Tag: Datalink
IAI’s Battle Management Solution Changes the Rules of Combat
OPAL - a decentralized battle management system that enables interconnectivity, data sharing in real-time, enables military forces to meet the challenges of the modern combat arena.
Future Drones: Essential Changes Lead to Higher Autonomy
This post continues our discussion on Future Drones Significant changes are required to make such autonomy a reality.
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Inherent to their unmanned operation UAVs are...
Israel Will Be First International Customer To Fly Operational F-35 Units
Though late to sign on to the network of nations purchasing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Israel will be the first international customer to...
Tata Power SED, Rockwell Collins Team to Win the Indian Air...
Rockwell Collins and Tata Power Strategic Engineering Division (Tata Power SED) are teaming to jointly pursue of the Indian Air Force Software Defined Radio program due for selection in the near future.
Lockheed Martin Awarded $206 Million to Prepare the F35A for the...
The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp on a $450 million program to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 fighter jet, and integrate Israeli-unique systems beginning in 2016, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
New Datalink for the New MQ-8C Firescout
Cubic Defense Applications is developing a new multiband digital data link system for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter.Cubic is developing the new datalink under a $3.7 million contract awarded by the MQ-8C prime contractor Northrop Grumman.
New Language for Air-Ground Collaboration
Early strike missions employed laser-guided weapons exclusively, and required the launching platform, or advanced target designation parties on the ground, to maintain constant line-of-sight, to designate...
New Datalink Quadruples Raven’s Operability
New production Raven (RQ-11B) Small UAVs to be delivered to the US Army will be equipped with Digital DataLinks (DDL) for the first time....
Bridging the SOA divide for deployed assets
How the Feds must rethink software design principles to better serve users abroad
By Cameron Matthews, CTO, Sentek Consulting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the definition of grouping functionality around...
F-22 Enters the Network – Linking IFDL, TTNT, Link 16
The U.S. Air Force says it has successfully tested a classified information transmission technology from two F-22 Raptor 5th generation fighter aircraft to ground stations at...
Who’s in Control? Toward Machine Control Led Weapons
Weapons controlled by Machines?
When targets are becoming too illusive for effective human response, networked computers and guided weapons join forces, combining sensors, processing and...
Datalink Enhanced TARS Recce System Has Real-Time Advantage
BAE Systems has demonstrated a data-link enhancement for the Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System (TARS) enabling recce aircraft to transmit images over long distances, for...
RAF Upgrades Tornados, Harriers with Aerial Datalinks
The RAF will upgrade its strike aircraft installing secure communications and datalinks in Tornado GR4 and Harrier GR9s. The British Ministry of Defense announced...
Astrium Demonstrates Air-Sat Lasercom Link
In Early December 2006 EADS Astrium conducted a first demonstration utilizing high capacity electro-optical (laser) datalinks connecting geostationary communications satellites and airborne platforms. The tests...
