Military

F-16 Getting GPS Anti-Jam from Rockwell Collins

The U.S. Defense Department has given Rockwell Collins a $30 million contract to upgrade F-16s with the company's digital GPS anti-jam receiver (DIGAR) for the U.S. Air Force Reserves and National Guard.…

Commercial

BVLOS Commercial Drone Flights Launch at Grand Sky

Grand Sky Drone Park at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota kicked off the country's first approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) large commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight operations Monday. To mark…

Embedded Avionics

USAF's New Prototype Antenna Subsystems Being Developed by SSL

SSL, a Maxar Technologies company and provider of satellite and spacecraft systems, will help define next-generation protected communications for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). SSL will develop, test and analyze…

Military

DOD Focused on Beating Russia, China in Hypersonics

The Pentagon’s effort to build hypersonic weapons by the early 2020s and ahead of near-peer competitors will require the services to be more direct with their industry partners to make improved use…

Military

BAE Moves Compass Call EW to Gulstream G550 Platform

BAE Systems has begun work to transition its advanced Compass Call electronic warfare (EW) system from aging Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules base aircraft to more modern special-mission Gulfstream G550s. As the mission…

Military

US Defense Avionics Contract Round-Up

Air Force General Electric received a $437 million modification to a contract for designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing complete, flight-weight adaptive engines. The contract modification is for the execution of next-generation adaptive-propulsion…