DRS System Aims to Help Army Track GPS-Guided Weapons
DRS Technologies has won a $15.5 million contract to design and build a new targeting system for the U.S. Army to locate and mark GPS- and laser-guided munitions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, incrementally-funded contract covers the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Joint Effects Targeting System Target Location and Designation System program, DRS said Monday. JETS [...]
General Dynamics Connects Manpack Radios to SATCOM System; Chris Marzilli Comments
April 22, 2013 No Comment
General Dynamics recently tested two of its Manpack radios through a satellite communications system as part of an end-to-end system evaluation intended to connect the radios to the system. A PRC-155 Manpack radio sent voice and data communications to an orbiting Mobile User Objective System satellite, through an MUOS ground facility, and back to a second [...]
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Intel Helping Army Build New Computer War Training Games; Mic Bowman Comments
April 1, 2013 No Comment
Intel Corp. and the U.S. Army are working together to create computerized war games they hope can be run anywhere in the world by large groups of participants simultaneously, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thurday. Richard Burnett writes that the company and the Army want to deliver cloud-based interactive training simulations for hundreds of infantry troops [...]
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BAE Systems and DRS Technologies have each won contracts from the U.S. Army worth $30.9 million combined to design prototypes for a handheld electro-optical system, Military & Aerospace Electronics reports. The two companies will create between five and 20 prototypes for the Joint Effects Targeting Systems‘ target location designation system, John Keller reports.. Keller writes [...]
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SAIC-Decisive Analytics Team Building Army Sensor Tech; Rich Dilts Comments
March 11, 2013 1 Comment
Science Applications International Corp. and systems engineering company Decisive Analytics Corp. are partnering to assess sensor technologies and how to transfer sensor data to mobile devices in battlespace. The companies are aiming to evaluate the technologies against requirements and performance metrics during an experiment for the Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Strategic Command, [...]
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Lockheed Martin has won a $12 million contract to update radars the U.S. Army uses in Afghanistan, Syracuse.com reports. The Q-53 radars are designed to detect and destroy approaching mortar and rocket fire, Mark Weiner writes. Under the contract, the company will service eight Q-53 radars deployed in Afghanistan and 24 radars located in Germany [...]
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Boeing-Sikorsky Team To Build New Army Vertical Lift Rotorcraft; Samir Mehta Comments
March 5, 2013 No Comment
Boeing and Sikorsky will submit a joint proposal to build a new aircraft for the first phase of an upcoming U.S. Army technology demonstration program, Gizmag reports. The Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program aims to update vertical lift utility and attack aircraft, Darren Quick writes. Samir Mehta, president of Sikorsky’s military systems business, told Gizmag [...]
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Cyber attacks on U.S. corporations, organizations and government agencies are largely coming from a 12-story tower in Shanghai that is home to a Chinese army unit, a U.S. computer security firm says in a study. The New York Times reports Mandiant was not able to precisely place the hackers in the building, home to People’s [...]
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A Raytheon system designed to integrate into blimp-like balloons detected and tracked four targets mimicking tactical ballistic missiles during a December test in New Mexico, Reuters reports. According to Jim Wolf’s story, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System has a targeting radar and wide-area surveillance radar designed to give users [...]
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Lockheed-Raytheon JV Developing, Testing Anti-Tank Missile; Duane Gooden Comments
February 7, 2013 No Comment
A Lockheed Martin-Raytheon joint venture is developing a portable anti-tank missile for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well as for the foreign military sales program. The Javelin missile is intended for dismounted gunnery personnel and contains both guided munitions and surveillance systems, Lockheed and Raytheon said Wednesday. During recent Army tests, the companies [...]
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