Category: system

DLR Researches Maritime Flight Missions Using UAS

DLR Researches Maritime Flight Missions Using UAS

Reliably monitoring extensive areas of the sea is a major challenge for the coastguard and emergency relief services. Unmanned aircraft are expected to make a critical contribution to this in the future. In December...

German Air Force Radar Modernization Program

German Air Force Radar Modernization Program

The HADR is a ground-based air surveillance defense radar that was first deployed in Germany over thirty years ago. Today, obsolete components make maintenance costly, difficult and time consuming while the technology and computer...

Boeing Delivers 1st P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft

Boeing Delivers 1st P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft

Boeing made an on-site delivery of the first P-8I aircraft to the Indian Navy in Seattle, in accordance with the contract. India will receive this aircraft and two more of its eight contracted P-8Is...

Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to USAF

Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to USAF

Boeing has delivered two Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE) satellites to the U.S. Air Force that will help assess the value of small satellites in military space operations. Weighing less than 9 pounds (4...

Cybersecurity: a global ecosystem

Cybersecurity: a global ecosystem

Interview to Giorgio Mosca, VP SELEX Elsag BD & Marketing – by A. Salerno Corriere delle Comunicazioni “Steps identified by the EU on cybersecurity are needed, but only time will tell if they are...

Canada puts JSF on ice

Canada puts JSF on ice

Canada has stopped funding the purchase of 65 Joint Strike Fighters, in a serious blow to the US’s most costly military programme, led by Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest defence contractor by revenue. see...

NASA/GA-ASI Agreement Expands Unmanned Aircraft Capabilities

NASA/GA-ASI Agreement Expands Unmanned Aircraft Capabilities

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) have partnered in a collaborative agreement to allow for the development and flight testing of new command and control satellite link capabilities...

Progress in Aerostats Situation Awareness

Progress in Aerostats Situation Awareness

Swarming boats operating in highly-trafficked strategic waterways will soon be easier to detect, target and engage. During a recent test, a Raytheon Company JLENS simultaneously detected and tracked double-digit swarming boats, hundreds of cars...

US DoD updates space policy

US DoD updates space policy

The U.S. Department of Defense has updated its space policy, aiming at reducing costs and decreasing the risk of attack on space assets. The update reflects on the current budget climate by aiming to...