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Unmanned

Airbus, Helsing to team up on AI for crewed and uncrewed military aircraft - News

June 06, 2024

BERLIN, Germany. Airbus Defence and Space and Helsing will collaborate to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aimed at enhancing the teaming of manned and unmanned military aircraft, the companies announced at the ILA aerospace trade show.

Unmanned

Air-breathing hypersonic aircraft achieves milestones for Air Force Research Laboratory - News

June 05, 2024

DAYTON, Ohio. Leidos completed the conceptual design review and the system requirements review for the Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic system, a project under the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

EW countermeasure pods garner BAE Systems $95 million U.S. Navy contract - News

June 05, 2024

NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems won a $95 million U.S. Navy contract to supply advanced electronic warfare (EW) countermeasure pods to protect the P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime aircraft from missiles and other threats; the EW pods are designed to detect and counter inbound threats to protect the Poseidon and its crew plus expand the aircraft’s operating range in contested environments.

Comms

Ethernet switch/router aims at connectivity within OpenVPX or SOSA aligned embedded system - News

June 05, 2024

CHATSWORTH, Calif. Aitech Systems announced the M622, a fully managed 10 GbE/40 GbE Ethernet switch/router on an XMC that is designed for use in embedded and harsh-environment applications with SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) constraints.

Unmanned

1st Gray Eagle 25M drone for Army National Guard to be built by GA-ASI - News

June 04, 2024

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will provide the first 12 Gray Eagle 25M (GE 25M) uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to the Army National Guard, the company announced in a statement.

A.I.

SOSA aligned SBC for C5ISR AI at the edge debuts from EIZO Rugged Solutions - News

June 04, 2024

ORLANDO, Fla. EIZO Rugged Solutions debuted a new high-performance embedded computing module called the Condor AGX-ORIN64-HPC, a Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) aligned 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module (SoM).

Radar/EW

Naval surveillance radars for Belgian, Dutch frigates to be supplied by Terma - News

June 04, 2024

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Terma won a contract to equip four anti-submarine warfare frigates, two for the Belgian Navy and two for the Netherlands Navy, with SCANTER 6002 naval surveillance radars -- an agreement that involves collaboration with Damen Naval and RH Marine to integrate these radar systems onto the vessels, the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

Mission-critical PCBs from Amphenol Printed Circuits to be shown at IMS 2024 - News

June 04, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Amphenol Printed Circuits, a Nashua, New Hampshire-based maker of mission-critical printed circuit boards, will be showing its products and tools at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

Cyber

Data security at the edge gets boost from new Kevlar Embedded Security features - News

June 03, 2024

WASHINGTON. Mission-critical data protection company Star Lab Corp. (a Wind River company) announced that its Kevlar Embedded Security product will now feature data protection capabilities at-rest and runtime for Linux-based embedded systems.

Comms

Altum RF will show semiconductor products for defense at IMS 2024 - News

June 03, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Altum RF, a company based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, says that it will show its RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave semiconductors at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

Comms

New satellite program from Space Development Agency enables newer vendors to compete - News

June 03, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va. The Space Development Agency (SDA -- a unit of the U.S. Space Force) debuted its its Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program, which aims to assemble a pool of pre-approved vendors that are eligible to compete for upcoming space and satellite demonstration projects.

Unmanned

UAS contract signed between AFWERX, RapidFlight - News

June 03, 2024

MANASSAS, Va. Uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designer/manufacturer RapidFlight signed a contract worth as much as $10 million with the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) AFWERX Autonomy Prime program to develop and produce a customizable, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft system known as the SPX.

Avionics

AR head-mounted display contract signed by U.S. Air Force innovation arm - News

June 03, 2024

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Augmented-reality (AR) technology company Vuzix won a U.S. Air Force Smart Business Innovative Research (SBIR) AFWERX Phase I contract focused on developing AR head-mounted display (HMD) gear to address pressing vision challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).

Unmanned

Durability testing of new drone engine completed by GA-ASI - News

May 31, 2024

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed durability testing of its 200-horsepower Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) 2.0 at its flight facility in El Mirage, California, the company announced in a statement. This engine is slated to power the new Gray Eagle 25M uncrewed aerial system (UAS) and aims to extend maintenance intervals.

Unmanned

Bell X-plane progresses under DARPA development program - News

May 31, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas. Bell Textron Inc. has moved into Phase 1B of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program, the company announced in a statement.