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BAE Systems to open Iowa facility for mission-critical GPS work Illustration: BAE Systems BAE Systems is investing more than $100 million to build a state-of-the-art facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, expected to be completed in 2022. The facility will support the company’s newly acquired Navigation & Sensor Systems business, which makes mission-critical military GPS products. The new building will bring the company’s local design and production employees from multiple locations into a single ...

Royal Navy details ‘Atlantis’ hybrid underwater capability Harry Lye 6 April 2021 (Last Updated April 6th, 2021 13:27) A Royal Navy Maritime Enterprise Planning Group presentation seen online by Naval Technology and now withdrawn showed a concept named ‘Atlantis’ for a ‘Hybrid Underwater Capability’ using a semi-autonomous mothership submarine operating in tandem with ‘remote, autonomous and uncrewed platforms’. ...

AUSA Global 2021: Army chief pushes for stagnant end strength numbers to pay for new weapons 17 March 2021 by Ashley Roque A couple of months remain before the Biden administration and the Pentagon unveil the fiscal year 2022 budget request, but Army Chief of Staff General James McConville said he is prepared to sacrifice a larger force to spare new weapons programmes. The four-star general spoke on 16 March at the virtual Association of the US Army’s (AUSA) annual Global Force conference and...

US Indo-Pacific Command Seeks Doubling of Budget, Ring of Missile Sites Off Chinese Coast - Report Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202103061082269483-us-indo-pacific-command-seeks-doubling-of-budget-ring-of-missile-sites-off-chinese-coast---report/ China has set a goal of becoming a “fully developed nation” and “a global leader” by 2049, the centennial of its socialist revolution, but the US has accused the 1.3 billion-strong country of plotting to overturn the world ...

BAE Systems to develop advanced GPS chips for warfighters BAE Systems has received a $247 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to design and manufacture an advanced military GPS receiver and next-generation semiconductor. The technology will provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities to warfighters so they can execute missions in challenging electromagnetic environments. MGUE Increment 2 The Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increm...

U.S. Space Force asks BAE Systems to Manufacture Advanced Military GPS Receivers and Chips

Developing Advanced Military GPS Receivers And Chips M-Code receiver and next-gen ASIC will enable secure and reliable military GPS capabilities BAE Systems received a $247M contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to design and manufacture an advanced military GPS receiver and next-generation semiconductor. The technology will provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities to warfighters so they can execute missions in challenging electromagnetic ...

The Army during the 2000s lagged behind its major rivals in artillery development. Heres What You Need to Remember: Targeting could pose a problem for these far-away targets. According to Breaking Defense, the Army is working on artificial intelligence and wireless networks so its howitzers and rocket-launchers can receive target coordinates from the service’s own drones as well as from drones, spy planes and satellites belonging to the other armed services. The U.S. Army just fired two 155-m...

The Army’s New 1000-Mile Cannon Will Match The Navy And Air Forces Ranged Strike Capabilities The U.S. Army still is studying a concept for a gigantic new cannon that could fire shells as far as 1,000 miles. Key point: The Army also is working with the Navy to develop a common hypersonic glide vehicle, which would launch atop a rocket then travel 1,400 miles or farther at a top speed exceeding Mach 5. The U.S. Army still is studying a concept for a gigantic new cannon that could fire shells ...

The cheaper price tag of HIMARS compared to other weapons does make it attractive. Heres What You Need To Remember: Perhaps the more interesting possibility isn’t Philippines-owned rockets, but American-operated rockets on Philippines soil. “I think observers shouldn’t just think about capabilities that the Philippines could acquire on its own,” Harding warns. The United States and the Philippines have been discussing whether the Filipino military should buy the High-Mobility Artillery...