Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won an 18-month contract to demonstrate an open architecture navigation system on an Android mobile device for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Under the follow-on contract, the company will aim to present the system’s scalability across different types of systems and its plug-and-play features, Northrop... 

Tom Wilson ATK has won a contract to help the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency study new technologies aimed at delivering warfighters surveillance data using small satellites. The company will partner with Logos Technologies and the University of Southern California’s information sciences institute on the SeeMe program study contract,... 

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and DRS Technologies have won contracts to engineer laser systems aimed at detecting light and illuminating targets for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA intends for the Laser Radar Technology program to create new imaging systems that find targets and help unmanned ground vehicles and aircraft avoid targets,... 

BAE Systems and STR have each won contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an electronic warfare system for an agency program aimed at countering adversaries’ radars. DARPA’s Adaptive Radar Countermeasures program now includes six contractors such as Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI), who joined... 

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a $54,354,363 U.S. Navy contract modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the CO, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized byBudget Year the "changes"... 

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) has won a potential $10,064,377 contract to research and develop technology for anti-submarine warfare surveillance over deep ocean areas. The U.S. Navy received 18 proposals for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract via a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announcement and four were recommended for... 

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) and Vadum Inc. have each won contracts to develop electronic warfare systems aimed at helping defend against threats from adversaries’ radars. SAIC won a $31.5 million contract and Vadum won a $4.1 million contract to join a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to help develop... 

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a $71 million modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the CO, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized byBudget Year the "changes" clause. Not issued... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will evaluate small satellite launch systems technologies for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the company announced Thursday. Work under the 18-month, $4.5 million Airborne Launch Assist Space Access contract will include developing methods to routinely deploy small satellites under tight budgets. The company’s goals... 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants an electronic targeting system to provide clear video imaging in heavy cloud and dust environments, NextGov reports. The agency is accepting proposals for the system and DARPA Program Manager Bruce Wallace will update industry on what the agency wants at an April 30 meeting. The agency is working to...