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TACLAN field-computing device completes live-fire testing - News
May 15, 2017
RESTON, Va. iGov announced that it has completed Operational Utility Assessment (OUA) on its Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Family of System (FoS) Field Computing Device-Wearable (FCD-W). Testing was accomplished during Digitally-Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) testing at a Department of Defense (DoD) test range in Nevada.
Unmanned
General Atomics tests hypersonic railgun projectiles - News
May 12, 2017
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has successfully tested hypersonic projectiles with an enhanced guidance electronics unit (GEU) during multiple firings from its three megajoule (3 MJ) Blitzer railgun system.
Radar/EW
USS Abraham Lincoln undergoing sea trials following overhaul - News
May 12, 2017
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. After a four-year refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) got underway for sea trials on May 9.
Unmanned
Service-academy challenge pushes DARPA to test groups of unmanned vehicles - News
May 12, 2017
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. More than 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy recently participated in the "Service Academies Swarm Challenge," in which teams formed and tested the capabilities of swarms of highly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invited the young officers-in-training to develop and flight test novel ideas for how best to use UAV swarms in future wars.The three-day experiment concluded with an aerial battle in which the Naval Academy took home the win, a trophy, and bragging rights over its rival academies.
Unmanned
Joint Navy and Marine exercise demonstrates amphibious autonomous warfare - News
May 11, 2017
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. A recent exercise held at Camp Pendleton demonstrated emerging technology innovations in the area of autonomous amphibious warfare.
Unmanned
KBRwyle wins contract to support NASA exploratory missions - News
May 11, 2017
HOUSTON. Government-services business KBRwyle has won an engineering services contract from NASA to support upwards of 20 NASA exploration missions. The five-year contract has a maximum value of $442 million.
Unmanned
Organizations solicit proposals for UAS traffic-management systems - News
May 10, 2017
DALLAS. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have announced a Request for Information (RFI) on traffic-management systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Unmanned
NASA chooses ASU ShadowCam to map moon's shadowed regions - News
May 10, 2017
TEMPE, Ariz. NASA has selected an instrument developed by a faculty member at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) to map the terrain and search for ice deposits in the moon's permanantly shadowed regions (PSRs).
Unmanned
Lockheed Martin demos land/air/sea autonomous systems - News
May 10, 2017
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Lockheed Martin recently held a demonstration at its Missiles and Fire Control facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, to show the capabilities of its all-weather quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS), its new real-time 3-D reconstruction software, and the company's ongoing developments in military and commercial autonomous vehicles.
Radar/EW
Phoenix International releases data storage system at Xponential 2017 - News
May 10, 2017
DALLAS. Officials at Phoenix International Systems introduced the Phalanx II rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS) data storage system, at this year's Xponential, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) conference .
Unmanned
Elbit Systems of America showcases UAS capabilities at Xponential 2017 - News
May 10, 2017
DALLAS. Officials at Elbit Systems of America, LLC, showcased unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s Xponential 2017.
Unmanned
Miniature UAS announced, U.S. government customer delivery revealed - News
May 09, 2017
MONROVIA, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) design/build company AeroVironment has introduced its new Snipe Nano Quad -- a miniature (Class 0), field-rugged UAS designed to support close-range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions -- and announced that the initial delivery of 20 Snipe systems to a U.S. government customer took place in April.
Unmanned
Coast Guard national-security cutter completes deployment with UAS ISR - News
May 09, 2017
BINGEN, Wash. Unmanned systems and software company Insitu and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton have collaborated on a six-week deployment, the first time that a Coast Guard cutter used a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) for an entire patrol.
Comms
Boeing, Air Force demo airborne networking system - News
May 09, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently completed developmental flight testing on the Boeing-developed Talon HATE airborne networking system, which enables secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations.
Unmanned
Carnegie Robotics & Swift Navigation showcase Duro, a GNSS receiver at Xponential 2017 - News
May 09, 2017
DALLAS. Carnegie Robotics LLC and Swift Navigation partnered to develop their first joint product, Duro, a ruggedized version of Swift Navigation?s Piksi Multi dual-frequency RTK GNSS receiver. The release of the product was made at this year's Xponential, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) conference.
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