WASHINGTON, 13 Feb. 2012. Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $13.59 billion in federal fiscal year 2013 for procurement and research in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies. This level would represent a cut of 10.26 percent from current-year enacted levels of $15.14 billion, and a cut of 23.43 percent from 2011 levels of $17.75 billion, according to Pentagon budget documents released today.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 13, 2012. The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) $37 million for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) production and limited deployment phase.

ANNAPOLIS, Md., 12 Feb. 2012. Radio communications experts at ARINC Inc. in Annapolis, Md., are using supercomputers to help systems integrators design and analyze the performance of complex antennas. Complex Antenna Engineering and Analyses. The ARINC Advanced Systems Engineering and Integration Division has installed a Linux-based supercomputer to support engineering analyses for ARINC’s external customers. The company’s previous supercomputer also remains available.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md., Feb. 11, 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been competitively awarded one of five Operations Support (OPS) Services Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) in support of the Department of Defense’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).

ANNISTON, Ala., Feb. 10, 2012. BAE Systems in partnership with the Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) are refurbishing 440 M113A2 armored personnel carriers for Iraq through a foreign military sales contract worth more than $31 million.

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 10, 2012. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) was awarded a prime contract by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (OASD [NCB]) to provide professional, technical, analytical and executive-level administrative services in support of the OASD (NCB) and other components of the Department of Defense (DoD).

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Feb. 9, 2012. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), together with DRS Technologies, announced the delivery of the first Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS) to the U.S. Army.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Feb. 7, 2012. The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a $31.4 million contract for the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) Technical Demonstration (TD) program to develop the next generation of aircraft survivability equipment to defend helicopters against man-portable air-defense systems and other heat-seeking munitions.

AVIONICS INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 7 Feb. 2012. The U.S. Air Force plans to eliminate more than 280 aircraft over the next five years, including 123 jet fighters, 133 cargo aircraft, and 30 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, reports Military & Aerospace Electronics Senior Editor Courtney Howard this week in the Avionics Intelligence video blog.

ORLANDO, Fla., 6 Feb. 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] won from the U.S. Air Force a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, valued at up to $94 million, to provide technical support to the Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Lockheed Martin staff will not only partner with the 705th Combat Training Squadron to link assets among the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as coalition partner nations, but also assist the Air Force in developing tactics, techniques, and procedures for tactical and operational training events.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 6 Feb. 2012. Officials of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., are looking to the Lockheed Martin Corp. Space Systems segment in Sunnyvale, Calif., provide systems upgrades and technology insertion for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile-defense system under terms of a potential $515.4 million contract announced Friday. Lockheed Martin is the THAAD prime contractor. THAAD is an MDA system designed to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile warheads as these weapons are in their final phases of flight.

TORRANCE, Calif., 5 Feb. 2012. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington needed expertise in helmet-mounted microdisplay technology to help them develop an embedded head-up display to increase personal situation awareness for emergency responders. They found their solution from Physical Optics Corp. in Torrance, Calif.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 4, 2012. Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] was awarded a $76.6 million cost-plus-incentive-fee cost reiumbursement contract to develop, design, build, test, integrate, certify and deliver four dismount detection radar systems (DDRS).

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 4, 2012. The U.S. Navy completed developmental testing (DT) of the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. Developmental testing finished when the JSOW C-1 struck a moving ship target during the weapon's second flight test.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3, 2012. Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced that it has started production of the new Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter.

NASHUA, N.H., Feb. 3, 2012. BAE Systems has been selected by the U.S. Army as one of two contractors to develop the next generation Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) solution – a directed infrared countermeasure system for Army, Navy, and Marine rotary-wing aircraft.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 2, 2012. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and BAE Systems have teamed up to develop, demonstrate and produce the 81mm Roll Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM), an 81mm precision mortar round.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 2, 2012. General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was awarded a $23.6 million contract by Lockheed Martin Corp. for production of more than two dozen GAU-22/A gun systems for the F-35 Lightning II.

MANASSAS, Va., 2 Feb. 2012. Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) in Manassas, Va., won a $37 million contract to produce the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system for the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman’s official Facebook page reveals: “We were awarded $37M by the U.S. Navy to produce CANES. If all options are exercised, the award [would] have a value of $638M. CANES will consolidate and modernize shipboard network systems to improve operational effectiveness and affordability across the fleet.”