Category Archives: Defense Department
Q&A: CERDEC’s Charlie Maraldo on C4ISR On-the-Move ‘09 and the Persistent Surveillance Testbed
At last month’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event ‘09 exercise, the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command (CERDEC) hosted an additional event – the Persistent Surveillance Testbed, run out of Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst. In addition to the Lockheed Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab, CERDEC tested two other ISR platforms – an internal electronic intelligence and electronic [...]
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Q&A – Lockheed’s Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab
Last month, Lockheed-Martin brought an independently developed test aircraft, called the Airborne Multi-Intelligence Lab, to the Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move exercise, which took place at and near Ft. Dix and Lakehurst, New Jersey. The AML is a repurposed used Gulfstream III corporate jet equipped with a large radome and commercial electronics racks; the aircraft [...]
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In C4ISR Journal – Cyber Defense Overhaul
U.S. defense officials are insisting that by reorganizing their cybersecurity strategy to give new powers to the director of the National Security Agency, they are not attempting a power grab. The military will continue to focus on protecting its own networks, they said, rather than expanding the military’s role to protecting civilian-run electrical and transportation [...]
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Harris says it delivers “JTRS capabilities today”–Boeing begs to differ
On Monday, I got a walkthrough of a demo by Harris Corp. of the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G radio being used as the basis for a battlefield network — both using currently available waveforms and the yet-to-be-released Joint Tactical Radio System Wideband Networking Waveform.
In the demo, Jaime Rubscha, a product manager for the RF Communications Division [...]
SecDef Gates speaks of the importance of ISR technology at AUSA
The latest technology for soldiers –and some technologies that are still at best “under development” — were on display in the cavernous expo halls of the Washington Convention Center this week at the Association of the US Army Annual Meeting. Meanwhile, Army leaders discussed the future of the service, including force structure and modernization.
Secretary of [...]
Modernization Mayhem
Perhaps the most anticipated panel today at the AUSA Annual Meeting was the Institute of Land Warfare’s session on Army Modernization Post-FCS. And unfortunately, the room it was booked in was not up to the demand. Hundreds were turned away by the crowd that overflowed out into the Washington Convention Center’s hallway.
Trick or treat–Army wants Shadow UAV retrofits for Halloween
The Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a contract to perform engine retrofits on the RQ-7 Shadow UAV. The contract, awarded to AI of Hunt Valley, MD on Sept. 22, 2009, was for $49,185,103, a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract “over and above work for EFI,” the Army announcement said–that is, replacing the UAVs’ existing carbeurator-based Wankel [...]
GD Demos Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has announced that it has successfully developed and tested a new approach for low-cost guided mortars called the 120mm Roll-Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM).
Under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., General Dynamics successfully tube-launched and guided RCGM prototypes from a M120 120mm [...]
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DefenseLink News Article: Riverines Stand Ready to Roll on Iraq’s Waterways
(Editor’s note: I posted this mostly out of nostalgia — Special Boat Squadron 2, which became Riverine Squadron 2, was my last tour of duty in the Navy.)
Riverines Stand Ready to Roll on Iraq’s Waterways
By Navy 1st Lt. Chris Dunphy
Special to American Forces Press Service
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2009 – The Navy’s [...]
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Video – Raytheon’s First Person Shooter