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US Marines, Northrop Grumman Team Complete G/ATOR Preliminary Design Review
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008The U.S. Marine Corps' new Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) moved an important step closer to production with the successful conclusion of the formal Preliminary Design Review (PDR) at Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector headquarters. G/ATOR is a highly mobile system intended to fully support the Marine Corps' expeditionary warfare requirements. The new multi-mission ... more Australia Sees Successful Upgrades To FA-18 Hornet Capability 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Minister for Defence, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP has announced that Australia's air capability has been further enhanced by the successful trialling of a new radar warning receiver and acceptance by Air Force of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) 'Smart Bomb'. The first production configured F/A-18 Hornet fitted with a new Radar Warning Receiver has successfully flown at RAAF ... more SKorea to buy radar to detect NKorea missiles 
Seoul (AFP) June 26, 2008South Korea's defence ministry on Thursday approved a project to buy an advanced radar system capable of detecting North Korean ballistic missiles, officials said. The green light came at a meeting between Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee and senior military policymakers and procurement officials, Lee's office said. The radar project is part of Seoul's efforts to build its own missile ... more DARPA Research Project To Advance Radar And Communications Systems 
Argonne IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2008The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing $1.4 million to a Phase III research project led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to develop high-performance integrated diamond microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors devices (CMOS) for radar and mobile communications using an developed and patented ... more New Radar Facility To Open 
Ellsworth AFB SD (AFNS) Jun 23, 2008Officials from the Ellsworth Air Force Base and Minot AFB, N.D., Radar Approach Control Facilities are preparing to open the Dakota Air Traffic Control Facility this summer here. The facility will be a noncontiguous, co-located RAPCON and will service both bases and the region. "The current Ellsworth RAPCON provides radar-based traffic service to all aircraft within 40 miles of Ellsw ... more |
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Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated key shipboard combat system components aboard the U.S. Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, PCU Freedom, with COMBATSS-21, the ship's core combat management system. Key components integrated with COMBATSS-21 include the radar, gun weapon system, missile launcher, decoy launcher, and electronic warfare system. The successful integration and ... more Jason-1 Will Make It's 30,000th Orbit 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2008The Jason-1 spacecraft will make its 30,000th science orbit this week. Revolution number 30,000 will begin at 10:27 UTC (3:27 a.m. PDT) on June 14th, 2008 and will be completed at 12:19 UTC (5:19 a.m. PDT). From its vantage point 1,336 kilometers (830 miles) above Earth, Jason-1 uses its radar altimeter to precisely measure the topography of the ocean surface. Jason-1 was launched December ... more China improving air drop ability after quake setbacks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The Chinese military has begun drills to improve its ability to parachute into disaster areas after its troops struggled during last month's earthquake, state media reported. The training, the first of its kind in China, began Wednesday and involved eight large aircraft delivering soldiers, vehicles, radar and other equipment, the Xinhua news agency said. The People's Liberation Army has ... more Space Radar To Improve Mining Safety 
Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Advanced ground penetration radar, originally developed to investigate the soil structure on the Moon and other planets on ESA planetary missions, is now being used in Canadian mines to spot hidden cracks and weaknesses in mine roofs. Using space technology developed for ESA for the special ground penetration radar GINGER (Guidance and Into-the-Ground Exploration Radar) that will be ... more Northrop Grumman Supplies Navigation Systems For Offshore Supply Vessels 
London, UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Northrop Grumman has won orders to supply electronic navigation systems for four new offshore supply vessels to be built in Brazil. The contract was awarded to Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit. The Sperry Marine navigation package includes radars, autopilot, speed and heading sensors, and other equipment. Vision Marine Ltda, Sperry Marine's sales and service ... more |
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Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy. This is the beginning of the article "Mars North Polar Deposits: Stratigraphy, Age and Geodynamical Response", published Friday on Science and prepared by a team of Italian and USA scientists, among which the radar scientific responsible, Dr. Roberto Seu, a scie ... more Russian ABM Plans Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) May 21, 2008 Russia's A-135 Anti-Ballistic Missile system, capable of coping with intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles, was developed and commissioned in 1995 and 1996, respectively. The system hinged on the Don-2N multi-role radar and a command computer inside a truncated tetrahedral pyramid. Silo-based missile interceptors were deploy ... more Raytheon And US Navy Sign Phalanx Close-In Weapon System Contract 
Louisville KY (SPX) May 19, 2008Raytheon has been awarded a $61.1 million U.S. Navy contract to purchase radar upgrade kits and other spare parts for the Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems. Sixty- eight radar kits will be procured for use with the sea-based Phalanx and the Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System. Phalanx is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled radar and 20 mm gun system that automatically acquires, tracks ... more Raytheon Develops Technology To Help Aircraft Protect Ground Forces 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 16, 2008The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has authorized Raytheon to demonstrate target recognition technology designed to increase protection for ground forces without compounding risk to an aircraft stalking enemies who threaten those forces. First in a laboratory and then aloft, the company expects to show how its Air-to-Ground Radar Imaging II program would permit aircraft at a safe ... more Cassini Radar Peers Through Haze Of Saturn Moon Titan 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2008Cassini completed a successful flyby of Titan on May 12, at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), for the first of two Titan northern hemisphere flybys that will wrap up the original four-year mission. On this flyby, Cassini's radar instrument mapped the bright region of Xanadu, which was only partly imaged previously. This overlap in coverage may yield stereo views of the ... more
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