Electronic Systems
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS) for the agency’s High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System (HELLADS) programme. The contract award follows the successful development
Electronic Systems
Australia's Sentient has announced that the Canadian Forces are currently conducting an operational evaluation of its Kestrel automated target detection software on board the CP-140 Aurora, Canada's primary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft. The CP-140 Aurora is primarily used in coastal surveillance and sovereignty patrols. To
Control Stations
Imint has announced the availability of version 2.5 of its Ihvert product suite, a complete Remote Video Terminal (RVT) software for advanced live ISR video enhancement, analysis, and exploitation. The new version includes: * Improvements in the Vidhance live video enhancement engine with state of the art adaptive contrast optimization,
Electronic Systems
Microsemi Corporation is introducing a 9Gb (gigabit) DDR3 SDRAM memory device that is the first of its kind to be packaged in a single plastic ball grid array (PBGA) and offered as a compact x72 dual in-line memory module (DIMM). It packs up to 4GByte memory densities into smaller, faster
Electronic Systems
Pentek Inc. is introducing the model 71640 data acquisition board for military radar, military communications, and unmanned aircraft system applications. The embedded computing module can digitize one 12-bit channel at 3.6 GHz, or two channels at 1.8 GHz, and has provisions synchronize several boards for capture and analysis
Research
A recent study on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests has opened a new avenue for developments in robotics and auto-pilots. Researchers from Harvard University conducted an experiment wherein, they trained pigeons to fly through an artificial forest with a tiny camera attached to their
Electronic Systems
The U.S. Air Force wants its airborne sensors to do some preliminary analysis work automatically before transmitting that information back to intelligence analysts, a service official said. Currently, the service's analysts who monitor intelligence feeds from unmanned aircraft watch mundane video footage for hours on end without
Payloads
EADS Astrium has deployed a software system for measuring antenna radio frequencies that utilises OpenViz data visualization software from Advanced Visual Systems. The system, known as EADS Astrium Advanced Antenna Measurement Software (AAMS), allows fully automated testing of antenna systems installed in ground vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles and
Payloads
Northrop Grumman has contracted Thinklogical —a manufacturers of high performance fibre optic KVM solutions—to provide key infrastructure systems for use in the U.S. Navy’s “broad area maritime surveillance” (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system. Under the contract, the Thinklogical is to supply its VelocityKVM and VX Router System (the
Electronic Systems
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems integrators at the BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support (EI&S) business unit in Arlington, Va., are developing an airborne processing and sensor system able to detect and track 20,000 or more infantry soldiers and combat vehicles over a wide area under
Electronic Systems
Controp has added a new product which was recently developed : the new M-STAMP – a multi sensor electro-optical / infrared payload for small UAS. Due to the fact that SUAS manufacturers are now developing small UAS platforms that can stay airborne for longer – even 5 or 6 hours – there was a new
Electronic Systems
Lockheed Martin is demonstrating its full range of ISR and battlefield communication technologies at the Empire Challenge 11 exercises at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It will feature Lockheed's Combat Edge, Vehicle Optics Sensor System II, MONAX, Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft System, TacWarrior and Stratus