The U.S. Navy is set to sign a contract with Raytheon by May to begin the production of the company’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for use on the service’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, FlightGlobal reported Friday. Raytheon is expected to deliver the first JPALS units in 2020 for installation on the service's 11 carriers and eight assault ships.
Tracking software provider Teletrac Navman has received a provisional authority to operate for its fleet management platform under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted Teletrac Navman's Director platform a P-ATO, designating the product as a secure, third-party cloud solution that can be used by federal government agencies, the company said Wednesday.
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on potential vendors of new spacecraft buses that can support military satellite communications for future missions in space.
Ravenswood Solutions, an SRI International subsidiary, has secured a $39.9M contract to produce instrumentation systems for the U.S. Army National Guard. The company said Monday it will deliver two of its FlexTrain instrumentation systems and also provide associated operation hardware and a five-year use license of the ORION software.
Mitre has obtained a U.S. patent for an antenna and ground plane technology designed to suppress back radiation from GPS antennas mounted on aircraft platforms.
Gene Colabatistto, president of defense and security group at CAE, has said he believes warfighters should be trained at strategic, operational and tactical levels to defend against future space threats as the U.S. military works to establish a new space force, National Defense reported Monday. “Clearly when we build a flight simulator and a high-fidelity […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, told Fortune magazine in a video interview aired Tuesday how threats to space assets could impact mobile devices and other systems that depend on GPS satellites. She noted how space assets work to support “precision engagement†that service personnel use in combat and […] More
Lynn Dugle, president, chairman and CEO of Engility, told Fortune in an interview published Monday how space assets help the military perform operations on the ground. She said satellite communications systems work to help the military monitor the location and movement of troops as well as communicate with deployed soldiers. “GPS and precision navigation—if we’re going to […] More
A General Atomics business has added a provision to the navigation receiver of a baseline remotely piloted aircraft to support connections with the European Union and the European Space Agency’s Galileo satellite constellation. The baseline MQ-9B initially used a triplex navigation platform compatible with the U.S. global positioning system and was updated to allow constellation […] More
Coherent Technical Services Inc. has collaborated with L3 Technologies to demonstrate an integrated communication and navigation technology designed to work in a GPS-denied or contested environment. CTSi said Tuesday it developed and flight-tested the Enhanced Link Navigation System prototype under an $8.7 million Small Business Innovative Research phase 3 contract from the U.S. Navy. Pilots at aviation company Airtec provided turn-key support during the flight […] More
PreTalen will continue to develop an automated platform for analyzing wireless communication systems under a $23.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company aims to incorporate a signals-based test framework into the Position Navigation and Time Autonomous Negotiator Applying Cognitive Effects-Based Analysis system, or PANACEA, the service branch said Thursday. USAF expects PreTalen to finish the project March 30, 2023. PANACEA […] More