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Comms

Training pod for TCTS Inc. II completes pre-production - News

February 25, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Collins Aerospace

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed the first pre-production Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) training pod for the U.S. Navy. This comes just months after the completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) with the Navy that moved the program into the fabrication, integration, and testing phase.

Unmanned

Autonomous, rugged UGV introduced by Milrem Robotics - News

February 24, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Milrem Robotics

ABU DHABI. Milrem Robotics, manufacturer of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) introduced its mission-proven, fifth-generation THeMIS UGV designed to assist soldiers on the battlefield while enhancing their combat effectiveness at UMEX 2020. The THeMIS UGV has been designed with the intent to withstand harsh environments and hot climates.

Comms

Mobile satcom ISR advanced with AMOS-17 and Get SAT systems - News

February 24, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Get SAT

ISRAEL. Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and Get SAT, company specializing in small, lightweight satellite communication terminals for airborne, ground, and maritime applications, revealed that using AMOS-17's steerable KA-band HTS beams and Get SAT's miniaturized Micro-SAT satcom terminals, they have tested and demonstrated full mobile broadband satcom capabilities for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications.

Comms

Air-to-space laser comms system tested by GA-ASI - News

February 21, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has ground tested its Airborne Laser Communication System (ALCoS) by establishing a link with a satellite in Geo-synchronous Earth Orbit (GEO). GA-ASI conducted the test with Tesat-Spacecom (TESAT), space-based laser communication (lasercom) company, using their GEO Laser Communication Terminal (LCT), the LCT 135.

Comms

ESSOR project chooses Rohde & Schwarz as German rep - News

February 21, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rohde & Schwarz

GERMANY. Rohde & Schwarz has been named as the German industrial representative for the European Secure Software Defined Radio (ESSOR) project and is participating in the development of a European wideband waveform for tactical interoperability in multinational operations.

Radar/EW

LTAMDS radar antenna to defeat hypersonic threats - News

February 21, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon Company finished building the first radar antenna array for the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS). According to Raytheon, the work was completed less than 120 days after the U.S. Army selected the company to build LTAMDS, a next-generation radar intended to defeat advanced threats like hypersonic weapons.

Avionics

C2 software platform to be sustained for Air Mobility Command - News

February 20, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

CHICAGO, Ill. Boeing, through its subsidiary Tapestry Solutions, announced it has secured a five-year U.S. Air Force recompete contract to sustain and modernize the Global Decision Support System (GDSS) – the principal command and control (C2) software platform that supports global Air Mobility Command (AMC) missions.

A.I.

Machine learning threat intelligence to secure USCYBERCOM - News

February 20, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Recorded Future

BOSTON, Mass. Recorded Future, security intelligence company, announced it won a Production-Other Transaction Agreement (P-OTA) contract facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for threat intelligence, tasking to company to provide real-time threat analysis to approved federal agencies on an expedited basis.

Avionics

Cyberdefense partnership to protect aeronautics software - News

February 20, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin Guardtime Federal

FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin and Guardtime Federal are working together to mitigate cyber threats across Lockheed Martin Aeronautics' software supply chain by integrating immutable digital integrity into architecture supporting research, design, development, manufacturing, integration, and sustainment of its products and services.

Unmanned

Laser technology used by RAFAEL's Drone Dome - News

February 19, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems RAFAEL

ISRAEL. RAFAEL’s Drone Dome counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) system performed interceptions of multiple drones, including maneuvering targets, using its hard-kill laser beam director. The stages of the interceptions included target detection, identification, and interception with a high-power laser beam.

Unmanned

Unmanned surface vehicle IDIQ spot won by Peraton - News

February 19, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Peraton

HERNDON, Va. Peraton, unmanned maritime systems contractor, won a spot on an up to 10-year, $982.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract (IDIQ-MAC) to support the U.S. Navy's Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems.

Radar/EW

Fire control radar to be sustained by LONGBOW and NGC - News

February 18, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems LONGBOW LLC

ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army awarded LONGBOW Limited Liability Company (LBL), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) a five-year sustainment indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for up to $235.8 million to provide post-production support services for the AH-64 Apache helicopter AN/APG-78 LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) to international customers.

Unmanned

Unmanned, solar-powered plane tested by BAE Systems - News

February 18, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems BAE Systems

ARLINGTON, Va. A solar-powered unmanned aircraft with a wingspan of 114 feet completed its maiden high-altitude flight in the stratosphere, BAE Systems announced. The plane, called Persistent High altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35), is meant to fly about 32 miles above the earth in the space, in the upper atmosphere between conventional aircraft and satellites.

Unmanned

Sensor upgrades on U-2 reconnaissance planes complete - News

February 18, 2020

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Collins Aerospace Lockheed Martin

PALMDALE, Calif. Collins Aerospace Systems, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, and the U.S. Air Force report completion of flight testing and deployment of the latest variant of the Collins Aerospace Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS) sensor, SYERS-2C, on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

Avionics

Airborne EW systems to be supplied to German AF - News

February 14, 2020

Emma Helfrich - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems

GERMANY. Elbit Systems announced that it was selected by the Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, and In-Service Support to support the preliminary design of Airborne Electronic Warfare (EW) self-protection systems for the CH-53 GS/GE transport helicopters, as part of the platform upgrade program led by Airbus Helicopters.