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The Air Force has given eight companies, including Areté, a chance to ask for up to $3 million to boost technology available to today’s battlefield forces. The opportunity followed two-day pitch sessions. The opportunity could lead to up to $50 million in Air Force funding. Space Pitch Day was intended...
Naval Oceanography will soon be testing unmanned technology in the Mississippi Sound to demonstrate the capabilities of multiple solutions for mapping oceanographic battlespace. Testing will feature PILLS (Pushbroom Imaging Lidar for Littoral Surveillance). “We expect to identify those areas where current UxS technology can be used for military survey missions...
As part of a new $20.7 million contract, Raytheon will overhaul and upgrade the Navy’s AN/AQS-29 towed mine-hunting sonar. Areté will provide the STIL (streak tube imaging) sensor, also known as Electro-Optic Identification (EOID), as reported in Military and Aerospace Electronics. The STIL sensor fits into a helicopter-towed vessel. The...
COBRA (Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis) began in the early 1990s as a U.S. Marine Corps advanced technology research program. Now in use by the U.S. Navy, COBRA is a multispectral unmanned aircraft sensor (launched from an aircraft carrier) that detects and geo-locates enemy mines and obstacles in shore zones,...
Electro-optical (EO) sensors have been in use since the Vietnam War, but in the 21st century, EO sensing is advancing quickly. EO is more compact, lighter, more rugged, and surveils at a greater distance. Today EO sensors are used on a wide range of manned and unmanned aircraft, among other...