Category: ATM

FAA: 135M USD to Raytheon for NextGen STARS

Raytheon Company has been awarded a $135 million Federal Aviation Administration contract modification to upgrade air traffic control systems at the final 22 airports of the Standard Terminal Automation System, known as STARS. Implementation...

The World’s Largest Investment for Remote Towers

Avinor and Kongsberg Enters Into Agreement on the World Kongsberg Defence Systems and Avinor Air Navigation Services have entered into an agreement for the supply of remote towers worth 400 MNOK. KONGSBERG is prime...

SESAR and military issues

SESAR and military issues

SESAR takes a look at its work around military issues and outlines why civil-military interoperability is so important to the fundamental success of the programme. The article also focuses on existing barriers and what...

Joint Fusion Marshall Team

Joint Fusion Marshall Team

Project MARSHALL is the key Air Traffic Management programme for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as it will provide the capability to support UK military flying and air deployed operations for the long term....

Luca Izzotti, at SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A.”Conceiving and developing an integrated Air Traffic Management system for the USA and Europe … can only be dealt using the best available skills in the aviation and integrated systems domains”

Luca Izzotti, at SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A.”Conceiving and developing an integrated Air Traffic Management system for the USA and Europe … can only be dealt using the best available skills in the aviation and integrated systems domains”

Boeing, SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed a Memorandum of Collaboration for global interoperability on Future Global Air Traffic Management Systems Boeing and SELEX Systemi Integrati S.p.A, a Finmeccanica Company, announced the signing of a Memorandum...

Thales launches CYBELS, a comprehensive cybersecurity solution

Thales launches CYBELS, a comprehensive cybersecurity solution

CYBELS (CYBer Expertise for Leading Security) is a comprehensive, modular and open-ended solution dedicated to active cyberdefence. Designed to protect critical information systems against cyber threats by anticipating, preventing and rapidly responding to attacks,...

LM Develops Vehicle-Mounted Tablet for Tactical Situational Awareness

LM Develops Vehicle-Mounted Tablet for Tactical Situational Awareness

Lockheed Martin has developed a ruggedized tablet computer for use in tactical vehicles. The TacFleet 8 allows real-world tactical situational awareness exchanges for brigade-and-below forces on the move. “The TacFleet 8 design incorporates innovative...

China Has Ability To Hijack U.S. Military Data, Report Says

China Has Ability To Hijack U.S. Military Data, Report Says

China in the past year demonstrated it can direct Internet traffic, giving the nation the capability to exploit “hijacked” data from the U.S. military and other sources, according to a new report. Recent actions...

LCS Mine Countermeasure Mission Package Completes Phase III Testing

LCS Mine Countermeasure Mission Package Completes Phase III Testing

The Navy completed Phase III end-to-end testing of the littoral combat ship (LCS) mine countermeasure mission package off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 2, fully assessing unmanned vehicle operations and verifying vehicle...

Passenger Aircraft will fly with no pilot on board?

Passenger Aircraft will fly with no pilot on board?

Ryanair’s chief executive is already planning single-pilot operation on short-haul flights. Military UAV can fly for hours, and conclude their complex mission with a mixture of remote controlled and automatic flight management. Let’s be...

SDA report “Fine-tuning EU border security” is published

SDA report “Fine-tuning EU border security” is published

Download the light-version of the document HERE. – On September 29, in Brussels, the Security and Defence Agenda hosted a roundtable debate bringing together key voices on border security from both sides of the...

Lockheed Martin: Next Generation Long-Range Surveillance Radar design approved

Lockheed Martin: Next Generation Long-Range Surveillance Radar design approved

The U.S. Air Force has approved Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] preliminary design for its next-generation mobile, long-range surveillance and ballistic missile defense radar. The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) will serve as the principal...

Transas Marine (UK): $28m from Lybia for Coastal Surveillance System

Transas Marine (UK): $28m from Lybia for Coastal Surveillance System

The radar system, which is being provided by marine technology supplier Transas Marine, will cover almost 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) of the country’s coastline, from Tunisia to Egypt. It is expected to be installed...

FAA: $1.4billion to Lockheed Martin To Prime NISC III

Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead its latest performance-based contract – the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) III. According to the FAA, NISC-III is a follow-on...

Cyber attack threat ‘could be next Pearl Harbor’

Cyber attack threat ‘could be next Pearl Harbor’

The Guardian Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services were heavily involved in preparations for the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, according to classified Indian government documents obtained by the Guardian. A 109-page report into the...

WCO, INTERPOL and UNODC/ coordinate effort to counter Illicit Use of Precursor Chemicals Used to Make Explosives

WCO, INTERPOL and UNODC/ coordinate effort to counter Illicit Use of Precursor Chemicals Used to Make Explosives

Eighty-six countries joined representatives of the World Customs Organization (WCO), the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to discuss an unprecedented international effort to counter...

why not AMX ?

why not AMX ?

download the full article: Close Air Support. — Light attack, a revitalized concept in the Air Force, addresses the need for an airplane that offers surveillance as well as strike capabilities and walks the...