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Sensors

  • 2nd Lt. Timothy, a remotely piloted aircraft student pilot, operates an MQ-9 flight simulator for training Dec. 10, 2019, on Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The 49th Wing is the largest formal training unit for MQ-9 RPA pilots and sensor operators. (Airman 1st Class Quion Lowe/Air Force)
    Air Force doesn’t have enough drone pilots or sensor operators, GAO says

    The shortage of drone pilots and sensor operators is making it harder for the Air Force to balance those airmen’s time between engaging in combat operations and conducting non-combat activities.

    Stephen Losey
    June 26
  • Paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct a systems check on their VROD/VMAX electronic warfare equipment before conducting a tactical exercise at the recently concluded Network Integration Exercise. Paratroopers from the brigade conducted NIE as a large-scale evaluation of what may become the Army’s next generation of Mission Command technology.
    Where the next iteration of the Army’s network capabilities is heading

    The Army is finishing up a list of requirements for technologies it needs for the next round of its network modernization capabilities, known as Capability Set 23.

    Andrew Eversden
    May 7
  • Concept art from Northrop Grumman shows a potential architecture for defending against hypersonic missiles. (Northrop Grumman)
    Three obstacles are slowing space sensors for hypersonic threats

    Three obstacles impede progress on America's ability to track both emerging hypersonic missiles and today’s ballistic missile threats.

    Melanie Marlowe
    April 8
  • New Hampshire Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joseph Chase, a flightline crew chief with the 157th Maintenance Squadron, marshals the Wing's fifth and newest KC-46A air refueling tanker upon its arrival from Boeing, Feb. 7, 2020. (Tech. Sgt. Aaron Vezeau/U.S. Air National Guard)
    Done deal: Boeing will have to rip and replace KC-46 sensor and camera systems on its own dime

    Boeing will have to do a comprehensive redesign of the Remote Vision System's hardware and software.

    Valerie Insinna
    April 2
  • BAE Systems announced in March 2020 that is was awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin to design and manufacture next-generation infrared seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system. (Courtesy of BAE Systems)
    BAE nabs next-gen seeker design work for US Army’s missile defense system

    BAE Systems has won a contract from Lockheed Martin to design a next-generation seeker for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system.

    Jen Judson
    March 17
  • A full-scale mock-up of Raytheon's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, a next-generation radar to defeat advanced threats like hypersonic weapons. The company completed a first round of testing of the first partially populated radar antenna array less than five months after the U.S. Army selected the company to build the radar. (Courtesy of Raytheon)
    Raytheon plows ahead to build US Army’s future radar

    Raytheon's first Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor antenna array has passed through initial tests and heads to outdoor testing.

    Jen Judson
    March 17
  • FORT BELVOIR, Virginia - Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston runs through a shooting scenario with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. (Todd South/Military Times)
    Top enlisted soldier tries 'do-it-all’ goggle being tested by Army, Marines

    The Army wants to begin buying 40,000 sets of IVAS starting next year.

    Todd South
    February 19
  • Soldiers take the Integrated Visual Augmentation System into realistic training scenarios at Fort Pickett, Virginia, in early April. (Army)
    The Army wants to buy 40,000 ‘mixed reality’ goggles

    The goggle would go to "top tier" Army units first.

    Todd South
    February 11
  • The systems will help the service to see electronically through enemy radar and missile systems.
    What the Army wants in a multidomain system

    The Army wants to know if industry can provide a series of sensors for the service’s largest unmanned platform as a way to help see past enemy defenses.

    Mark Pomerleau
    December 30, 2019
  • The littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords launches a Naval Strike Missile during exercise Pacific Griffin. (U.S. Navy)
    Congress slashes funding for the Navy’s LCS sensors — again

    Appropriators are set to slice 77 percent from the Navy’s mine countermeasures module, shuffling part of it to another section of the budget.

    David B. Larter
    December 19, 2019
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