WASHINGTON - Microwave Power Products Inc., Woodland, California, is being awarded a $23.4 million firm-fixed-price commercial requirements contract for the procurement of electron tube double duty switch tubes in support of the AEGIS Combat System. The contract does not include an option provision.

Work will be performed in Woodland, California, and is expected to be completed by May 20, 2030. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00104-25-D-D003).

Source: U.S. DoD
Associated URL: http://www.defense.com

RESTON, Va. - The U.S. Army certifies that the TROPHY Hard-Kill Active Protection System has successfully achieved all mandatory technical requirements for Modular APS Framework (MAF) 2.0 compliance.

Trophy is a hard-kill Active Protection System (APS) fielded on armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), including main battle tanks (MBTs) and medium-weight infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). Designed for integration with its host platform, Trophy delivers defense against a wide spectrum of anti-armor threats, including Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs), Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs), Recoilless Rifles (RR), and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs).

In June 2024, the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) and Rafael Systems Global Sustainment, LLC (RSGS) entered into a Contracted Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop a prototype of the Trophy APS compliant with MAF standards. Under this agreement, the parties collaboratively developed and refined a MAF 2.0-compliant design model for Trophy, integrated the system with the Vehicle Protection System (VPS) Base Kit (VBK), and conducted a final MAF-compliance assessment, culminating in a lab demonstration at GVSC's Vehicle Protection Integration Lab.

Source: Rafael
Associated URL: https://www.rafael.co.il/

GOLETA, Ca. -- Dragoon chose Teledyne FLIR’s Prism SKR and Prism Supervisor software to support autonomous flight and target recognition in its long-range uncrewed aerial system prototypes developed under Project Artemis.

Project Artemis is a Defense Innovation Unit program aimed at testing low-cost, long-range loitering munitions capable of operating in contested electromagnetic environments. Dragoon is one of four organizations participating in the initiative.

The software is designed to operate on low-power embedded processors and interfaces with the FLIR Boson thermal camera module. Its integration is meant to provide object detection, tracking, and autonomous navigation through visual and infrared data processing at the edge.

The selected software will be used on Dragoon’s Cinder platform as part of the Project Artemis evaluation.

Source: Military Embedded Systems
Associated URL: https://militaryembedded.com/ai/machine-learning/ai-enabled-autonomy-software-chosen-for-dragoon-drone-prototype