It may be years before the Air Force has the human resources and tools in place to keep up with the enormous amounts of data gathered from its fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles and the sophisticated sensors that they employ on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, says Air Force Secretary Michael Donley.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 09, 2012
The Marine Corps has chosen a classified weapon to arm its RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system and plans to equip two of the aircraft armed with the weapon in Afghanistan before it decides to arm the rest of its 13 remaining systems.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 06, 2012
The military's shift to high-definition sensors requires many changes.
- By Terry Costlow
- Apr 06, 2012
Aerovironment's Raven RQ-11B unmanned aerial vehicle will get a new miniature, gimbaled sensor payload that will give warfighters better situational awareness via higher visual fidelity and continuous observation of an item of interest.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 06, 2012
The main challenge in making miniature drones with flapping wings work on the battlefield is finding enough battery power.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 03, 2012
Naval Air Station Jacksonville celebrated the arrival of the first new, network-enabled P-8A Poseidon multi-mission aircraft in late March.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 03, 2012
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), a member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, says he will recommend continuing funding for the Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft, which the Air Force plans to put into storage as a key part of a comprehensive budget-cutting effort.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 30, 2012
As sensors continue to generate enormous volumes of data, DOD planners are struggling with techniques to ensure such data remains useful to warfighters.
- By Terry Costlow
- Mar 29, 2012
It's been several weeks since the release of the fiscal 2013 defense budget, and heads are certainly still spinning in the Pentagon. Here are some of the winners and losers at each of the services.
- By Barry Rosenberg
- Mar 29, 2012
The Navy has decided that unmanned aerial vehicles weighing more than 55 pounds will be operated as adjuncts to manned aircraft systems.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 29, 2012
U.S. officials offered key concessions to Pakistan's intelligence chief in January regarding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles against al-Qaeda in the southwest Asian nation in an effort to regain the trust of Pakistani officials, but the offers were rejected.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Mar 28, 2012
The April issue of Defense Systems can be read as a series of complementary pairings, beginning with a couple of Q&As that go to the heart of the Navy's cyber and IT activities.
- By Barry Rosenberg
- Mar 28, 2012