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BAE Systems to support US Navy with enhanced radio communications & C5ISR capabilities

Maritime February 20, 2020

The US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) has awarded BAE Systems a prime position on a $212 million contract to integrate and sustain its critical communication systems. BAE Systems will design, acquire, integrate, and test radio systems for newly constructed Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG) and other US Navy ...

Dstl teams up with US Navy to develop space weather sensing suite

Air January 27, 2020

Dstl has teamed up with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop a space weather sensing suite. Dstl has developed a miniature space weather sensing suite alongside the NRL to enhance measurement and modelling methods. The Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction Cubesat Experiment (CIRCE) comprises two 6U cube-satellites that will be launched ...

Machine Inc., Raytheon, and Major Tool collaborate on missile defence radars

Maritime January 20, 2020

Raytheon has teamed up with Major Tool and Machine Inc. to develop structures for SPY-6 missile defence radars for the US Navy. Raytheon has signed an agreement with Major Tool and Machine Inc. to create structures for SPY-6 missile defence radars for when the programme transitions from low-rate initial production to ...

NASA collaborates with US Navy to produce images of the sun

Air December 12, 2019

NASA worked with the Naval Research laboratory (NRL) to produce detailed images of the sun with a solar probe. The NRL’s Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) took detailed images of the sun on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission. Images captured include the dust-free zone around the sun, magnetic flux ...