Radar
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BAE Systems wins $4.8 billion contract to build new Type 26 Global Combat Ships for U.K.
GLASGOW, Scotland. BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.K. defense ministry worth 3.7 billion pounds ($4.8 billion ) to manufacture the first three ships for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship program. Steel is set to be cut on the first ship in Glasgow in the next several weeks.
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Newest naval littoral combat ship to be christened LCS Billings
MARINETTE, Wis. The U.S. Navy will christen its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), USS Billings (LCS 15), during a July 1 ceremony in Marinette, Wisconsin, the home of shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine. The future USS Billings, the name of which honors the largest city in Montana, will be the first ship bearing that name in naval service.
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Elbit demos unmanned antimine, antisub, EW craft in North Sea trials
HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems recently demonstrated the Seagull, its multimission unmanned surface vehicle (USV) during binational (Belgium/the Netherlands) mine countermeasure (MCM) trials for unmanned maritime systems; the event was organized by the Directorate General of Material Resources (DGMR) of the Belgian ministry of defense.
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The role of machine learning in autonomous spectrum sharing
AUSTIN, Texas. Speakers and attendees last month at NIWeek, National Instruments' (NI's) annual conference and exhibition, discussed the technological obstacles and potential solutions for enabling autonomous spectrum sharing and touted the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) as an excellent platform for finding such solutions.
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Lockheed Martin selects Verotec rack cases to outfit Multi Scout armored vehicles for U.K.
MANCHESTER, N.H. Verotec has been chosen by Lockheed Martin to provide custom 19-inch, 6U, 600 mm deep rack cases to house part of the intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) system in the next-generation AJAX armored fighting vehicles developed for the British army. The AJAX program is a project headed by General Dynamics UK.
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Shrinking the kill chain
WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: When I first started researching this topic, I thought writing this article would be straight-forward and easy. As with many other subjects in this series, that was not the case. Targeting models are integrated into kill chains, or vice-versa, and that creates some confusion. The available stream of information about this subject is both narrow and shallow. However, we are seeing a sequence of evolving kill chain models, at the strategic and tactical levels.
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Radar mission integration support contract won by Gryphon Technologies
WASHINGTON. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) officials selected Gryphon Technologies, LC for a single award contract to provide Mission Integration services in support of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar as it conducts its mission.
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Telephonics wins Navy ARPDD retrofit contract from Lockheed Martin
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. Communication and information systems provider Telephonics Corp. has been awarded year two of a multiyear, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) production contract -- valued at approximately $37 million -- by Lockheed Martin for providing naval helicopters with AN/APS-153(V)1 radar retrofit kits with automatic radar periscope detection and discrimination (ARPDD) capability.
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Air Force taps Lockheed Martin to develop a radar threat simulator system
PARIS. U.S. Air Force officials selected Lockheed Martin to develop, produce, and field a threat simulator for future combat aircrew training. The contract is worth an estimated $104 million for the Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 2 (ARTS-V2) program.
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State Department approves AN/TPQ-53(V) radar system FMS to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON. State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for AN/TPQ-53(V) radar systems and related support. The total estimated program cost is $662 million.
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