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  • Irving Burton Associates to Support Army Health IT Research Programs
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    Irving Burton Associates to Support Army Health IT Research Programs

    Irving Burton Associates has received a two-year, $11 million contract for research, management and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. IBA said Thursday it will deploy telehealth and mobile health managers, physicians and medics to support TATRC programs related to telehealth, medical simulation and robotics, unmanned systems, and mobile technology. USAMRMC […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama
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    Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility at the company’s Pike County Operations campus in Troy, Alabama, in a move to help drive workforce development initiatives in the state. The Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center is built to offer online education for more than 450 employees onsite and training services for local military and state agencies, Lockheed said Thursday. The Alabama […] More

  • BAE Selects Konstrukta to Produce Barrels for Swedish Combat Vehicle Mortar System
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    BAE Selects Konstrukta to Produce Barrels for Swedish Combat Vehicle Mortar System

    Slovakia-based company Konstrukta Defense has received a contract of an undisclosed value from BAE Systems to manufacture barrels for Sweden’s Mjolner mortar system. Konstrukta will deliver 84 120mm barrels to the Swedish armed forces from December 2017 through July 2020, BAE said Wednesday. Sweden’s defense materiel administration awarded a $68 million contract to BAE Systems in December […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App
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    Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Blue Cedar to incorporate the latter’s mobile security tool into its Universal Communications Platform mobile application in an effort to facilitate secure communications among app users, military personnel and first responders. The partnership seeks to enable users to download to their smartphones, table computers and other mobile devices the […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech
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    Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech

    Rockwell Collins has showcased the capacities of a jamming-resistant directional communication link designed to send signals 10 times farther than current omnidirectional systems. The company said Thursday that the communication link system uses technologies built through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Arrays at Commercial Timescales programs to aid operations of military unmanned aerial systems […] More

  • UK Govt Taps Leonardo-Thales Team to Demo IR Threat Warning & Countermeasure System
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    UK Govt Taps Leonardo-Thales Team to Demo IR Threat Warning & Countermeasure System

    A partnership of Leonardo and Thales has received a contract from the U.K. defence ministry to demonstrate their combined missile threat warning and protection system in early 2018. The joint platform is currently under development to integrate Thales’ Elix-IR threat warner with Leonardo’s Miysis directed infrared countermeasure system, Leonardo said Wednesday. Elix-IR will work to detect, […] More

  • BAE Launches Updated Naval Mine Countermeasures System
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    BAE Launches Updated Naval Mine Countermeasures System

    BAE Systems has introduced a new version of its naval mine countermeasures system at the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in London, U.K. The updated Naval Autonomy Tactical Information System dubbed NAUTIS 5 is designed to provide optimized command and control for autonomous and off-board systems; a new human-computer interface; and embedded on-board training, BAE […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country
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    Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has received a $10 million order to manufacture soldier wearable shooter detection systems for an unidentified Gulf country. BBN Technologies aims to deliver 2,000 Boomerang Warrior-X units to the customer over the next 12 months, Raytheon said Thursday. Boomerang is designed to help warfighters gain situational awareness of hostile fires or sniper attacks and provide […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft
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    Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft

    Rolls-Royce seeks to pitch the company’s BR725 engine technology offering to the U.S. Air Force as a potential replacement for current B-52 bomber engines, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. Tom Hartmann, senior vice president of customer business at Rolls Royce’s North American arm, told FlightGlobal the company will prepare for a potential bomber engine modernization program as the service branch […] More

  • Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite
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    Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite

    Saab has entered the final development phase for a new suite of electronic warfare self-protection systems in a move to expand the company’s EW portfolio. The company said Wednesday it will install one variant of the Arexis product on board the Gripen E/F fighter aircraft. Arexis is designed to feature ultra wideband digital receivers, digital radio frequency memory devices, interferometric direction […] More

  • NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets
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    NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets

    NASA and the BoldlyGo Institute have entered into a Space Act Agreement to build and deploy a purpose-built space telescope to determine potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system. BoldlyGo said Tuesday the public-private collaboration seeks to open up opportunities for NASA personnel and staff members of the Project Blue mission to review mission designs […] More