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  13 octobre 2020 | International, Aérospatial

  Défense : des Euroflir 410 pour les gendarmes aussi

  Jean-Marc Tanguy Safran Electronics & Defense va encore allonger la série des ventes de ses boules optroniques Euroflir 410. Cette fois, ce sont les gendarmes qui vont la retenir pour leurs Airbus Helicopters H160. Boules optroniques sur H160 A défaut de plan de relance, certains industriels français de la défense voient des commandes parfois imprévues tomber. C'est le cas pour Safran Electronics & Defense qui va encore allonger la série des ventes de boules optroniques Euroflir 410 : cette fois, ce sont les gendarmes qui vont la retenir pour leurs dix Airbus Helicopters H160. Un tiers de ces hélicoptères devra être opérationnel avant les JO de Paris en 2024. L'expérience Wescam Les gendarmes avaient fait confiance à Safran (Sagem à l'époque) pour leurs premières caméras embarquées, sur Ecureuil, mais leurs performances avaient vite perdu, et le système avait été retiré du service dans les années 2010, avec le matériel de transmission en temps réel afférent. La gendarmerie avait alors reporté son intérêt sur l'Américain Wescam. La boule MX-15 est efficace, mais a connu, en France en tout cas, des difficultés de service après-vente qui ont sans doute pesé lourd dans la balance. Restent les Fennec de l'Armée de l'Air Seulement, la préférence nationale post covid-19 y est aussi pour beaucoup, et il devient plus difficile de faire accepter des commandes de produits étrangers quand la France est productrice. Le choix de l'Euroflir 410 s'inscrit après les commandes françaises sur les Panther, puis le système de drone tactique de l'Armée de Terre (dont l'entrée en service est décalée de près de quatre ans/ndlr), puis les Dauphin loués par la Marine (une caméra pour deux hélicoptères), les quatre H160 de la Marine, et donc, désormais, la gendarmerie. La série n'est pas finie, Safran Electronics & Defense ambitionnant aussi de se placer sur les Fennec de l'Armée de l'Air. Airbus Helicopters Safran Electronics & Defense H160M AS 555 Fennec https://www.air-cosmos.com/article/dfense-des-euroflir-410-pour-les-gendarmes-aussi-23722

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  17 août 2020 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité

  New Pentagon tech chief to focus on improving project coordination

  By: Andrew Eversden   WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's new acting research chief wants to provide the department's vast research and development enterprise with a “north star road map” amid an effort to adopt emerging technologies ahead of adversaries. Speaking on a webinar hosted by Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, newly installed acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios said that he will focus on providing top-level guidance to the host of organizations that make up the Defense Department's R&D efforts. Those organizations include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and service laboratories. Kratsios said a team of principal directors are working to establish road maps for individual technologies. “To me, what's critical is that R&E can serve as a place where we can sort of adjudicate disagreements between individual organizations, make sure they're working on these that complement each other, making sure that similar research isn't being done at multiple different labs,” Kratsios said Thursday in his first public speech since taking over the office from Michael Griffin, who left the position in July. The Pentagon's R&E team has laid out several modernization priorities that include emerging technologies, including advancements in hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, 5G network connectivity and cyberspace. As different components across the department advance the maturity of these technologies, Kratsios said, his office will ensure modernization areas are not siloed. “The way that we succeed and provide the best tools for the war fighter is understanding that these technologies are going to interact with one another,” Kratsios said. “Even when, for example, you want to launch a hypersonic missile, that requires so much other important technology that all needs to be done and working together in concert. So for me, it's really building those relationships between those individual modernization priorities and making sure they don't remain stovepiped.” Kratsios still serves as the U.S. chief technology officer at the White House, a position he's held since August 2019. He has advised President Donald Trump on technology issues since early 2017. In that experience, Kratsios said, he's learned about the importance of looking across R&D efforts throughout the federal government, pointing to the research done by the National Science Foundation or the Energy Department on artificial intelligence as examples. “What I've learned is that in order to get the most out of the federal government's technology ecosystem to drive innovation ... you need to be better coordinated across all aspects of the ecosystem,” Kratsios said. https://www.defensenews.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/13/new-pentagon-tech-chief-to-focus-on-improving-project-coordination/

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  1 février 2023 | International, Aérospatial

  DARPA, AFRL, Lockheed Martin And Aerojet Rocketdyne Teams Second Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon Concept Launched From B-52 Accomplishes All Test Objectives

  The system performed as predicted travelling more than 300 nautical miles and reaching altitudes above 60,000 feet