Articles 2301 - 2320
Radar/EW
NASA sounding rocket mission tests new technologies, sensors - News
May 16, 2017
NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. A sounding rocket launch from NASA?s Wallops Flight Facility during the early morning hours of May 16 is intended to provide the flight testing needed for 24 experiments and new technologies.
Radar/EW
Experiment reveals advantage of quantum processing over classical processor - News
May 15, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional processor in a race to solve a puzzle, figuring out a secret combination up to 100 times faster by using exotic physics to sort through data that was deliberately packed with errors, according to the results of an experiment detailed in a recent academic paper by scientists from Raytheon and IBM.
Radar/EW
TACLAN field-computing device completes live-fire testing - News
May 15, 2017
RESTON, Va. iGov announced that it has completed Operational Utility Assessment (OUA) on its Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Family of System (FoS) Field Computing Device-Wearable (FCD-W). Testing was accomplished during Digitally-Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) testing at a Department of Defense (DoD) test range in Nevada.
Unmanned
General Atomics tests hypersonic railgun projectiles - News
May 12, 2017
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has successfully tested hypersonic projectiles with an enhanced guidance electronics unit (GEU) during multiple firings from its three megajoule (3 MJ) Blitzer railgun system.
Radar/EW
USS Abraham Lincoln undergoing sea trials following overhaul - News
May 12, 2017
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. After a four-year refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) got underway for sea trials on May 9.
Unmanned
Service-academy challenge pushes DARPA to test groups of unmanned vehicles - News
May 12, 2017
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. More than 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy recently participated in the "Service Academies Swarm Challenge," in which teams formed and tested the capabilities of swarms of highly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invited the young officers-in-training to develop and flight test novel ideas for how best to use UAV swarms in future wars.The three-day experiment concluded with an aerial battle in which the Naval Academy took home the win, a trophy, and bragging rights over its rival academies.
Unmanned
Joint Navy and Marine exercise demonstrates amphibious autonomous warfare - News
May 11, 2017
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. A recent exercise held at Camp Pendleton demonstrated emerging technology innovations in the area of autonomous amphibious warfare.
Unmanned
KBRwyle wins contract to support NASA exploratory missions - News
May 11, 2017
HOUSTON. Government-services business KBRwyle has won an engineering services contract from NASA to support upwards of 20 NASA exploration missions. The five-year contract has a maximum value of $442 million.
Unmanned
Organizations solicit proposals for UAS traffic-management systems - News
May 10, 2017
DALLAS. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have announced a Request for Information (RFI) on traffic-management systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Unmanned
NASA chooses ASU ShadowCam to map moon's shadowed regions - News
May 10, 2017
TEMPE, Ariz. NASA has selected an instrument developed by a faculty member at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) to map the terrain and search for ice deposits in the moon's permanantly shadowed regions (PSRs).
Unmanned
Lockheed Martin demos land/air/sea autonomous systems - News
May 10, 2017
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Lockheed Martin recently held a demonstration at its Missiles and Fire Control facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, to show the capabilities of its all-weather quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS), its new real-time 3-D reconstruction software, and the company's ongoing developments in military and commercial autonomous vehicles.
Unmanned
Miniature UAS announced, U.S. government customer delivery revealed - News
May 09, 2017
MONROVIA, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) design/build company AeroVironment has introduced its new Snipe Nano Quad -- a miniature (Class 0), field-rugged UAS designed to support close-range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions -- and announced that the initial delivery of 20 Snipe systems to a U.S. government customer took place in April.
Unmanned
Coast Guard national-security cutter completes deployment with UAS ISR - News
May 09, 2017
BINGEN, Wash. Unmanned systems and software company Insitu and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton have collaborated on a six-week deployment, the first time that a Coast Guard cutter used a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) for an entire patrol.
Comms
Boeing, Air Force demo airborne networking system - News
May 09, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently completed developmental flight testing on the Boeing-developed Talon HATE airborne networking system, which enables secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations.
Unmanned
Air Force X-37B space plane lands after record-breaking 718 days in orbit - News
May 08, 2017
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. The Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 (OTV-4) unmanned, reusable space plane landed at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7, 2017, after an unprecedented 718 days on-mission.
Radar/EW
NAVAIR taps LCR Embedded Systems to support JEAT EW program - News
May 08, 2017
NORRISTOWN, Pa. LCR Embedded Systems has been chosen by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to supply LCR's 3U VPX solution to support the NAVAIR Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program.
Avionics
First F-35B assembled outside the U.S. rolls off the line in Italy - News
May 08, 2017
CAMERI, Italy. Lockheed Martin has announced that the first short take-off/vertical landing version of the F-35 combat aircraft (the F-35B) ever assembled outside of the U.S. recently rolled out of its Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy.
Avionics
Market study: Avionics market to be worth $92.85 billion worldwide by 2022 - News
May 05, 2017
VANCOUVER, Wash. The global avionics market is projected to grow from $62.22 billion in 2016 to $92.85 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.90 percent over that time frame, according to a report from MarketsandMarkets.
Avionics
U.S. Air Force takes on-time delivery of first KC-10 CLS aircraft - News
May 05, 2017
NEW YORK. Communications and aerospace contractor L3 Technologies announced that it has delivered the first KC-10 aircraft under the U.S. Air Force (USAF) contractor logistics support (CLS) contract.
Unmanned
Market for target UAVs to reach $6.2 billion by 2022; defense sector will see highest growth - News
May 04, 2017
SEATTLE. The global market for target drones -- or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in the training of anti-aircraft crews -- is projected to grow from $3.79 billion in 2016 to $6.20 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.55 percent during the forecast period, according to research from MarketsandMarkets.
Articles 2301 - 2320
