Lockheed Providing Foliage Radar to SOUTHCOM

Lockheed Martin deployed a reconnaissance radar to support the U.S. Southern Command‘s counterterrror and humanitarian assistance missions.

Lockheed Martin said the Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar also supports disaster relief operations.

SOUTHCOM will operate the radar on the Army’s C-12 aircraft fleet.

Lockheed said the radar has completed more than 160 flight tests on manned and unmanned platforms.

Lockheed said TRACER…

GSA, DISA Award $900M SATCOM Tech Contract

The General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a potential $900 million contract to provide commercial satellite communications technologies, DISA announced Friday.

The agencies awarded the Custom Satellite Communications Solutions-Small Business contract to four small businesses under the Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition program.

GSA and DISA formed the program…

Exelis Delivers Interoperable Warfighter Network Radios

ITT Exelis delivered updated radio systems to the Navy’s program executive office for the joint tactical radio system.

Exelis said the $4.2 million order includes Bowman Waveform systems for an information repository and soldier radio-multifunctional software-defined radios.

The Navy says the JTRS program will be a family of software-defined radios that operate as nodes in…

Navy to Launch SPAWAR Narrowband Comm Satellite

The Navy is scheduled to make a rare launch of a satellite Friday for a narrowband communications system, Armed with Science reported.

The Air Force normally handles the military’s space efforts but the Navy is responsible for the military’s ultra high frequency narrowband satellite communications systems.

The Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command…

L-3 Helping Weather Service Upgrade DC Area Radar

The National Weather Service‘s radar in the Washington region will soon look in two directions to detect severe weather, the Washington Post reports.

L-3 Communications and Baron Services are upgrading the NWS’ radars around the country.

The Sterling, Va.-based radar will be upgraded by Feb. 24 to include dual polarization technology, which…

General Atomics to Upgrade Predator Digital Video

General Atomics will provide digital video integration services for the Predator unmanned vehicle system, the Defense Department announced Thursday.

The remote-controlled aircraft carries a multi-spectral targeting system to integrate an infrared sensor, TV cameras and a laser designator and illuminator.

General Atomics will provide the services under an…

Navy Plans 1st CANES Install by Late FY 2012

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command plans to have its next generation shipboard network on a destroyer by late fiscal year 2012, SPAWAR said Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman won a potential $637.7 million contract this week to develop and produce the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services network.

SPAWAR said CANES will provide…

DARPA Designing Digital Imaging Contact Lenses

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers are working on contact lenses that allow the wearer to view digital images in the lens, the agency said Tuesday.

DARPA said the contacts would project images onto full-color displays near the eye and enable the wearer to focus simultaneously on objects at either short or long distances….

DARPA Picks Rockwell Collins for Digital Radio Research

Rockwell Collins has started a new phase of research into analog-to-digital converters for radios under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract.

In a post on FedBizOpps, DARPA said its RADER program is intended to develop power-efficient and high-speed photonic analog-to-digital-converters that can be operated remotely.

Rockwell Collins…

Northrop to Develop RF Transmitter Tech for DARPA

Northrop Grumman Corp. will develop radio frequency transmitter technology for the Defense Advances Research Projects Agency, Northrop announced Wednesday.

The work falls under a program for microscale power conversion, which develops RF power amplifier designs with supply modulation and power switch-control technology.

Northrop said the research focuses on contour modulation, which uses a phase-modulated signal waveform and amplifier…