Category: VTS / VTM

EDA Study on Integration of UAS Into General Air Traffic

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)....

Interoperability is the Key to Success in Missile Defense

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....

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...

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...

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....

Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier: $140 M to DRS for Thermal Sights

Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier: $140 M to DRS for Thermal Sights

content US PEO Soldier Initiative Program Executive Officer (PEO) Soldier Rapid Fielding Initiative (RFI) DRS Receives $140 M for Thermal Sights About the Technology Terry Murphy quote   1. US PEO Soldier Initiative PEO...

Naval Surface Warfare Center: Seaport-e Task Order to SAIC

Company to Provide Systems Engineering and Training Analysis Support Services to Center for Surface Combat Systems Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced it has been awarded a follow-on Seaport-e task order by the Naval Surface...

Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement

Boeing Secures All Rights to AgustaWestland AW101 for US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program   Boeing announced that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as...

NextGen Systems Engineering Program: the largest in the FAA’s history

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...

Italy Navy Launches EU Operations Command Center

Italy Navy Launches EU Operations Command Center

The Italian Navy has launched a new land-based command facility that will be offered for use controlling European Union naval operations. Established at the Navy’s fleet command center at Santa Rosa, north of Rome,...

Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas

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...

DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker

DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker

DRS announced the teaming agreement for the NewGen Tanker program with The Boeing Company. DRS will collaborate with Boeing on the console design and then manufacture the Aerial Refueling Operator Station, also known as...

Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story

Presidential helicopters stand as a talisman, embodying the nuclear mission of the armed forces, America’s technological prowess and our government’s nearly religious concern for presidential safety. Buying a foreign helicopter would seem downright unpatriotic...

Boeing Delivers Security Capabilities to US CBP for the Northern Border Project

Boeing has finished installing 10 remote video surveillance systems in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Detroit Sector, completing the company’s work on all available sites in the Northern Border Project. The systems, delivered to U.S....

Adoption of a U.S.- EU and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism

The Council of Ministers of Interior and Justice of the European Union adopted a U.S.- EU and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder, who attended the EU/G6 Conference of Interior...

Two Men Arrested for Terrorism at Kennedy Aiport

Two Men Arrested for Terrorism at Kennedy Aiport

Two New Jersey men who were bound for Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group and to kill American troops were arrested at Kennedy International Airport on 6/6. The men, Mohamed Haoud Alessa, 20,...

100605 AOS News

100605 AOS News

Atlantic Organization for Security Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy The Obama administration Thursday unveiled its new national security strategy, recognizing the need for military force but as a last resort and stressing the need...

Northrop Grumman: 5.5 M$ from FEMA

Northrop Grumman: 5.5 M$ from FEMA

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to design, develop, conduct, evaluate and provide operational support for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regional preparedness exercises. The 20-month, $5.5...

Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy

Obama Administration Unveils Security Strategy

The Obama administration Thursday unveiled its new national security strategy, recognizing the need for military force but as a last resort and stressing the need to increase international diplomatic cooperation. President Barack Obama said...

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...