by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, C4ISR, DARPA, Design Innovations, IT - Software & Integration, Land Equipment, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Project Successes, R&D - Contracted, R&D - Private, Simulation & Training, UAVs, USA
Mapping Enemy Territory:Downtown Berkeley Imagine if the first soldiers to enter an enemy city could map it street by street, recording every window and doorway of the urban battlefield in an accurate 3D model that could instantly be relayed to their comrades at base...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Domestic Security, Expeditionary Warfare, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Science - Basic Research, Sensors & Guidance, UAVs, USA
SWARM UAV Alion Science and Technology Corp. in Chicago, IL won a $20 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for technical services to “develop an intelligent control system for swarming unmanned vehicles to demonstrate...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2005 | Forces - Marines, Other Corporation, Scandals & Investigations, Soldier's Gear, USA
Interceptor OTV(click to enlarge) The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) bought 19,000 torso-protecting Interceptor Alpha “outer tactical vests” from Point Blank Body Armor Inc. of Pompano Beach, FL. The vests recently failed tests by military ballistics experts...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2005 | Forces - Space, Forces - Strategic, GPS Infrastructure, Lockheed Martin, Outer Space, Satellites & Sensors, USA
GPS 2R-M Satellite The Lockheed Martin-built GPS 2R-M1 spacecraft was supposed to launch from Cape Canaveral in May 2002 aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket, but issues involving internal components have put the brakes on the $75 million mission. Problems included: * A...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2005 | After-Action Reviews, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Private, Sensors & Guidance, Soldier's Gear, USA
Colonel Jeffrey A. Powers, CEO of Homeland Security Technology in San Diego, CA, recently announced that HST has signed a marketing/ reselling agreement with GPS World Supply of West Chicago, IL, to offer an exclusive line of rugged, custom packaged GPS devices...
