QinetiQ to Build Short-Range Rocket Defense Radars; Jeremy Ward Comments
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 [...]
Qinetiq has filed a patent with the U.S. government for a detonator chip that uses microcavities inside microelectromechanical chips to store explosive material, Electronics Weekly reports. Paul Marks writes the system would have chemical precursors enter the chip and deposit explosives inside the chip’s microcavities. The chip detonates by passing a current through a heater wire [...]
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QinetiQ Team Developing Tidal Power Platform; Jeremy Smith, Vittorio Vagliani Comment
January 4, 2013 No CommentQinetiq and QED Naval are partnering to develop a new marine platform for deploying and anchoring tidal power plants, QinetiQ said Thursday. StubHub, one of QED’s first products, is designed to retrieve wave and tidal turbines to the surface for maintenance and the companies want to reduce the time of deployment from months to days. [...]
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QinetiQ’s Talon Robot Designed for Anti-IED, WMD Missions: JD Crouch Comments
November 27, 2012 No CommentA QinetiQ North America robot is helping military forces combat improvised explosive devices and address situations involving hazardous materials, the company announced Tuesday. The company said it received $8.6 million in orders for the Talon robot to support military missions in explosive ordnance disposal. “The average Talon robot is blown up thirteen times in its [...]
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QinetiQ North America will deliver additional Dragon Runner 10 robots to the U.S. Marine Corps for near term operational support, the company announced Tuesday. Prior to the urgent order for additional lightweight robots, two previous DR-10 orders were made to support the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. J.D. Crouch, technology solutions group president, said the [...]
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According to experts, the keys to combating cyber threats are planning, prioritization and testing. Keith Rhodes, senior vice president and chief technology officer for QinetiQ North America‘s Mission Solutions Group, recently outlined the ways in which civilian agencies and the Defense Department can plan effective defenses against cyber attacks on the nation’s critical infrastructures. In [...]
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