April 24, 2022 | International, Aerospace
Thales a obtenu la certification de type du système Spy'Ranger 330, délivré par l'autorité technique de navigabilité de la Direction générale de l'armement (DGA). Le Spy'Ranger 330 équipe l'armée de Terre française au titre du programme SMDR (Système de Mini-Drones de Reconnaissance). Le certificat de type permet à l'armée de Terre de former et entraîner les opérateurs du SMDR et de mettre en œuvre le système en opérations extérieures (OPEX), sans autorisation de vol spécifique et de manière pérenne. « Le système de mini-drones Spy'Ranger 330 offre aux forces armées les technologies d'imagerie les plus innovantes disponibles sur le marché », indique Thales. Le Spy'Ranger 330 a été conçu, développé, industrialisé et produit pour le programme SMDR sous maîtrise d'ouvrage de la DGA, par la filière française des systèmes de drones légers de contact. La famille Spy'Ranger répond aux besoins des unités de contact et de renseignement, engagées sur des thé'tres d'opérations extérieures. « Ces unités disposent ainsi d'une capacité d'appui au contact et de renseignement d'origine image combinant plusieurs éléments au sein d'un même système : un drone endurant et robuste, résistant aux environnements exigeants, une chaine image contribuant à la supériorité tactique, une liaison de données sécurisée et enfin, un système de contrôle/commande (C2) simple à opérer », explique Thales.
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September 6, 2023 | International, Land, C4ISR
The MoU aims at leveraging IAI and BEL’s capabilities, and is in sync with the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ policies of the Government of India.
January 21, 2021 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security
AIR FORCE The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, has been awarded a $2,124,531,149 modification (P00232) to contract FA8625-11-C-6600 for Lot 7 production KC-46 aircraft, subscriptions and licenses and G081 flat file. The modification provides for the exercise of an option for an additional quantity of 15 KC-46 aircraft, data, subscriptions and licenses, and G081 flat file being produced under the basic contract. Work will be performed in Seattle, Washington, and is expected to be completed May 31, 2024. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement funds in the full amount are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity. CORRECTION: The contract announced on Jan. 15, 2021, for Mile Two LLC, Dayton, Ohio, for $14,788,874, was listed with an incorrect contract number. The correct contract number is FA8650-21-C-6271. NAVY Detyens Shipyard Inc., Charleston, South Carolina, is awarded a $19,150,225 firm-fixed-price contract for a 76-calendar day shipyard availability. The work to be performed under this contract provides regular overhaul availability and dry-docking services for the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203). The contract also contains six unexercised options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $19,841,567. Work will be performed in Charleston, South Carolina, and is expected to be completed by June 4, 2021. Fiscal 2021 working capital contract funds (Navy) in the amount of $19,150,225 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the beta.SAM.gov website, with two proposals received. The Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N32205-21-C-4001). *Small business https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2477500/source/GovDelivery/
September 5, 2018 | International, Aerospace
Nick Brown, London Key Points Williams has built a transformable cockpit structure to help BAE Systems experiment with training approaches and assess new cockpit technologies The cockpit tool is part of a holistic approach BAE Systems is taking to improve products and training solutions, using team-based lessons from motorsport BAE Systems is completing integration work on a new cockpit simulator, which it plans to use as a “sandpit for innovation”, chief technologist Julia Sutcliffe told Jane's . The cockpit structure was designed and built by Williams Advanced Engineering using skills and methodologies honed by the Williams Formula 1 team. According to Williams' technical director, Paul McNamara, the design was influenced by the modularity of construction and heavily metricated human factors teamwork that is required for fast pit stops. This modularity will enable engineers to reconfigure the physical cockpit layout, controls, and components to replicate legacy aircraft such as the Hawk and Typhoon, swiftly tailor them for a range of pilot builds, and to experiment with innovative layouts and systems that might feed into the new Tempest future fighter programme, using live feedback from aircrew and engineers. Rather than being used in a traditional aircrew training simulator role, Sutcliffe explained that the new cockpit is designed to be an experimental “workhorse” to support BAE Systems' technology development and product roadmaps for a range of technologies and platforms. She added that “we wanted the ability to experiment with layouts that we can quickly reconfigure – front and back – without having to duck underneath [the cockpit installation] and reconnect wires and all sorts of stuff.” Stuart Olden, business development manager at Williams, told Jane's that this was underpinned by motorsport experience, with the company's whole-system design approach “enabling the maintainers and the operators of the simulator to gain access quickly to particular components to swap in, swap out, and change elements around”. https://www.janes.com/article/82764/bae-systems-draws-on-motorsport-experience-to-revolutionise-cockpit-development