UAE enlists L3Harris to help it become machine learning, AI hub

UAE enlists L3Harris to help it become machine learning, AI hub
UAE enlists L3Harris to help it become machine learning, AI hub

At IDEX 2023, the United Arab Emirates’ Tawazun Council announced the opening of a new “intelligence center” for defense forces.

Taking lessons from Ukraine, British Army upgrades its radios

Taking lessons from Ukraine, British Army upgrades its radios
Taking lessons from Ukraine, British Army upgrades its radios

The £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.

‘Tactical tanker’: Why L3Harris, Embraer think KC-390 offering can dodge new tanker wars

‘Tactical tanker’: Why L3Harris, Embraer think KC-390 offering can dodge new tanker wars
‘Tactical tanker’: Why L3Harris, Embraer think KC-390 offering can dodge new tanker wars

“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.

‘Decision superiority’: Air Force picks 5 companies to develop ABMS digital infrastructure

‘Decision superiority’: Air Force picks 5 companies to develop ABMS digital infrastructure
‘Decision superiority’: Air Force picks 5 companies to develop ABMS digital infrastructure

“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.”

L3Harris teams with Brazil’s Embraer to bring KC-390 tanker to US market

L3Harris teams with Brazil’s Embraer to bring KC-390 tanker to US market
L3Harris teams with Brazil’s Embraer to bring KC-390 tanker to US market

L3Harris 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.

L3Harris, Raytheon win phase 2 contracts for next-gen ISR aerial sensors

L3Harris, Raytheon win phase 2 contracts for next-gen ISR aerial sensors
L3Harris, Raytheon win phase 2 contracts for next-gen ISR aerial sensors

The sensors under development will integrate onto the Army’s well-known HADES aerial ISR program, designed to conduct “deep” intelligence gathering and target tracking.

L3Harris Sky Warden attack plane wins SOCOM’s Armed Overwatch program

L3Harris Sky Warden attack plane wins SOCOM’s Armed Overwatch program
L3Harris Sky Warden attack plane wins SOCOM’s Armed Overwatch program

L3 Harris could produce up to 75 AT-802U Sky Warden aircraft to replace US Special Operations Command’s U-28 Draco.

AFRL’s little NTS-3 test satellite holds 100 possibilities to help secure or backup GPS

AFRL’s little NTS-3 test satellite holds 100 possibilities to help secure or backup GPS
AFRL’s little NTS-3 test satellite holds 100 possibilities to help secure or backup GPS

“We know that the way of warfare has changed, and we’re going to be having difficulties with jamming, and having difficulties getting our position navigation and timing signals to our warfighters,” said AFRL Director Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle.

Seeing in the dark: Space Force works, slowly, to improve monitoring of the heavens

Seeing in the dark: Space Force works, slowly, to improve monitoring of the heavens
Seeing in the dark: Space Force works, slowly, to improve monitoring of the heavens

Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its “old clunker” SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.

Key space monitoring sensors still rely on outdated CAVENet computer system

Key space monitoring sensors still rely on outdated CAVENet computer system
Key space monitoring sensors still rely on outdated CAVENet computer system

At 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.  

L3Harris in talks with Saudi Arabia over new spy plane, C-130 upgrades

L3Harris in talks with Saudi Arabia over new spy plane, C-130 upgrades
L3Harris in talks with Saudi Arabia over new spy plane, C-130 upgrades

“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.

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JADC2: The art of filling gaps

JADC2: The art of filling gaps
JADC2: The art of filling gaps

Data 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.

Pentagon’s POET in space wraps orbital data fusion demo

Pentagon’s POET in space wraps orbital data fusion demo
Pentagon’s POET in space wraps orbital data fusion demo

On-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.

Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear

Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear
Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear

Space Development Agency will soon issue a request for proposals for the first 28 of its own missile tracking satellites in Low Earth Orbit, the agency’s chief said.