by Joe Katzman | Oct 11, 2005 | Boeing, DARPA, Design Innovations, Events, Industry & Trends, New Systems Tech, R&D - Private, Robots, Science - Basic Research, T&C - SAIC, USA
Keine Fahrvergnugen The challenge: build a robotic vehicle that can successfully navigate a (132 mile) course across the Mojave Desert in less than 10 hours without human intervention, selecting its route, staying on course, and avoiding a challenging set of obstacles...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 11, 2005 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Forces - Strategic, L3 Communications, Nuclear Weapons, Scandals & Investigations, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Testing & Evaluation, USA
“Odd, the test logshowed no issues…”(click to view full) In April 2005, L-3 Communicatons subsidiary Interstate Electronics Corp. in Anaheim, CA was placed under criminal investigation for providing faulty parts to the CSEL search and rescue GPS/...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 11, 2005 | IT - Cyber-Security, Security & Secrecy, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
Federal Computer Week notes that “Defense and industry officials describe DOD networks as the Achilles’ heel of the powerful U.S. military. Securing military networks is even more critical in an increasingly transformed military in which information is as...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 10, 2005 | Australia & S. Pacific, C4ISR, China, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, Interoperability, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Transformation, Warfare - Trends
Wedgetail over Sydney(click to view full) Defense transformation and the move toward network-centric warfare (NCW) is on the agenda of countries as diverse as the USA, Britain, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, et. al. On October 6, 2005, Lt. Gen. David Hurley...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 10, 2005 | Americas - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Signals Radio & Wireless, T&C - IBM, Transformation
Bushmaster IMV(click to view full) General Dynamics Canada, along with its Australian partners ADI Limited and Tenix Defence, has been selected as the Preferred Prime System Integrator for the first phase of Australia’s Battlespace Communications System (Land)...
