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Comms
USAF: SBIRS GEO Flight-4 missile-warning satellite sends first pictures back to Earth - News
May 02, 2018
BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) reports that its fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite has transmitted its first images back to Earth.
Unmanned
Augmented reality plus UAS tech for defense, public safety, automotive shown at Xponential 2018 - News
May 02, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Augmented-reality (AR) platform developer Edgybees -- based in Beit Herut, Israel -- is showcasing its new life-saving drone technology at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver this week.
Unmanned
Companies partner at Xponential to intro VTOL UAVs with new engines - News
May 02, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. A-techsyn -- a manufacturer of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), target-acquisition drones, and communications/autopilot systems -- is introducing the first VTOL equipped with an engine from 3W-International's partner company Sky Power at Xponential 2018. The A-techsyn VTOL will be shown as part of the 3W-International booth.
Unmanned
Optical gas-imaging camera core for UASs shown at Xponential show - News
May 02, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Sierra-Olympic Technologies (Hood River, Oregon), a maker of infrared (IR) and thermal imaging technologies and components, is premiering its new Ventus OGI, an optical gas imaging camera core, at the unmanned systems event.
Comms
Boosting GPS/GNSS for UAVs, robotics, autonomous vehicles - News
May 02, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Swift Navigation (San ??Francisco, California) -- a ??company that develops and builds ??GPS [global positioning system] and GNSS [global navigation satellite system] ??technology -- is highlighting several of its offerings in the world of unmanned and autonomous systems at the AUVSI Xponential event.
Unmanned
Extending the range of the UAS beyond visual line-of-sight - News
May 01, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology provider PrecisionHawk (Raleigh, North Carolina) debuted what it says is the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)-enabled, multirotor drone platform at the AUVSI Xponential event.
Unmanned
Small quadrotor UAS gets high-res IR sensor upgrade from maker Lockheed Martin - News
May 01, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Lockheed Martin announced at the AUVSI/Xponential show that it has upgraded its Indago 3 -- a small quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS) -- with high-resolution infrared sensors capable of day or night operations.
Cyber
U.S. Navy signs $90 million enterprise services support contract with Engility - News
May 01, 2018
CHANTILLY, Va. Systems engineering company Engility Holdings has won a five-year, $90 million task order to provide software engineering and production support to the U.S. Navy's tactical afloat and submarine local area networks.
Radar/EW
U.S. Air Force orders 770+ all-digital radar warning receivers from Raytheon - News
May 01, 2018
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Raytheon will supply the U.S. Air Force (USAF) with at least 779 units of its AN/ALR-69A(V) all-digital radar warning receiver, under the terms of a recently signed indefinite delivery/indefinite contract.
Unmanned
Global UAV market to reach $51.85 billion by 2025, analysts say - News
May 01, 2018
NEW YORK. The global market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to grow to $51.85 billion by 2025, up from $11.45 billion in 2016, according to a study by The Insight Partners titled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market to 2025 -- Global Analysis and Forecasts by Component by Type and Application."
Unmanned
Next stage of NASA's UAV safety research: Avionics-driven detect and avoid - News
April 30, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Avionics company Sagetech Corporation reports that it is set to provide its MXS transponder to NASA as the government agency conducts detect-and-avoid (DAA) research in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Unmanned
Integrating UASs into the national airspace: Fast data links and fail-safes are key - News
April 30, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Rockwell Collins, as part of two weeks of critical testing recently for the NASA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) program, served as the UAS Service Supplier (USS) for the safe management of a UAS flying beyond visual line-of-sight.
Unmanned
Smart-mapping payload enables UAS to deliver faster ID, intelligence data - News
April 30, 2018
XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Insitu -- a subsidiary of The Boeing Company and Overwatch Imaging -- has successfully integrated a customized TK-5 Firewatch smart tactical mapping payload on Insitu?s ScanEagle unmanned aerial system (UAS). The Firewatch-equipped ScanEagle will operate with real-time fire line maps and wide-area, high-resolution imagery intelligence for wildfire management, disaster recovery, and other UAS applications.
Cyber
Naval Research Lab team aims to design better armor through nanoscience - News
April 27, 2018
WASHINGTON. A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) reports that they have pushed grain-size engineering to the limit and as a result recently discovered previously unseen behaviors in nanocrystalline ceramics that could lead to the design of lighter and stronger ceramic armor for the warfighter. The discovery -- recently published in American Chemical Society Nano -- continues NRL research published in 2014.
From The Editor
Cyber
Award: $145 million task order will support Army IT counterinsurgency program - News
April 27, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. IT contractor CACI International has been awarded a $145 million task order to support the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Counter Insurgency Targeting Program (CITP).
Radar/EW
Portable, precise laser technology demonstrated by DARPA - News
April 26, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. A team of researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reports that it has made significant progress advancing chip-based integrated photonics and nonlinear optics to miniaturize optical synthesizer components.
Radar/EW
E-scan radar sale set to bolster India's border security effort - News
April 26, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Electronic-scanning radar and surveillance company Blighter Surveillance Systems has secured its first sale into India; the company will supply its Blighter B400 series E-scan micro Doppler ground surveillance radars.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy accepts delivery of future USS Michael Monsoor destroyer - News
April 25, 2018
BATH, Maine. The U.S. Navy accepted hull, mechanical, and electrical (HM&E) delivery of the future USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) on April 24.
Radar/EW
Analysts: Global rugged equipment market to reach nearly $44 billion by 2022 - News
April 25, 2018
LONDON. The global rugged equipment market -- defined as devices that are used in harsh conditions and extreme climates that are designed based on certain military standards that determine their resistance to dust, water, and vibration -- will total nearly $44 billion by 2022, according to a market study by Technavio, "Global Rugged Equipment Market 2018-2022."
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