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Northrop Grumman has completed initial range testing of a new air and ballistic missile defense radar system for the U.S. Navy, the company announced Monday. The company and the Navy conducted two phases of testing, one at a near field facility and the other at a far field range located in Baltimore. This system is [...]
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Cubic Corp. will develop a communications data link subsystem and new security subsystems for deployment aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the company announced Thursday. By February 2014, the company said the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center will receive the data link subsystem and security subsystems for helicopters to carry out anti-submarine warfare missions. [...]
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. demonstrated an updated multi-mode radar designed to help the Navy carry out anti-piracy and counter-narcotics missions, the company announced Wednesday. The Lynx Multi-mode Radar was tested on a Predator B RPA surrogate during the Navy’s Experiment Trident Warrior 2012 event in Southern California in July. Linden Blue, president of the [...]
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The U.S. Air Force plans to fly 16 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets every week this month, an uptick from 11 flights during the last week of May, Flight Global reports. Lt. Col. Lee Kloos, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing’s 58th Fighter Squadron, told the website the branch wants to fly 20 planes per week starting [...]
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SAIC Inc. will enter phases two through four of a unmanned sea drone program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. In phase one of DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, the company proposed a trimaran platform based off of trade studies. During the next three phases, the [...]
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Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet released an airborne weapon for the first time during a test flight earlier this week in the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic test range. The Navy said the BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 variant, released a 1,000-pound weapon while traveling at a speed of nearly 460 miles per hour [...]
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Rockwell Collins will supply the U.S. Navy with TacNet Tactical Radio to help the branch expand its Link 16 networked communications, the company announced Tuesday. The U.S. Naval Research Lab awarded the contract and the company expects to begin delivering the radio in February 2013. Robert Haag, communication and navigation products vice president and general manager, [...]
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Lockheed Martin has given the U.S. Navy its final proposal for a new air and missile defense radar, designed for DDG-51 Flight III class destroyers. The company said its AMDR S-band radar and radar suite controller is designed to detect and respond to anti-ship and ballistic missile threats. The company designed the radar by using modular, [...]
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Lockheed Martin has developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle as it appears set to enter a U.S. Navy competition for drones based on aircraft carriers, Wired reports. According to David Axe’s report, Lockheed’s Sea Ghost will compete against other designs from Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman. The Navy would choose a design by 2018, [...]
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Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have developed a dual band radar for a U.S. Navy carrier scheduled for deployment in 2015, Raytheon announced Tuesday. Raytheon said it is preparing the radar suite for testing and evaluation by updating the power optimization software. This is the first U.S. Navy radar system that coordinates operations simultaneously across two [...]
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