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Avionics
ISR mission systems to equip King Air B300ER Scorpion aircraft - News
December 28, 2020KAZAKHSTAN. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Kazakhstan of King Air B300ER Scorpion Aircraft with Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Mission Systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $128.1 million.
Avionics
RTOS for NASA Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft will be sourced from DDC-I - News
June 19, 2020PHOENIX, Ariz. Mission-critical software provider DDC-I has been chosen to provide its Deos safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) for use in a communications subsystem destined for the Dream Chaser Cargo System, which Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is building for NASA.
Radar/EW
OpFires program to develop a ground-launched tactical weapons delivery system - News
November 13, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Aerojet Rocketdyne, Exquadrum, and Sierra Nevada Corp. have been selected to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched system enabling hypersonic boost glide weapons to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly and precisely engage critical time sensitive targets.
Comms
U.S. Army tasks SNC to develop MEDHUB system - News
October 17, 2018
SPARKS, Nev. U.S. Army officials selected Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to develop develop the capability to capture and store critical patient status and treatment information for up to six patients on a single device, and communicate the information securely from the point-of-injury and throughout transport to the receiving medical treatment facility.
Unmanned
"Game of Drones" demo to investigate, showcase new UAS capabilities - News
May 23, 2018
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada. Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and its partners, Ascent Vision and RADA Technologies, will participate in the SOFWERX ThunderDrone Rapid Prototyping Event (RPE) III demonstration, to be held at Nellis Air Force Base in June 2018. SOFWERX is a Partnership Intermediary Agreement between Doolittle Institute and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), created to investigate new technology for U.S. warfighters.
Avionics
Dream Chaser undergoes captive carry test - News
September 01, 2017
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Dream Chaser -- a reusable automated cargo lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems -- underwent a captive carry test at NASA?s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB on August 30. The test was part of the spacecraft?s Phase Two flight test efforts to advance the orbiter closer to space flight, according to a press release from SNC.
Unmanned
Kutta joins Dynetics team working on DARPA unmanned system project - News
June 15, 2017
PHOENIX. Kutta Technologies -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corporation specializing in advanced unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology -- has received a Phase 2 subcontract from Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) to assist Dynetics with the development of UASs under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gremlins program.
