DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has completed the initial flight of the U-2 Dragon Lady's Avionics Tech Refresh (ATR) program, the company announced in a statement.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Leaders of defense organizations in Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom signed a trilateral Collaboration Agreement to deliver the concept phase requirements of a next generation combat aircraft for the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP).

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Elbit Systems of America will be supplying integrated avionics processors (IAPs) for the U.S. Navy’s V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, according to a statement from the company.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Saab recently unveiled the Saab 340 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft for its Polish customers during a ceremony in Linköping, which came two months following Poland's acquisition of two such AEW aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

NASA's Quesst mission has revised the inaugural flight date for the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft to 2024, according to a recent statement from the agency.

RICH JAENICKE, GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE 

Operating an aircraft in a degraded visual environment (DVE) is one of the most challenging and stressful tasks for a military pilot, particularly during landing. There are many causes of DVE conditions, including naturally occurring smoke, fog, smog, clouds, sand, dust, heavy rain, blowing snow, darkness, and flat light.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE

Aviation aircraft teardown/part-out provides a sustainable source of high-quality, cost-effective spare parts for aircraft operators, maintenance facilities and others in the aviation industry. It helps to address the growing demand for spare parts, especially for older aircraft models or those that are no longer in production.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE

The United States Air Force has awarded Pacific Propeller International (PPI) a sole-source five-year $74 million dollar repair and overhaul contract supporting foreign militaries operating the Lockheed C-130 with 54H60 propeller and components.

ANALOG DEVICES

Millimeter wave scanners are superior to traditional metal detectors because they can identify and locate both metallic and nonmetallic threats. This article describes how mmWave imaging hardware works and will present a chipset that uses edge processing to manage massive data loads to enable the development of walkthrough security scanning systems.

ONE STOP SYSTEMS (OSS)

Standard-compliant sensors and sensor interfaces can be partitioned as part of the AI system design. This simultaneously allows program leaders to fully exploit switched fabric standards with the most advanced GPUs and flash storage, along with advanced system cooling approaches, to maximize AI performance in field applications.