Articles 2001 - 2020
Radar/EW
Army, Navy air crews to receive critical situational-awareness technology - News
December 15, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $124.7 million award from the U.S. government for production of AN/APR-39D(V)2 digital radar warning receiver and electronic warfare (EW) management systems for use by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
Unmanned
NASA tests 3-D printed component on RS-25 engine for SLS - News
December 15, 2017
NASA/JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne (a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.) completed hot-fire testing of an RS-25 rocket engine containing its largest additively manufactured component to date. Additive manufacturing is commonly referred to as 3-D printing.
Avionics
U.S. and EU expand cooperation in air-traffic safety, air-traffic control management - News
December 14, 2017
BRUSSELS. Officials from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ambassadors to the European Union (EU) plus EU transport ministers recently signed amendments to two U.S.-EU agreements that will expand joint efforts on aviation safety and air-traffic management harmonization.
Comms
U.S. Air Force GPS III satellite completes factory mission readiness test - News
December 14, 2017
DENVER. The U.S. Air Force has finalized a factory mission readiness test (FMRT) on the first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite along with the launch-and-checkout system (LCS) of an accompanying ground control platform built by Raytheon.
Radar/EW
U.S. Army demos multidomain, joint-force weapons during live-air exercise - News
December 13, 2017
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. The U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman recently conducted the second phase of what the Army calls its Soldier Checkout Event (SCOE), during which it tested its Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS), during a live-air exercise.
Unmanned
Navy conducts LRASM test from a B-1B Lancer aircraft - News
December 13, 2017
POINT MUGU SEA TEST RANGE, Calif. The U.S. Navy recently completed another in a series of milestone test flights as it endeavors to fully test and certify its new Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), with a test flight from an Air Force B-1B Lancer on December 8 off the coast of southern California.
Unmanned
Equipment test shows off counter-UAV measures for airfields, battlefields - News
December 12, 2017
HAMBURG, Germany. Sensor company Hensoldt recently held a demonstration of its Xpeller counter-UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] system as part of a larger exhibition on the Airbus airfield in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.
Radar/EW
U.S. Army Pacific Command issues $9 million task order for Kwajalein site - News
December 12, 2017
MCLEAN, Va. DynCorp International (DI) recently received a Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP IV) change order to the U.S. Army Pacific Command (PACOM) task order 06: Base Operation Services supporting the U.S. Army Garrison at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The change order began December 1, 2017 and runs through February 28, 2018, with a total work authorization of $9 million.
Comms
USAF senior leaders order direct review of Air Force programs to ensure optimal resource use - News
December 08, 2017
WASHINGTON. Senior leaders of the U.S. Air Force have called for a Zero-Based Review of all Air Force programs, budget accounts, and associated manpower authorizations as the military branch embarks on its Fiscal Year 2020 Program Objective Memorandum and Future Years Defense Plan.
Avionics
Israeli air force signs $74 million contract for upgraded transport-aircraft flight simulators - News
December 08, 2017
HAIFA, Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has tapped Elbit Systems to provide and operate flight simulators for the upgraded C-130H and C-130J transport aircraft operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
Comms
U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigades to get new radio equipment - News
December 07, 2017
ROCHESTER, N.Y. The U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs) has chosen equipment from Harris Corporation to supply the SFABs with combat-proven communication systems.
Comms
DARPA promulgates vision of sensor-based "Ocean of Things" - News
December 07, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its "Ocean of Things" program, which the agency says seeks to enable persistent maritime situational awareness over large ocean areas by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats that would form a distributed sensor network.
Avionics
Analysts: Aerospace sector in Malaysia to create more than 19,000 new jobs by 2037 - News
December 07, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia. The Malaysian aerospace sector is expected to grow at a combined annual growth rate of 8.45 percent over the next 20 years, with much of that growth due to rapid expansion in fleet size and the rising trend of the migration of commercial maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) activities in the Asia-Pacific region, according to recent research from analysts Frost & Sullivan.
Avionics
United Launch Alliance chooses design for next-generation avionics - News
December 06, 2017
NEW YORK. Avionics and aerospace contractor L3 Technologies has signed an agreement with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to become the exclusive provider of avionics and related services for ULA's new Vulcan Centaur rocket system. The contract calls for L3 to deliver an estimated $1 billion-plus in mission-critical systems and services over a 10-year period.
Comms
Updated M-code GPS tested on B-2 bomber - News
December 06, 2017
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The U.S. Air Force recently held a series of successful flight tests of its next-generation military-code (M-code) GPS using a Raytheon receiver aboard a B-2 Spirit (also known as a stealth bomber) at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Unmanned
MQ-9 UAS successfully used in antisubmarine demonstration - News
December 05, 2017
SAN DIEGO. During a recent U.S. naval exercise, an MQ-9 Predator B remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) successfully detected and tracked remotely submerged contacts; the MQ-9's contractor, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), participated in the demo of the RPA's new maritime patrol capabilities.
Radar/EW
Moving toward superconducting supercomputing for intel community - News
December 05, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A team led by Raytheon BBN Technologies -- under the auspices of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Cryogenic Computing Complexity program -- is working to develop prototype cryogenic memory arrays and a scalable control architecture that is aimed at use in a new generation of energy-efficient superconducting supercomputers.
Avionics
NAVAIR looks to VR for enhanced flight-simulation training - News
December 04, 2017
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUNXET, Md. The U. S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is opting to use virtual reality (VR) technology to build flight simulation trainers that are deployable, improve fidelity, make better use of actual training flights, and more cost-effective.
Radar/EW
Companies partner to provide AESA radar to Spain, international navies - News
December 04, 2017
BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin and technology company Indra (Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain) recently signed an agreement that extends the companies' exclusive relationship to develop of a state-of-the-art S-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Spanish Navy?s F-110 program; the pact also establishes a framework to move ahead with commercialization of this solid-state radar for other anti-air-warfare opportunities worldwide.
Unmanned
Air Force Research Lab opens AgilePod data to commercial community - News
December 01, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has opened up the technical data package for its AgilePod to the wider intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) community in an attempt to further the development of compatible sensor products.
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