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    RE2 Robotics Gets USAF Funds to Develop Manned-to-Autonomous Aircraft Conversion Tech

    RE2 Robotics has received a U.S. Air Force grant to help the service branch create a drop-in robotic system designed to convert traditional manned aircraft platforms to robotically piloted, autonomous aircraft. The company said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate cognitive architecture decision making, humanoid-like robotic manipulation, system architecture feasibility and vision-based flight-status recognition through the Common Aircraft Retrofit for Novel […] More

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    Insitu Integrates High Accuracy Photogrammetry Payload on ScanEagle UAV for Broad Area Surveillance

    Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, has integrated a 50-megapixel camera onto the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle to help offer high accuracy photogrammetric aerial imagery and broad area surveillance capacity. The company said Thursday that the imagery payload is part of Insitu’s INEXA Solutions suite of remote sensing products and services that work to help enterprise clients […] More

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    Rockwell Collins Demos GPS Receivers in Ballistic & Guided Flight Tests

    Rockwell Collins‘ military-code global positioning system receivers have completed seven ballistic and guided flight tests that aimed to demonstrate live-fire tracking capacity for guided munitions. The company said Thursday its receivers acquired both M-Code and Y-Code GPS signals to direct munitions toward specific targets during the live-fire tests that occurred in Yuma, Arizona. “Together with the U.S. Army and Air […] More

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    Iron Bow to Offer Cisco Hosted Collaboration Platform to Federal Customers

    Cisco has selected Iron Bow to help market a cloud-based technology platform for collaboration and communications in the federal sector. Iron Bow said Tuesday it will start to offer Cisco’s instant messaging, voice and video conferencing and web messaging services as part of the Hosted Collaboration Solution for Government. HCS-G received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification in April and […] More

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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Team to Propose Missile Tech for Navy LCS, Frigate Warships

    A team composed of Raytheon and Kongsberg Grupen plans to offer the U.S. Navy a precision missile system in a bid to address the service branch’s over-the-horizon requirement for littoral combat ships and frigates. The alliance’s Naval Strike Missile offering for the Navy will feature seeker and target identification technologies designed to defend against land and sea targets as well as […] More

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    Braxton to Help Air Force Build Navigation Tech Satellite Ground Segment

    Braxton Technologies has received a five-year, $9.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to build a ground control segment for the service branch’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3. The company will help the Air Force construct ground-based infrastructure to support NTS-3 orbit operations as well as demonstrate and mature satellite navigation ground command-and-control technologies for contested environments, the […] More

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    SOCOM Posts Enterprise Data Platform RFI

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has issued a request for information on commercial off-the-shelf, non-developmental items and near-NDI components that can support the development of an enterprise data services system. SOCOM said in FedBizOpps notice published Monday its J632 Plans and Engineering unit aims to build a system for special operations forces to analyze and manage […] More

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    DOE Invests $116M in Phase I and II Small Business R&D Projects

    The Energy Department will award 263 small business research and development grants worth a total of $116 million for Phase I and II R&D projects that will support the agency’s missions. DOE said Tuesday that it will award 174 Phase I grants worth up to $150,000 each to help small business conduct research on the technical […] More

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    General Atomics Performs Design Review on Ground Control Station for Air Force RPAs

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has conducted a critical design review (CDR) on its ground control station offering for the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts towards fielding new technologies for the military branch’s fleet of remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics said Tuesday that it conducted the CDR for the Advanced Cockpit Block 50 GCS […] More

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    DHS Center of Excellence to Award Grants for Border Security Devt Projects

    A Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Center of Excellence will invest up to $350,000 each for multiple projects related to the development of border security, trade and immigration. DHS said Monday that the Borders, Trade and Immigration Institute will award grants for projects designed to boost border management operations, facilitate transnational flows […] More

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    Raytheon Interceptor Missile Undergoes Land-Based Test; Mike Campisi Comments

    Raytheon has completed the final land-based test for its interceptor missile designed to support anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic missile defense operations. The company said Tuesday that the Standard Missile-6 Block IA platform was used to intercept and eliminate a subsonic target from a test site located in southern New Mexico as part […] More