Volume 29, Issue 12

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Uncrewed

Wireless networking: Persistent Systems to provide mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) for unmanned aircraft

Dec. 1, 2018
Unmanned aircraft designer Insitu in Bingen, Wash., needed mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) capability for the company’s ScanEagle, ScanEagle2, ScanEagle3, Integrator, and RQ-...
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Uncrewed

Weapons fuzing: Air Force chooses Kaman to provide programmable fuzes for airborne weapons

Dec. 1, 2018
U.S. Air Force airborne weapons experts needed special fuzes that enable aircraft pilots to program weapons in flight. They found their solution from the Kaman Corp. Fuzing & ...
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Computers

Solid-state memory: Radiation-hardened memory from DDC picked for NASA BioSentinel space project

Dec. 1, 2018
Space flight computer experts at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University in North Logan, Utah, needed radiation-hardened high-density NAND Flash memory for the ...
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Computers

DARPA eyes microelectronics optical interconnects for high-performance embedded computing boards

Dec. 1, 2018
U.S. military researchers are asking the microelectronics industry to find ways of using optical interconnects on high-performance embedded computing boards to enhance bandwidth...
Uncrewed

Medium-wave infrared (MWIR) camera for electro-optical imaging introduced by Sierra-Olympic

Dec. 1, 2018
Sierra-Olympic Systems Inc. in Hood River, Ore., is introducing the Ventus 275 medium-wave infrared (MWIR), 640-by-512-by-15-micron imaging engine for security, surveillance, ...

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RF/Analog

Pentagon wants more money for directed-energy weapons for drone-swarm and missile defense

Dec. 1, 2018
The U.S. military will request more money to develop lasers, microwave beams, and other directed-energy weapons to fight off missiles and drone swarms, the Pentagon’s top weapons...
Uncrewed

Vehicle-mounted laser weapon could help Marines knock down UAVs on the move

Dec. 1, 2018
A battlefield laser weapon designed to destroy or disable enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), already in use by the U.S. Army, is giving U.S. Marine Corps leaders a glimpse...
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Uncrewed

Raytheon BBN to tap into sea life to help detect and track enemy submarines and UUVs

Dec. 1, 2018
Marine scientists at Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. in Cambridge, Mass., are investigating new ways of using sea life to detect and track potentially hostile manned submarines...
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Uncrewed

General Atomics to build year’s worth of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat drones

Dec. 1, 2018
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experts at General Atomics will build additional MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft for surveillance and attack under terms of a $263.4 million contract...
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RF/Analog

Ball Aerospace to build first WSF-M microwave imaging weather satellite

Dec. 1, 2018
Spacecraft designers at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., are moving forward with a project to develop a next-generation weather satellite with a passive ...
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Defense Executive

Air Force eyes airborne communications node with artificial intelligence

Dec. 1, 2018
U.S. Air Force communications experts are looking for companies able to design an airborne communications node able to gather, process, and distribute important battlefield information...