Rockwell Collins provided avionics software to Airbus for the first flight of that company’s A350 XWB jet Friday. The A350 XWB flew from Toulouse, France and used Rockwell Collins’ airborne information management platform and voice and data communications system, Rockwell Collins said Friday. “This platform is especially important to our company since we’ve been given [...]
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy used a Rockwell Collins-built networking platform during a series of tests aimed at maneuvering an unmanned strike vehicle on an aircraft carrier. Rockwell Collins built its Tactical Targeting Network Technology system to provide communication links for airborne platforms, the company said Wednesday. The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System tests [...]
A team of computer scientists led by Rockwell Collins and also featuring Boeing will develop cyber attack protection software for unmanned vehicles for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. NICTA, a Sydney-based information and communications technology research center backed by the Australian government, is also a member of the team, according to a Thursday release. [...]
Rockwell Collins has won a three-year contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop technology for the Modernized Integrated Spoofer Tracking program, according to a company statement. “This program will help assure that essential high-accuracy navigation and timekeeping services are available to weapons platforms and military users while enabling warfighters to identify potential threats,” [...]
Rockwell Collins reports that it obtained a prime contract today, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop unmanned air vehicle cyber security solutions. The contract, which has a four-year and six months performance period, was awarded to the Cedar Rapids, IA-based contractor as part of DARPA’s High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems program. Rockwell Collins said [...]
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, [...]
Rockwell Collins will continue producing handheld GPS receivers for the Defense Department and foreign military services, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based aerospace technology firm received a contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for more Defense Advanced GPS Receivers. According to the company, DAGR units are used in vehicular, hand-held, sensor [...]
SAIC Inc. has selected Rockwell Collins to provide its technology used to establish mobile ad hoc, Internet Protocol networks used in tactical data exchanges, Rockwell Collins announced Wednesday. U.S. Navy ships will receive SAIC’s Sub-Net Relay solution for collaborative planning, using existing communications systems already aboard the branch’s ships. The Navy will use the solution, [...]
Rockwell Collins has started a new phase of research into analog-to-digital converters for radios under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract. In a post on FedBizOpps, DARPA said its RADER program is intended to develop power-efficient and high-speed photonic analog-to-digital-converters that can be operated remotely. Rockwell Collins said Tuesday it was the only company [...]
Rockwell Collins will be working with NASA to develop a control system to enable unmanned aircraft to safely fly in the national airspace system, the company announced Monday. Under the three-year partnership formed through NASA’s unmanned aircraft system communications research sub-project, the team will work to define the waveform for a non-payload communications data link [...]
