• Land Warfare

  Australia’s Advanced Navigation to provide navigation units for Redback IFVs

  24th September 2024

  Advanced Navigation’s Boreas D70 navigation units have been designed to provide capability where satellite navigation is denied or unreliable.

• Digital Battlespace

  L3Harris Technologies satellite communications system passes design review

  11th September 2024

  L3Harris’s Rapidly Adaptable Standards-compliant Open Radio (RASOR) system has been designed to support the connection of service-specified waveforms from Earth to Commercial Satellite Internet (CSI) constellations.

• Land Warfare

  Hanwha signs deals to advance large vehicle programmes in Australia

  12th September 2024

  The deals were announced at Australia’s Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne and are a further strengthening of the South Korea’s Hanwha’s position in Australia.

• Digital Battlespace

  BAE Systems introduces gun-hardened GPS receiver for artillery, missiles and unmanned systems

  4th June 2024

  The A-PNT device will feature anti-jamming technology and will be manufactured at BAE Systems’ Cedar Rapids facility.

• Digital Battlespace

  US Space Force bets big on the use of AI to improve its capabilities

  18th July 2024

  The service has been conducting several acquisition and upgrading efforts involving artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve communication, data analysis and ISR systems.

• Land Warfare

  US Army’s MAPS Gen II to reach full-rate production decision later this year

  9th May 2024

  The US Army has recently completed initial operational test & evaluation and is Collins Aerospace’s next-generation mounted assured PNT solution.

• Digital Battlespace

  How has Russia progressed with the development of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon?

  1st July 2024

  The Pentagon recently confirmed that Moscow launched a LEO satellite that could offer a counter-space capability. Media news outlets also reported that the Kremlin was approaching initial trials.

• Digital Battlespace

  Space Dominance: How Laser Technologies are Reshaping Modern Military Operations

  27th May 2024

  High-energy lasers and space-based technologies now play a pivotal role in modern military operations, emphasising their role in enhancing communications, surveillance, and security across multi-domain operations, particularly with the increasingly strategic use of space-based capabilities.

• Air Warfare

  BAE Systems' anti-jammer for Eurofighter Typhoon moves to next phase

  17th November 2023

  BAE Systems’ Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver (DIGAR) will boost the protection of the aircraft from GPS signal jamming, spoofing and radio frequency (RF) interference.

• Digital Battlespace

  Finding your space

  12th March 2024

  Digital mapping and geolocation have become critical to battlespace users, and ensuring the best content is delivered is vital.

• Digital Battlespace

  Kratos wins $579 million space defence contract for ground control system

  27th November 2023

  Kratos Defense and Security Solutions to provide satellite control capabilities to US Space Force and US Space Command.

• Digital Battlespace

  MAPS Gen II rolls into production to harden US Army vehicles against jamming and spoofing

  13th September 2022

  Collins Aerospace has received a deal to supply the US Army with production Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System Gen II units.

• Digital Battlespace

  UK researchers seek resilience for UAVs in GNSS-denied environments

  30th August 2022

  UK project seeks to improve control of drone swarms in contested environments.

• Digital Battlespace

  Germany becomes first FMS recipient of M-Code capabilities

  13th July 2022

  Germany has obtained compact M-Code receivers for secure GPS communications.

• Digital Battlespace

  BAE Systems broadens compatibility of anti-jam GPS receiver

  7th June 2022

  By blending trusted inertial navigation system data from Trimble receivers with its DIGAR system, BAE Systems claims to have improved airborne anti-jamming protection ‘by a million-fold’.

Programme Results - Defence Insight

• Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

  Intra-Theatre Lift [UK]

  Programme Background  Relationship to the Heavy Lift Challange The Royal Navy (RN) embarked on the Heavy Lift Challenge, now called the Heavy Lift Capability (UASHLC), to explore ...

Equipment Results - Defence Insight

• Land: Radio and SATCOM

  MAPS

  General Dynamics’ Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) is being deployed across the force’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s (2CR) General Dynamics Stryker family infantry ...