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Radar/EW
Patriot router development by Raytheon and Teldat for Poland moves to next phase - News
March 10, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon and TELDAT engineers completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of their effort to co-develop and co-produce advanced militarized routers for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system for Poland, which validates the TELDAT design's capability to meet all Patriot system requirements and also enables the company to move into the manufacturing and design qualification phase of the program.
Radar/EW
Navy Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) contract won by Northrop Grumman - News
March 06, 2015
LINTHICUM, Md. Northrop Grumman Corp. won the U.S. Navy's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 contract for developing and manufacturing the next-generation surface electronic warfare system.
Comms
Navy to use IXI Data I/O Converter to link radar, weapons and other systems over Ethernet - News
March 05, 2015
YORBA LINDA, Calif. U.S Navy tasked IXI Technology to provide its advanced Data I/O Converter system where it will convert information from the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) to fiber for the AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard electronic warfare (EW) system. The EW system provides electronic support and countermeasure protection for U.S. and international navies.
Comms
Radiant Mercury contracts for cross domain intel sharing won by Lockheed Martin - News
March 02, 2015
DENVER. U.S. Navy officials contracted Lockheed Martin engineers to continue their support of the Radiant Mercury system that enables secure sharing of sensitive data between unclassified and classified security domains.
Radar/EW
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System tracks and simulates 3 ballistic missile engagements - News
February 27, 2015
WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. The Missile Defense Agency announced that it launched three short-range ballistic missile targets near-simultaneously from NASA’sWallops Flight Facility. Two U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile defense (BMD) destroyers then acquired and tracked the targets, while another destroyer also participated in associated operations.
Comms
Australian army to use Joint Fires Observer/Joint Terminal Attack Controller simulator from Rockwell Collins - News
February 26, 2015
GEELONG, Australia. Rockwell Collins engineers are providing the Australian army with its mobile Joint Fires Observer (JFO)/Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) simulator.
Radar/EW
Perimeter of Middle Eastern air base to be secured by E-scan radars from Blighter - News
February 25, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester, Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East.
Avionics
Digital cockpit design, leveraged for UH-60L Black Hawk upgrade, on display at IDEX - News
February 24, 2015
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers are showcasing the company's digital cockpit solution, which is being leveraged in an upgrade of the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) this week in Abu Dhabi in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Once upgraded the aircraft will be called the UH-60V.
Radar/EW
Missile defense radar, AN/TPY-2, gets processor upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 23, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will allow the system to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between a missile's warhead, and non-threats such as countermeasures.
Comms
Army M1A2 Abrams tanks to use Palomar BICU displays - News
February 20, 2015
CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Army officials awarded Palomar Display Products, Inc. a contract to produce and deliver their Biocular Image Control Unit (BICU) displays for Army M1A2 Abrams tanks.
Unmanned
Beam control system from Boeing looks to improve laser weapon accuracy on Navy ships - News
February 19, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boeing experts have been contracted to design and develop a beam control system that could enable enhanced accuracy for laser weapons on U.S. Navy warships.
Unmanned
New rules/regulations for small unmanned aircraft proposed by FAA - News
February 18, 2015
WASHINGTON. Department of Transportation’s (DoT's) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced a framework of new regulations that would enable routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in today’s airspace, while keeping flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.
Radar/EW
Navy P-8A to get open systems architecture upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 17, 2015
MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon engineers will be providing a flexible, application-based architecture (ABA) enhancement for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a $15.5 million system development contract.
Comms
DARPA Fab Lab to improve ship Navy repair and maintenance with 3D printers and other tools - News
February 16, 2015
WASHINGTON. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy officials agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, also called Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced “mar-mack”) in Norfolk, Va., under DARPA’s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) program.
Radar/EW
Due Regard Radar tested onboard Predator B aircraft by General Atomics - News
February 13, 2015
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR), which marks the first functional air-to-air radar on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that meets the requirements for “Due Regard” operations in international airspace. Enabling such technology will help in the long run integrate UAVs into international and domestic airspace.
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Training and simulation systems to support Saab GlobalEye under new CAE agreement
November 21, 2025
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Next-gen pilot training system to be developed by Saab, Boeing, and BAE Systems
November 19, 2025
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KC-390 refueling capability validated with Gripen E in Brazilian test campaign
November 17, 2025
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F-35 air combat training subsystems to be delivered by Cubic
November 13, 2025
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Spectrum-dominance product shown by HII at AOC 2025
December 09, 2025
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Electronic warfare, radar processing tech to be showcased by Mercury at AOC 2025
December 08, 2025
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Electronic intelligence and EW systems from Sierra Nevada to show at AOC 2025
December 08, 2025
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National Instruments (NI) will demo SDR and more during AOC 2025 show
December 05, 2025
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AI wargaming platform to be advanced for U.S. Air Force by AMESA
December 03, 2025
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Image generator for military training using Unreal Engine introduced by Lockheed Martin, Blackshark.ai
December 03, 2025
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AI-enabled counter-UAS system wins Army competition
November 24, 2025
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Command-and-control task order to advance multi-domain capabilities under new COBRA award
November 21, 2025
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Beyond GPS: HORDE PNT for contested environments
December 04, 2025
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Beyond GNSS/GPS: magnetic navigation and multisensor resilience in contested skies
December 04, 2025
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Power under pressure: Meeting the military’s surging energy demands
December 04, 2025
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Shield AI, Sedaro partner to build software to support on-orbit operations
December 04, 2025