Google Glass App for Geospatial Intelligence
BAE Systems developed a new mobile app that can be used with Google Glass ™ for hands-free geospatial intelligence data collection and photo reporting from anywhere in the field. The GXP Xplorer ® Snap...
Category: C4ISR
Launch of an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, UAS from a submerged submarine
The XFC is a fully autonomous, all electric fuel cell powered folding wing UAS with an endurance of greater than six hours. The non-hybridized power plant supports the propulsion system and payload for a...
JISR : the “Rome Model” to increase interchange of info and reduce costs
For the first time the four major J-ISR (Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Alliance Working Groups met in joint session, for what NATO itself has called “The Rome Model,” a solution that allowed a...
Future J-ISR : Increasing informational superiority in the age of information
The CESMA (Center for Aeronautical Military Studies “Giulio Douhet”) of the ITAF Association hold a workshop “ Future J-ISR ” at the Center for High Defence Studies (CASD). ISR activities are taking an increasing role...
NGC Achieves Top CMMI Rating for Joint Command and Control, Logistics Programs
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) for Development Level 5, the highest rating possible, for two U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency joint modernization programs. Northrop Grumman is the prime...
A bridge technology enables commercial smartphones to communicate with existing land mobile radio systems
Raytheon INTEROP-7000 enables police, fire and rescue professionals to use commercial smartphones and tablets integrated with existing communications equipment, such as land mobile radios. “Many in public safety already use cellphones on commercial cellular...
Flir Announces $16 M Order to Support International Counter-Terrorism
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced that it has received a $16 million order for its Recon B2-FO integrated dual-channel thermal binoculars from an Asian government customer strategically allied with the United States. This longstanding FLIR...
US Army: $455M contract to DRS for Vehicle C4ISR Equipment
DRS Tactical Systems has secured a potential $455 million deal to help the U.S. Army install new equipment on vehicles, Military and Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. DRS will produce mounted components for C4ISR equipment...
NATO Air Command and Control System ACCS comms in progress
Selex ES successfully completes key milestone of the NATO Air Command and Control System ACCS L16@29Kft Project Recently Selex ES, a Finmeccanica Company, successfully conducted the Test Readiness Review (TRR) for Factory Acceptance Test...
NATO contract to integrate Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Command and Control capability
ThalesRaytheonSystems signed a €136 million contract with NATO to produce and deploy a Theater Ballistic Missile Defense capability to be integrated with the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS). This is a great...
Marshall and UTC will provide ISTAR solutions to the Middle East
New ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Target Acquisition) imagery ground control stations are to enter service with two Middle East armed forces in the next 12 months following the award of contacts worth over £2.5...
Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS) Delivery
STMPAS consists of several optional ISR payloads attached under a small specially designed tethered blimp, called a Helikite, and a trailer Carrier that stores the Helikite and the required winch, sensors and helium tanks....
Smart Defence = Military Mobile Apps on Smartphones and Tablets
Smart-phone technologies, already familiar to many young soldiers who are once and future gamers, might be changing the face of warfare. Smart phones are a leap-ahead technology offering soldiers myriad of capabilities to satisfy...
TRS Completes Command and Control System for Malaysian MoD
ThalesRaytheonSystems today announced full system acceptance has been finalized with the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the Malaysian Air Defense Ground Environment Sector Operations Center III (MADGE) Program. ThalesRaytheonSystems provided the Malaysian Ministry of...
New Common Data Link (CDL) Capabilities for future Network-Centric Warfare
Companies interested in submitting ideas should e-mail 20-page white papers to the Air Force’s Trevor Sullivan and Maj. Chris Anglin at trevor.sullivan@hanscom.af.mil andchris.anglin@hanscom.af.mil no later than 21 Feb. 2013. A half-day industry briefing on...
DARPA foster next-generation ISR
Intelligence analysts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are moving to the next phase of a program to design a next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and...
The decline of the laptop
Laptops used to be the best way to have portable computing. They could be made light, rugged, and powerful and were used everywhere. Now, all you see are tablets and smart phones, and there’s...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: $600 million to Raytheon for C4I system
Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business has received a contract to deliver a Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The contract was awarded as a direct commercial...
GD $750M to Provide C4ISR for US European, Central and Special Operations Commands
General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a contract by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic to provide worldwide Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Information Technology...
IFF Mode 5: Aircraft Identification Enters New Era
A new era in aircraft recognition is on the horizon with the projected first flight of the Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system aboard an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet expected this winter. The...