C4ISR News

Northrop Grumman is set to hand over this year two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems to the U.S. Navy as the service intends to replace its fleet of P-3C Orion and EP-3E Aries II aircraft that work to perform maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The Navy will test the two Triton […] More

A Northrop Grumman-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft equipped with an aerial refueling system completed its first in-flight fuel transfer mission in July alongside a U.S. Navy KC-130 Hercules tanker. Northrop said Tuesday pilots conducted 10 dry plugs and two wet plugs throughout the four-hour flight transferring approximately 1,700 pounds of fuel to the tactical airborne early […] More

Maxar Technologies’ SSL business has received a contract to deliver a communications satellite to Brazil-based Embratel Star One. SSL said Monday the Star One D2 satellite will work to provide broadband coverage and information services to businesses and clients in Central America, Mexico, South America and other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite is […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its navigation platform designed to guide military aircraft and aerial weapon systems to maritime and ground targets without using GPS signals. The company said Monday it teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to test the capability of its All Source Adaptive […] More

Lockheed Martin has won a potential $43.2 million contract to design an underwater platform as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program. The Navy seeks an XLUUV platform equipped with a reconfigurable payload bay that will work to help the service branch launch, recover, operate and communicate with the system from a home […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Black Box a potential $4.8 million contract to modernize a telecommunication network architecture at the service branch’s air station in North Carolina. Black Box said Wednesday it will update the architecture at MCAS Cherry Point into a unified communications platform as part of the Marine Corps’ efforts to modernize its command, control, communications, computing and […] More

An Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary has developed a three-dimensional radar system designed to support air surveillance and defense operations in a European NATO member country. IAI said Tuesday its ELTA Systems business produced and integrated an undisclosed quantity of mobile 3D radars into the customer’s national and NATO air and missile defense system. The radar is built to aid […] More

A business group within Comtech Telecommunications‘ government solutions segment has received a $7.5 million order to provide troposcatter equipment for deployment to U.S. Army operations across the Korean Peninsula. Comtech said Tuesday its systems unit will produce major components of the troposcatter equipment that the command and control technologies group will deliver to the service branch. Fred Kornberg, Comtech […] More

ManTech International has secured a potential five-year, $45.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer training support services to the U.S. Navy‘s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop and implement online computer-based virtualized tools to aid SSC Pacific training on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and […] More

Airbus Group‘ defense and space business has awarded Israel Aerospace Industries a contract to supply multimode radar systems for integration into Canada’s future maritime surveillance aircraft. The Canadian government ordered 16 C295 MSA units from Airbus that will be equipped with ELM-2022A radars from IAI’s ELTA Systems subsidiary, IAI said Monday. ELM-2022 works to detect, track, classify and identify maritime […] More