Volume 29, Issue 8

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The U.S. military is upgrading laser-guided rockets that enable fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to attack lightly armored vehicles, bunkers...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designers at Insitu Inc. in Bingen, Wash., will build six ScanEagle small UAVs for the government of Lebanon under terms of a $8.2 million U.S. Navy...
Aug. 1, 2018
The Israeli defense contractor Elbit has unveiled a civilian version of its Hermes 900 drone that can be flown alongside manned airplanes.
Aug. 1, 2018
The U.S. Army plans to use Raytheon’s Coyote unmanned aircraft and the KRFS radar against enemy drones on the battlefield, Raytheon officials said in July.
Aug. 1, 2018
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Aerial target experts at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Chandler, Ariz., are building additional supersonic Target drones for the U.S. Navy and allies to help surface warship crews...
Aug. 1, 2018
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U.S. Navy researchers are moving on with a military research project to develop revolutionary propulsion and drag-reduction technologies to enable manned and unmanned undersea...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Thales in Paris is introducing the secure Nexium Defence Cloud - a private cloud computing infrastructure to improve the operational efficiency and trusted computing capability...
Aug. 1, 2018
Qorvo Inc. in Greensboro, N.C., is introducing the QPM2637 and QPM1002 gallium nitride (GaN) X-band front-end modules (FEMs) for next-generation active electronically scanned ...
Aug. 1, 2018
The Boeing Co. is quietly pitching the U.S. Air Force a new F-15 jet fighter jet using the same business strategy that convinced the Trump administration to buy more F/A-18E/F...
Aug. 1, 2018
RF and microwave specialist Fairview Microwave Inc. in Lewisville, Texas, is introducing a line of 40 GHz skew matched cable pairs for semiconductor test, networking, and supercomputing...
Aug. 1, 2018
Smart munitions experts at the Raytheon Co. potentially will build additional M982 Excalibur satellite-guided heavy artillery shells for the U.S. Army under terms of a $93.7 million...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Electronic warfare (EW) experts at Mercury Systems will provide the U.S. Navy with 36 additional DRFM-based airborne radar-spoofing systems that can confuse enemy radar by projecting...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Designers of unmanned vehicles are using a variety of electro-optical and radar sensors to provide unprecedented reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities for deployed military...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Signals intelligence, electronic jamming, and electronic protection incorporating software-defined radio and artificial intelligence to stay ahead of adversaries.
Aug. 1, 2018
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Signals intelligence (SIGINT) experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are preparing to upgrade the U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with SIGINT capability...
Aug. 1, 2018
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The Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions division in Ashburn, Va., is announcing a performance breakthrough for high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) by enabling use of Wind ...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Undersea warfare experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. will upgrade and repair the U.S. Navy AN/AQS-24 airborne and surface mine-hunting and -detection sonar system under terms of...
Aug. 1, 2018
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Worldwide demand for military batteries should grow by 31 percent over the next five years, driven primarily by international army modernization programs and rising demand for...
Aug. 1, 2018
Australia is sinking 35 billion Australian dollars ($28.84 billion U.S.) into the purchase of nine ultra-modern frigates. So what is it that makes them so necessary, and what ...
Aug. 1, 2018
Naval experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. will start building four corvette-sized small surface warships for the government of Saudi Arabia, under terms of a $451 million order last...
Aug. 1, 2018
U.S. military aviation officials are ordering versions of 58 V-22 tiltrotor aircraft and avionics from the Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office (JPO) in St. Louis under terms of a...
Aug. 1, 2018
United Kingdom Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced development of a new combat aircraft called Tempest last month at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough...
Aug. 1, 2018
A shake-up may be coming for the F-35 supply base, as Lockheed Martin considers opening up new competitions for the jet’s electronic warfare and communications systems.
Aug. 1, 2018
Lockheed Martin will proceed with developing a rocket interceptor to destroy incoming artillery, mortars, and rockets under a $2.6 million contract from the U.S. Army.
Aug. 1, 2018
The U.S. Navy Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton long-range maritime patrol unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) first became operational this year, yet the unmanned aircraft continue to ...
Aug. 1, 2018