C4ISR News

Rockwell Collins has landed a potential five-year contract to update and repair components of the common avionics architecture systems equipped on the U.S. Army‘s CH-47F Chinook helicopters. The aircraft’s CAAS uses the Flight2 open systems architecture to combine communications, navigation and mission subsystems for integrated performance and situational awareness, the company said Thursday. The Army Aviation […] More

Leidos and Sparton have partnered to develop an acoustic device countermeasure system for U.S. Navy submarines to defend against torpedoes. The industry team will design, build, fabricate, integrate and test ADC MK 5 devices intended to launch from a submarine’s internal signal ejector, Sparton said Tuesday. Leidos won the $36.1M Next Generation Countermeasure contract last month. Jim Lackemacher, group vice president at Sparton’s engineered components and […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has finished the third stage of a four-phase study that seeks to move a command-and-control ground system for military satellite communications to the U.S. Air Force’s Enterprise Ground Services architecture. The company said Wednesday EGS is a service-based ground architecture built to help Air Force Space Command protect assets and counter […] More

BAE Systems has built a system that works to help military aircraft pilots obtain situational awareness of general air traffic through satellite technology. The Web Enabled Data Links platform is designed to collect information on commercial aircraft to guide aviator decision-making during flights, the company said Wednesday. WEnDL can access data via automatic dependent surveillance broadcast technology that employs […] More

Harris has obtained Type-1 certification from the National Security Agency for a handheld networking radio technology the company designed to help military users transmit data and voice communications. NSA approved the AN/PRC-163 radio to deliver information up to the Top Secret classification level and full-motion videos for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, Harris said Tuesday. The small form factor […] More

Harris has delivered the sixth of 10 navigation payloads for integration into a GPS III military communications satellite that Lockheed Martin is building for the U.S. Air Force. The payload includes a mission data unit designed to connect atomic clocks, radiation-hardened processors and transmitters for signal generation, Harris said Thursday. Lockheed has integrated Harris-built navigation systems on five GPS III satellites, […] More

The U.S. Navy has used a Raytheon-made ship self defense system to digitally connect with a flying U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft during a demonstration in Massachusetts. The company said Wednesday its Link 16 Digital Air Control technology works to facilitate wireless joint operation between vessels and aircraft for boosted interoperability and […] More

The U.S. Army has demonstrated an autonomous and optionally-piloted technology that Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary developed with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program. Lockheed said Monday Army pilots tested the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft — a modified version of the S-76B commercial helicopter — and onboard MATRIX system through automated takeoff […] More

MIL Corp. has secured a potential $84.6M contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer products and systems for command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Defense Department said Thursday work covers systems engineering, integration, production, test, evaluation and in-service engineering life cycle support to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The Navy […] More

Kimberly Ponders, head of business development at Lockheed Martin’s C4ISR division, has said technological investments, wargames and private-public initiatives are essential to facilitate connectivity between systems across land, air, space, sea and cyber domains. She told Air Force Technology in an interview published Wednesday defense forces should learn how to operate in both contested and permissive […] More