Category Archives: Contractors & Vendors
Q&A: CERDEC’s Charlie Maraldo on C4ISR On-the-Move ‘09 and the Persistent Surveillance Testbed
At last month’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event ‘09 exercise, the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command (CERDEC) hosted an additional event – the Persistent Surveillance Testbed, run out of Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst. In addition to the Lockheed Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab, CERDEC tested two other ISR platforms – an internal electronic intelligence and electronic [...]
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Q&A – Lockheed’s Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab
Last month, Lockheed-Martin brought an independently developed test aircraft, called the Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab, to the Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move exercise, which took place at and near Ft. Dix and Lakehurst, New Jersey. The AML is a repurposed used Gulfstream III corporate jet equipped with a large radome and commercial electronics racks; the aircraft [...]
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Harris says it delivers “JTRS capabilities today”–Boeing begs to differ
On Monday, I got a walkthrough of a demo by Harris Corp. of the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G radio being used as the basis for a battlefield network — both using currently available waveforms and the yet-to-be-released Joint Tactical Radio System Wideband Networking Waveform.
In the demo, Jaime Rubscha, a product manager for the RF Communications Division [...]
SecDef Gates speaks of the importance of ISR technology at AUSA
The latest technology for soldiers –and some technologies that are still at best “under development” — were on display in the cavernous expo halls of the Washington Convention Center this week at the Association of the US Army Annual Meeting. Meanwhile, Army leaders discussed the future of the service, including force structure and modernization.
Secretary of [...]
Trick or treat–Army wants Shadow UAV retrofits for Halloween
The Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a contract to perform engine retrofits on the RQ-7 Shadow UAV. The contract, awarded to AI of Hunt Valley, MD on Sept. 22, 2009, was for $49,185,103, a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract “over and above work for EFI,” the Army announcement said–that is, replacing the UAVs’ existing carbeurator-based Wankel [...]
GD Demos Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has announced that it has successfully developed and tested a new approach for low-cost guided mortars called the 120mm Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM).
Under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., General Dynamics successfully tube-launched and guided RCGM prototypes from a M120 120mm [...]
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GD wins Army contract for non-lethal vehicle stopper
General Dynamics Inc., Bothwell, Wash., was awarded on Sept. 18, 2009 a $13,274,349 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of a non-lethal portable vehicle immobilization device. Work is to be performed in Moses Lake, Wash., with an estimated completion date of Sept. 10, 2014. Bids were solicited on the World Wide Web with five [...]
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BAE brought in to deal with “vanishing vendors” for F-15 radar warning system
BAE Systems Information and Electronics of Totowa, New Jersey was awarded a $5,963,688 contract which will provide engineering services to resolve obsolete part and vanishing vendor issues with the LRU-3c low band receiver and digital processor, part of the of the AN/ALR-56C radar warning system of the F-15 fighter, and significantly improve the system [...]
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B-52 electronic warfare suite gets $25.7 million in support
The Air Force’s 542nd Combat Sustainment Group, which is responsible for purchasing support for all Air Force electronic warfare systems, has given Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., of Rolling Meadows, Ill., a $25,739,773 contract to provide electronic warfare engineering services for the B-52H. Northrop built the AN/ALR-46 digital warning receiver for the B-52, whic detects radar [...]
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