The new Firestrike 15kW laser source can be employed as stand-alone system or be stacked into high power directed energy weapon systems

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The U.S. Army has awarded Oasys Technology $26 million contract to provide 20,000 Remote Eyepiece Display-Imager (RED-I) display systems for thermal weapon sights (TWS) used by the Army. The head-mounted RED-I uses eMagin's OLED-XL micro-display technology. The RED-I system is designed for operation in extreme environmental and temperature conditions, while consuming minimal power to endure long combat missions.

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Lockheed Martin reported progress with its Pathfinder advanced pilotage system, designed to improve situational awareness and flight safety of utility aircraft and helicopters through the use of helmet mounted displays facilitating 'heads-up', 'eyes-out' performance. Pathfinder utilizes modules of the Modernized Pilot Night Vision System (M-PNVS) developed for the AH-64D attack helicopter. Pathfinder recently entered the developmental testing phase, where pilots and flight engineers from the US Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) are evaluating its technical readiness level for application on cargo and utility aircraft.

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Lockheed Martin recently is introducing a new sensor into the Modernized-Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-PNVS) sensor system used on the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter. The new Visible/Near Infrared (V/NIR) sensor will gain significant tactical advantages for Army pilots using the system, enabling the crew to better cope with night flying, targeting and coordination with friendly forces over light intensive environment, such as an urban area, by displaying visible or near-visible light sources that may not be clearly indicated by thermal imagers

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AAI and QinetiQ North America’s Technology solutions Group are cooperating in an effort to integrate the control of unmanned aerial and ground systems (UAS/UGV) in a single ground control station (GCS), based on AAI's One System, which is already used by the US Army and Marine Corps for the control of a number of UAS.

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