C4ISR News

Northrop Grumman has turned over a mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial production contract awarded in October 2014. The company said Tuesday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five legacy radars being used by Marines and the system’s architecture works to interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATOR is designed to detect, track and engage a range […] More

Lockheed Martin has integrated a TrellisWare Technologies-made software platform into a quadrotor unmanned aerial system designed for military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Indago 3 UAS is equipped with TrellisWare’s TW-600 Ocelot module as well as an updated propulsion technology, a military-grade data link, a mechanism for video dissemination and an extended-range radio system, Lockheed said Monday. “We are […] More

The First Responder Network Authority and AT&T have begun to develop state plans and an online portal to transmit such plans to states and U.S. territories under a 25-year public-private partnership to launch a national public safety broadband network for first responders. FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said Monday AT&T and the agency have started to discuss the […] More

Cubic‘s mission solutions and global defense businesses will participate in the upcoming Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida to demonstrate a range of C4ISR and training platforms designed for the SOF community. Cubic said Wednesday it will showcase products such as the Atlas Baseband Kit, satellite communications terminals, data links, networking systems and the Unified Video real-time streaming […] More

Canadian Commercial Corp. has been awarded a potential $49.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the U.S. Navy to provide electro-optics sensor systems for the Military Sealift Command Situational Awareness System program. The Defense Department said Thuesday that the MSC-EOS systems will be installed on maritime platforms of the Military Sealift Command, U.S. Coast Guard and Navy. MSC-EOS is […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps and the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental have awarded Sensofusion a contract to further develop a mobile platform designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems. Sensofusion said Thursday its Airfence mobile system will serve as the core of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s mobile counter-UAS system as well as support Marines’ efforts to […] More

The fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Navy has begun to provide beyond-line-of-sight communications capability to warfighters with ultra-high frequency radios. Lockheed said Monday the Navy collaborated with the Army Forces Strategic Command to configure the UHF payload of the MUOS-5 satellite to provide UHF narrowband communications services to troops […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed the preliminary design review of a radar system designed to safeguard the U.S. from ballistic missile threats. The company developed the Long Range Discrimination Radar under a potential $784 million contract the Missile Defense Agency awarded in October 2015, Lockheed said Thursday. The LRDR platform is an S-band radar component of MDA’s […] More

Luxembourg-based geostationary satellite operator SES has launched a satellite communication-based vehicle platform that works to provide high-speed connectivity and communication services in support of defense, humanitarian, commercial and civil missions. Nicole Robinson, corporate vice president of government market solutions at SES, said in a statement released Thursday the Rapid Response Vehicle is designed to provide multi-orbit, multi-band […] More