PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 12, 2012. BAE Systems has received a $15.8 million award from the U.S. Army for the production and delivery of side ballistic insert plates, also known as XSBI hard body armor.

LOS ANGELES AFB, Calif., 12 Jan. 2012. Navigation satellite designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Space Systems Co. in Newtown, Pa., outside Trenton will build the third and fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation and guidance satellites under terms of a $238.5 million contract awarded Wednesday by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.

DULLES, Va., Jan. 12, 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $179.5 million follow-on contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide Contractor Field Service (CFS) support for U-2 sensors, data links and the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS).

SAN DIEGO, 11 Jan. 2012. Advanced Digital Logic Inc. officials have changed the name of the company to reflect its significantly expanded product lines. Now ADL Embedded Solutions Inc., the company offers system design and integration services, including enclosure, cabling, and thermal solution design, as well as value-added services to embedded customers. “We’re excited about this change, because we believe that the new name better reflects the broad range of products and services that our ADL Embedded Solutions brand provides to you, our clients,” says a company spokesperson.

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 11, 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded an $80.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy in support of a Foreign Military Sale of the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar to the Royal Australian Navy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., 11 Jan. 2012. NASA has contracted a.i. solutions Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide integrated services for the preparation and launch of NASA's next generation of scientific and exploration spacecraft under the agency's Launch Services Program (LSP). The Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support 2 (ELVIS 2) contract, valued at up to $138.1 million, features a two-month, phase-in period beginning Feb. 2012, followed by a one-and-a-half-year base period from April 1, 2012, through Sept. 30, 2013.

MONTREAL, 11 Jan. 2012. U.S. Army leaders needed AN/GRC-245 radios and other tactical communications equipment to serve as shelter upgrade kits for the Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T). They found their solution from military radio communications specialist Ultra Electronics TCS in Montreal.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 10 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy electronic warfare experts are shifting into high gear in a program to develop the Next-Generation Jammer (NGJ), which will replace the AN/ALQ-199 as the Navy's primary airborne electronic warfare system. Navy officials will release a full solicitation later this year for the technology development phase of the NGJ program, and is scheduling industry day briefings in January and February to release program details to potential industry bidders.

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 10, 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded two contracts totaling $212.8 million for the production of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile, with an option for $33 million in additional work.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., 10 Jan. 2012. Executives of aerospace and defense electronics expert Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., are combining their company's Embedded Computing and Electronic Systems business units to enhance the company's focus on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) modules and systems integration for military and aerospace applications, company officials announced Monday. The combined business unit is called Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions (CWCDS), and will make its headquarters in Ashburn, Va.

ARLINGTON, Va., 10 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy electro-optics scientists are asking industry for help in developing small and relatively inexpensive optical focal plane arrays (FPAs) for small systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by optimizing the imagery from these systems to meet today's detection, tracking and identification requirements. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., issued a broad agency announcement (ONRBAA12-005) last week for the Image Optimization for Small Focal Plane Arrays program, which seeks to develop small and affordable optical focal plane arrays.

EGLIN AFB, Fla., 9 Jan. 2012. Munitions guidance experts at the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., will design and demonstrate navigation and guidance technologies that can keep new generations of deep-penetrating bombs and missiles on target in conditions where signals from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite satellites are degraded or unavailable. Raytheon is doing the work under terms of an $11 million contract awarded Friday by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., 8 Jan. 2012. Military jet engine designers at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Conn., will provide additional engines for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter under terms of a potential $1.billion undefinitized contract from the U.S. Department of Defense. The fifth lot of engines includes 21 conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) engines for the U.S. Air Force; six carrier variant (CV) engines for the U.S. Navy; and three short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) propulsion systems for the U.S. Marine Corps.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., 8 Jan. 2012. Military jet engine designers at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Conn., will provide additional engines for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter under terms of a potential $1.billion undefinitized contract from the U.S. Department of Defense. The fifth lot of engines includes 21 conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) engines for the U.S. Air Force; six carrier variant (CV) engines for the U.S. Navy; and three short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) propulsion systems for the U.S. Marine Corps.

ESCONDIDO, Calif., 8 Jan. 2012. High-altitude atmospheric researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., needed data recorders and embedded servers for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) project. They found their solution from One Stop Systems Inc. in Escondido, Calif. One Stop Systems has delivered several of its MDA-T5 data recorders and 3U servers to NASA Dryden for the SOFIA astronomy project.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Jan. 7, 2012. The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems $60 million under an existing contract to continue upgrading M1A1 tanks to the M1A2 Systems Enhancement Package (SEP) V2 configuration.

MAC DILL AFB, Fla., 6 Jan. 2012. Electro-optics engineers at the DRS Technologies Inc. Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) segment in Melbourne, Fla., will design and build a handheld laser sensor for U.S. Special Operations forces to verify that the 1064-nanometer infrared laser beam from the Handheld Laser Marker (HLM) is on target. The HLM is a lightweight system that marks targets for laser-guided munitions. DRS RSTA engineers won a potential $40.2 million five-year contract Wednesday for the Spot on Target (SPOTR) system to verify the effectiveness of the Handheld Laser Marker in difficult conditions such as dark nights or urban terrain.

FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 05, 2012. The U.S. Navy recently awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a $95.9 million contract for production and deployed-systems support of U.S. and U.K. Trident II submarine strategic weapons systems, including the SSBN fire-control system, the SSGN attack weapon-control system, the U.S. SSBN-replacement and the U.K. SSBN-successor common missile compartment.

FAIRFAX, Va., 5 Jan. 2012. Executives at the General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems segment in Fairfax, Va., are concentrating on high-performance imaging solutions for aerospace, defense, and homeland security applications with their creation this month of the General Dynamics Global Imaging Technologies segment in Nashua, N.H. The new Global Imaging Technologies segment builds on General Dynamics offerings in electro-optics obtained in its 2009 acquisition of Axsys Technologies, such as electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) cameras, precision optical components, motion-control products, and stabilized high-definition (HD) gimbals.