A request for information published on Dec. 2 by the U.S. Army’s product manager for Enhanced Radar, Optics and Sensors seeks payloads that can be integrated in time for the MQ-1C to participate in a Joint All-Domain Operations demonstration event.
High altitude balloons, also known as stratollites, and unattended ocean sensors are among the candidates to augment a handful of intelligence-gathering aircraft.
Workers at Boeing’s complex in St. Louis, Missouri are now assembling the weapons systems trainer and the operational flight trainer, which are scheduled for delivery to the U.S. Air Force in 2023.
Engineering and government professional services provider Jacobs has acquired cyber and artificial intelligence specialist The Buffalo Group to bolster its offerings to the U.S. intelligence community and military.
A $350 million investment since 2017 in test and evaluation infrastructure for hypersonic systems has sat mostly dormant, but is about to get its first test.
The Legion-Embedded System pod has been ordered by an undisclosed F-16 Block 70/72 customer and is available for delivery by new operators starting in 2023.
Historically, the ultimate cat-and-mouse game of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is associated with acoustic technology, with the classic sonar “pings” emitted from an enemy’s vessels or sonobuoys even becoming plot devices of Hollywood films. As the tell-tale plankton of Gibraltar shows, however, the ASW community has always had other ways to detect submarines.
The U.S. intelligence community recently held a meeting with the military services and combat support agencies to discuss Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), ensuring that each organization is on the same page, the head of naval intelligence says.
The share price of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo has jumped after the company revealed it is mulling a partial spinoff of its U.S.-based Leonardo DRS defense electronics business.
SDA director Derek Tournear joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss how its system of space tracking and transport satellites will revolutionize the U.S. military and the challenges it will face along the way.
The U.S. Army has completed a precision navigation, and timing assessment exercise informing requirements development that will eventually be integrated into Project Convergence.
Raptor Scientific, a new portfolio company by investment firm L Squared Capital Partners that is seeking to roll up aerospace and defense testing and measurement assets, has bought radar cross-section specialist Sensor Concepts, representatives said Nov. 5.
The Army has not set requirements for the ALE family, but a table of “example excursions” included in the 33-page solicitation offers a glimpse of possible capabilities.
The Japanese defense ministry has proposed to work with Britain on what it says is unprecedented application of a digital technology to aircraft radars, extending previously undisclosed research between the two countries.
