Day: September 6, 2019

The Department for Transport and the Home Office are offering PhD grants for aviation security ideas to improve airport boarding operations.

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The US Air Force has launched its second GPS III satellite, billed as the most powerful Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite ever built. BAE Systems’ RAD750 Single Board Computer (SBC), part of Harris Corporation’s navigation payload for GPS III prime contractor Lockheed Martin, will provide radiation hardened, high-performance onboard processing capability for the satellite’s mission. To […]

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Viasat has announced it has successfully upgraded the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the new Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline. The Viasat Visual Integrated Satellite communications Information, Operation and Networking (VISION) software platform, allows NATO to gain greater communications interoperability, scalability and flexibility across […]

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