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Defense Advancement’s Most Read Articles from September 2023

We covered a number of significant developments in September 2023, including news from DSEI, new partnerships, and technologies developed

Oct 03, 2023
USAF Selects Anduril’s Ghost UAS to Enhance Autonomy Capabilities

The United States Air Force (USAF) has chosen Anduril Industries Ghost and Ghost-X for two contracts to support work on enhanced autonomy capabilities

Oct 02, 2023
US Navy Awards Multi-Intelligence MQ-4C UAS with IOC

MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system (UAS) is the U.S. Navy's only uncrewed, high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft performing persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting

Oct 02, 2023
Splash Test of Manta Ray Long-Endurance UUV

The tests off Oahu, Hawaii, aimed to verify sensors, vehicle hydrodynamic performance, and key autonomy behaviors of the glider body

Sep 29, 2023
Synthetic Data to be Delivered for Aided Target Recognition

The contract means Applied Intuition will generate high-fidelity synthetic data to train an algorithm designed to identify and track adversary systems

Sep 29, 2023
New Stabilized EO/IR Gimbal for Small Drones Unveiled

Leonardo DRS has introduced the Small Unmanned Aircraft System Tactical Agile Gimbal (STAG)-5 LLD, a next-gen 5-inch stabilized, multi-sensor Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) payload gimbal

Sep 29, 2023
High-Performance Ultra-Compact IMU Unveiled

EMCORE’s TAC-440 IMU is designed for mission-critical, rugged environments in a wide variety of defense, commercial, industrial, and marine applications such as UAVs and robotics

Sep 29, 2023
Additional Funding to Accelerate Development of SPEAR-EW Jammer

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded MBDA extra funding to further develop its SPEAR-EW stand-in jammer system, maturing all its key sub-systems, and performing mission and planning evaluation

Sep 29, 2023
Ruggedized Plug-in-Card TP 792/31d-RC Released by Concurrent Technologies

Concurrent Technologies has launched the TP 792/31d-RC, a ruggedized Plug-In Card (PCI) designed as a technology upgrade for deployed systems based on 3U CompactPCI

Sep 28, 2023
Low-SWaP Rugged Ethernet Switch for Military Applications

The X9 Spider Intelligent Switch features eight 10 GBase-TX Ethernet ports and four 100 Gb Ethernet ports

Sep 28, 2023
LED Lighting Provider Chosen for Upgraded Challenger 3 Tanks

Oxley Group will provide internal cabin lighting, breach lighting and task lighting for the network-enabled, digital Main Battle Tank Challenger 3

Sep 28, 2023
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