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Radar/EW
Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod selected for F-16 fleet in Romanian and Thai Air Force - News
May 11, 2015
ORLANDO, Fla. The F-16 fleet of the Romanian Air Force (RoAF) and Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) receive an advanced sensor capability. They become the 18th and 19th international customers as they select Lockheed Martin’s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) for their F-16 aircraft.
Avionics
P-8A training system gets first international customer with Australia - News
May 08, 2015
The Royal Australian air force (RAAF) purchased a complete training system for the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a contract with Boeing that also covers the sale of four P-8A training systems to the U.S. Navy.
Unmanned
Unmanned
Flight test completed with sense and avoid technology for UAS - News
May 07, 2015
ATLANTA. The completion of flight tests of the Multiple Intruder Autonomous Avoidance (MIAA) program was announced during AUVSI Unmanned Systems show in Atlanta. The tests conducted by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) demonstrated the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Multiple Sensor Integrated Conflict Avoidance (MuSICA), a collision avoidance software.
Radar/EW
B-1 Bomber Scalable Agile Beam Radar - Global Strike unveiled by Northrop Grumman - News
May 07, 2015
LINTHICUM, Md.Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers unveiled the Scalable Agile Beam Radar – Global Strike (SABR-GS), which will be used for the U.S. Air Force's B-1B Lancer. The SABR-GS, multi-function, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, was developed as an affordable, low risk radar retrofit solution.
Unmanned
UAV COTS-based subsystem solutions announced at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Show - News
May 05, 2015
ATLANTA. Announced at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2015 show this week were several rugged size, weight and power (SWaP) commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) processing and networking solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by the Defense Solution division at Curtiss-Wright Defense.
Unmanned
Unmanned aerial system helps in cyclone Pam disaster relief mission - News
May 04, 2015
OREM, Utah. After the devastation of cyclone Pam, the Vanuatu government and the World Bank contacted Australian operator Heliwest to deploy Lockheed Martin’s Indago, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS). Unmanned systems can provide damage assessment information on disaster relief missions and the Indago collected images over a two-week period that provided the necessary data to operators.
Comms
NASA's SGSS command and control infrastructure integration completed - News
May 04, 2015
FAIRFAX, Va. – Implementation, integration, and test of the the Bearer Network and Basic Ground Terminal hardware and software for the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program Increment A3 was completed by a team led by General Dynamics.
Unmanned
Live-fire test on guided bullet in EXACTO program completed - News
May 01, 2015
Arlington, VA. DARPA Engineers of the Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program completed a round of live-fire tests on their self-guided bullets that were developed to increase accuracy on dynamic and difficult long-distance targets.
Avionics
Surface mount VN-300 GPS/INS device joins industrial line of inertial sensors - News
April 30, 2015
DALLAS. Officials at VectorNav Technologies released a surface mount version of their VN-300 Dual Antenna GPS-aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS). The VN-300 surface mount device (SMD) joins the industrial line of inertial sensors: the VN-100 IMU/AHRS and VN-200 GPS/INS surface mount and rugged modules. The modules will be on display at AUVSI in Atlanta, GA from May 5-7, 2015.
Unmanned
UAV ISR payloads and commercial signal processing webcast at 11am, April 30 - News
April 30, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. Many Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) ISR payloads carry sensors for radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, etc., in one platform. Thursday, April 30, experts from the military electronics market discuss how military ISR payloads and sensors are enabled by embedded signal processing technology in a webcast titled "Leveraging Commercial Signal Processing for Unmanned ISR Sensor Payloads."
Unmanned
Hypersonic missile work by Raytheon continues under DARPA contract modification - News
April 29, 2015
TUCSON, Ariz. Under a contract modification from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Raytheon officials will continue its efforts develop and demonstrate technology for enabling air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems under the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program.
Unmanned
Agreement enables camera stabilization on Raytheon's targeting systems with Northrop Grumman's LN-200 IMU - News
April 28, 2015
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. In an agreement between Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon, Northrop Grumman will supply its LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to Raytheon for its optical targeting systems.
Comms
U.S. Army body armor system reaches final stages of evaluations - News
April 27, 2015
VANCOUVER, B.C. Company officials at Mission Ready Services Inc. announced that its Next Generation Body Armor System has reached the final stages of prototyping and user evaluations.
Radar/EW
Firestorm targeting system digitally guides F-35 aircraft - News
April 24, 2015
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A United Kingdom Forward Air Controller (FAC) utilized the FireStorm Integrated Targeting System from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, digitally guided a F-35 Lightning II aircraft using a complete air strike mission thread as part of a ground test and live flight.
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