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EchoGuard CR
Echodyne, the radar platform company, announced the release of EchoGuard CR and RadarHub to enable greater drone/aircraft detection in dense locations and simplify multi-radar deployment. These products represent a big step forward for the Counter-UAS space, broadening the capabilities of security systems in challenging environments. Continue reading
SkyGuardian
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will work with Belgium-based Sociétés Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques, SABCA to supply Satellite Communications (SATCOM) radomes for the MQ-9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). Continue reading
AN/MPQ-64 A3 Enhanced Sentinel Radar System
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems of Fullerton, California, a $9.3-million modification (#P00010) to a previously awarded contract (W31P4Q-19-C-0044) for field service representatives to deploy, operate, and sustain MPQ-64 Sentinel Radars. Continue reading
Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative, high-performance radars for government and commercial markets, announced that its radar platform has been selected by two Technology Capability Level 4 (TCL4) awardees of NASA’s UAS Traffic Management (UTM) program – Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems Unmanned Aviation Safety (NIAS-UAS) Center of Excellence. Continue reading
While manned aircraft have used onboard radar for decades, the size and cost of the equipment has limited its use primarily to large, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Continue reading
Surveillance radar experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are refining system software in an advanced radar system aboard the Global Hawk Block 40 long-range unmanned aerial system (UAS) that tracks track slow-moving ground vehicles and low-flying cruise missiles.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed a range of ground-based systems for detecting, tracking, and disrupting (jamming) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in response to growing global security concerns over the proliferation of cheap and easy-to-operate remote-controlled (RC) aircraft.
IMSAR LLC is developing a family of extremely small collision-avoidance radar systems targeted for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and is on track to perform airborne demonstrations of its first prototype systems by the end of 2015. Continue reading