Data Links & Communications
Cubic Defense Applications, a defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, received a $3.7 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to produce a new multiband digital data link system for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. The data link uses smaller and lighter components to do the mission-critical
Data Links & Communications
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is being awarded $26,767,748 firm-fixed-price (86 percent) cost plus incentive fee (14 percent) contract for the Predator Primary Data Link configuration upgrades on MD-1A/B ground control station retrofit kits. The location of the performance will be General Atomics Aeronautical
Data Links & Communications
AAI Corp. was awarded a $46,524,041 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure tactical command data link retrofit kits for the Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., with an estimated completion date of May
Data Links & Communications
FreeWave Technologies has announced the Spartan Series of wireless radios for the government and defence markets, incorporating advanced implementation of FIPS 140-2 encryption technology for secure long-range communications. FreeWave’s Spartan solution is designed to provide a highly secure communications link for a variety of government and defense
Data Links & Communications
Instead of a human analyst slogging through (maybe) 10 three-page documents in an hour, Modus Operandi has developed its military intelligence “Googlizing” system, which has been “trained” via machine learning and enabled by a semantic analysis engine to provide the military intelligence community a way to quickly conduct military
Data Links & Communications
Boeing has delivered production units of a smaller, lighter version of its Tactical Compact Communications Relay (TCCR), which allows a small unmanned aircraft to function as a tactical, range-extending communications repeater for military handheld radios. Boeing subsidiary Insitu received four 1-pound TCCRs following tests of the narrowband relay
Data Links & Communications
Lockheed Martin has developed a small homing beacon the size of a hockey puck to help increase the accuracy of cargo drops by UAS. The beacon is small enough to easily fit in a Marine’s pack and could soon provide a novel way to call in quick, accurate resupply
Data Links & Communications
Laser technology has yet to mature, and many enhancements are left to be made. Everything lasers can do currently is still improving at a rapid rate and new techniques to improve lasers are still in the works. One such new technique is beam combining, which blends several laser streams into
Data Links & Communications
Known as Navigation via Signals of Opportunity (NAVSOP), BAE Systems’ new system is able to calculate its position by making use of the hundreds of different signals that are all around us. By exploiting such a wide range of signals, NAVSOP is resistant to hostile interference such as jamming (a
Commercial
A small unmanned surveillance aircraft flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. By all appearances, the mission is routine. Suddenly, it veers dramatically off course, careering eastward from its intended flight path. A few moments later, it
Data Links & Communications
With the help of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Department of Defense is making major strides in its ongoing initiative to quickly and efficiently share the vast volume of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data available to users with access to the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). The DCGS Multi-
Data Links & Communications
The security and reliability of unmanned aircraft is of considerable concern, especially when are increasingly employed in public airspace. Robert Dewar, President and CEO of AdaCore, a provider of commercial software solutions for the Ada programming language discusses the role of software in safety-, security-, and reliability-critical applications, including