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The electromagnetic spectrum is no longer primarily just a means for the military to communicate or sense the environment—it's becoming a full-on warfare maneuver space. |
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Talon Recorders' SystemFlow Software Touts New Features and Enhancements
The Talon® SystemFlow® software improves the ease-of-use, recording and security capabilities of the entire line of Talon Recording Systems. The optimized enhancements to SystemFlow benefit radar, SIGINT and communications recording applications where reliability, speed and data integrity are mission-critical. |
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A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional processor in a race to solve a puzzle, figuring out a secret combination up to 100 times faster by using exotic physics to sort through data that was deliberately packed with errors, according to the results of an experiment detailed in a recent academic paper by scientists from Raytheon and IBM. |
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Congress has approved an additional $21 million in Department of Defense (DoD) funds. This increase comes after officials reached a deal to fund the Federal Government through September. |
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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has successfully tested hypersonic projectiles with an enhanced guidance electronics unit (GEU) during multiple firings from its three megajoule (3 MJ) Blitzer railgun system. |
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has finalized the third leg in its technology risk-reduction plan for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV), awarding Boeing a $58 million contract in a deal similar to those recently granted to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. |
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has garnered a contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform tasks relating to technology maturation and risk reduction in support of next-generation navigation systems. |
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Aurora Flight Sciences recently demonstrated its work as part of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, when the Aurora ALIAS technology used the aircraft's existing 737 auto-landing system to autonomously land the aircraft safely by way of a flight simulator. |
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Radar technology has been undergoing a period of resurgence driven by the demand for high-powered, cost-effective, compact technology for military and commercial applications. This has also led to the re-evaluation of how technology should be used to achieve robust and economical radar solutions. |
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From the moment an autonomous car gave Weather channel celebrity Jim Cantore a lift to the stage to start his keynote address to the xPonential audience to his introduction of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator Michael Huerta, the message of the event was clear: Drones are going to be part of our daily lives sooner rather than later. |
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – "who will guard the guardians?" – is a question as old as the Roman Empire. This question, with its underlying bearing on trust in general, is still relevant today. And it is directly applicable to computer systems. |
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Submarines were harder to count than aircraft carriers in my previous blog. According to scattered web information, there are about 533 submarines in the oceans today, operated by 40 countries. But that number moves around, mostly because (1) there are a number of new submarines coming into service and (2) it's hard to say how many antiquated Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean submarines are still operational. |
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This month our roundtable of industry experts discuss safety certification of embedded commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software, multicore in avionics, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) safety certification, and the buzz on the floor at the Aviation Electronics Europe show held last month in Munich, Germany. |
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The Trump Administration released its proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) of $639.1 billion, $574.5 billion in the base budget and $64.6 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget. This is an overall increase of nearly 9 percent over FY 2017's $586.7 billion total. |
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Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) officials launched a new program, the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nano-electronics (RAVEN), which focuses on developing tools to rapidly image current and future integrated circuit chips. |
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Officials at L3 Technologies completed the acquisition of Open Water Power Inc. on May 19, 2017. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the division will be integrated into L3's Sensor Systems business segment under the new name: L3 Open Water Power. |
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Indiana University and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) representatives signed a new cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) where the focus will be Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and the security of devices using UPS. |
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Charles River Analytics announced that it has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to produce a traumatic-injury prediction tool for the U.S. Army that is aimed at reducing the number of preventable combat and noncombat deaths by addressing challenges faced by military and civilian first responders, combat lifesavers, and medics. |
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Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) officials announced the launch of the Face Recognition Prize Challenge (FRPC). IARPA is partnering with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the contest, which aims to improve recognition of face images acquired without capture constraints, in other words unconstrained images captured in the "wild." |
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he International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have announced a Request for Information (RFI) on traffic-management systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). |
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