Tag Archives: C4ISR
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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CACI gets $24.5 million task order for Army’s Airborne Intelligence
CACI International Inc (NYSE:CACI) announced today that it has been awarded a $24.5 million task order to provide Airborne, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AISR) Ground Station Support to the U.S. Army Product Manager Aerial Common Sensor. The contract, for one base year and two option years, was competitively awarded under the Army’s Strategic Services Sourcing [...]
JFCOM awards Lockheed contract for ISR video database
The US Joint Forces Command has given a team led by Lockheed-Martin for a system called “Valiant Angel”, which basically applies current broadcasting video technology to manage the collection, dissemination, processing, and storage of the massive quantities of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance full-motion video produced by the wide range of sensors in the DOD’s inventory. [...]
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Hawker Beechcraft and Lockheed team on USAF light armed recon aircraft bid
The Air Force and Navy have both been investigating the idea of a return to propeller-driven aircraft for “irregular warfare” support — something that can provide both ISR for special forces on the ground with a long on-station time, and quick close air support when the need arises. The Navy reportedly was looking at the [...]
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Army’s CERDEC sets up office for getting C4ISR gear home from Iraq
The Army’s CECOM Lifecycle Management Command has formed a special project office to help handle the logistics of returning all the C4ISR gear that got sent to Iraq as part of the drawdown of forces. The Ft. Monmouth command, which is in the midst of preparing for a move of its own–to Aberdeen Proving [...]
Human Terrain System’s transitional pains
I’ve conducted a number of interview on the Army’s HTS this week, for a story I’m writing for C4ISR Journal. While that article will focus on the technical aspects of the program, which I’ll review briefly here, the program gets most of its attention from the controversy surrounding the idea of sending social scientists to [...]
Human Terrain System's transitional pains
I’ve conducted a number of interview on the Army’s HTS this week, for a story I’m writing for C4ISR Journal. While that article will focus on the technical aspects of the program, which I’ll review briefly here, the program gets most of its attention from the controversy surrounding the idea of sending social scientists to [...]
Air Force, Army leaders lay out joint UAS future
The Air Force and Army try to get their large UAS acts together with “Task 11″, a concept of how to go forward with unmanned aerial systems in both services.
The Army has been hot to get its own UASs dedicated to frontline units, to forward deploy them for both C4ISR missions and as potential [...]
Q&A: CERDEC’s Charlie Maraldo on C4ISR On-the-Move ‘09 and the Persistent Surveillance Testbed