The Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard has deployed a Northrop Grumman-built advanced targeting pod capable of providing F-16 aircraft pilots with full-color digital video for situational awareness and targeting accuracy. The company said Tuesday the Litening pod features a modular design that allows users to update the pod into the new full-color configuration.
Tyto Athene has secured three system sustainment services task orders worth a total of $11.6 million under the NETCENTS-2 Network Operations and Infrastructure Solutions contract that supports the U.S. Air Force (USAF), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force Reserve and U.S. Space Force (USSF).
A General Atomics-made drone self-protection system demonstrated tracking and situational awareness functions as part of a project with U.S. Special Operations Command. The company said Friday its MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft used the new Self-Protection Pod to track infrared missile and radio frequency threats during a demonstration on Oct. 28 at Yuma Proving Grounds.
The Air National Guard has tapped Sierra Nevada Corp. to equip the security force's EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft with new Link 16 communications. The tactical datalink update would allow the military reserve's aircraft to communicate on the Link-16 network that provides situational awareness across the U.S. Air Force fleet and other users, SNC said Monday.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has collaborated with Ultra Electronics and an Air National Guard test unit to conduct an initial operational assessment of an airborne communications payload that was installed on an MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Christopher Kubasik, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership during the merger of L3 Technologies and the Harris Corporation in 2019 as well as his efforts to advance military capabilities for the U.S.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has secured a contract of an undisclosed sum from the Air National Guard to provide detect and avoid systems for Block 1 and 9 variants of a remotely piloted aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force has equipped Air National Guard F-16 jets with Northrop Grumman-built radars in a move to address a homeland defense requirement. Select F-16s at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland feature the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar technology that the service branch procured to meet a "joint operational need" identified by U.S. Northern Command, Northrop said Thursday.
A Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate has been awarded a contract to help the Air National Guard address occupational and environmental health risks. CTC said Wednesday its Enterprise Ventures Corp. subsidiary will work with 1st American Systems & Services, the prime contractor on the effort to assist ANG in controlling and eliminating hazards.
