QinetiQ Receives US Army C5ISR RTI Support Contract
QinetiQ US will provide advanced research, technology, and integration support to identify, prototype, and test potential technical approaches to address army challenges
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QinetiQ US will provide advanced research, technology, and integration support to identify, prototype, and test potential technical approaches to address army challenges
Electronic warfare applications must operate in harsh and rugged environments and defense contractors are now adopting the 3U OpenVPX platform as the primary format for housing critical circuits
New offerings complement the military helicopters already produced by Airbus, the AH-125 Ares will be configured as the armed variant of the helicopter, while the MH-125 Ares will be configured as a multi-role helicopter
The weapon sight module offers a sophisticated video see through augmented reality capability that gives soldiers critical information with clear, bright symbology in their weapons sights
Optimizing any combination of commercial and military communication networks, the Hughes Smart Network Edge remotely manages multi-transport modems, autonomously selecting routing paths and distributing packetized data across multiple networks
RAIVEN intelligent sensing solution enables operators to see up to five times farther and clearer than traditional optical imaging, which helps to increase platform survivability and gives the warfighter decision advantage over peer threats
Serco's work will be performed along three lines, satellite broadband voice & data network installation and maintenance support, logistics database administration, and lifecycle management of supplies
BlueSpace will leverage its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy to expand the perception sensing capabilities for the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for off-road applications
The multi-year contract will see Aerojet Rocketdyne provide components for the M829A4, an armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding-sabot, tracer round fired from the US Army's M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank
The two new variants, the Forward Maintenance vehicle and Combat Engineer, will join the Swedish Army's mechanized formations with deliveries scheduled between 2023 and 2027
Two experimental flying test aircraft will be developed under Project Monet, an initiative drawing together expertise from across the Royal Air Force (RAF) and industry to evaluate how technologies can meet key military requirements
The systems will play an important part of the US Army's Low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System (LIDS), with Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) providing advanced 360-degree threat detection, and Coyote low-cost effectors defeating drones