Leonardo’s Seaspray search radar is to be integrated onto the MQ-9B SkyGuardian as General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) pushes the unmanned air system for the maritime surveillance mission.
The new acquisition strategy for ReleaseONE signals Roper’s plan to harvest the first tranche of ABMS technologies into a batch of systems that can be acquired, developed and fielded.
The demonstration on Dec. 16 from Laguna Army Air Field, Arizona, may offer a low-cost alternative to controlling large UAS on long-range missions if satellite communications are unavailable or jammed.
Teledyne Technologies will buy smaller rival FLIR Systems under a proposed $8 billion stock-and-cash deal unveiled Jan. 4, bringing together two complementary providers of digital imaging, aerospace and defense electronics to form a growing midtier specialist.
The remaining core of defense electronics specialist Sparton finally has a new strategic owner, with the U.S. subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems agreeing to buy it for $380 million, the companies announced Dec. 23.
The authorization for the possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) valued at $128.1 million came after the State Department accepted a letter of request from the Kazakhstan government.
The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris a $496 million contract to launch the four-year engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the NGJ-LB program.
Epirus, a startup building high-power microwave (HPM) applications for UAV deployment, closed a $70 million funding round that included an investment by L3Harris Technologies.
The U.S. State Department has approved the Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Italy of two special-mission versions of the Gulfstream G550 business jet configured for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
Northrop Grumman helped lead a seed-round venture capital investment in Philadelphia-based Deepwave Digital, and the companies are looking to integrate Deepwave’s edge-compute, artificial intelligence (AI) technology into an “array” of sensor systems to improve capabilities and longevity.
The U.S. military on Dec. 9 was able to demonstrate how a piece of its future military Internet of Things, the Advanced Battle Management System, might work.
The decision clears BAE Systems to begin production of the electronic warfare upgrade as developmental and operational testing by the 53rd Wing continues.
The contract award scheduled later this month to ether L3Harris or Northrop Grumman will be managed under the more traditional process of an Acquisition Category (ACAT)-1B program of record.
Although the U-2S is mainly known for high-altitude surveillance, the Air Force and Lockheed have been working since 2013 to transform the aircraft into a critical node for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) by hosting a suite of new technologies.
