With the Royal Air Force's Sentinel R1 aircraft now planned to be in service for at least another four years, industry is in talks with the UK Ministry of Defence on long-overdue upgrades.
One of those upgrades will be a thorough refresh of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft's mission systems, including hardware and software, which are facing several obsolescence issues.
The MoD's decision to incrementally extend the life of the five-strong fleet of Sentinels – which were due to be scrapped after their involvement in the Afghanistan campaign – means that the RAF has struggled to plan for
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The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.
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