Pentagon budget 2022: Handheld, manpack radio procurement accelerated under spending blueprint
by Carlo Munoz
Pentagon officials are escalating investments in procurement and continued development of its family of handheld and manpack radio systems, setting aside USD803 million for those efforts in the ground service’s fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) budget request.
The FY 2022 funding request is USD236 million above the USD567 million department officials called for in acquisition, research and development funds for the two-channel Leader radio, Single-Channel
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Pentagon budget 2022: DoD doubles down on microelectronics
by Carlo Munoz
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is doubling down its investments toward development and integration of advanced microelectronics systems, programmes and platforms within the US armed forces. That investment announced as part of the Pentagon’s USD752.9 billion overall budget request for fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022).
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The US Navy is scaling up its information warfare (INFOWAR) accounts across the board, as part of its fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) budget request, as part of an effort to support service-wide networking objectives tied to Project Overmatch. Th.
The Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded BAE Systems a USD325 million deal to provide the US armed forces with Military Code (M-Code)-enabled GPS modules, according to a company statement. Under the terms of the deal, compan.
US Army preps for TITAN ground station experimentation
24 May 2021
by Carlo Munoz
US Army officials are preparing to implement a full-scale experimentation plan for new ground stations designed for the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) programme, with service leaders anticipating development of a full-on TITAN ground station by 2022.
The TITAN ground station platform, as envisioned, will consolidate functionalities of several legacy fixed and mobile ground stations, and then fuse the collected data from various ground, aerial, and space-based sensors into a single station, according to Willie Nelson, director of the army’s Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing/Space Cross-Functional Team (APNT/Space CFT). That capability will also be scalable to support all echelons from brigade to division, Nelson added.