Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has [...]
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FAA Pressed To Allow Drone Flights in non Segregated Air Space
Border Patrol at 19,000 Feet Along Texas Border
A Predator UAV climbed into the early morning Arizona sky June 1 and headed east to conduct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s first surveillance flight along the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas.
Cruising at 19,000 feet, the Predator B’s camera fed a stream of video images to operators back at Libby Army Airfield in Sierra Vista, [...]
Danish pullout hits NATO AGS
Concern about ”RIPPLE EFFECT”
“There could be a ripple effect in the current financial climate with budgets being cut,” one alliance source said.
The NATO sources said the system had broad possible uses, including in countering attacks by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan and in counter piracy operations off Somalia.
“The value of the project is such that [...]
NGC Successfully Demos Naval S-Band Radar Testbed
Northrop Grumman Corporation has marked a significant milestone in the development of advanced surface warfare radars with the successful live outdoor testing of the company’s S-band radar testbed.
Northrop Grumman successfully conducted live outdoor testing at the company’s Linthicum test range, tracking aircraft and other targets of opportunity with its S-band radar testbed, while demonstrating key [...]
Proposal to Supply NATO’s Ground Surveillance System Delivered
Towards supplying NATO’s premier and long-standing contract for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system, Northrop Grumman has submitted a formal proposal. The award is expected sometime in October 2010. Northrop already supplies NATO AGS at its facility in Melbourne, Florida. EADS, General Dynamics Canada, Kongsberg and Selex Galileo are part of an industrial team [...]
U.S. and EU Sign Deal to Boost Cooperation on Air Traffic
The U.S. and the European Union expect to sign as soon as Friday an agreement that will increase cooperation on their new-generation systems for highly efficient air-traffic management, people close to the talks say.
Authorities from both sides of the Atlantic have been working for years to develop satellite-based navigation equipment that will enable pilots to [...]
UK MoD: $53 M to ITT for Night Vision Goggles
Technology enables huge improvements to the infantryman’s capability: read also Colonel Alec Bain’s article for RUSI here
ITT Corporation has received a $53 million order from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) for head-mounted night vision systems (HMNVS) that provide ground-based soldiers with superior performance during nighttime operations. To date, this is ITT’s largest order [...]
Integrated Ground Based Air Defense Systems
Terma’s Ground Based Air Defense System is designed to meet the air threats of today and tomorrow. It offers an open and flexible system architecture that allows for modular integration of new and legacy sensor and effector systems, changing stand-alone effector systems, and individual assets into one integral and coherent system.
With delivery of the ACCIS-Flex [...]
EDA Study on Integration of UAS Into General Air Traffic
Thales announced that it has reached the end of a decisive year-long European technical design study, called SIGAT – (Study on military frequency spectrum allocations for the Insertion into General Air Traffic of UAS).
Kicking off in early 2009, SIGAT was aimed at defining and promoting a common European position on the appropriate command and control [...]
Interoperability is the Key to Success in Missile Defense
Terma and Lockheed Martin have jointly developed a Ballistic Missile Defense C4I system called BMD-Flex. The system is based on Terma’s T-Core C4I framework, fielded in several European Army, Navy, and Air Force systems. Lockheed Martin provides modular Command and Control (C2) products for decision support and battle management as well as system-of-systems expertise to [...]
SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar: Reliable operations in difficult environments
Terma has developed a new SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) which is specifically designed to operate reliably in difficult environments, e.g. desert locations with high ambient temperatures. The radar operates reliably in rain, salt spray, sand, hail, direct sun, and other harsh usage conditions, such as strong vibrations, extreme temperatures, and wet or dusty conditions.
The [...]
ThalesRaytheonSystems to Modernize US Army AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Radars
ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007.
The contract will upgrade the U.S. Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters and increase functional capabilities such as faster [...]
IT MOD launch Army Digitalization
Funding for Forza NEC (Network Enabled Capability), the Italian Army’s digitization programme, has recently been confirmed by Undersecretary for Defence, Guido Crosetto: Forza NEC is a spiral project, envisaging the realisation of three digitalised medium-sized brigades by 2015, which will be consistent with the plan to deliver and integrate Land Forces by 2025.
The aim of [...]
NATO AGS – Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal
Transatlantic cooperation is NATO’s top acquisition program of record
Northrop Grumman Corporation formally submitted to NAGSMA its proposal or the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system – NATO’s top and long-running acquisition program. A contract award is anticipated in October 2010.
“This program has been a model of the value of transatlantic cooperation to meet the security [...]
NextGen Systems Engineering Program: the largest in the FAA’s history
SE-2020 Program Will Help FAA Transform the US Air Transportation System
Harris Corporation, as a member of The Boeing Company team, has been selected to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with mission analysis and systems engineering services under an Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) contract. Three teams were selected to participate in the IDIQ contract, which [...]
Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas
The phased array antennas will provide net-enabled operations through high-speed line-of-sight communications and data transported over a common data link (CDL) radio system between the Zumwalt-class ship and various airborne platforms.
The Boeing Company has delivered the first production set of phased array antennas for the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Zumwalt-class destroyers. The set was [...]
Information on the new Saab Contract with Swedish Civil Security are not disclosed.
Defence and security company SAAB has signed a contract within the civil security area, worth MSEK 120.
The contract is scheduled for the time period of 2010 – 2012 and includes several security solutions and installations. The contract is of strategic importance to Saab and is a significant breakthrough for security solutions in the central European [...]
Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: Up To $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will demonstrate NextGen procedures in real time on a large scale within the current air traffic system.
“NextGen is an economic opportunity that [...]
Adm Di Paola: Russia may cooperate on NATO anti-missile systems
Russia is considering cooperating with NATO on anti-missile defence systems and other areas, the transatlantic alliance’s top military officer, Italian admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, said Thursday.
“Missile defence has … been named by General (Nikolai) Makarov, as an area in which we could look,” said Di Paola, referring to his Russian counterpart, following two days of [...]
Deployable Airfield: 3,5 M$ to LM for Power Systems
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $3.5 million contract to develop the Integrated Smart-BEAR Power System (ISBPS) for the U.S. Air Force. The Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) program equips U.S. forces with lightweight, air-transportable assets used to establish mobile air bases. ISBPS is an intelligent system that will integrate a variety of energy sources, [...]
US Navy’s Dual Band Radar Achieves X- and S-Band Milestone
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully tracked targets with a multiband radar featuring a common radar suite controller.
This milestone, which took place at the Navy’s Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island, Va., was accomplished through the use of an engineering development model of the Dual Band Radar (DBR) developed by the Navy’s prime [...]
US Navy Awards NGC 41.4 M$ as part of a five-year 281.5 M$ contract for Shipboard Multimission Radar Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command for additional AN/SPQ-9B shipboard radar systems.
Under the fixed-price $41.4 million contract option, Northrop Grumman’s Maritime Systems facility in Melville, N.Y., will supply six radar shipsets, including the third radar of a three-system procurement for the Royal Australian Navy’s Air Warfare Destroyer, [...]
Cobham to upgrade and support Air Defence and Air Traffic Services for UK MoD
Cobham will upgrade and support key air traffic control systems and operations for the UK Ministry of Defence through to at least 2015, after being awarded three contracts totalling GBP12 million. The contracts include the Watchman Radar Viewing Unit and Airfield Radar Integration projects, where Cobham will continue to support existing installed equipment and the [...]
Dutch ATC Systems integrated COMSOFT’s ARTAS, RMD and RRR into their Air Operation Control Station (AOCS
Last month the Royal Air Force of The Netherlands (RNLAF) integrated further innovative COMSOFT equipment into their existing topology. The replacement of the affected predecessor systems are part of the customer’s drive to modernise their two ATC systems primarily used for monitoring and coordinating military flight operations of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. All new [...]
Aptima’s Software to Support U.S. Navy’s Distributed, Multi-simulator Training
As net centric warfare changes the nature of air and combat operations, the U.S. Navy is modernizing its aviation training, combining its various simulators into a unified platform to better replicate these complex missions. To improve the training value of these networked exercises, Aptima, the R&D firm specializing in human-centered engineering, is providing the Navy [...]
SAIC: 84M$ to Support Naval Air Systems Command
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been awarded a contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to support the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Corporate Operations and Comptroller Offices with a full range of organizational and business services. The multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options [...]
DRS Technical Services: 77 M$ for C2 Technical Assistance to United States Forces-Iraq
DRS Technical Services, Inc., Finmeccanica Group, announced that its Tactical Services & Network Solutions business unit was awarded a contract for approximately $77 million to provide technical assistance to the United States Army and allies as they withdraw from the country of Iraq.
Under terms of the award, DRS will continue to support the transition of [...]
Telephonics: Advanced ATM Automation System
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, and a leader in providing advanced air traffic management solutions, announced today the launch of its newest and most advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) automation system, Aerotrac®NextGen. This system is the latest update to its highly successful AeroTrac® ATC system line which improves the operational efficiency [...]
Updating air traffic system top aim of Senate bill
Replacing World War II-era radar with 21st century GPS technology and implementing several new airline safety rules would be required under a $34.5 billion bill approved on March,22 by the Senate.
The measure funding the Federal Aviation Administration through Sept. 30, 2011, calls for key elements of the FAA’s NextGen program to be in place at [...]
‘dominator(tm)’- the System That Enables Soldiers to Dominate the Battlefeild
Elbit Systems will be presenting the “Dominator ™” – an Integrated Infantry Combat System at the upcoming Australian Air Show.
Geared for the unit level and individual soldier, the “Dominator ™” enables forces to dominate the field by empowering infantry units with full situational awareness through networking into integrated information systems. Outfitted with the “Dominator ™” [...]