Computers

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An artist's rendering of a future remotely operated underwater vehicle exploring the deep ocean floor.
Uncrewed

Applied Physical Sciences moves forward with new concepts in propulsion for manned and unmanned submarines

Nov. 20, 2024
DARPA considers hydro-dynamics, hydro-acoustics, mechanical engineering, naval submarine architectures, and electro-mechanical enabling technologies.
A T-54A multi-engine aircraft sits on the flight line of Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Texas, last April.
Communications

Textron to build 26 T-54A twin-engine aircraft and avionics to help pilots learn to fly multi-engine planes

Nov. 19, 2024
T-54A has a pressurized cockpit, side-by-side seating, and will provide instrument and asymmetric engine handling training to student naval aviators.
A rolling airframe missile (RAM) launcher fires a RIM-116 missile from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during combat systems ship qualification trials.
Sensors

Navy asks RTX Raytheon for shipboard air-defense missiles with dual-mode guidance in $118.5 million order

Nov. 19, 2024
A supersonic, lightweight, quick-reaction, fire-and-forget weapon, the RAM missile attacks enemy helicopters, aircraft, and surface craft.
These cross-domain systems are for mission processing, secure storage and authentication, encryption, networking, SATCOM, AI, and data diodes.
Computers

Embedded computing systems with cyber security for mission processing introduced by General Micro Systems

Different from multi-domain Red/Black systems, cross-domain systems link secure classified systems and insecure-often public-systems and networks.
A Navy fire controlman installs a pump in the Dual Band Radar cooling system during routine maintenance aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).
Sensors

Navy asks RTX Raytheon to continue support for discontinued Dual-Band Radar as successor EASR comes online

Nov. 18, 2024
The Navy's DBR dual-band radar combines S-band and X-band radars for a range of environments, and offers an open-architecture software design.