the last two months to begin the initial phase of prototyping for the Terrestrial Layer System program that seeks to deploy a ground-based platform to deliver cyber, electronic warfare and signals intelligence capabilities to brigades, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.
Read More »Mercury Systems’ New Upconverter Designed to Align With Emerging Sensor Tech Standard
Mercury Systems has unveiled a new ultra-wideband electronic warfare tool that complies with modern standards of the sensor open systems architecture.
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