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French Navy first to test mini UAV on small ship
The French Navy has beaten the U.S. Navy to the punch by deploying unmanned aerial vehicles on small vessels.
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11 foreign UAVs you should know
U.S. allies and adversaries are developing and using their own unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Bluefin to build underwater robot for Navy's LCS
Bluefin Robotics has been awarded a subcontract from General Dynamics to design and build an unmanned underwater vehicle that will help crews of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ships to detect and identify enemy-laid surface mines.
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Navy completes UAS common controls demo
The Navy has successfully demonstrated its Common Control System for current and future unmanned aircraft systems in simulated missions at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, Calif.
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Air Force to launch two more AEHF satellites in 2012
The Air Force has activated its Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite after a 14-month struggle to get it into the correct orbit.
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Will US loosen export restrictions on UAV sales?
The Pacific Rim might see a significant increase in nations flying U.S.-built UAVs as a result of efforts by manufacturers to redesign their aircraft to fall under less restrictive export controls and a possible willingness by the Obama administration to allow sales to select nations in that region.
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Airborne radar sensor passes initial test
Sierra Nevada has successfully demonstrated the prototype of an airborne x-band radar sense-and-avoid sensor for unmanned aircraft vehicles.
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DOD looks to unconventional methods in fight against IEDs
The U.S. military's counter-IED agency is focusing on intelligence and robotics in the continuing fight against a critical threat to soldiers' lives.
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Army forces in Afghanistan to receive aerostats
The Army has awarded a $383 million contract to Lockheed Martin to furnish and maintain aerostats that will provide real-time aerial reconnaissance and surveillance of large swaths of terrain in Afghanistan.
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Army tests 3G network to boost squad-level awareness
The Army has tested a 3G wireless network that would link smart phones, tablets and radio systems to a large number of sensors and unmanned ground and air vehicles to push information down to the squad and fire team leaders.
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Navy group to evaluate unmanned surface patrol craft
The Navy has sent three unmanned surface vessels to its Riverine Group One to evaluate how well the vessels perform the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for which they were designed.
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Army PEO C3T Price promoted to major general
The Senate confirmed Nov. 10 the promotion of Brig. Gen. Lee Price, the Army's program executive officer for command, control and communications (tactical), to the rank of major general.
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Air Force wants to trim satellite costs
The Air Force wants to change how it develops, acquires and manages its satellite programs.
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Technology leap needed for comms-on-the-move
Communications-on-the move technology must continue to evolve to keep intelligence data in motion and to feed it to the warfighter where and when it's needed.
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Marines get smart phone network for humanitarian missions
Lockheed Martin has developed a tactical smart phone network designed to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions undertaken by the Marine Corps.
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DOD wants smart jets to launch satellites into orbit
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has established a $145 million program to develop technology that will enable specially configured airliners to catapult satellites into orbit.
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Navy to outfit an X-47B prototype with refueling gear
The Navy plans to add aerial refueling capability to one of its two prototype carrier-based X-47B unmanned aerial vehicles that are in the development stage.
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Air Force looks for ways to ease pain of civilian job cuts
Details are beginning to emerge on which Air Force installations will be hardest hit by civilian jobs cuts related to the service's restructuring effort.
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Small, tactical systems fill aerial coverage gap
The Defense Department is sending more small unmanned aircraft to the war zone to plug gaps in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance coverage.
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