This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. Northrop Grumman is developing a common autonomous airborne sense-and-avoid system for both the U.S. Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aircraft and its U.S. Navy RQ-4N Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) derivative. Originally the services were pursuing separate solutions for operating the aircraft […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2009
As I mentioned on my earlier post about the Army Infantry Brigade Combat team modernization shindig I attended this week the Soldiers I talked to said they’d leave both the Urban and Tactical unattended ground sensors behind should they deploy with any of the techs we saw during the visit. That’s not to say the […]
Amidst the Navy’s leadership attempt to explain — some would say rationalize — the massive cost increases and delays in several major shipbuilding programs, the Zumwalt (DDG 1000) program appears to be on cost and on schedule. Writing in Navy Times, Christopher P. Cavas observes, “Often overlooked in all the chatter is that, methodically, steadily […]
I’m about to board a plane headed back to DC, but I wanted to quickly introduce — with much excitement — our newest member of the Military.com team. Many of you know Jamie McIntyre from his days at CNN. He covered the military for the network for 16 years and was a CNN plank owner […]
Number of US carriers going down, down, down Saddam’s missing Air Force found in Serbia (and here I thought we had shot it all down) Hey so everyone’s upgrading their nuclear arsenals but us… On my radar: FPRI’s Webcast on Afghan Police Reform ”…the enemy is not hiding, but they are in trenches, bunkers and […]
