44 PCB007 MAGAZINE I FEBRUARY 2024
Northrop Grumman Completes First
Production Delivery for the US Army's
Integrated Battle Command System E
Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the
first production Integrated Battle Command
System (IBCS) major end item, an Integrated
Collaborative Environment (ICE), to the U.S.
Army on December 19, 2023. Working at an
accelerated pace, the Northrop Grumman team
will deliver additional major end items in early
2024 to support the Army's aggressive modern-
ization schedule.
NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging
Technology to the Test E
A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our
solar system has passed two key tests ahead of
its launch as part of the agency's Roman Space
Telescope by 2027. e Coronagraph Instru-
ment on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space
Telescope will demonstrate new technologies
that could vastly increase the number of plan-
ets outside our solar system (exoplanets) that
scientists can directly observe.
BAE Systems' Enhanced M-Code
Global Navigation Satellite System
Technology Reaches Major
Development Milestone E
BAE Systems' program to design and manu-
facture an advanced military GPS receiver and
next-generation semiconductor has completed
Critical Design Review (CDR). e Military
GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 2
Miniature Serial Interface (MSI) program is
part of a $247 million contract received in 2020
from the U.S. Space Force.
Lockheed Martin, NVIDIA Demonstrate
AI-Driven Digital Twin With Potential
To Advance Predictive Forecasting E
In a year where the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
reported record ocean temperatures, an inno-
vative project from Lockheed Martin, built in
collaboration with NVIDIA, is showing how
artificial intelligence can be used to fuse data
and detect anomalies in current environmen-
tal conditions.
RTX Completes Milestones on DARPA
Blackjack Program with Four Blue
Canyon Technologies Satellites E
RTX's small-satellite manufacturer and mis-
sion services provider, Blue Canyon Technol-
ogies (BCT), announced the satellites sup-
porting the Defense Advanced Research Proj-
ects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack program
have completed critical milestones activities.
National security space assets, critical to U.S.
warfighting capabilities, traditionally reside
in a geosynchronous orbit to deliver per-
sistent overhead access to any point on the
globe.
NASA Space Tech Spinoffs Benefit Earth
Medicine, Moon to Mars Tools E
JPL-developed technologies featured include
several used by Curiosity and ECOSTRESS,
plus new data visualization methods, imager
miniaturization, and DNA-identification tech-
niques. As NASA innovates for the benefit of
all, what the agency develops for exploration
has the potential to evolve into other technol-
ogies with broader use here on Earth.
