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Unmanned
Autonomous UUV introduced by General Dynamics - News
September 23, 2019
LONDON. General Dynamics Mission Systems released the Bluefin-12 autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2019.
Unmanned
Hangar Technology for unmanned systems acquired by AirMap - News
September 23, 2019
LOS ANGELES, Calif. AirMap, company specializing in airspace intelligence platforms for the drone economy, announced that it has acquired Hangar Technology, a drone workflow automation platform for enterprises.
Unmanned
MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueler completes first test flight with Boeing - News
September 20, 2019
MASCOUTAH, Ill. Boeing and the U.S. Navy completed the first test flight of the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueler. The MQ-25 test asset completed the autonomous two-hour flight under the direction of Boeing test pilots operating from a ground control station at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport.
Unmanned
LITENING targeting pods to be updated for U.S. Air Force - News
September 20, 2019
FALLS CHURCH, Va. The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $141 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) task order for new LITENING advanced targeting pods and upgrades that will bring existing pods up to the current configuration.
Avionics
Collins Aerospace enters Enterprise Partnering Agreement with USAF - News
September 20, 2019
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace Systems announced it has signed an Enterprise Partnering Agreement with the United States Air Force (USAF), which will serve as an umbrella agreement for all sustainment services with the company?s six Strategic Business Units (SBU).
Unmanned
British semi-autonomous logistic convoys tested in U.S. - News
September 20, 2019
GRAYLING, Mich. The U.K.?s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), and the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command?s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, have hosted an experiment of prototype semi-autonomous logistic convoys with ground and aerial autonomous resupply systems at Camp Grayling Joint Manoeuvre Training Center.
Unmanned
AI-powered Agile Condor capability to be demonstrated with MQ-9 - News
September 19, 2019
SAN DIEGO, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to demonstrate the Air Force Research Lab?s Agile Condor capability using a MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) owned by GA-ASI.
Radar/EW
CloudberryMIL ethernet switch to become solution for mobile GBAD - News
September 19, 2019
NORWAY. OnTime Networks, rugged, time synchronized Ethernet solutions company for the aerospace and defense industries, announced the selection by Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG to provide its military-grade, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), CloudberryMIL CR-6900 Series Gigabit Ethernet Switch and Router solution for a mobile and all-terrain ground based air defense system (GBAD).
Comms
Intelligent RF communications solution introduced by Perspecta - News
September 19, 2019
CHANTILLY, Va. Perspecta Inc., announced that its innovative applied research arm, Perspecta Labs, was awarded a prime award from the Consortium Management Group, Inc. (CMG), on behalf of the Consortium for Command, Control, and Communications in Cyberspace (C5) for work on a modular radio frequency (RF) communications solution for the United States Army.
Radar/EW
Active Protection System for Dutch CV90s introduced by BAE Systems - News
September 18, 2019
EUROPE. The Dutch Army has selected BAE Systems to integrate the Elbit Systems? Iron Fist Active Protection System (APS) solution into its fleet of CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles following testing to integrate it onto the platform.
Comms
Multidomain simulation facility opened by Lockheed Martin - News
September 18, 2019
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Pulsar Guardian is a new state-of-the-art facility built by Lockheed Martin that enables the U.S. Air Force and others simulate, test, and train in a multidomain environment that reflects today?s complex space environment.
Unmanned
Rugged XMC from Abaco ideal for ISR and autonomy - News
September 18, 2019
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Abaco Systems announced a new rugged XMC graphics and video capture board. The NVP2102 takes advantage of the high performance of the NVIDIA Pascal P2000 GPU with its 768 cores and 4 GBytes of GDDR5 memory to deliver 2.3 TeraFLOPS of performance with support for both CUDA and OpenCL. According to the company, it is the first Abaco video/graphics XMC product to offer high performance input and output.
Unmanned
Rheinmetall's spectral coupling-based laser source reaches 20 kW - News
September 17, 2019
GERMANY. The laser team at Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH has now attained an optical power of 20 kilowatts (kW) with a laser technology based on spectral coupling. The laser source was constructed and commissioned in cooperation with NKT Photonics Technology GmbH.
A.I.
TF2, FPGA-based AI computing framework, introduced by Inspur - News
September 17, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif. Inspur has announced the open-source release of TF2, an FPGA-based efficient AI computing framework. The inference engine of this framework employs the world's first deep neural network (DNN) shift computing technology, combined with a number of the latest optimization techniques, to achieve FPGA-based high-performance low-latency deployment of universal deep learning models.
Comms
Cloud processing capabilities by Microsoft and Ball Aerospace to support CASINO project - News
September 17, 2019
BOULDER, Colo. Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) project.
Avionics
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