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DRS Technologies‘ Signal Solutions segment will unveil the Polaris radio frequency tuner, which will serve cognitive radio networks and other commercial applications, at the company’s 37th annual SIGINT Technology Exposition in September. DRS said Wednesday the VHF/UHF tuner provides capabilities for spectrum monitoring and RF interference detection, beam forming, signal intelligence and wideband spectral sensing. Kerry Rye, director of […] More

General Dynamics C4 Systems has completed a 2,000-mile transmission test between Phoenix and Taunton, Massachusettsby using two-channel AN/PRC-155 manpack radios to communicate the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System satellite communications system. Chris Marzilli, the C4 systems unit’s president, said Wednesday that the test also sought to demonstrate how the handheld PRC-154A Rifleman radios could connect through the system for platoon-level communications. During the […] More

A General Dynamics C4 Systems subsidiary will design and manufacture ground structures and provide systems integration services to Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Fence program. The company said Thursday General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies will start to build the Space Fence radar ground system in mid-2015 at a facility in the Marshall Islands to support Lockheed’s $914 million contract with […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace business unit has completed delivery of 13 stored-energy monopole antennas to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates  — the prime contractor on the Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Astro Aerospace said Wednesday the antennas are configurable, deployable and compact and will be installed onto the Automatic Identification System payload. They are designed to support Earth observation missions with their capability […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets report forecasts the three-dimensional sensor market to be worth $3.4 billion by 2020 and achieve a compound annual growth rate of 23.43 percent over the next six years. The market research and consulting firm said Monday that it attributes the potential growth to continued research and development, supply chain and distribution improvements, and potential applications in the consumer, media […] More

Orbital Sciences has received a contract to manufacture a HYLAS 4 satellite for Avanti Communications Group, which seeks to connect customers in existing and new markets to Ka-band broadband communications services. Orbital Sciences said Tuesday HYLAS 4 is based on its GEOStar-3 platform, will have a capacity of up to 28 gigahertz and feature 66 fixed and four steerable beams. David Williams, CEO […] More