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  January 21, 2019 | International, Aerospace

  Thales à bord du standard F4 du Rafale

  Par Justine BOQUET Thales participe au développement des capacités du Rafale dans le cadre du contrat standard F4. Le 18 janvier, Thales a annoncé sa participation au développement du standard F4 du Rafale. Aux côtés de Dassault Aviation et de Safran, Thales a ainsi été notifié par la DGA « pour le développement des futurs capteurs et systèmes de communication qui seront à bord du Rafale au standard F4 » a annoncé Thales. L'un des enjeux majeurs du standard F4 repose sur la connectivité et le partage de données. Cela est d'autant plus vrai alors que nous nous dirigeons vers le développement de systèmes de systèmes, fonctionnant en réseau. Le programme SCAF (système de combat aérien du futur) illustre cette tendance. « Thales travaillera notamment à l'introduction de la radio CONTACT, d'un serveur de communication intelligent sécurisé et d'une solution de transmission par satellites (SATCOM) via Syracuse IV » annonce Thales. Afin de prendre en compte l'évolution des menaces et renforcer les capacités du Rafale, Thales poursuivra le développement du système de guerre électronique SPECTRA. « Le radar à antenne active RBE2 verra son emploi amélioré notamment pour ses capacités en mode air/sol. Quant à la nacelle optronique TALIOS, l'Intelligence Artificielle permettra un traitement en vol presque en instantané des données collectées pour extraire et identifier les cibles », ajoute Thales. Le traitement des informations collectées par les capteurs du Rafale sera donc amélioré et permettra aux pilotes d'appréhender au mieux la situation opérationnelle. Enfin, les technologies développées par Thales participeront également à la maintenance prédictive et au MCO du Rafale standard F4. « Prévoir les défaillances avant qu'elles ne surviennent, tel est l'enjeu auquel nous devons répondre à bord du Rafale au standard F4 », précise Thales. http://www.air-cosmos.com/thales-a-bord-du-standard-f4-du-rafale-119443

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  March 26, 2019 | International, Aerospace

  Pentagon: We’re Buying Boeing F-15s to Keep 2 Fighter Makers in Business

  BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The acting defense secretary's ties to the company had nothing to do with the decision, a senior defense official said Friday. The decision to buy new Boeing F-15s reflects the Pentagon's desire to keep two American companies making fighter jets into the next decade — and not the acting defense secretary's ties to the company, a senior defense official said Friday. The 2020 budget request contains $1.1 billion to buy eight F-15X jets, a new variant of an aircraft the Air Force last bought nearly a decade ago. The twin-tailed plane was chosen over Lockheed's cheaper single-engine F-16 in part to keep a second U.S. manufacturer in the tactical-jet business as the Pentagon begins exploring new technologies for a new generation of warplanes, the official said. “One of the considerations was the diversity of the industrial base,” the official said. “If we look at something as important as the tactical aircraft industrial base and we look forward into sixth-generation [fighter] production and competition and that kind of stuff,...gaining diversity in that industrial base is going to be critical.” The senior defense official emphasized that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who formerly worked as a Boeing executive, was not involved in the decision to buy the F-15X. Full article: https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/03/pentagon-were-buying-f-15s-keep-2-fighter-makers-business/155773

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  August 9, 2019 | International, Aerospace

  The $25 million contract will provide a system that supports the military’s complex weather prediction workloads.

  By Brandi Vincent, Through a strategic partnership unveiled Wednesday, the U.S. Air Force and Oak Ridge National Lab will acquire a high-performance supercomputing system from Cray Inc. that aims to improve weather forecasting for Air Force and Army operations across the globe. Under the $25 million contract, the new system—called HPC11—will bring supercomputing-as-a-service to the Air Force's 557th Weather Wing, which creates and supplies comprehensive terrestrial and space weather information to the two military branches. “The system's performance will be a significant increase over the existing [high-performance computing] capability and will provide Air Force weather operators with the ability to run the next generation of high-resolution, global and regional models, and satisfy existing and emerging warfighter needs for environmental impacts to operations planning,” Steven Wert, an Air Force official and member of the senior executive service said in a statement. The system is expected to help the Air Force execute its mission more effectively by offering new features that support the military's complex weather prediction workloads. Official expect the system to improve forecasts and weather threat assessments that insiders rely on. Supercomputer manufacturer Cray also recently announced it's delivering the world's fastest supercomputer to the Energy Department by 2021, which it plans to outfit with a first-of-its-kind storage system that can hold more than an exabyte of data. “This is a great example of the upcoming Exascale Era bringing a new set of technologies to bear on challenging problems and empowering the Air Force to more effectively execute on its important mission,” Cray's President and CEO Peter Ungaro said. The system is expected to be delivered at the end of the year and accepted in early 2020. The company also announced Wednesday that the Defense Department selected it for two contracts—together valued at $46 million—to provide supercomputer systems to accelerate research and development at the Army Research Lab, and the Army Engineering and Research Development Center. https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/08/air-force-and-oak-ridge-get-supercomputer-better-weather-forecasts/159037/