A NASA spacecraft carrying a Lockheed Martin-made sun-observing instrument has arrived at its launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. and will go into space at a date not before May 28. The interface region imaging spectrograph program aims to study energy and plasma movement near the sun’s surface and help scientists predict [...]
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BAE Wins $15M to Develop Handheld Targeting System; Mark Hutchins Comments
April 17, 2013 No Comment
BAE Systems Plc has won a $15 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with a portable precision targeting system designed to help soldiers detect and target enemies. BAE Systems will develop the handheld azimuth measuring, marking, electro-optic imaging and ranging (HAMMER) system for three years to support the U.S. Army’s joint effects targeting system [...]
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A consortium of companies led by BAE Systems is set to conduct test flights of a combat drone later this year over a desert in southern Australia, nearly four years after BAE tested a propeller-driven drone over the same range. The Taranis drone is named after the Celtic god of thunder and is the world’s [...]
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QinetiQ has won a contract from the U.K. military to provide a radar systems intended to warn armed forces against short-range rocket attacks. The Alarm was designed to detect incoming short-range, low-trajectory rockets and to help soldiers make evasive maneuvers and minimize casualties, the company said Tuesday. Alarm radars are built to be fully autonomous [...]
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Boeing and its U.S. government partners have completed an eight-month evaluation phase for a new unmanned demonstration research aircraft the company has designed. The X-38C started flight testing in August 2012 and has flown 30 tests at NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center for the Blended Wing Body project, Boeing said Friday. NASA and the U.S. [...]
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Lockheed Martin recently tested two of its PAC-3 missiles to evaluate their ability to detect, track and intercept a tactical ballistic missile. During the evaluation at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., one PAC-3 missile destroyed the other missile and another PAC-3 self-destructed, Lockheed said Friday. “Today’s flight test provided us the opportunity to demonstrate the [...]
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Lockheed Martin has wrapped up a design review phase for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III program, which aims to have 32 satellites in orbit to provide military, commercial and civilian users navigation signals. The company developed a non-flight satellite testbed to act as program’s ground pathfinder and vehicle demonstrator for the first complete satellite, [...]
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The U.S. Navy is preparing to launch a ship-mounted laser built to launch infrared energy at adversaries’ small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles. In 2014, the Navy plans to install the solid-state laser prototype on the fantail of the USS Ponce, which will be deployed to the 5th fleet region in the Middle East for [...]
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BAE Systems has won a $20 million contract with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to develop mine sensor prototype systems with the goal of meeting soldiers’ countermeasures needs. The laser-based airborne prototype systems are designed to detect mines and obstacles in nearshore waters, the company said Monday. BAE will build the systems under the [...]
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Northrop Aiming for New Marine Corps Radar to be Interoperable; Steve McCoy Comments
April 10, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman is developing a radar for the U.S. Marine Corps to detect and track targets in the air such as a fixed-wing aircraft, drones and helicopters. The AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, known as G/ATOR, recently underwent a government test over two phases to evaluate its performance against different types of flight profiles, Northrop said [...]
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