cyber
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Cyberwarfare: Battlefield precursor for kinetic attacks?
The cyber domain is playing a more visible role in offensive military operations, but serious vulnerabilities exist within weapons systems that must be addressed today to avoid being rendered useless via cyberattacks during future battles. Cyberwarfare is an intriguing way to prepare battlefields for kinetic attacks; we recently got a glimpse of this when Iran shot [...]
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Signals-intelligence contract for Army won by General Dynamics MIssion Systems
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) won a $296.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to produce Prophet Enhanced modernized signals-intelligence systems.
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U.S. Navy ships get additional work on intelligent-modeling systems
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) is getting the green light from from the U.S. Navy to move forward on a System for Naval Data Aggregation and Planning with Probabilistic Reasoning (SNAPPR), which CRA officials say creates probabilistic models of naval system components, the environment in which they operate, and the missions that they serve. CRA is partnering with Raytheon IDS for the three-year SNAPPR follow-on contract, which is valued at nearly $1.5 million.
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Military systems and artillery market to grow around 3.6% per year globally, study says
AMSTERDAM. The global market for military artillery and systems is expected to pass $76 billion during 2019- 2027, a combined annual growth rate of approximately 3.6%, according to a study by Market Forecast, "Global Artillery and Systems -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2027."
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Military airborne radar market will reach $4.2 billion by 2029, study says
LONDON. The global military airborne radar market, valued at $2.9 billion in 2019, will increase at a combined annual growth rate of 3.84%, to $4.2 billion by 2029, according to a market study by Global Data, "The Global Military Airborne Radar Market 2019-2029."
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Digital RF jammer contract signed between Mercury Systems and U.S. Navy
ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received $16 million in follow-on orders -- against its previously announced $152 million, five-year sole-source basic ordering agreement (BOA) -- to deliver advanced Digital RF Memory (DRFM) jammers to the U.S. Navy.
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U.S. Army orders additional HMS Manpack radios from Harris
MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corp. has obtained a second low-rate initial production (LRIP) order from the U.S. Army under the HMS (Handheld, Manpack & Small Form-Fit) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to deliver additional AN/PRC-158 multi-channel radios to the battlefield.
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Fitting AI under the SWaP umbrella
Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are also impacting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) designs. “Translating the commercial and consumer AI accelerator hardware technologies into the deployable, rugged, size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained systems mil/aero platforms often need” is a challenge, says David Tetley, principal software engineer, Abaco Systems (Huntsville, Alabama). Reduced [...]
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The case for containerization at the tactical edge
At the tactical edge – let’s define it as the platforms, sites, and personnel operating at lethal risk in a battlespace or crisis environment – one frequent challenge is how to create or host a service/application that can make the difference between life and death for the warfighter. Applications that deliver situational awareness or critical [...]
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Explainable intelligence is on the way for neural networks
Neural networks are on the path toward explainable intelligence, which may help speed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is prioritizing the fielding of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help augment the capabilities of warfighters by offloading tedious cognitive or physical tasks [...]
Lisa Daigle, Assistant Managing Editor
Lisa Daigle, Assistant Managing Editor
Lisa Daigle, Assistant Managing Editor
Lisa Daigle, Assistant Managing Editor
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
David Gregory, PacStar
