May 28, 2021 | International, C4ISR
This new partnership comes as nations across Europe, and beyond, are targeting AI and big-data as key enabling technologies for future military capabilities.
May 29, 2024 | International, Land
The new buy is part of a plan to fortify Poland's borders with Russia and Belarus, with sensors watching for threats as far as 1,000 kilometers away.
October 4, 2018 | International, Aerospace
+ VIDEO - Airbus Defense a fait voler pour la première fois une escadrille de cinq drones associés à un avion, qui préfigurent le système de combat aérien du futur. Le long chantier du futur système de combat aérien européen est bel et bien lancé. Alors que la France et l'Allemagne ont confié, en avril dernier, à Airbus et Dassault Aviation la conception du programme SCAF , combinant un nouvel avion de combat et tous ses appendices, Airbus DS, la branche militaire du groupe aéronautique, vient de franchir une étape importante. Pour la première fois, Airbus est parvenu à faire voler ensemble et de... Article complet: https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/0302346339244-airbus-teste-deja-des-briques-du-futur-systeme-de-combat-aerien-2210538.php
July 30, 2020 | International, Aerospace
Nathan Strout WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space to build an advanced weather satellite prototype that can provide the military with theater weather imaging and cloud characterization, the company announced July 22. The Next Generation Electro-Optical Infrared Weather Satellite is intended to replace the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, or DMSP, a series of satellites that have provided weather data for military operations since the 1960s. In 2015, Congress directed the Air Force to replace DMSP with a new weather system. As of last year, the satellites in the DMSP constellation were reaching the end of their service life, and the Pentagon expressed concerns that they may not last until a new satellite is launched in 2024. ORS-8, a planned replacement slated to launch in 2020 in partnership with NASA, was canceled by the space agency following protests. A free-flying spacecraft that could help provide weather data in the interim was scrapped by the Pentagon last year in favor of a distributed low-Earth orbit architecture. Raytheon says it can design the new satellite in eight months by leveraging weather system technology used on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. Raytheon did not disclose the prototype contract value. “Our system will gather all the info needed to not only build an accurate weather forecast, but to really understand what's going on in the atmosphere — both of which are essential to planning and executing a mission,” said Wallis Laughrey, vice president of space and command-and-control systems at Raytheon Intelligence & Space. “Understanding clouds and cloud movement could be used for things as simple as route planning for air-to-air refueling or to know where clouds might be covering an area of interest.” https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2020/07/29/raytheon-designing-weather-satellite-prototype-for-the-space-force/