Boeing has updated its geospatial data management software to provide defense and intelligence users a new map, terrain and full-motion video management platform. The company said its DataMaster 5.2 program will start supporting video text-tagging and convert different geospatial and remote-sensing imagery formats. The update will also include a JPIP server that streams JPEG2000 imagery [...]
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Exelis Visual Info Subsidiary to Release Cloud-Based Image Software; Jaye Lampe Comments
October 11, 2012 No CommentITT Exelis‘ subsidiary Exelis Visual Information Solutions will release a cloud computing-based implementation of its ENVI image analysis software, the company announced Wednesday. The ENVI Services Engine will provide deployed military and intelligence personnel information from satellite imagery and airborne services via mobile devices. Information on the device is for situational awareness, assessing terrain conditions [...]
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NATO Tests Lockheed Radar Compatability in Missile Defense System; Alessandro Pera Comments
October 11, 2012 No CommentThe NATO Communications and Information Agency recently completed a compatibility test between a new Lockheed Martin-made radar and the alliance’s ballistic missile defense architecture. NATO said the test, occurring between Sept. 25 and Sept. 29, involved the NIC Ballistic Missile Defense Programme Office integrated a TPS-77 radar from Italy into NATO’s missile defense system. The [...]
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Exelis Updates Jagwire Enterprise Surveillance Software; Richard Cooke Comments
October 10, 2012 No CommentITT Exelis has released an updated version of its Jagwire enterprise software for management and dissemination of tactical imagery and video, the company announced Tuesday. Jagwire 1.2 is used to review and distribute wide area persistent surveillance data. Richard Cooke, vice president of geospatial intelligence solutions, said in a release the updated software provides light [...]
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GeoEye Adds New Govt Networks to NGA Web Hosting Service; Chris Incardona Comments
October 9, 2012 No CommentGeoEye has updated a web hosting service for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, connecting additional government networks to the service for acquiring unclassified Earth imagery through both classified and unclassified government networks. The company said the EnhancedView Web Hosting Service has provided customers online access to geospatial intelligence and base maps from both GeoEye and third-party [...]
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Boeing is developing new terminals with the U.S. Air Force as part of a project to build a satellite-based conferencing system for the president, vice president and senior military leaders to communicate worldwide. The company said the team completed a combined preliminary design review and critical design review and has started internal software deliveries that [...]
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Lockheed Team Developing UAV Control Tech for Navy Research; Roger Il Grande Comments
October 9, 2012 No CommentA Lockheed Martin-led team has won an 18-month contract from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to develop autonomous technology for unmanned aircraft, the company announced Tuesday. The team will explore autonomous technologies aboard an unmanned vertical take-off and landing aircraft with the goal of giving a human operator supervisory control at a high [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security will test fly drones at Fort Sill, Oklahoma over the coming months to see how they can complement operations in emergency response, border security and law enforcement. According to Wired, these drones will be smaller than those typically used for military operations as DHS wants its drones to be ideally [...]
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Northrop, DARPA, NASA Project Aiming for UAV Aerial Refueling; Fred Ricker Comments
October 8, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center have conducted flight demonstrations for a program aimed at creating autonomous aerial refueling between two unmanned high-altitude aircraft. During the flights between Jan. 11 and May 30, the company said two NASA Global Hawk drones flew within 100 feet of each [...]
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Exelis Delivers GPS III Testbed Pathfinder to Lockheed; Mark Pisani Comments
October 5, 2012 No CommentITT Exelis has completed acceptance testing of the navigation payload element for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III non-flight satellite testbed, the company announced Thursday. The company also delivered the testbed’s pathfinder unit to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor of the GPS III program, for thermal vacuum testing and space vehicle integration. Mark Pisani, Exelis vice [...]
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