REGISTER NOW: Essentials of 21st Century Electronic Warfare Course: July 19-22

This course provides an overview of Electronic Warfare from its roots in Electronic Combat to its contemporary EM Spectrum Warfare applications. Although this is not a technical course aimed at engineers, certain technological principles will be presented in order to baseline attendees and help demonstrate the unique knowledge, skills and abilities that warfare across the EM spectrum requires. This broad-based review of the essentials of Electronic Warfare can help to inform anyone in the military, government or industry who may be involved in strategies for capabilities development, test and evaluation, training or operational support.
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REGISTER NOW: Intelligent EW Operations Conference, August 10-11

This new conference, done in conjunction with NMIA, seeks to bring congruency to the EW enterprise by:

• Enabling the EW community to influence and plan for the future intelligence needs of the next 10 years through a better understanding of intelligence analysis priorities, resources and processes.
• Enabling system developers to influence these efforts to apply new technologies and prepare for the system need of the next 10 years through a better understanding of intelligence analysis priorities, resources and processes.
• Enabling the intelligence community to focus their efforts to better integrate with the EW community needs through a better understanding of system development and operational priorities and requirements.
• Teaching attendees how to understand the intelligence priorities, resources and activities of EW intelligence analysis.

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Report from the AOC India Chapter Annual General Body Meeting

AOC India Chapter has just completed an eventful year since its inception in February 2010. Its first annual general membership meeting was held in Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore on 7 May 2011. The meeting was presided over by the president of the chapter, Dr. U K Revankar, Director, DARE (DRDO), Bangalore, and was attended by more than a hundred members.
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Dixie Crows Award 2011 High School Senior Scholarships

The Dixie Crows are proud to honor the chapter's Houston County Graduating Seniors by having the local counselors of each high school select a graduating senior pursuing an education in engineering, science or math to receive our $500 cash scholarship.
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT: Join the EW Pavilion at DSEi in London

AOC has partnered with the bi-annual Defense Security & Equipment International (DSEi), the world's largest fully integrated defense and security exhibition, to host an EW pavilion at the 2011 event September 13-16 at ExCeL London, UK. Join AOC in the EW Pavilion, showcasing electronic warfare capabilities for attendees -- including the more than 70 country delegations expected during the event. Join the AOC in showcasing EW to the international defense technology community.
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GAO TO CONGRESS: Actions are Needed to Increase Integration and Efficiencies of DOD’s $80 Billion ISR Enterprise

Last week, the US Government Accountability Office released a report to Congress outlining the need for the Department of Defense to compile intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) funding data, establish implementation goals and timelines for its efficiency efforts and give priority to examining efficiency in ISR collection activities. The success of ISR systems in collecting, processing and disseminating intelligence information has fueled demand for ISR support, and the DOD has significantly increased its investments in ISR capabilities since combat operations began in 2001. In fiscal year 2010, intelligence community spending -- including for ISR -- exceeded $80 billion.
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INDUSTRY NEWS: Double Leadership Hit Leaves US Army Scrambling

The US Army's reclamation project to fix its broken acquisition system took a major hit when it lost both Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and Army Acquisition Chief Malcolm O'Neill in the same week, defense analysts said. (Defense News)
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INDUSTRY NEWS: How Serious are North Korea's Hacking Activities?

North Korea might be decades behind development, but when it comes to cyber warfare, the nation is growing an elite army of hackers, seeking out the best of the best computer prodigies, showering them and their families with lavish lifestyles and effectively training them. The Cyber War is on. (International Business Times)
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INDUSTRY NEWS: Pentagon Has Secret List of Cyberweapons

The Pentagon has a classified list of cyberattack capabilities that the US could use to defend or retaliate against a technological assault, if necessary. (Fox News)
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INDUSTRY NEWS: Gates says Obama Put a Premium on Unity Among National Security Aides

The first major reshaping of President Barack Obama’s national security team, including new chiefs at the Pentagon, CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff, took a full year of planning, with a focus on finding people who could work well together during wartime, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. (Washington Post)
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INDUSTRY NEWS: Navy Wants to Make Sea Air Safe for Laser Beams

The Navy has a dream: to strap their shipdecks with laser cannons. The biggest obstacle is an awfully ironic one: sea air wreaks havoc on laser beams. For lasers to work optimally, a beam of concentrated light needs to pass in a straight line at a target. But sea air is packed full of crud, from dense water particles to salt molecules and regular pollution. (Wired)
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INDUSTRY NEWS: The Challenge of Maintaining a Global Fleet

During a visit in San Diego in late March 2011 to the Naval Air Force, US Pacific Fleet, Second Line of Defense sat down Captain Mike Kelly to learn about the approach of the fleet to global maintenance of the USN-USMC aircraft. It would be safe to say that the interview was wide-ranging and highlighted not only the broad approach to global maintenance, but also the challenge of managing the transition from older to new aircraft. (Second Line of Defense)
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Company News

Aselsan Manufactures Turkey's First Domestic Sonar System
Turkish defense industry company, Aselsan, has manufactured Turkey's first domestic sonar system. Aselsan's underwater sonar system, "Kulac," has the "jammer" technology aiming at eliminating torpedo threat, moreover, it can be used to measure sea depth, defense experts told AA last week. (World Bulletin)
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British Radar Getting US Subsystems
Mercury Computer Systems of Massachusetts is supplying Application Ready Subsystems to BAE Systems for ARTISAN 3D Naval Radar. (UPI)
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Contract News

The Boeing Co. (Wichita, KS) is being awarded a $61,138,793 firm-fixed-price contract modification for the C-130 Avionic Modernization Program (AMP) low rate initial production, part two to Lot 2, including two C-130 AMP kits; engineering and program management support; initial spares and support equipment for Little Rock Air Force Base and St. Joseph's Air National Guard Base; a functional test bed modification; a C-130 AMP part task trainer; and a C-130 AMP Weapon System Trainer.  ASC/WLNMC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, is the contracting activity (FA8625-08-C-6481 PO0020).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Sector (San Diego, CA), is being awarded a $22,433,052 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification for: software maintenance, covering the tasks necessary for the contractor to maintain and support software for air vehicle, ground and support segments; and flight test, covering the tasks necessary for the Global Hawk (GH) system integrator (prime contractor) to participate in planning, provisioning, conducting, analyzing and documenting an integrated GH Combined Development/Operational Flight Test Program. These tasks provide the software maintenance and flight test to keep the development program operating. ASC/WIGK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, is the contracting activity (F33657-01-C-4600 PO0422).

Lockheed Martin Corp. (Orlando, FL) was awarded on May 31 a $38,300,000 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the acquisition of materials, fabrication, integration, system validation and verification, delivery, government acceptance testing and contractor logistics support of the Multiple Integrated Laser System instrumentation and exercise control/after action review capability for the Saudi Arabia National Guard. Work will be performed in Orlando, FL, and San Diego, CA, with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2013. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The US Army Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, Orlando, FL, is the contracting activity (W900KK-11-C-0004).

On May 31, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) multiple-award Omnibus contracts were extended as a modification to each of the three existing contracts: TASC-M (Andover, MA) (NBCHC020002, modification 421); TASC-N (Andover, MA) (NBCHC020001, modification 426); and Interop Joint Venture II (Chantilly, VA) (NBCHC020003, modification 429). The three JITC Omnibus multiple-award contracts are time-and-material contracts that provide a full-range of test, evaluation, and certification services to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities. The current contracts expire August 30, 2011.
The extensions will add an additional 12-month period to each JITC Omnibus contract from August 31, 2011 to August 30, 2012. The total combined ceiling values for the extension period will be increased by $35,000,000 dollars, changing the total contract ceilings from $1,120,000,000 dollars to $1,155,000,000 dollars. Performance will be at the Joint Interoperability Testing Command, located at Fort Huachuca, AZ, Fort Meade, MD, and Indian Head, MD. The original solicitation was issued as a full and open competitive action and eight proposals were received. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, Scott Air Force Base, IL, is the contracting activity.

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Upcoming Industry Conferences and Tradeshows

August 10-11: Intelligent EW Operations Conference
Manassas, VA
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August 28-September 1: InfowarCon Europe 2011
NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany
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September 13-15: Maneuvering in Cyberspace and IO: InfowarCon Cyber
Linthicum Heights, MD
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September 13-16: DSEi
London, UK
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November 13-16: 48th Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention
Washington, DC
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November 29-December 1: Converging Cyber, IO and EW Conference
Charleston, SC
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December 7-8: EW Payloads on RPA's Conference
Nellis and Creech AFBs, Las Vegas, NV
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Upcoming AOC Courses

July 19-22: Essentials of 21st Century EW Course
Alexandria, VA
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August 2-5: Introduction to Information Operations
Alexandria, VA
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August 4-5: Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) Principles Course
Palmdale, CA
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August 8-9: Intelligence Support for Spectrum Operations
Manassas, VA
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August 8-12: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs): Missions, Payloads, Links and Performance Course
Palmdale, CA
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August 15-19: Electro-Optics and Infrared (EO/IR) Fundamentals and EO/IR Countermeasures for EW Engineers and Managers Course
Palmdale, CA
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