Tag Archives: ISR

Young Engineers Showcase Innovation at International Submarine Races

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Yolanda R. Arrington

The best and brightest engineering students from around the world compete in the International Submarine Races.
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Posted in Articles, Education & Culture, Engineering, Featured, STEM | Tagged education, education and culture, engineering, innovation, International Submarine Races, ISR, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, NAVSEA, NAVSEA Warfare Center, stem, U.S. Navy | Comments Off

(U.S. Defense Department graphic illustration by Jessica L. Tozer/Released)

‘Whiskey’ to Perform Personnel Recovery Mission

Posted on December 21, 2014 by jtozer

The Air Force has officially designated the new Combat Rescue Helicopter as the HH-60W.
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Posted in Articles | Tagged 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, air force, Col. Michael J. Schmidt, Combat Rescue Helicopter, corrosion-resistant machined aero-structures, HH-60W, ISR, PEO, SOF, sustain maneuverability, System Requirements Review, T700-GE-701D engines, UH-60M BLACK HAWK, USAF Personnel Recovery fleet | Comments Off

DARPA Wants to Transform Planes into the “Aircraft Carriers of the Sky”

Posted on November 18, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA invites input on how to enable existing large aircraft to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems for a variety of missions.
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged cost-effectively enable groundbreaking capabilities, cost-effectively enable groundbreaking capabilities for intelligence, Dan Patt, DARPA, DARPA program manager, engaging nontraditional contributors, ISR, issile-based approaches, Military air operations, Potentially high-payoff operational concepts and mission applications, Proposed plans for achieving full-system flight demonstrations within four years, Reconnaissance, small unmanned aircraft, surveillance, UAS, unmanned aircraft systems | Comments Off

One Step Closer to Warrior Wireless UAVs

Posted on April 27, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA’s Mobile Hotspots program makes progress toward the goal of providing 1 Gb/s communications backbone to deployed units!
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged 1 Gb/s capacity, backhaul network, DARPA, DARPA program manager, Dick Ridgway, high-capacity reachback, intelligence, ISR, long-range, Low-noise amplifiers, Mobile Hotspots, mobile millimeter-wave communications backhaul network, More efficient and capable power amplifiers, New approaches for robust airborne networking, on-demand capability, Reconnaissance, small unmanned aerial vehicles, Smaller, SRQ-7 Shadow UAV, steerable millimeter-wave antennas, surveillance, UAV | Comments Off

The Coolest UAV You May Ever See

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA has released plans for what could possibly be the coolest unmanned aerial vehicle ever made.
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Posted in Articles | Tagged ARES, Ashish Bagai, coolest UAV, DARPA, DARPA program manager, flexible, IED, improvised explosive devices, intelligence, ISR, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works™, logistics, optionally manned/controlled flight, personnel transport, Reconnaissance, remote command-and-control interfaces, small ground units, surveillance, tactical support, terrain-independent transportation, UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle, vertical takeoff and landing | Comments Off

XFC unmanned aircraft is vertically launched from a 'Sea Robin' launch vehicle (bottom right). The folding wing UAS autonomously deploys its X-wing airfoil and after achieving a marginal altitude, assumes horizontal flight configuration.
(Photo: NAVSEA-AUTEC)

Launch the UAV, Submarine!

Posted on December 17, 2013 by jtozer

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) demonstrated the launch of an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, unmanned aerial system (UAS) from a submerged submarine.
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Featured, Rotator, Technology | Tagged Acting Director of Innovation at ONR, all-electric, Craig A. Hughes, Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office, DoD/RRTO, fuel cell-powered, ISR, ISR missions, low altitude, mission critical intelligence, Naval Sea Systems Command Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Newport Division, NRL, NRL Chemistry and Tactical Electronic Warfare Divisions, Office of Naval Research, Reconnaissance, relatively low cost, Sea Robin, submerged submarine, surveillance, Swampworks, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy's submarine force, Unmanned Aerial System, USS Providence | Comments Off

Unified Military Intelligence Picture Helping to Dispel the Fog of War

Posted on September 29, 2013 by jtozer

Military operations depend upon the unimpeded flow of accurate and relevant information to support timely decisions related to battle planning and execution. To address these needs, numerous intelligence systems and technologies have been developed over the past 20 years, but …
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Posted in Featured, Life Sciences | Tagged DARPA, DARPA's Insight, DARPA’s Insight program, Defense Department, defense intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, forensic data, information, information intelligence, Insight, integrate disparate, intelligence, ISR, ISR processing program, low-level analytical tasks, military intelligence, modular architecture, Reconnaissance, surveillance, U.S. Army, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, USArmy | Comments Off

Engineering the Future

Posted on July 26, 2013 by jtozer

It is a long process for a ship or weapons system to go from concept to deployment, but it all starts in the mind of a naval engineer. Every ship starts as a blueprint, or a computer drawing, but before …
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Posted in Challenge, STEM, Videos | Tagged buoyance, Carderock Division, Carderock's Naval Architecture and Engineering Department, David Taylor Model Basin, Dr. Tim Acano Jr., engineering, guidance systems, human-powered submarines, hydrodynamic design, International Submarine Races, ISR, Math, naval engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, navy, NSWC, propulsion, science, stem, submersibles, Technical Director of NSWC Carderock Division, Technology, underwater life support systems engineering | Comments Off