Volume 29, Issue 11

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Uncrewed

Enhancing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for BACN command and control

Nov. 1, 2018
Military communications experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are providing satellite navigation capabilities for a major airborne battlefield communications system to enhance the...
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Test

SWaP-optimized instruments for flight line test and measurement

Nov. 1, 2018
Today’s flight-line test systems are small enough to fit in a technician’s toolbox, and offer new features like Ethernet and USB interconnects, as well as data and cyber security...
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Uncrewed

The new world of counter-drone technology

Nov. 1, 2018
Attempts to prevent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from surveillance, terrorist, or military attacks involve methods ranging from electronic jamming, to nets, to bullets, and...
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Defense Executive

Blue Canyon Technologies to design SWaP-C-optimized military satellites

Nov. 1, 2018
U.S. military researchers are looking to Blue Canyon Technologies in Boulder, Colo., to help develop a constellation of small, secure, and affordable military satellites that ...
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Uncrewed

Marine Corps goes to industry for armored vehicle and open-architecture vetronics

Nov. 1, 2018
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps researchers are asking industry to build full-scale technology demonstrators of a future reconnaissance armored vehicle to enable Marine battlefield...

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Boeing to build 17 new and rebuilt AH-64E attack helicopters for UAE

Nov. 1, 2018
Military helicopter experts at the Boeing Co. will build 17 new and remanufactured AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters for the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE...
Trusted Computing

The big hack: how China used a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. company computer servers

Nov. 1, 2018
A cyber attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, Bloomberg reported.
Defense Executive

Lockheed Martin to provide electro-optical targeting systems for U.S. Marine Corps attack helicopters

Nov. 1, 2018
Electro-optics experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. are building five multi-sensor electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) fire-control systems for U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper attack...
Computers

Is Buy American the solution to cyber attacks like the Chinese spy chips?

Nov. 1, 2018
There’s a serious cyber warfare problem that may be drawing-in deployed U.S. military and aerospace mission-critical embedded computing systems, and few peple really want to talk...