Зарубежные новости c4isrnet.com

The Army has briefed industry on its upcoming electronic warfare program and is now asking for feedback. ...

JERUSALEM — UVision, a maker of loitering munitions, is seeking to expand its business in the U.S. with the launch of UVision USA, a fully owned subsidiary of UVision Air in Israel. The company has developed a family of lethal loitering munitions, including the Hero-30, the man-packable, ...

There is no single moment more loaded with symbolism for the drone age than the March 2017 news that a U.S. ally used a Patriot missile to shoot down a quadcopter. The venerable surface-to-air missile, which has a unit price of around $2 million to $3 million, ...

An Oracle lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense's $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract has been put on hold while the agency is given time to investigate possible conflicts of interest in the formation of the contract. U.S. ...

The first grenades dropped from drones were an improvised experiment. Like the haphazard scouts of the 1910s who first chucked bombs out of cockpits onto foes below, the quadcopter grenade bombers were hardly a standardized tool or mass-produced weapon. And like those early aeronaut grenadiers, ...

The Army's primary program office for electronic warfare and sensors is getting a new boss. In a Feb. 19 press release from the Department of Defense, the Pentagon announced Col. (Promotable) Robert Collins will talke the helm as the program executive officer for Intelligence, ...

In an example of how industry can mirror the military and vice versa, Lockheed Martin has created a new internal business it's calling spectrum convergence. Each of the military services, in one way or another, are discussing the need for integrated capabilities that can provide cyber consequences, ...

ABU DHABI –The Chinese shipbuilder China Shipbuilding and Offshore International Company is developing a small unmanned surface vessel that China wants to function essentially like the uninhabited baby brother of a U.S. Arleigh Burke destroyer. The JARI USV is a 20-ton, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a directive centralizing all military space functions under a new Space Force, which will be overseen by the Department of the Air Force. While it is technically up to Congress to approve the creation of the Space Force, ...

Complex electronic warfare (EW) platforms - such as the U.S. Navy's EA-18G Growler - could soon release swarms of drones from the aircraft, allowing the smaller vehicles to fly ahead to scout out for radar and other battlefield emitters, ...

JERUSALEM — In January, Elta Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, signed a contract to supply Finland with its ELM-2311 Compact Multi-Mission Radars. ELTA has sold more than 100 of its MMR systems globally, and the firm hopes to increase its exposure in this market. Eyal Shapira, ...

WASHINGTON — In August 2014, well-directed artillery fire was used to devastating effect in Ukraine, leaving three mechanized battalions a smoking ruin. Because the units and their positions were identified by a mini-drone, the Ukrainian government lost 200 vehicles, ...

The Navy is considering extending its information warfare enterprise beyond the tactical space to compete with adversaries on a broader level, one that may not include specific battlefields, though details regarding how the service may do this aren't yet apparent. Vice Adm. Matthew Kohler, ...

If space is going to remain useful, it needs to be tidied up every once in a while. Debris is a persistent hazard in orbit, and every new satellite might end up as further debris. People are still figuring out how to clear that debris, and this week saw an exciting new approach. It's a harpoon! ...

The Navy formally announced Feb. 14 the creation of NavalX, a technology accelerator aimed at helping service members and the business community navigate government bureaucracy, ...

During a September flight test, the Navy's MQ-4C Triton unmanned maritime reconnaissance aircraft experienced a problem with its engine, flew back to its base in California and landed within three feet of its target, Navy leaders said during a Feb. 14 panel at the West 2019 trade show in San Diego. ...

In this episode of Federal Hot Take, Mike Gruss, editor of C4ISRNET and Fifth Domain, is joined by Jessie Bur, associate editor of Federal Times, and Justin Lynch, associate editor of Fifth Domain. The group talks about why the federal government needs so much personally identifiable information, ...

A camera is never just a camera anymore. For FLIR — the company whose bread and butter may be lenses and images but whose product is best thought of as an intelligence add-on more than any pedestrian photography — was never just about the camera. ...

With greater fervor than in recent years, U.S. military leaders say they are engaged in a heightened global conflict every day in the information space. Adversaries in the information domain — be it cyber, social media, influence, ...

The modern U.S. military is the most effective fighting and peace-keeping force ever to form on Earth. Multiple factors make that true, but perhaps one of the most important is the cutting-edge technology the United States employs as a force multiplier. The ability to detect threats, ...