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Raytheon To Supply 16 AESA Radars To Boeing For USAF And Air National Guard F-15Cs
El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon's active electronically scanned array radar team has secured additional wins to advance further the company's AESA radar business. Raytheon will provide a next-production lot of advanced F-15C radar systems to the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. The contracts with Boeing, worth just in excess of $89.5 million, authorize production of eight APG-63(V)3 AESA radar systems for ... more Raytheon To Operate And Sustain X-Band Radars 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon has been awarded two task orders worth $28.3 million as part of a Missile Defense Agency indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract to operate and sustain the agency's X-Band radars as part of the Consolidated Contractor Logistics Services program. The contract has a potential value of up to $1.9 billion over 10 years. The contract award signifies a long-term partnership be ... more Brazil, Germany To Develop Night-Vision Radar Satellite 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (XNA) Mar 18, 2008Brazil and Germany have signed an agreement to develop a night-vision radar satellite to observe the Amazon region, the National Space Research Institute said Sunday. The INPE plans to build the Multiple Application Synthetic Aperture Radar with the help of the German Space Center over 18 months, in the second satellite project undertaken by the two nations. The 500-kg satellite ... more Great Splitting Icebergs 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. A huge fissure was spotted running south to north through the berg on 1 March by C-CORE, the Canadian ice-tracking service, while studying satellite images collected from Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument ... more Japan deploys sixth high-tech Aegis destroyer 
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2008Japan put into service Thursday its sixth destroyer equipped with the high-tech Aegis radar system, three weeks after an identical vessel rammed and sank a tuna boat killing two fishermen. The US-developed Aegis system can track incoming missiles by radar. It is seen as Japan's frontline defence against nuclear-armed North Korea. The 7,750-tonne destroyer Ashigara was handed over to the ... more |
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San Jose CA (SPX) Mar 12, 2008SpeedInfo has announced that it has deployed its real-time traffic data service in Ventura County, under contract with the Ventura County Transportation Commission. SpeedInfo has installed 90 solar-powered Doppler radar sensors along Highways 23, 33, 126, 118 and 101 providing comprehensive traffic speed coverage for over 270 miles of roads in Ventura County. "We reviewed proposals ... more Northrop Grumman Ships First Beyond-Line-of-Sight IP Network To US Air Force E-8C Fleet 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Northrop Grumman has delivered a new airborne broadband capability to the U.S. Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft fleet. The first two aircraft have been equipped with the Internet Protocol-based Beyond-Line-of-Sight communications system, which provides chat, e-mail, web-browsing capabilities and access to the U.S. Department of ... more Radar Satellite Provides Clear View Of Traffic Even In Dark And Fog 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2008The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has begun several months of tests into the feasibility of obtaining traffic information via satellite. The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X is going to monitor selected sections of motorways in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and California. The aim of this project is to develop a procedure for large-scale traffic data capture that could assist car navigation systems and much more ... more Steps Towards Warship Invisibility 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships to be virtually invisible to the human eye, to dodge roaming radars, put heat-seeking missiles off the scent, disguise their own sound vibrations and even reduce the way ... more NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes Of Future Moon Crew 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2008NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters (66 feet) per pixel. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., collected the data using the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California's Mojave Desert. The imagery generated by the data has been incorpo ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 25, 2008Boeing received full acceptance of its SBInet Project 28 border security prototype Thursday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A demonstration of the SBInet security solution, P28 networks cameras, radars, sensors and communications along 28 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border near Sasabe, Ariz. Developed as a proof-of-concept of Boeing's overall SBInet technology solution ... more US military investigates stealth bomber crash 
Canberra (AFP) Feb 23, 2008The US military was investigating on Saturday after a B-2 stealth bomber crashed on take-off from the Pacific island of Guam, the first such incident involving the futuristic craft. Both pilots on board ejected safely as the 1.2-billion-dollar radar-evading plane, with its distinctive triangular shape, went down at Andersen airbase on the remote island, the US air force said. ... more Image From Tornado May Lead To Precise Storm Warnings 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 25, 2008An unexpected radar image of airborne debris from the Feb. 6 tornado that killed four people in Lawrence County, Ala., might help scientists develop better tools for warning the public when and where strong tornadoes are on the ground. Scientists in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) are studying radar data from the early morning tornado ... more NASA And Northrop Grumman Partner To Measure The Immeasurable 
Annapolis, MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2008Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector in a ceremony in the Miller Senate Building, Presidential Conference Center West at the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis. Through the agreement, researchers from the two ... more Counter-IED Effort Helps Drive 23 Billion Dollar EW Systems Market 
Newtown CT (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Over the next 10 years, an estimated $23 billion will be spent on the development and production of major EW programs, according to Forecast International's "The Market for Electronic Warfare Systems." Some 35,814 units of leading electronic countermeasures, radar warning receivers, electronic support measures, and other EW systems that make up this analysis are expected to be ... more
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