The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), committed to revolutionizing defense manufacturing through its Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) initiative, has awarded 13 performer contracts for the META program. META is one part of the AVM portfolio and aimed at model-based design and verification of complex systems that are correct-by-construction
MathWorks today announced that Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) reduced by 50 percent the development time of its Prisma project, which tests and validates guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) strategies for advanced autonomous formation flying. SSC adopted Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink to help model and simulate the GNC system, perform real-time closed-loop simulations, and generate production flight code
Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc. (SIS) announced that it has won a major proof-of-concept contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in response to its recent solicitation for the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program
Four Royal Navy (RN) mine countermeasures vessels (MCMVs) fitted with Thales UK’s minehunting sonars have been taking part in a series of important joint exercises with the US Navy (USN) in the Arabian Gulf, where their detection performance has been described by the RN as ‘world beating’. The exercises were designed to enable the two navies to further develop minehunting techniques in the warm, shallow waters of the Gulf, a busy and important international maritime environment
Pratt & Whitney received a $33.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) engine technology under Phase II of the Vulcan advanced propulsion program
The Boeing Company on Sept. 14 signed an agreement with the U
The Boeing Co. is being awarded a $ 89,292,424 Other Transaction Agreement number (HR0011-10-9-0010)
Russia and Israel today signed an agreement on military cooperation. Details of the deal inked by the countries' defense ministers in Moscow were not immediately disclosed
After successful development of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) daytime persistent surveillance system, BAE Systems has been awarded an additional $49.9 million contract to develop the advanced processor for the agency’s nighttime, infrared system - the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance – Infrared (ARGUS-IR)
German aircraft manufacturer Grob Aircraft AG and Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT) teamed in several agreements to partner in the development of a new family of trainer aircraft: the G 120TP