Arcturus UAV has for the first time integrated GeoDragon sensor system, capable of high resolution 2-D and 3-D image capture, in its T-20 Tier II unmanned aerial vehicle. The GeoDragon system can create 3-D reconstructions in near-real time and output high-resolution digital elevation models, LIDAR-like datasets, and wide area maps
Raytheon Company has signed a contract with BAE Systems in support of upgrading the Republic of Korea's fleet of more than 130 KF-16C/D Block 52 aircraft. As a key subcontractor to BAE Systems, the company will provide an integrated solution that includes the Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR), ALR-69A all-digital radar warning receiver, advanced mission computing technology and weapon systems integration
General Dynamics delivered three ground stations for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) to the US Navy. The MUOS ground stations act like cell phone switches, receiving radio calls relayed through MUOS satellites from service members around the globe and connecting them to ground-based Department of Defense communication networks in just seconds
Exelis has won a contract valued at more than $13 million from the U.S
Lockheed Martin has completed Tranche 1 of the Field Deployable geospatial intelligence (FDG) under PICASSO programme, and the system has been declared with Initial Operating Capability (IOC) by the UK Ministry of Defence. The PICASSO programme provides strategic to tactical level mapping and digital geographic information and imagery derived intelligence to UK forces
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has awarded a €15.7 million contract to Jenoptik to supply electro-mechanical turret and weapon stabilisation systems for the Leopard 2 main battle tanks (MBTs) and Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH 2000) self-propelled howitzers
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first two EC135 helicopters to the Spanish Army Airmobile Force (FAMET) early this week, under a contract signed for eight in total on December 27, 2013. The contract also includes a logistics package that will support fleet sustainability in the coming years
The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has successfully developed an ELINT (electronic intelligence) and image intelligence collection systems, which are installed on F-16s. On December 30, DAPA (the Defense Acquisition Program Administration) said the ELINT collection system ADD developed would be deployed in the military beginning that day, and the image intelligence collection system, completing development that month, would be installed next year, revealing the development completion of those technologies
Northrop Grumman has finished testing on its Advanced Pulse Generator (APG), which represents the next technology evolution for its Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) product. The APG utilizes high speed direct digital synthesizer (DDS) technology to generate radio frequency (RF) waveforms
Lockheed Martin has won a $13.3 million contract in November to support additional integration of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) onto the Finnish Air Force F-18C/D aircraft