BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin announced that it has conducted a flight test mission featuring distributed processing onboard the U-2 Dragon Lady via Kubernetes containerization technology.
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Two-channel handheld radio contract awarded to L3Harris Technologies - News
December 15, 2020MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies has received a $57 million competitive award for its Falcon IV AN/PRC-163 two-channel handheld radios, along with related equipment and services, as part of the U.S. Army’s two-channel Leader radio IDIQ contract. Delivery is expected to begin in early 2021.
Open-architecture comms testing by USAF, Marines brings "military Internet of Things" a step closer - News
December 15, 2020U.S. ARMY YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. U.S. military forces "took another step toward achieving a military Internet of Things" -- according to a news release from the U.S. Air Force -- when tests run with fifth-generation aircraft overcame longstanding connectivity issues to share actionable operational data in their native secure digital “languages” with and through multiple sources for the first time. This early-December 2020 test was the latest demonstration run with the open architecture underpinning the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).
AI partnership to enhance RF systems and data analysis - News
December 15, 2020REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that the company is on track to begin collaborating and investing in Deepwave Digital with the intent to support research, development, and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
DARPA's Gremlin UAS-recovery tests "within inches" of success, will continue in 2021 - News
December 15, 2020U.S. ARMY DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that in recent tests, a number of X-61A Gremlins unmanned aerial systems (UASs) failed to link up in flight with a recovery system installed on a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, but that they were actually close to success on multiple occasions.
Automated UAS is first to provide perimeter security at Travis Air Force Base - News
December 14, 2020TRAVIS AFB, Calif. The 60th Air Mobility Wing, 60th Security Forces Squadron, has teamed with Easy Aerial (Brooklyn, New York), a commercial provider of autonomous drone-based monitoring solutions, to develop and deploy the first first automated drone-based monitoring and perimeter security system to be used at a U.S. Air Force (USAF) installation.
3D and 4D military radar antennas driving market sales - News
December 14, 2020DUBLIN. The "Global 3D & 4D Military Radars Market: Focus on Components, Frequency Bands, Dimension, Application, Platforms, Range, and Region - Analysis and Forecast, 2020-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global 3D & 4D Military Radars Market Anticipated to Reach to $9.37 billion by 2025.
Romanian IAR-99 Hawk aircraft to see avionics upgrades - News
December 14, 2020HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has won a contract valued at approximately $27 million from the Romanian-based company, Avioane Craiova S.A., for the first phase of the upgrade program of the Romanian Air Force's (RoAF) IAR-99 Standard trainer aircraft.
Logistics-tracking contract for U.S. Army assets won by ORBCOMM - News
December 11, 2020ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. Internet of Things (IoT) provider ORBCOMM has won a single-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract totaling as much as $45.6 million with the U.S. Army for its Next Generation Tag (NGT) program, which will implement a common, integrated structure for logistics tracking, location, and monitoring of government assets.
Communications and cyber challenges persist in military and defense realms, study finds - News
December 11, 2020WASHINGTON, D.C. and CARLSBAD, Calif. Even as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) makes changes to improve its communications technologies, a new study -- conducted by the Government Business Council, the research division of Government Executive Media Group and communications company Viasat -- reveals that a number of challenges remain in the military's quest to deploy a successful military communications technology strategy for the multidomain battlefield.
UAS maker Aerovironment acquires ground-robot company Telerob - News
December 11, 2020SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) maker AeroVironment has agreed to acquire Telerob (Ostfildern, Germany), a maker of ground robotic solutions or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), for approximately $45.4 million (37.5 million euros) in cash and a payoff of about $9.4 million (7.8 million euros) of Telerob’s debt at closing.
Modernization of Legacy E-6B Block I aircraft completed with Collins Aerospace - News
December 10, 2020CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., has completed modernizing the E-6B Block I aircraft fleet, part of the Navy’s Airborne Command Post and Take Charge and Move Out (ABNCP/TACAMO) Weapon System missions.
Directed energy tests to be powered by Rolls-Royce thermal management system - News
December 10, 2020INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Rolls-Royce has delivered an upgraded thermal management and power system from its ColdFire Solutions technology line to power directed energy field testing in 2021.
MQ-9B SkyGuardian wing structure completes Full-Scale Static testing - News
December 10, 2020POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently completed Full Scale Static (FSS) testing on the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) wing after three months of extensive testing. MQ-9B includes SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian RPA produced by GA-ASI.
Military simulators' focus on training and safety to propel market by 55% by 2030, study says - News
December 10, 2020LONDON. The global military-simulator systems market is anticipated to grow by 55% in 2030, as compared to the current year’s market value, according to a new study from GlobalData, "The Global Military Simulator Systems Market 2020-2030."
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