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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.

Abaco Systems and Amergint Technologies have agreed to collaborate on an electronic warfare technology that will allow warfighters to communicate with reduced complexity and fielding requirements.

Mercury Systems has unveiled a new digital transceiver intended to receive and send signals across multiple channels.

Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $43M contract modification to help the U.S. Navy update an electronic warfare support platform of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

Lockheed Martin has received a $42.7M delivery order to produce additional helicopter systems designed to help U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers detect, identify and locate radars. The latest order for Modernized Radar Frequency Interferometers will increase the program's total potential value to $102M, the company said Monday.

Mercury Systems has introduced a digitization transceiver designed to support electronic warfare operations and mitigate electromagnetic threats.

BlackHorse Solutions has received a $48.8M contract to produce cyber defense software and hardware prototypes for Air Force Research Laboratory.

Mercury Systems has unveiled a new downconverter-upconverter set designed to convert broadband intermediate frequencies during operations.

Keysight Technologies has unveiled a new multi-purpose handheld microwave analyzer that military personnel can use to scan their communication networks for low-level interference and make field-to-lab data transfers.

The U.S. Army has teamed up with industry to develop cyber and electronic warfare capabilities under the $982M R4 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and is now issuing task orders to support the service’s cyber electromagnetic activities, Army Technology reported Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman has received a $46M delivery order from the U.S. Air Force to supply Joint Threat Emitter systems designed to simulate anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missile threats for aircrew training activities.

Joe Ottaviano, a director at Lockheed Martin’s rotary and mission systems business, said the Block 2 update to the U.S. Navy’s shipboard electronic warfare system under the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program could help the service detect various threats such as missiles and hostile electronic signals, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin plans to deliver the first set of new electronic warfare pods developed for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters by end of 2019 or in early 2020, Rotor and Wing International reported Thursday.

Officials of U.S. defense contractors have called on the Pentagon to expand capabilities to protect networks through radio frequency as adversaries may soon operate without the internet or become inaccessible through traditional, IP-based operations, FifthDomain reported Friday.

General Dynamics' mission systems business has partnered with Curtiss-Wright to offer an artificial intelligence-driven situational awareness system for signal intelligence and electronic warfare. General Dynamics said Tuesday it will combine its SignalEye software with Curtiss-Wright’s Intel-based CHAMP-XD1 processor to help users classify radio frequency signals via machine learning.