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Force Protection Video Equipment has received a follow-on order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply additional cameras along with VeriPic-made enterprise photo and evidence management software. The order is for 160 LE50 high-definition body camera systems that work to record audio and video for up to 10 hours at 1080p video mode and 12 […] More
BAE Systems plans to establish a defense hub in Victoria, Australia, to consolidate the company’s aerospace, land and maritime businesses. The facility will be built in Melbourne’s Fishermans Bend and accommodate up to 1000 engineers and technicians who will design, produce and maintain defense technology platforms for Australian military customers, BAE said Monday. BAE’s aerospace […] More
SES‘ government solutions subsidiary has received a five-year task order from the Defense Department to provide an additional satellite beam for government end-users to access real-time information. The company said Tuesday it will deliver an additional 432-megahertz satellite beam designed to operate at less than 200 milliseconds per roundtrip along with a full duplex link, gateway […] More
Charles River Analytics has developed a tablet-based system designed to help train Defense Department medical personnel for primary and secondary trauma assessment under a 27-month, $749,000 follow-on contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Monday the System for Trauma Assessment Training works to help clinicians assess, learn and rehearse various trauma scenarios with a virtual patient. […] More
Lockheed Martin has secured a $75.4 million contract modification to provide updated sensor kits and spares for the U.S. Army‘s Apache attack helicopters. The Defense Department said Friday the company will supply Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor equipment under the modification. M-TADS/PNVS is a precision engagement and pilotage system equipped with an electro-optical sensor technology that works […] More
The U.S. Navy commissioned an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, built by General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary, at a ceremony held Saturday at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California. USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) was constructed to support the Navy’s crisis management, peacetime, power projection and sea control missions, the service branch said […] More
General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has received a $36.7 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize software for tactical control system of the military branch’s submarines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract modification exercises the eighth option year of a previously awarded contract to support the AN/BYG-1 Tactical Control System Technology […] More
Oshkosh‘s defense business has received a potential $16 million delivery order to provide an additional 23 aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicles to the U.S. Marine Corps. P-19R ARFF vehicles are equipped with the TAK-4 independent suspension system designed to support operations in off-road environments, Oshkosh said Thursday. The platform also features the Command Zone integrated control and diagnostics system built […] More
IBM has helped the Army Materiel Command’s logistics support activity to predict maintenance issues on Stryker armored fighting vehicles using the company’s Watson artificial intelligence technology, GCN reported Thursday. The company installed its AI platform along with other sensor technologies on 350 Stryker vehicles to evaluate manuals and work orders required for the development of individual maintenance […] More
General Dynamics has introduced a combat survival radio system designed to facilitate direct line-of-sight voice and two-way data communications among military users. HOOK3 radios will work to help combat search-and-rescue groups transmit information when they locate and recover pilots and other isolated military units, General Dynamics said Thursday. The company’s mission systems business developed the radio technology after the […] More
Boeing, the U.S. Air Force and the Naval Air Systems Command have collaborated on electromagnetic testing of a company-built KC-46Â aerial refueling aircraft. The team assessed the tanker’s capacity to operate through electromagnetic fields generated by radars, radio towers and other systems, Boeing said Thursday. “The KC-46 tanker is protected by various hardening and shielding technologies […] More
General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business has received a $59.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to supply Hydra rockets and motors to Afghanistan under a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification covers the delivery of 38,496 M151; 458 M229; 49,728 M274; and 1,200 M278 units along with MK66 MOD4 20,871 […] More
