The US Navy has confirmed plans to configure its Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft with a SIGINT suite using equipment essentially common to that already equipping the Navy’s Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton UAS in its Multi-INT configuration. The new SIGINT payload has been given the designation AN/ALQ-263.
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This week, President Joe Biden officially released his FY 2025 Budget to Congress, marking the official start of the annual defense authorization and appropriations process. There are several funding and policy initiatives highlighted in the budget that pertain to advancing EMSO.
There are varying opinions on the role of fixed price contracts through the department of defense and industry, but most fall somewhere on the spectrum between ideal or overused, useful or uncontrolled. We need to rethink how we apply this mechanisms and whether fixed price is even an appropriate contract vehicle for defense procurement today.
Indra has been contracted by Lockheed Martin to supply electronic support measures equipment for four Multi-Mission Surface Combatants being built for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces under Project Tuwaiq.
The US Navy is planning to develop an RF Countermeasure Active Expendable Decoy to be deployed from tactical aircraft against RF-guided threats.
For the first time, the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing integrated with the US Air Force Weapons School to provide students realistic pacing threats in the electromagnetic operational environment for their capstone exercise.
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The UK-based EW business of Leonardo has modified the large aircraft version of its BriteCloud expendable active decoy to meet the latest NATO STANAG-4871 self-protection standard, and offer compatibility with “smart” countermeasure dispenser systems.
DARPA has issued a solicitation for a program that aims to develop technologies for a new generation of arrays that can provide simultaneous multi-beam, multi-function performance without degrading gain or resolution.