With the largest and most technologically advanced Fire Boss fleet in the US, the aerial firefighting company will support wildfire operations for the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs and several state fire agencies By Ryan Mason As the 2021 wildfire season gets underway, aerial firefighting leader Dauntless Air today announced that it has added […]
The Colorado Army National Guard’s 2nd Brigade, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion, is hosting an annual wildland fire training conference in partnership with local, state and federal partners to prepare for wildfire season. LUH-72 Lakota, UH-60 Black Hawk, and CH-47 Chinook aircrews will fly over the Denver metropolitan area April 13-18 as part of the […]
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is initiating a new enterprise cloud service which will serve the joint force while cancelling another. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) is being launched to support warfighters providing joint all domain command and control (JADC2). This will be in addition to the DoD’s artificial intelligence and data acceleration […]
HawkEye 360 plans to have its third cluster of RF sensing satellites operational by August. Sharing its name with the lovable Captain Benjamin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce from the cult television series MASH, the third cluster of the eponymous satellites reached space on 30th June. They were carried aloft by SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, […]
The ability to rapidly detect, identify, track and provide for the defeat of targets within a short time frame has become a battlefield imperative. The small and agile tactical unmanned aerial and ground vehicles introduce more stringent challenges in effectively countering their presence. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) in a company initiated independent effort have developed […]
Michael Hutchins began his aviation career in the vast and complex world of aerial application, initially loading aircraft and eventually, through hard work and determination, working his way to flying for the company that he now owns, Custom Air. Starting over 30 years ago, Michael Hutchins started working ground operations for Custom Air during high school […]
This May France’s KEAS announced it had launched digital versions of its MinKa Counter Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (CUAV) system and BLOCKio cellphone jammer. Reports said that the digital MinKa-750D was demonstrated to French government officials outside Paris. The MinKa-750D is a vehicle-mounted CUAV system. During the demonstrations the equipment showed it could engage UAVs at up to […]
Columbia Helicopters (Columbia) and Aurora Flight Sciences (Aurora), a Boeing Company, this week entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore the design, integration, testing, and demonstration of an enhanced pilot situational awareness (EPSA) degraded visual environment (DVE) flight capability on a Columbia helicopter to be used for aerial wildland fire suppression. Since aerial […]
By Dr Thomas Withington The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s Air Command and Control System is the alliance’s biggest single procurement and perhaps its least well known. “The NATO Air Command and Control System is intended to combine and automate at the tactical level the planning and tasking and execution of all air operations,” notes a […]
The Colorado Army National Guard’s 2nd Brigade, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion, is hosting an annual wildland fire training conference in partnership with local, state and federal partners to prepare for wildfire season. LUH-72 Lakota, UH-60 Black Hawk, and CH-47 Chinook aircrews will fly over the Denver metropolitan area April 13-18 as part of the […]
