The Pentagon spends $500 million a year on commercial satellite communications to support operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to cut those costs dramatically with a $440 million, 15-year lease of a single commercial satellite.
L-3 Link Wins 5-Year US Army Tactical Trainer Contract
L-3 Communications has won a five-year contract under the U.S. Army’s STOC II contract for the U.S. Army’s Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (AVCATT) Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS) programme.
US Army Gearing Up for Gray Eagle
Officials at U.S. Army Special Operations Command are developing tactics and plans for operating two companies worth of Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft, planned to come online beginning in 2013.
AAI Shadow – After 600,000 Flight Hours More Improvements Under Way
Shadow200 Photo: AAI
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems just announced that its Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS) have achieved in excess of 600,000 total flight hours.
ADA Technologies Gets $750K to Develop Lithium-ion Batteries for Military UAS
ADA Technologies, Inc. has received a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force for research on an innovative nano-material-enabled power system for use in small to micro Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Goodrich Introduces Low SWaP Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) Imager for UAS
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems’ Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited, Inc.) has introduced the smallest SWaP (size weight and power) short wave infrared camera for unmanned vehicles.
Mercury Computer Systems Offers Hyperspectral Imaging System for UAS
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. is now providing a SWaP-optimized hyper-spectral image processing and storage subsystem for use in multi-INT wide area surveillance equipment on UAS.
US Naval Special Warfare Group 10 Coordinates All Unmanned Systems
Insitu Integrator - STUAS
US Naval Special Warfare Command this month will commission a new active-duty group that will concentrate the component’s UAS, underwater systems and robotic programmes and personnel under a single entity.