Laser technology has yet to mature, and many enhancements are left to be made. Everything lasers can do currently is still improving at a rapid rate and new techniques to improve lasers are still in the works. One such new technique is beam combining, which blends several laser streams into one high-power beam.
Category Archives: Data Links & Communications
UAS Navigation System Without GPS
Known as Navigation via Signals of Opportunity (NAVSOP), BAE Systems’ new system is able to calculate its position by making use of the hundreds of different signals that are all around us. Continue reading
Small UAS Vulnerable to Hi-Jacking
A small unmanned surveillance aircraft flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. By all appearances, the mission is routine. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Gets $2.6M DCGS Integration Backbone Upgrade Contract
With the help of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Department of Defense is making major strides in its ongoing initiative to quickly and efficiently share the vast volume of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data available to users with access to the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). Continue reading
Robert Dewar of AdaCore on UAS, Software and Security
The security and reliability of unmanned aircraft is of considerable concern, especially when are increasingly employed in public airspace.
Surrogate UAS Prepares For Maiden Flight In UK Airspace
A Jetstream aircraft known as ‘The Flying Test Bed’, which can fly as if it were a UAS , is undergoing a series of flight trials in preparation for the first maiden flight of a surrogate UAS in UK shared airspace later this year. Continue reading
RT Logic Launches New 250 MHz Bandwidth RF Channel Simulator for Satellite Wideband Signal Assurance
RT Logic, a subsidary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., has launched its newest, most powerful and widest bandwidth RF Channel Simulator. Continue reading
Thales’ TMA 6000 Wideband Airborne Datalink Terminal Gets US Certification
Thales has announced the STANAG 7085 certification of its TMA 6000 wideband airborne datalink terminal by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), making the TMA 6000 the first European terminal of its kind to obtain certification in the United States. Continue reading