The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has released a broad agency announcement focused on advancing the development of high-powered electromagnetics for directed energy-powered weapon systems under its five-year, $140 million High-Powered Electromagnetics research program, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes AFRL plans to use the HPEM initiative to push for the development of the […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded Advanced Integration Technology a contract to produce turnkey systems and tools for the production of E-2D Advanced Hawkeye planes. AIT said Tuesday it will also help install computerized numerical control machines, tool cribs, ovens, metrology instruments and back shops at Northrop’s aircraft integration plant in St. Augustine, Florida. Northrop is expanding […] More

Exelis has delivered the cross-track infrared sounder to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for installation in the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft. The sounder is designed to produce atmospheric temperature and moisture data for weather and climate prediction, Exelis said Friday. “This advanced hyperspectral technology is providing improvements to numerical weather prediction models,” said […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has integrated two of five scientific payloads into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. The company installed its Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir instrument and the Northrop Grumman-built Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System on the JPSS-1 spacecraft bus, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. The environmental satellite is […] More

Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More

SafeNet Inc. has introduced a new data breach directory website for security departments to categorize an attack’s severity level and compare the resulting analyses with other breach incidents. The SafeNet Breach Level Index portal is developed to serve as a database of various breach disclosures and classifications based on numerical scoring of an organization’s breach […] More