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Live-fire test on guided bullet in EXACTO program completed
Arlington, VA. DARPA Engineers of the Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program completed a round of live-fire tests on their self-guided bullets that were developed to increase accuracy on dynamic and difficult long-distance targets.
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Surface mount VN-300 GPS/INS device joins industrial line of inertial sensors
DALLAS. Officials at VectorNav Technologies released a surface mount version of their VN-300 Dual Antenna GPS-aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS). The VN-300 surface mount device (SMD) joins the industrial line of inertial sensors: the VN-100 IMU/AHRS and VN-200 GPS/INS surface mount and rugged modules. The modules will be on display at AUVSI in Atlanta, GA from May 5-7, 2015.
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UAV ISR payloads and commercial signal processing webcast at 11am, April 30
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. Many Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads carry sensors for radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, etc., in one platform for persistent surveillance and other missions. Thursday, April 30, experts from the military electronics market discuss how military ISR payloads and sensors are enabled by embedded signal processing technology in a webcast titled "Leveraging Commercial Signal Processing for Unmanned ISR Sensor Payloads." The event, with panelists from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, Mercury Systems, and Pentek, begins at 11 am Est and is hosted by Military Embedded Systems online.
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Hypersonic missile work by Raytheon continues under DARPA contract modification
TUCSON, Ariz. Under a contract modification from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Raytheon officials will continue its efforts develop and demonstrate technology for enabling air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems under the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program.
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Agreement enables camera stabilization on Raytheon’s targeting systems with Northrop Grumman’s LN-200 IMU
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. In an agreement between Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon, Northrop Grumman will supply its LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to Raytheon for its optical targeting systems.
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U.S. Army body armor system reaches final stages of evaluations
VANCOUVER, B.C. Company officials at Mission Ready Services Inc. announced that its Next Generation Body Armor System has reached the final stages of prototyping and user evaluations.
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Firestorm targeting system digitally guides F-35 aircraft
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A United Kingdom Forward Air Controller (FAC) utilized the FireStorm Integrated Targeting System from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, digitally guided a F-35 Lightning II aircraft using a complete air strike mission thread as part of a ground test and live flight.
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U.S. Navy unmanned aircraft autonomously refuels in flight
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – Over the coast of Maryland and Virginia in the Atlantic Test Ranges, the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System program completed a test objective of an Autonomous Aerial Refueling (ARR) of an unmanned aircraft, the X-47B.
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Swarm of small UAVs are used in Navy’s LOCUST demonstrations
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced a recent demonstration of the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) Program. The exercise demonstrated technology of cooperative swarming of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Cybersecurity; prevention, detection, and remediation addressed in new Raytheon tool suite
DULLES, Va. Raytheon officials released their SureView suite this week. The new solution tackles cybersecurity by combining human and machine knowledge to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks.
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
John McHale, Editorial Director
John McHale, Editorial Director
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor