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Unmanned
New Navy Fire Scout unmanned helicopter variant being produced by Northrop Grumman - News
April 27, 2012
SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman engineers are upgrading the Navy Fire Scout unmanned helicopter by using the Bell 407 airframe. This new Fire Scout variant will have enhanced endurance, range, and payload and payload capacity to improve the ship commander's intelligence-gathering needs.
Radar/EW
Saudi fighter jets to get electronic warfare upgrade from BAE Systems - News
April 26, 2012
NASHUA, N.H. Engineers at BAE Systems are upgrading the Electronic Warfare (EW) capability of F-15S fighter jets for the Royal Saudi air force today under a $367M contract. The company will install 70 Digital Electronic Warfare Systems (DEWS)/Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) for the upgrade.
Cyber
Unmanned
Autonomous landing system for UH-60 Black Hawks to use thermal management technology from Parker Aerospace - News
April 25, 2012
LIBERTY LAKE, WASH. Officials at Sierra Nevada Corp. are using thermal management solutions from Parker Aerospace for the for its Helicopter Autonomous Landing System (HALS) program integration on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
Radar/EW
Navy's 20-year old ATC analog radar system gets digital facelift - News
April 24, 2012
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. U.S. Navy officials procured two more Raytheon radar systems to replace obsolete analog air traffic control (ATC) systems with digital technology. Military bases at New River, N.C., and Quantico, Va., will get the new radar systems. This procurement is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the Navy?s analog ATC radars.
Radar/EW
MEADS X-Band radar starts system-level integration testing - News
April 23, 2012
ROME, ITALY. The first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) started testing at Pratica di Mare Air Force Base, which is just outside of Rome, Italy. The system-level tests help the system prepare for an intercept flight test later this year. The advanced 360-degree rotating X-band radar finished initial performance tests at a near-field facility at SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA in Rome. At Pratica di Mare, program engineers will start system-level integration tests using a MEADS battle manager and launcher.
Radar/EW
Radar/EW
Northrop Grumman air-flow-through cooling technique licensed by Curtiss-Wright for VPX systems - News
April 20, 2012
ASHBURN, VA. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions (CWCDS) engineers are using Air-flow-through (AFT) cooling techniques from Northrop Grumman for use in rugged, military embedded systems. In compliance with the ANSI/VITA 48.5-2010 standard, CWCDS will use the AFT cooling on its VPX systems ? VITA 46/28/65 -- in C4ISR applications such as signals intelligence and radar signal processing.
From The Editor
Unmanned
Predator UAV gets endurance enhancements - News
April 19, 2012
WASHINGTON. Officials at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) unveiled extended endurance enhancements for its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fleet.
Unmanned
More Laser JDAM sensors from Boeing ordered by NAVAIR - News
April 18, 2012
ST. LOUIS. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Boeing a contract for more Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (Laser JDAM) sensors. The $12.5 million contract is the second this year for Laser JDAM units. The first procured 700 sensors and this one is for 1,116 sensors.
Unmanned
Minehunting UUV unveiled by Navy, General Dynamics - News
April 17, 2012
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. ? A small model of the Knifefish Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) was unveiled by General Dynamics and U. S. Navy officials at the 2012 Sea-Air-Space Exposition. The Knifefish Surface Mine Countermeasure UUV is a heavyweight-class, minehunting, unmanned undersea vehicle planned for deployment by forward operating forces, and will be a key part of the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Countermeasures Mission Package.
Comms
GPS integration benchmark completed by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin - News
April 16, 2012
AURORA, Colo. Officials at Lockheed Martin and Raytheon announced that the two companies finished the first integration benchmark between the Raytheon Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) and GPS III satellite system from Lockheed Martin.
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Unmanned
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