Volume 30, Issue 7

CONCERTO project seeks to combine radar, electronic warfare (EW), and communications components into one integrated RF system for medium-sized UAVs.

The UTC-Raytheon merger, after spinoffs, will create one of the biggest defense groups in the world, behind only Boeing, and ahead of Lockheed Martin.

Test and measurement instruments to support Naval Surface Warfare Center Measurement Science and Engineering Department with RF and power testing.

Army leaders say they plan to test conventional deployable truck- and Stryker-mounted hypersonic and laser weapons in the field as early as 2022.

Boeing Insitu to build 34 ScanEagle small UAVs and sensor payloads for persistent surveillance in Malaysia; Indonesia; the Philippines; and Vietnam.

Army vetronics experts reach out to industry for companies to design high-voltage power control for future electric and hybrid military vehicles.

The Office of Naval Research is asking Metron to capitalize on recent advances in battle management, search, risk management, and operations oversight.

Researchers are eying a new space strategy by developing enabling technologies and relaxed space qualification for low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

Surveillance experts at Northrop Grumman ready to build three MQ-4C Triton long-range maritime patrol unmanned aircraft in $65.2 million contract.

Leonardo DRS will provide military satellite communications (SATCOM) for U.S. Special Forces C4I operating anywhere in the world in $977 million deal.

Raytheon to upgrade and refurbish about 1,000 radar-killing electronic warfare (EW) HARM missiles for Qatar, Taiwan, and Bahrain in $355.5 million deal.

Sierra Nevada Corp. will build synthetic vision avionics for degraded visual environment (DVE) conditions aboard 85 HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters.

DARPA wants Battelle; Carnegie Mellon; Johns Hopkins; PARC; Rice University; and Teledyne Technologies to connect brains of human warfighters to computers.

Army asks Boeing to upgrade AH-64 Apache flight simulators to match the capabilities of the latest AH-64D and AH-64E attack helicopter capabilities.

Southwest Research Institute has developed trusted computing capability to test for vulnerabilities in aircraft and unmanned vehicles that rely on GPS.

Electro-optical engineers at Princeton Infrared are developing military ladar detector arrays under terms of a contract from the Air Force Research Lab.

Researchers have developed a sensor suitable for electronic skin that can measure changes in body temperature, and react to sunlight and warm touch.

U.S. Navy surface warfare experts are ordering three computer- and radar-equipped deck guns for littoral combat ships, Coast Guard offshore cutters.

HONG KONG – A team of scientists in Hong Kong has discovered a method to boost the efficiency of photonic quantum memories to over 85 percent with a fidelity of over 99 percent...