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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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A General Dynamics subsidiary has built video capture and exploitation systems for distributing intelligence from unmanned aerial vehicles to soldiers. The company said the D-VEX systems operate onboard the Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System and are designed to work with commercially-available mobile hardware such as a laptop. Australian army forces received two systems for [...]
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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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Lockheed Martin will provide a full motion video transmission system for a U.S. Army program, the company announced Monday. The company will provide GyroLink, a commercial system, for the Army’s Remote – Vehicle Optics Sensor System program. “Fielded as a configurable component of Gyrocam systems equipment, GyroLink is a plug-in system that deploys with the [...]
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ITT Exelis has updated its handheld radio systems to increase data transfer speeds and work during network slowdowns, the company announced Monday. The SpearNet systems atransfer voice, data and video through an ad hoc network system. Existing users will perform upgrades through a software download starting in late September. Exelis said the new system moves [...]
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Northrop Grumman is developing a new system for transmitting imagery, video, voice and digital messages on airborne pods. communications system on May 17, the company announced. The company said it conducted a test flight of the SmartNode Pod on May 17 in Mojave, Calif. SmartNode connects to Battlefield Airborne Communications Node platforms at high altitudes, ground operational centers [...]
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More civilian contractors are working directly with the U.S. military and CIA to gather intelligence and execute offensive strikes as the U.S. continues to expand the number of drones it operates around the world. Many of these contractors are helping drive the U.S.’ demand for their personnel by rapidly evolving drone technologies and capabilities, working in tandem with the U.S. to develop a global network of [...]
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The U.S. Army has increasingly tested communications networks as it looks to upgrade its capabilities, and three contracting firms have helped the service branch conduct exercises. ITT Exelis, recently spun-off from former parent ITT Corp., is currently demonstrating several communications at the Army’s Network Integration Exercise, according to a company release. Exelis is demonstrating the [...]
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The U.S. Army recently conducted a test of the backbone of its WIN-T communications network at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, its largest instrumented test ever at that base. The test examined the network’s ability to provide network functions to troops in motion, which required the collection and analysis of thousands of gigabytes of data, [...]
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Cisco has officially brought Massachusetts headquartered BNI Video, a privately held company providing video back-office as well as content delivery network analytic solutions, under its wing. As previously announced, Cisco indicated it would extend $99 million in cash and retention-based incentives for all BNI Video shares. At the close of the acquisition, Cisco has said that it [...]
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