Long Distance Optical Airborne Communications

AOptix Technologies MX-15 Skyball (seen here mounted to a P-68 Observer airplane) conducted recent air to ground wireless downlinks for the Air Force at 3.0Gbps of optical bandwidth. Covering an effective ground area of over 15,000 square kilometers, the single bi-directional, 3 Gbps multi-channel data link transmitted simultaneous uncompressed high-definition (HD) video, audio and gigabit [...]

New Medium Tactical Vehicle from BAE Systems

BAE Systems is participating in the tender for the U.S. Government contract to produce the next generation of medium tactical vehicles for the U.S. Army. The contract will be awarded in July for an estimated 12,400 vehicles and 10,900 trailers to be delivered to the U.S. Army from 2010 through 2014. BAE Systems won [...]

New Orders $118 Million in for BAE Systems M777 Howitzers

The U.S. is buying 38 M777 Howitzer guns for the Marines and Army while Canada is acquiring 25 more through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program to add to the 12 it already has in service. BAE Systems has received orders worth around $118 million for 63 more M777 howitzers, taking the order total to [...]

Cloud Computing Market: DoD Applications

Market Research Media announces webinar Cloud Computing Market: DoD Applications.

Webinar topics:

Cloud Computing market overview
Potential DoD Cloud Computing Applications;
Cyber Network Defense - Sensor data storage, analysis, situational awareness, battlespace awareness, status of troops, missions, vehicles, weapons, supplies, autonomous (unmanned) weapons systems
Storage/processing of tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) feeds
Simulation and Visualization
Mission planning and training
emerging DoD cloud computing [...]