C4ISR News

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems subsidiary has shipped its new Certifiable Predator B remotely piloted aircraft to its Gray Butte flight operations facility for developmental tests after the company completed aircraft integration for the system. CPB is set to undergo ground and taxi tests before initial flight tests in November under an experimental certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, General Atomics said Wednesday. The […] More

The U.S. Navy has demonstrated the communication, control and command functions of a small AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft vehicle at the service branch’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise. AeroVironment said Wednesday its Blackwing UAV worked to connect with a swarm of unmanned undersea vehicles and communicated with a manned submarine’s combat control system during the ANTX event. The drone used a government-owned digital data link to transfer […] More

Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. has received a $7.4 million contract modification to produce universal test sets for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program. AAI will also provide UTS  system engineering and program and configuration management services to the Navy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the modification exercises the second option […] More

A DRS Technologies subsidiary has won a potential $22 million contract to develop and produce Link 11 and Link 22 data terminal sets for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday DRS Advanced ISR will also help the military service integrate, test and sustain Link 11 data terminal and Link 22 signal processing controller system for the branch’s command-and-control processor […] More

Space Systems Loral has shipped the second satellite developed for Australia’s national broadband network to French Guiana in preparation for the spacecraft’s launch. The Sky Muster II satellite will take off onboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle built by Arianespace from the European Spaceport in Kourou, SSL said Wednesday. The satellite will work to provide […] More

Northrop Grumman will demonstrate a sensor technology designed for mine detection, localization and classification at the Unmanned Warrior exercise to be hosted by the U.K. navy in October. The company said Thursday its AQS-24B mine-hunting system will be towed by an Atlas Electronik UK-built ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel in a simulated environment  during the event to exhibit how the sensor […] More

L-3 Communications has been chosen to supply electro-optical and infrared designating turrets for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters of a Middle Eastern defense customer under a foreign military sales agreement. New York City-headquartered L-3 said Tuesday its Wescam MX-10D EO/IR turrets will work to help the customer execute counterterrorism missions from UH-60s helicopters. The company added its integrated sensor systems segment began to […] More

Lockheed Martin has chosen Microsemi to supply master reference oscillators for integration into the next two Space Based Infrared System satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Microsemi said Wednesday it will start to deliver production models of the company’s master reference oscillators that include discrete devices and radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays to Lockheed, the SBIRS’ prime contractor, in late 2016. SBIRS is […] More

Raytheon has partnered with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport to update a sonar system that the company developed to help U.S. Navy personnel recognize mines. The AN/AQS-20A mine-hunting sonar has been updated through a Raytheon-NUWC collaboration that began in August last year as part of a “work for private party” contract funded by the company, Raytheon said Tuesday. The technology captured […] More

The government services subsidiary of SES has landed a contract to provide O3b Networks‘ satellite communications technology to a Defense Department customer. The O3b satcom service uses a satellite beam that operates within 200 milliseconds per roundtrip and consists of a 155 Mbps link, gateway access, terrestrial backhaul, a 2.4m AvL terminal and installation, operations and maintenance services, SES said Monday. The company added the U.S. […] More

Invisio has secured an additional estimated $1.2 million order from the U.S. Army to provide technology in support of the Tactical Communication and Protective System modernization program. The company said Thursday it will deliver the TCAPS technology within 2016. TCAPS is a hearing protection and communication modernization program the Army oversees with the program executive office for soldiers. Invisio […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More