Northrop Grumman has contracted Thinklogical —a manufacturers of high performance fibre optic KVM solutions—to provide key infrastructure systems for use in the U.S. Navy’s “broad area maritime surveillance” (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system.
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DARPA Selects SRI International to Develop Visual Intelligence System for Mind’s Eye Programme
SRI International is leading a team to design a visual intelligence system, known as VIGIL (Visual Intelligence Grounded in Learning), to enable a new era in unmanned robotic surveillance.
The SRI team is being funded through the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Mind’s Eye programme.
Raytheon Begins Production of Airborne Hyperspectral Sensor for U.S. Air Force
Raytheon Company has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce the first airborne tactical hyperspectral sensor system. The Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral, also known as ACES HY, is an infrared sensor system developed to identify targets based on their spectral characteristics.
Northrop Grumman and SELEX Galileo Sign for MOU Directional Infrared Counter Measures
Northrop Grumman Corporation and SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at jointly pursuing the international directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) market.
ESG Presents New Technology for UAS at Paris Air Show
At the 49th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget this week, ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH will be presenting its comprehensive service portfolio as a Design Organisation for the design, development, integration and logistic support of customised avionics, mission and IT systems for manned and unmanned aviation systems.
Northrop Grumman Firebird Can Use 3 HD Video Sensors Plus 4th Sensor Payload
The Northrop Grumman Corporation OPA Firebird intelligence-gathering air system successfully used three different high-definition video sensors and an electronics support payload all at the same time – a future capability sought by the U.S. military that’s available today.
LWIR Hyperspectral Imager Reveals Camouflaged and Hidden objects
Spectral Imaging, Ltd., announced that it has delivered the world’s most compact, high-performance Long-Wave Infrared, LWIR Hyperspectral Imager to a Defence Customer in a strategic geographical location.
3D Imaging from Pix4D
The Pix4D imaging system uses a small unmanned aircraft to acquire several hundred 2D photographs of a given geographical area. Those photos are then merged into one image, which users can explore in three dimensions on a computer screen.