Northrop Grumman’s integrated systems sector will provide three unmanned aerial vehicles to the U.S. Navy, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. Under a $25,709,758 modification, the company’s integrated systems sector will provide the fifth lot of lot low rate initial production of Fire Scout take-off and landing tactical UAVs and one ground control station. The Army and [...]
Chris Pehrson is director of strategic development for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). The 24-year Air Force veteran is responsible for the company’s acquisition strategies and for promoting the company’s unmanned aircraft, sensors and reconnaissance radar systems. Pehrson recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz, outlining how a successful acquisition process works and potential applications on the [...]
Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of the defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes Network Systems, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz on the role satellite technology has in the C4ISR landscape. Lober, who oversees the company’s satellite communications technologies, application to the intelligence community and worldwide defense market, describes how satellites fit in [...]
DoD has invested billions of dollars in development and procurement of unmanned aircraft systems over the last several years, and in fiscal 2011, the department requested a significant increase in these investments. DoD’s total investment in these technologies will come to more than $24 billion from 2010 through 2015, but to leverage these resources more [...]
Russo-American tensions are flaring over cybersecurity. The US wants an expansion of talks similar to the 2004 Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, signed by 22 nations (editorial note: neither Russia or China signed). The US-backed agreement would criminalize cyberattacks and focus on the individual crimes. On the other hand, Russia wants a treaty banning [...]
