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Raytheon has combined merged a laser weapon and advanced surveillance equipment to a Polaris-built all-terrain vehicle to develop a new platform that can engage unmanned aerial vehicles using laser beams, Popular Mechanics reported Monday. The new High Energy Laser Weapon System-MRZR platform features a 30-square-foot electronics package, Polaris’ MRZR ATV and Raytheon’s Multi-spectral Targeting System […] More

The U.S. Navy plans to award Textron Systems a sole-source contract to supply an optical simulator technology designed to visually replicate actual threats. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Corona Division requires a Man-portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer and believes Textron Systems has the potential to meet MAST specifications. NSWCCO wants […] More

Tri-Cor Industries has won a task order to assist the Defense Logistics Agency‘s J62LB enterprise test directorate in efforts to secure the integrity of DLA information technology assets as well as evaluate software and systems for agency customers. The order was issued under the unrestricted portion of the J6 Enterprise Technology Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $6 billion over eight years, […] More

United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has deployed a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space aboard its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The NROL-52 payload lifted off Sunday at 3:28 a.m. Eastern time to support NRO’s national security mission, ULA said Sunday. The company launched NROL-52 using an Atlas […] More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have introduced a deep learning library to help developers prototype, create, train and deploy machine learning models for cloud computing tools, edge devices and mobile applications. The Gluon library currently serves as an interface for the Apache MXNet deep learning framework and will be updated to support Microsoft’s open-source, deep-learning toolkit called Microsoft Cognitive […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has laid the keel for the 12th amphibious transport dock ship of the U.S. Navy‘s San Antonio class. Meredith Berger, a former Navy deputy chief of staff, served as the sponsor of the future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) and her initials were engraved on a steel plate during the ceremony, HII said Friday. One […] More

An L3 Technologies subsidiary has won a potential three-year, $18.5 million contract to design and develop a simulation technology for the U.S. Army‘s nuclear effects laboratory located at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. L3 Applied Technologies will also help the service branch integrate, test, manage and document the Prompt Gamma Simulator under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the  Defense Department […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary has received a one-year, $28.6 million contract option to continue to provide various yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered submarines and moored training ships. The Defense Department said Friday Electric Boat will furnish, fabricate or acquire materials, supplies and support services necessary to manage reactor plant planning and support yard functions. The […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary will host a christening event for the U.S. Navy’s future nuclear-powered attack submarine USS South Dakota on Saturday at a company shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard will be a principal speaker at the ceremony and Deanie Dempsey, wife of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey, will […] More

The latest variant of Raytheon‘s Joint Standoff Weapon system has received full operational capability designation from the Department of the Navy. JSOW C-1 is designed to help U.S. squadrons engage moving maritime and stationary ground targets through an air-to-ground network, the Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday. “Formal declaration of full operational capability for JSOW C-1 is the final step in a […] More