Assistant Secretary Of The Air Force For Acquisition To Provide Update On USAF Acquisitions
Dr. William A. LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, will be the guest speaker for April's AFA breakfast series session. The Air Force Association (AFA) has scheduled the event at 7:00 a.m. on April 16, in Arlington, Virginia.
Four Companies Chosen By DARPA To Design New VTOL Aircraft
For generations, new designs for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft have remained unable to increase top speed without sacrificing range, efficiency or the ability to do useful work. DARPA’s VTOL Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program seeks to overcome these challenges through innovative cross-pollination between the fixed-wing and rotary-wing worlds, to enable radical improvements in vertical and cruise flight capabilities.
New IRIS Cameras Will Feature Built-In Video Compression, Independent Ethernet Output
Curtiss-Wright Corporation's Defense Solutions division is collaborating with Kappa Optronics GmbH to jointly develop a new family of highly rugged flight test instrumentation (FTI) airborne video cameras designed for use with Curtiss-Wright’s industry-leading reliable and rugged Acra KAM-500 digital data acquisition unit (DAU) systems. The new high definition (HD) IRIS Airborne Cameras will feature built-in video compression and dual-channel Ethernet streaming.
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