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Radar/EW
Unmanned
Sensor upgrades on U-2 reconnaissance planes complete - News
February 18, 2020
PALMDALE, Calif. Collins Aerospace Systems, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, and the U.S. Air Force report completion of flight testing and deployment of the latest variant of the Collins Aerospace Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS) sensor, SYERS-2C, on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
Comms
NASA highlighting work done by industry team for Artemis I moon and space mission - News
February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON. NASA and industry partners are readying to get into the final stretch before the Artemis I launch, a mission planned that NASA says is the path to landing the first U.S. woman and next U.S. man on the moon.
Unmanned
Dual-band digital readout IC aims at use in ISR, UASs, space sensors - News
February 12, 2020
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Digital infrared (IR) image sensing technology developer Senseeker Engineering has announced the Oxygen RD0092, an 8 µm pitch dual-band digital readout IC (DROIC). The system is aimed at use in such imaging applications as surveillance, situational awareness, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and space sensors.
Unmanned
DARPA chooses propulsion tech for Glide Breaker hypersonic interceptor - News
February 11, 2020
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Aerojet Rocketdyne has won a contract worth up to $19.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop enabling technologies for its advanced hypersonic defense interceptor, known as Glide Breaker.
Comms
Military Ku-band systems contract for mil sat use signed with Comtech Xicom - News
February 10, 2020
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Comtech Xicom Technology -- a part of Comtech's Commercial Solutions segment -- has won a contract valued at $1.3 million for rack-mounted Ku-band high-power traveling wave tube amplifier (“TWTA”) systems for a military satellite communications ground system.
Cyber
Military-training segment of simulator market to grow at fast clip to 2025, study says - News
February 10, 2020
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The simulators market -- estimated at $21.5 billion in 2019 -- is projected to reach $27.9 billion by 2025, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4% from 2019 to 2025, with the military simulator market growing at the at the highest CAGR during the forecast period, according to a new study from MarketsandMarkets, "Simulators Market by Type (ATC, FMS, Driving, Vessel Traffic Control), Solution, Platform (Airborne, Land, Maritime), Technique (Live, Virtual & Constructive, Synthetic Environment, Gaming), Application, Region -- Global Forecast to 2025."
A.I.
AI-based solution for ISR, EW shown by Curtiss-Wright at TSOA-ID - News
January 31, 2020
DAVIDSON, N.C. Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division demonstrated an open standards architecture (OSA)-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and electronic warfare (EW) system at the recent Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID), which was held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Radar/EW
Radar-, comms-jamming pod test contract awarded to Raytheon by U.S. Navy - News
January 30, 2020
EL SEGUNDO, California. Raytheon has won a $403 million System Demonstration Test Articles contract with the U.S. Navy for Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB), which will be delivered to the fleet once developmental and operational testing is complete.
Radar/EW
New generation of mixed-signal electronics for EW, ISR the goal of DARPA, BAE Systems project - News
January 30, 2020
NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems has won a contract worth $8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation of mixed-signal electronics that could enable new Department of Defense (DoD) applications and enable solutions that enhance situational awareness and survivability for the warfighter.
Radar/EW
Product life cycle extension is aim of partnership - News
January 28, 2020
EMBEDDED TECH TRENDS 2020 — ATLANTA. GDCA Inc (Livermore, California) — a company that speciaizes in legacy equipment manufacturing of obsolete embedded computer equipment — has announced a partnership deal with Radisys to indefinitely extend the life of legacy products.
Radar/EW
RFSoC board announced by Pentek to align with SOSA reference architecture - News
January 28, 2020
EMBEDDED TECH TRENDS 2020, ATLANTA. Pentek announced its Quartz Model 5550, an eight-channel A/D and D/A converter, 3U OpenVPX board based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC that is aligned to the SOSA Technical Standard.
Radar/EW
SOSA-aligned switch and FPGA processing boards to show at TSOA-ID - News
January 27, 2020
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Annapolis Micro Systems is set to show its 100GbE 6E10 6U OpenVPX switch and 6XB2 6U OpenVPX FPGA processing board in a live conformance and interoperability demo at the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) on January 29, 2020 at Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Unmanned
Mil-spec flash storage for airborne systems contract agreed for $36 million - News
January 27, 2020
ESCONDIDO, Calif. One Stop Systems (OSS) has signed a sole-source contract with the U.S. Navy to design a new military-spec flash storage array for airborne sensor data collection.
Radar/EW
Hypersonic-missile research and demo pact signed by Northrop Grumman, DARPA - News
January 27, 2020
ARLINGTON, Va. the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has signed a contract worth $13 million with Northrop Grumman Systems for the research, development, and demonstration of a technology critical for enabling an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic threats in the upper atmosphere.
Unmanned
Unmanned ship idea from DARPA draws ideas from industry - News
January 22, 2020
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held a Proposers' Day for its newest idea regarding unmanned warships: the "NOMARS" [No Manning Required Ship] program.
A.I.
Robotic combat vehicle winners chosen by U.S. Army - News
January 09, 2020
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army has chosen two companies to winners to build base platforms for its light- and medium-class robotic combat vehicles (RCVs): According to a statement, the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command and the service’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team intends -- pending successful negotiations -- to award a contract to QinetiQ North America to build four RCV-light prototypes and another contract to Textron to build four RCV-medium prototypes.
Radar/EW
Mine-hunting sonar initial tests aboard unmanned vessel completed by Northrop Grumman - News
January 09, 2020
PANAMA CITY, Fla. Northrop Grumman has finished initial seaborne testing of its AQS-24B mine-hunting sonar system with a new deploy/retrieval payload.
A.I.
AI, big data transforming earth-observation market, study finds - News
January 09, 2020
LONDON. Mounting demand for enhanced intelligence, the market entry of cheaper imagery products from small-satellite operators, and the development of integration platforms leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and big-data capabilities are some of the key trends transforming the earth observation industry, according to a recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan, "Global Earth Observation Market, Forecast to 2029."
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