Science Applications International Corp. has won a five-year, $41.8M contract to overhaul and repair antenna systems and directors for the U.S. Navy’s ship missile defense platforms.
Read More »Harris Reaches F-35 Avionics Delivery Milestone; Ed Zoiss Comments
Harris has completed delivery milestones and helped meet cost-saving goals under an avionics production program that supports Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. Harris said Tuesday it collaborated with industry partners to ship more than 780,000 items such as vibration isolated and liquid cooled avionics racks, power supplies, network interface units and phased …
Read More »DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Electromagnetic Biosignaling Identification Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day via webcast on Feb. 21 to discuss the RadioBio program that aims to determine whether purposeful signaling through electromagnetic waves occurs between biological cells. “If we can prove that purposeful signaling is happening, the next step would be to discover how …
Read More »Kratos Unveils SpectralNet 1.2 Update Designed to Provide Automated Site Diversity Functions
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has launched an update on its network interaction analysis tool that adds automated site diversity functionality to help satellite and network operators locate backup antennas and switch between antennas without affecting a network’s quality of service. Kratos said Wednesday SpectralNet 1.2 digitizes radio frequency signals for packetized transport over …
Read More »Cobham to Produce Actuators for Mars Rover; Bill Brown Comments
Cobham has been awarded contracts worth $20.5 million to supply actuators to NASA for the Mars rover program intended to explore the red planet. The actuators will work to drive the rover wheels, allow steering, antenna motion, and deploy the remote sensing mast of the rover, Cobham said Wednesday. “After …
Read More »Exelis to Engineer Air Force Countermeasures Phased Array Antenna
Exelis has received a $47 million contract to perform engineering work on the U.S. Air Force’s countermeasures phased array antenna. Exelis will develop the form, fit and function interface, and deliver prototypes of the AN/ALQ-172 line replaceable unit-8 antenna, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will carry out the task …
Read More »Thales, Israel Aerospace Industries Install Data Link Terminal on Heron UAV
Thales and Israel Aerospace Industries have completed a flight test of an IAI-built unmanned aerial vehicle following the installation of a data link component and Elisra’s antennas and radio frequency-based modules on board the UAV. Thales said Tuesday the TMA 6000 data link aboard the Heron Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance UAV is …
Read More »Northrop’s Astro Aerospace Delivers 13 Antennas for Canada’s RADARSAT Satellites; Dan Johansen Comments
Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace business unit has completed delivery of 13 stored-energy monopole antennas to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates — the prime contractor on the Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Astro Aerospace said Wednesday the antennas are configurable, deployable and compact and will be installed onto the Automatic Identification System payload. They are designed to …
Read More »Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics, Stratosat Datacom Install South Africa Radio Telescope Antenna Setup
General Dynamics and Stratosat Datacom Ltd. have jointly installed an initial lot of radio antennas to form a telescope array in South Africa. The MeerKAT radio telescope antennas deployed in South Africa’s Karoo region are built to receive remote radio-frequency signals, General Dynamics said Thursday. MeerKAT is slated for full …
Read More »ATK Helps Air Force Launch Boeing Communications Satellite
ATK has helped the U.S. Air Force build and launch a spacecraft that will aim to help the Defense Department facilitate communications between military personnel around the world. The sixth Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM satellite was sent to orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from a facility at Cape …
Read More »Northrop Unit’s Antenna Deploys from Astrium Communication Satellite; John Alvarez Comments
A Northrop Grumman business unit has provided an antenna to Astrium for a newly deployed, on-orbit spacecraft that uses reflectors with the goal of facilitating international wireless telecommunications. AstroMesh deployed from the Alphasat satellite Saturday and works to provide broadband connections in Africa and Europe and some locations in Asia, …
Read More »Northrop Demos New Antenna for B-2 Comm System; Byron Chong Comments
Northrop Grumman Corp. has tested a new antenna designed to connect a U.S. Air Force on-orbit communications system to stealth bombers during unstable aerial control operations. The latest active electronically scanned array transmitter was developed to enhance the contact features of the B-2 fleet as well as retain its essential …
Read More »Lockheed, Ball Aerospace Present F-35 Cockpit Demonstrator; David Taylor Comments
Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. presented an F-35 cockpit demonstrator Wednesday at Ball Aerospace’s antenna manufacturing facility in Westminster, Colo. Ball Aerospace said in a release attendees were able to test the cockpit in a simulator that provides a look at the jet’s sensor fusion technology and …
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