A contract for the first of five spy satellites for South Korea is expected to be signed in October.
Managed by South Korea’s Agency for Defence Development (ADD) it is the initial step in a plan to launch five military satellites by 2022 to help monitor North Korea.
The satellites will be equipped with either a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or electro-optic infrared devices. The ADD will contract a private company to develop and produce the first satellite, with $928.2 million allocated. The first satellite should launch in 2020.
An ADD official told Yonhap: ‘The spy satellite, which is
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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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