A Fury 1500 tactical unmanned aircraft system from AME Unmanned Air Systems (AME UAS) transmitted live, full-motion video to a ground terminal over a high-bandwidth commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) satellite communications (SATCOM) link. Continue reading
Category Archives: Data Links & Communications
Satellite Companies See Growth Potential with UAS
Unmanned aircraft are now considered potential tools in everything from border security to scientific research. Continue reading
Airborne Innovations Launches Subminiature High Definition Video Link for UAS
Airborne Innovations has announced the latest addition to its product portfolio, the MicroraptorHD. Continue reading
Cubic Gets $4M Contract to Produce Compact Digital Data Link for MQ-8C Fire Scout
Cubic Defense Applications, a defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, received a $3.7 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to produce a new multiband digital data link system for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. Continue reading
GA-ASI Gets $27M Predator Primary Data Link Upgrades US Air Force Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is being awarded $26,767,748 firm-fixed-price (86 percent) cost plus incentive fee (14 percent) contract for the Predator Primary Data Link configuration upgrades on MD-1A/B ground control station retrofit kits. Continue reading
AAI Gets $46.5M Shadow Data Link Retrofit Kits Contract from US Army
AAI Corp. was awarded a $46,524,041 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure tactical command data link retrofit kits for the Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
FreeWave’s New Series of Long Range Wireless Radios for Unmanned Systems
FreeWave Technologies has announced the Spartan Series of wireless radios for the government and defence markets, incorporating advanced implementation of FIPS 140-2 encryption technology for secure long-range communications. Continue reading
Googlizing Military Intelligence Data
Instead of a human analyst slogging through (maybe) 10 three-page documents in an hour, Modus Operandi has developed its military intelligence “Googlizing” system, which has been “trained” via machine learning and enabled by a semantic analysis engine to provide the military intelligence community a way to quickly conduct military intelligence searches – as simply as one would do an ordinary Google search on a home computer. Continue reading