MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Huge data demands - including those from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications - are pushing radar and electronic warfare (EW) developers to seek new ways to deliver multifunction systems that also meet strict size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements.

PAUL BUNDICK, CURTISS-WRIGHT DEFENSE SOLUTION

Two major challenges confront developers of military radar-processing systems. The first challenge is that modern multiband radar sensors produce huge amounts of data that need to be brought into the system's digital-processing stage as accurately and rapidly as possible in order to generate actionable data for the warfighter. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Upgrades to the F-35 electronic warfare (EW) systems have been completed by BAE Systems, officials announce.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

IMSAR and Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. business unit, team up to to integrate and demonstrate the IMSAR’s NSP-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system on Textron Systems’ Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS).

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Army officials selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to develop the AN/APR-39E(V)2, the next generation of radar threat warning sensors.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

RGNext -- a joint venture between Raytheon's Intelligence, Information, and Services business and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) -- has signed a $502 million, 10-year contract to operate the U.S. Army's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The German procurement authority BAAINBw [Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support] has selected HENSOLDT to deliver a second batch of its TRS-4D Rotator naval radar and its MSSR 2000 ID friend-or-foe identification system (IFF) to equip the German navy’s K130 corvettes.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Navy officials announced that the AN/AQS-20C mine-hunting sonar system has completed development testing at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The sonar system market is projected to grow from $2.6 billion in 2018 to $3.7 billion by 2023, at a combined annual growth rate of 7 percent during that period, according to a recent study from MarketsandMarkets, "Sonar System Market by Product Type (Hull Mounted, Stern Mounted, Sonobuoy, DDS), Application (Commercial, Defense), Platform (Ship Type, Airborne), End User (Line Fit, Retrofit), Solution (Hardware, Software), Region - Global Forecast to 2023."

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Navy officials released an additional $5.5 million in funds to Mercury Systems for follow-on orders against its previously announced $152 million five-year sole-source basic ordering agreement (BOA) to deliver advanced Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) jammers.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Army completed the integration of three countermeasures and a cuing sensor into the Modular Active Protection Systems (MAPS) framework with the support from Lockheed Martin and its industry partners. The integration was completed during a six-week "rodeo" conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

SRCTec, LLC will deliver reliability, maintainability, and improvement (RMI) kits to update the AN/VLQ-12 countermeasures set under a $20 million U.S. Army contract.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Raytheon will deliver advanced surveillance towers to a Middle Eastern nation to help protect that nation's borders and military installations, according to the terms of a recent contract awarded to Raytheon by the U.S. Army.

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