Data Links & Communications
GE Intelligent Platforms is introducing the ADEPT3000 small automatic miniature video tracker for embedded computing applications such as unmanned aircraft systems and man-portable devices where size, weight, and power consumption (SWaP) are primary design concerns. GE demonstrated the device this past week at the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing conference
Data Links & Communications
AAI Test & Training has been awarded $9.7 million to deliver an electronic warfare (EW) radio frequency (RF) simulator for the U.S. Air Force's EW Avionics Integration Support Facility (EWAISF). Located at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, the EWAISF facility tests critical components, subsystems and
Business
Rockwell Collins' Athena family of flight control and navigation systems exceeded 1 million flight hours on several UAS performing surveillance operations primarily in the Middle East. This fact emerged out of the company’s quarterly report, which also announced a sales increase of $81 million, or 7%, to $1.
Testing
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced the start of system tests of a new Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) being developed here for use by the U.S. Navy onboard the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS is a 360-degree field-of-regard active electronically scanned array radar
Military
The Navy programme office in charge of the service's newest unmanned aerial system is looking to integrate Air Force-centric hardware into that aircraft, as a way to close a critical collection gap in ongoing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Members of the Navy's Persistent Maritime Unmanned
Electronic Systems
Lockheed Martin ’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and VHF) synthetic-aperture radar capable of detecting and geo-locating objects that are buried, camouflaged or concealed under foliage. Classified as a queuing sensor, TRACER
Commercial
MAVinci, based in Leimen near Heidelberg, Germany, has announced the introduction of SIRIUS II - a fully integrated orthofoto UAS. The system obtains aerial images and calculates orthofotos and three dimensional elevation models out of the image data. An orthofoto is a geometrically corrected aerial image such that the scale
Electronic Systems
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems’ Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited, Inc.) has introduced the smallest SWaP (size weight and power) short wave infrared camera for unmanned vehicles. The 640 x 512 pixel (25µm pitch) camera weighs 120g (less than four and a half ounces) with the 23mm f/1.15
Electronic Systems
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. is now providing a SWaP-optimized hyper-spectral image processing and storage subsystem for use in multi-INT wide area surveillance equipment on UAS. The subsystem will locate individual adversaries and enemy tactical communications. The system’s design combines two configurations of Mercury’s PowerBlock 15 ultra-compact embedded computers
Electronic Systems
Aeryon Labs has announced the VideoZoom10x payload for the Aeryon Scout Micro VTOL UAS - a 1.2 kg man-packable UAS. With the ability to detect a human from over 2km away and identify someone from over 300m, the VideoZoom10x payload instantly delivers high-resolution, real-time tactical intelligence to the hands
Electronic Systems
KinetX Inc., a small aerospace technologies company based in Tempe, Arizona, announced that it has expanded its offerings with sub-systems for UAS. The KinetX Hardware Engineering group is formed from the core team that designed and built the processors for the Iridium® global satellite communications system, and became part of
Electronic Systems
GE Intelligent Platforms is introducing a family of rugged, off-the-shelf Embedded Computing systems for unmanned aircraft systems and unmanned ground vehicles. The CRS-C2P-3CC1 and CRS-C3P-3CB1 are 2- and 3-slot 3U CompactPCI-based computer systems available in a rugged, convection- or base-plate-cooled chassis. The computers are supplied standard with a Freescale-based, single-board