At IDEX 2023, the United Arab Emirates’ Tawazun Council announced the opening of a new “intelligence center” for defense forces.
By Agnes HelouThe £90 million ($103 million) contract includes the delivery of more than 1,300 AN/PRC-163 handheld and AN/PRC-167 manpack software defined radios to the British military.
By Andrew White“This will easily be Buy American Act [compliant]. It’s not even going to be close,” L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik said of the effort with Brazil’s Embraer.
By Aaron Mehta“The purpose behind this is really to lay in the digital infrastructure to improve decision making and accelerate kill chains, kill webs…against a near peer threat,”said Vinnie DiFronzo, SAIC’s senior vice president of operations. “So it really comes down to decision superiority as an initial objective.”
By Jaspreet GillL3Harris believes that the KC-390 could be a key piece of the Air Force’s next-generation KC-Z family of tankers due to its smaller size and ability to operate in austere environments.
By Valerie InsinnaThe sensors under development will integrate onto the Army’s well-known HADES aerial ISR program, designed to conduct “deep” intelligence gathering and target tracking.
By Andrew EversdenL3 Harris could produce up to 75 AT-802U Sky Warden aircraft to replace US Special Operations Command’s U-28 Draco.
By Valerie InsinnaSpace Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its “old clunker” SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
By Theresa HitchensAt the moment it is unclear when Space Force and Space Command actually will decommission CAVEnet, 2000s-era tech that analysts use for highly accurate and classified tracking of space objects.
By Theresa Hitchens“We like to think that there will be contracts [with Saudi Arabia] announced before the end of the year. But the acquisition process here goes through its own speed. It will be a direct commercial sale,” said Charles Davis, senior vice president at L3Harris International.
By Riad KahwajiData has been, arguably, the US military’s most valuable-but-untapped resource since the founding of the US Army in 1787 and the US Navy a decade later.
By Breaking DefenseOn-board, or “edge,” processing is key to SDA’s plans to develop a satellite network that can gather data from multiple sensors on the ground, at sea and in space to provide operators with precise, near-real-time targeting information.
By Theresa Hitchens