Volume 30, Issue 3

Uncrewed

Navy eyes large autonomous submarines for reconnaissance and special operations

March 2, 2019
The U.S. Navy is heading in the direction of large unmanned submarines able to act as motherships for different kinds of unmanned underwater, surface, and aerial vehicles for ...
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Uncrewed

BAE Systems to build APKWS II precision laser-guided smart munitions

March 1, 2019
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...
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Uncrewed

Future deep-sea UUVs with machine autonomy are focus of DARPA Angler program

March 1, 2019
U.S. Military researchers are asking the defense industry to develop a deep-diving unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and control system able to find and manipulate objects in ...
Defense Executive

Two companies join project to design SWaP-C-optimized satellite payloads

March 1, 2019
U.S. military researchers are asking two more companies to develop a constellation of small, secure, and affordable military satellites that not only are able to operate in low...
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Uncrewed

DRS Laurel to provide Navy with five AN/SPQ-9B shipboard radar systems

March 1, 2019
U.S. Navy missile-defense experts are asking the DRS Laurel Technologies segment of Leonardo DRS in Johnstown, Pa., to provide AN/SPQ-9B anti-ship missile defense (ASMD) radar...

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RF/Analog

Raytheon wraps-up testing of SPY-6 AMDR shipboard missile-defense radar

March 1, 2019
The U.S. Navy’s AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) completed its final round of developmental testing after tracking its 15th ballistic missile target.
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Computers

New frontiers in small-form-factor embedded computing

March 1, 2019
Traditional bus-and-board embedded computing architectures are giving way to extremely small boards that can be as small as business cards — sometimes as small as postage stamps...
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Uncrewed

Navy pushes shipboard unmanned systems, lethality upgrades

March 1, 2019
Shipboard electronics use to be about power, navigation, and communications aboard surface warships; now it’s about unmanned systems, futuristic weapons, and ocean networking....
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Communications

Defense industry expects continued strong economic growth, investment banker says

March 1, 2019
Executives in the U.S. aerospace, defense, and government services industry are expecting continued moderate to strong economic growth in their businesses this year, and predict...
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Computers

Navy asks Bell to build 25 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and avionics

March 1, 2019
Military helicopter designers at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, will build 25 new AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and avionics for the U.S. Marine Corps under terms of a...
RF/Analog

Thales-Raytheon to build 50 AN/MPQ-64 Enhanced Sentinel A3 radar systems

March 1, 2019
RF and microwave experts at Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC in Fullerton, Calif., will build 50 AN/MPQ-64 Enhanced Sentinel A3 radar systems under terms of a $51.9 million...