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Miniature Network Data Acquisition & Encoding Product for Flight Test Applications

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions’ new MnACQ-2700 combines new high-speed data acquisition and continued compatibility with existing COTS modules

Apr 25, 2023
BlueSpace.ai Awarded Contract to Enhance Perception Sensing of US Army UGVs

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

Apr 24, 2023
US Army Contracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Tank Ammunition Components

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

Apr 24, 2023
US Navy Awards Flexible Cyber Secure Radio Production Contract

FlexCSR is the first stand-alone, encrypted radio that conforms to the US DoD Joint Communications Architecture for Unmanned Systems and provides the ability to operate securely in multiple reconfigurable spectrum bands

Apr 24, 2023
BAE Partners with Ritek to Produce New Armored Vehicle Variants for Sweden

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

Apr 24, 2023
RAF to Develop Sustainable Fuel Technology Test Aircraft

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

Apr 21, 2023
UK MoD Selects Serco to Maintain & Operate Air Defense Radars

The contract involves maintenance and day-to-day operation of remote radar heads over the next five years covering five sites including Brizlee Wood and Benbecula

Apr 21, 2023
US Space Domain Awareness Modernization Contract Awarded to L3Harris

As part of the program, L3Harris is maintaining and modernizing infrastructure for US Space Force and US Space Command to effectively track and identify objects in space to improve space domain awareness

Apr 21, 2023
NATO Navy Orders Spare KATFISH Towed SAS Vehicles

Kraken Robotics’ KATFISH increases area coverage rates by providing more usable data than traditional side scan sonars, incorporating Kraken’s Real-Time SAS processor to enable live processing of SAS imagery and bathymetry

Apr 21, 2023
US Army Awards Raytheon $237 Million Counter-UAS Contract

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

Apr 21, 2023
SoarTech Selected as Finalist in US Army’s xTechSearch 7 Competition

SoarTech is in the final round of the xTechSearch 7 competition with its autonomous platforms entry, Centralized Control of Commercial Drones (C3D), which automates the logistics and control of small UAS

Apr 20, 2023
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