MAE Defense Executive - Aug 2nd, 2022
MAE Defense Executive |
View online
August 2, 2022
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Boeing to provide 6U VPX targeting computer network for combat jets
Systems upgrades roll in to keep military systems on leading edge
Corvid Technologies to develop software for missile defense test
Raytheon to upgrade software in JSOW smart munitions
EXECUTIVE SUITE
Leidos to develop medium-sized unmanned underwater vehicle and sensors for maritime environmental sensing
The MUUV will provide persistent surface-launched and -recovered mine countermeasures and submarine-based oceanographic sensing and data collection.
PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Navy lab searching for companies able to develop software for creating models of environmental sensor data
Models would be used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), amphibious landings, mine and special warfare, sea bottom warfare, and mission planning.
Researchers ask industry for enabling technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine automation
DARPA experts want promising technologies to improve resilience, responsiveness, range, lethality, access, endurance, and affordability.
Army asks industry to develop handheld sensor to help care for military burn victims on the front lines
This handheld device is for Army battalion aid stations, brigade support aid stations,and field hospitals for triaging and evacuation decision making.
Wanted: autonomous fighter aircraft to shoot down enemy planes
The LCEI should be autonomous aircraft, avionics, and sensors with hard-kill systems effective against groups 1, 2, and smaller group 3 aircraft.
DESIGN-IN CASE STUDIES
Navy asks Leonardo DRS to provide open-architecture shipboard displays as part of Aegis modernization program
CDS consoles are a set of open-architecture three-eyed horizontal display consoles that provide the human machine interface between sailors and ship.
Army picks Northrop Grumman for proximity fuze with advanced electronic technologies for artillery shells
The M782 Multi-Option Artillery Fuze (MOFA) is for high-explosive fragmentation- and burster-type 105- and 155-millimeter artillery projectiles.
Ultra Electronics to build torpedo-defense decoy to help protect surface warships from torpedo attacks
The ADC MK 2 hovers vertically at a pre-selected depth using a pressure-controlled motor, and emits an acoustic signal to spoof incoming torpedoes.
Lockheed Martin to buy 22 electro-optical sensors to give F-35 pilots a spherical view of the environment
DAS collects real-time imagery from six infrared (IR) cameras mounted around the aircraft and sends it to the pilot’s helmet-mounted display.
EXECUTIVE BUSINESS
Army orders soldier-carried unmanned surveillance aircraft from AeroVironment in $11.2 million contract
The AeroVironment Puma 3 AE is a hand-launched and soldier-carried unmanned aircraft system designed for land and maritime operations.
Army to buy more reconditioned and upgraded 155-millimeter self-propelled howitzer artillery and vetronics
The Army wants the M109A7 155-millimeter artillery to keep pace with the fast-moving M1 Abrams battle tank and M2 Bradley armored personnel carrier.
Lockheed Martin to repair and recertify Patriot PAC-3 radar-guided missiles for air-defense applications
The PAC-3 is a hit-to-kill high- to medium-altitude air defense missile designed to defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft.
Army asks General Dynamics to buy sensors and vetronics for active-protection missile defense in Abrams tanks
Radar and computer processors locate incoming anti-tank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades, and detonate the incoming munitions away from the tank.
