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Hughes Network Systems has developed a new microsat system to transmit video and data over satellite communications links, using several types of platforms. The company’s communications-on-the-move microsat system transmitted full-motion video through an aircraft’s rotor blades without packet loss during a recent test, Hughes said Monday. Hughes tested the system on both different military and [...]
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Boeing has formed a partnership with Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company in a move aimed at growing in the unmanned aircraft systems market in Middle East. Under the agreement, ADASI will provide training, support and marketing services to Boeing for that company’s ScanEagle and Integrator unmanned aircraft systems United Arab Emirates, Boeing said Monday. [...]
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Northrop Grumman has delivered two more Global Hawk unmanned drones to the U.S. Air Force, bringing the branch’s total inventory of Global Hawks to 37. The company said it delivered the drones in November, following up on a delivery of three Global Hawks in 2012 and completion of new sensor installs onboard the unmanned aerial [...]
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Boeing is developing an unmanned helicopter to support missions in resupply and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). The company said it worked with Korean Air’s aerospace division to demonstrate the Unmanned Little Bird for South Korea’s army, flying the drone for 25 minutes at an aviation school. “Boeing and KAL continue to build on a [...]
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DigitalGlobe will update mobile ground stations for the U.S. Air Force to provide satellite imagery for warfighters and first responders, the company announced Wednesday. The Eagle Vision stations download imagery from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView earth imaging constellation for use in preparing intelligence, planning missions, assessing damage and during natural disasters or other catastrophes. Deployments will start [...]
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BAE Systems has won funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop new computing technology for weapons systems, Nextgov reports. The $10.6 million award comes through the Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies initiative, which aims to provide more effective embedded computing per watt of electrical power, Dawn Lim reports. DARPA recently [...]
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ManTech International has won a new U.S. Army task order to continue engineering, logistics and business operations support services for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The company said the $45 million task order contains one base year and one option year. a one year base period and one additional option year. Work under the task order [...]
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The Navy has ramped up its acquisition of unmanned helicopters for counter piracy missions and maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Defense News reports. The Navy has ordered eight units of an updated variant of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8B Fire Scouts that have been used since 2009 for ISR missions. The new model uses the frame of the [...]
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The U.S. military, in partnership with border officials, will test fly an unmanned surveillance airship over South Texas in the coming weeks to see if it can detect drug trafficking and find people trying to enter the U.S. illegally, the Wall Street Journal reports. Similar types of blimps were used in Afghanistan to find insurgents, [...]
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The U.S. Air Force wants to develop new imaging sensors that draw from information in the light field, similar to how spiders and insects process that information. According to a solicitation notice, the branch wants to integrate the sensors onto drones and satellites for operations in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissances. Other potential applications include sensors [...]
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