Defense Executive

Sensors

Army approaches industry for reversible camouflage fabric to enable infantry to hide from infrared sensors

April 24, 2024
Infantry warfighters need concealment from enemy electro-optical and infrared sensors ranging from visible light through longwave infrared wavelengths.
Sensors

Safran Optics1 to build vehicle inertial navigation systems (INS) in GPS-denied and RF jamming environments

April 24, 2024
The Geonyx inertial navigation family integrates the company's HRG Crystal gyroscope, which offers precise pointing accuracy under harsh conditions.
Trusted Computing

IARPA extends deadline to develop analytic technologies to safeguard software code from cyber attackers

April 23, 2024
Participants will focus on: feature space generation and extraction; similarity and demographic analytic algorithms; and system explainability.
Sensors

BAE Systems to build electronic warfare (EW) pod to help defend P-8A aircraft from radar-guided missiles

April 23, 2024
The Advanced Survivability Pod is for high-value airborne assets such as the P-8A; the C-130 and C-17 cargo jets; and KC-135 and KC-46 aerial tankers.
Trusted Computing

Air Force picks SRC for trusted computing research to help safeguard military avionics from cyber attack

April 22, 2024
Focus in on advanced RF and digital EW simulations, threat models, sensor evaluations, and cutting-edge technology development in the RF domain.