Data Links & Communications
ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a $3.8 million sub-contract by L-3 Communications Systems-West to build a dual-band antenna system to support global data collection and dissemination worldwide for the U.S. Navy MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) programme.
Data Links & Communications
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman‘s technical services business a $91,218,878 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.The company will reset MQ-5B Hunter unmanned aircraft systems with tactical common data links and interoperability engineering. Work will be performed in Sierra Vista, Arizona, with an estimated
Data Links & Communications
Textron Systems announced that the company’s operating unit, AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has completed the US Army’s 2011 Manned Unmanned System Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise. Providing command and control of AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS), as well as General Atomics’ Gray Eagle and Northrop Grumman’
Electronic Sub-Systems
Cobham has introduced a new high definition (HD), dual stream video transmitter, called M2TE (Messenger 2 Transmitter Enhanced), for use on unmanned aircraft. “The M2TE transmitter provides a bird’s eye view in real time for ground forces,” said Steve Schaefer, Vice President of Cobham Tactical Communications and Surveillance. “It
Data Links & Communications
UAS already beam thousands of hours of video to intelligence analysts manning multiple screens and send information directly to soldiers in the field. This dramatic growth is leading to information overload. It won't stop there: the military wants individual soldiers not only to drive tanks, watch for enemies
Testing
The aerospace industry’s Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment (ASTRAEA) programme is about to test wireless communication system designed to allow a UAS to securely send video footage and other information to its ground-based operator at the highest possible speed, even when it is out of
Electronic Sub-Systems
The FireWire has been established as an aircraft vehicle management (VMS) network in the X-47B developed by Northrop-Grumman Group. Northrop-Grumman Group has developed the X-47B as part of the J-UCAS program of the DARPA. The combat aircraft is now part of the UCAS-D programme
Military
Northrop Grumman has introduced an unmanned aircraft data management system to the European market, to allow troops on the ground to "eliminate the tunnel-vision of the battlefield". The HART (Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team) allows soldiers at small unit level without their own UAS to benefit from the
Propulsion
UAS Dynamics - a joint venture between Elbit Systems and General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products - has enhanced the performance, mission capabilities and operability of the Skylark 1LE mini UAS. Assessing U.S. requirements made it clear that the needs of the U.S. forces and Special Operations community were different
Military
Focusing on a range of systems complementing unmanned aircraft systems, RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems is introducing a range of hardware and software systems, supporting UAS missions. Among such systems are the Reccelite and Recce-U reconnaissance pods, optimized for Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) missions, and a new version of
Data Links & Communications
Boeing announced it has successfully demonstrated the company's newest narrowband communications relay aboard two unmanned aircraft -- an Insitu ScanEagle and a portable AeroVironment Puma All Environment. The relay was designed to meet the needs of small distributed forces operating in areas where line-of-sight communications are not
Electronic Sub-Systems
Rafael has adopted a new strategy to increase its activities in the unmanned aircraft systems sector, and is offering operators platform upgrades using its payloads and other systems. The Israel-based defence development firm abandoned efforts to get into the UAS business as a platform developer, and has previously signed