Frank Wolfe
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Unmanned Systems
General Atomics Sees Expansion of Gray Eagle-Extended Range Role in Army Future Vertical Lift Program
General Atomics said on Tuesday that it sees an expansion of the role of the company’s Gray Eagle-Extended Range (GE-ER) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical […]
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Pentagon
Electronic Warfare Dominance, Hypersonics Among Top Priorities In Fiscal 2021 for Pentagon R&D Arm
Accelerating electronic warfare (EW) dominance, nuclear modernization, hypersonics, the development of fully networked command, control, and communications (FNC3), and test and evaluation infrastructure are the top priorities in fiscal 2021 […]
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International
Flexible, Neural Networks Will Be Part of FCAS Design, Airbus Official Says
Flexible, neural networks will be a feature of the Airbus-Dassault Aviation Future Combat Air System (FCAS), an Airbus official said last week, according to a report in sister publication, Avionics […]
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Uncategorized
Navy Remotely Tests C/KC-130T Avionics Software Fixes
Due to travel restrictions because of COVID-19, the Navy and Lockheed Martin [LMT] remotely tested software fixes for the latest software build of the C/KC-130T Avionics Obsolescence Upgrade (AOU) program […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Drone Likely First to Receive Neuromorphic Computing Under U.S. Air Force Effort
The United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., is working to develop neuromorphic computing for possible fielding on a drone in the next five years. AFRL is […]
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Navy/USMC
U.S. Navy Requests Increase for Development of MQ-4C Triton SIGINT Package
The Navy fiscal 2021 budget requests an increase for the development of the Integrated Functional Capability-4 (IFC-4) signals intelligence (SIGINT) package aboard the service’s Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance […]
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Air Force
Future F-35 Panoramic Cockpit Display System to Feature Better Processing, Memory
A new Panoramic Cockpit Display – Electronics Unit (PCD-EU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 is to feature significantly enhanced processing and memory. The PCD-EU “is considered a new development […]
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Air Force
Avionics Upgrade for U-2S to Feature Open Mission Systems
Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently received a $50 million Air Force contract for the Avionics Tech Refresh (ATR) program for the service’s fleet of 31 U-2S Dragon Lady reconnaissance planes–upgrades that […]
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Cyber
Coming Cybersecurity Mandates May Have Implications for Military Aircraft
Aviation cybersecurity mandates by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are coming in the next two years, according to participants in an Apr. […]
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Air Force
DoD Faces Avionics Terminal Challenges
On March 27, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Raytheon [RTN] and L3Harris [LHX] $500 million each to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems for the […]