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In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the Navy flew one of its two Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) platforms to take pictures of damaged areas and search for survivors, […]

iRobot (IRBT) Sept. 8 acquired Nekton Research LLC, an unmanned underwater robot and technology company based in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Nekton has been instrumental in shaping the underwater marketplace during the […]

In the coming year, the Navy is planning to outfit its surface fleet with the latest in commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals to increase the amount of data transferred to […]

By Geoff Fein Between the ongoing debate over whether to build more DDG-1000s, beyond the two under contract, or build more DDG-51s, and the recent installation of the open architecture […]

By Geoff Fein Following the release last year of a directive for implementation of open technology development and acquisition, the Air Force is beginning to apply it to all phases […]

By Geoff Fein While DDG-1000 can carry and shoot off the Standard Missile-2 (SM), it can’t, as currently configured, communicate with the SM once it is fired, according to a […]

By Geoff Fein In the coming year, the Navy is planning to outfit its surface fleet with the latest in commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals to increase the amount of […]