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New open-source software framework launched by DSTL

Homeland May 16, 2019

The open-source software framework titled Stone Soup will help develop tracking technology through model outcomes and simulators. The framework is the result of a collaboration between the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada led by the DSTL, and the open-source software allows anyone to input and test tracking technology. The ...

US DOD teams up with OPM to explore new online training

Homeland May 9, 2019

The new partnership between the Department of Defence (DOD) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) aims to reduce the cost of online training. A new memorandum of agreement between the Defense Department and the Office of Personnel Management promises to reduce the cost of online training for defence employees and ...

New software plans to improve helicopter communications

Air March 21, 2019

Two Denmark-based companies have announced software that will improve the quality of helicopter communications. Cobham Aerospace and Inmarsat Communications have launched their SB-Helo X-Streamtm  helicopter communications software which will be freely available for Cobham AVIATOR SP systems. The SatCom solution will improve the quality of data transmission and live satellite feeds ...

Cambridge Pixel supports Royal Navy upgrade

August 24, 2016

Cambridge Pixel has been selected by Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems UK to supply software modules for radar scan conversion, target tracking and radar fusion, for integration into the company’s new state-of-the-art Naval Vigilance Radar system. This navigation radar system – along with Kelvin Hughes’ solid-state SharpEye radar transceivers – will be ...