Northrop Grumman is to flight test an RF comm link that can provide fiber-like data capacity from high-altitude surveillance aircraft direct to FOBs.

United Technologies has bought a predictive analytics boutique as part of the Tier 1 supplier’s corporate push into becoming a software-industrial giant.

French space agency CNES has tapped Zodiac Data Systems for the development of an autonomous range safety system at its Kourou, French Guiana launch site.

Thales has evolved its Avionics 2020 cockpit electronics demonstrator into a still-unnamed conceptual flight deck that will make the most of growing data processing capabilities.

Cyberdefense presents a series of difficult problems for governments, not least that of deciding which branch of the state should lead the response.

If the problems for nation states are difficult to solve in the cyber domain, they are close to intractable at present when it comes to the related but very different area of information warfare.

Cyient, the Indian-headquartered global solutions provider has announced a new line of low-cost transmit-receive modules for X-band active, electronically scanned array radars that will for its home market and export.

The commercial-off-the-shelf solutions interface with a variety of mission systems and are available for rapid deployment, the company says.