This land-based focused conference was the intriguing venue to gain an update on efforts by the Aerospace and Defense Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (ADIANL) to bolster the military and security sectors’ capabilities in the maritime domain and Arctic regions.
Willis Jacobs, the organization’s executive director, told MT this conference was selected as an opportunity to raise the awareness of not only Army delegates, but other Pentagon and US federal agencies inside the Washington, DC Beltway of the technologies and other capabilities his aerospace and defense (A&D) companies offer and with good reasons. “The US Navy and Coast Guard are publishing revised strategies on the Arctic,” Jacobs observed, and added, that until recently not many nations cared what happening in the North, “but Russia’s behavior changed all that.”
The St. John, Newfoundland and Labrador-based industry official noted the capabilities offered by new A&D technologies for the Arctic transcend sovereignty – they support security, public safety and the energy sector with an emphasis on meeting “harsh applications”.
ADIANL member companies provide surveillance, unmanned systems, sensing and other products and systems with end-user applications for an Arctic operation.
Two representative association companies include EMSAT (specializing in the design of real-time cloud based software solutions to meet the challenges of environmental monitoring) and Compusult (specializing in the organization of large collections of geospatial and non-geospatial information used for military operations and other missions).
Association members also provide the capability to create harsh Arctic-like conditions for research and development purposes – making sea ice for example, for product testing and evaluation.
Jacobs also noted A&D sector companies and other representatives will convene at Maritime & Security Conference www.maritimearcticsecuirty.ca October 28-30 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador to advance the state-of-the-art in this domain.
Edwards estimated PATS allows a weapons user to achieve an approximate 10x improvement in learning how to engage a target.
Michael Presz, a company vice president of government programs and special projects, told MT that Kopin is looking to team with a weapons sight manufacturer to further advance the product. Queries from this sector are welcome while the team isat AUSA. A mature PATS design is expected in 2015.
Willis Jacobs, the organization’s executive director, told MT this conference was selected as an opportunity to raise the awareness of not only Army delegates, but other Pentagon and US federal agencies inside the Washington, DC Beltway of the technologies and other capabilities his aerospace and defense (A&D) companies offer and with good reasons. “The US Navy and Coast Guard are publishing revised strategies on the Arctic,” Jacobs observed, and added, that until recently not many nations cared what happening in the North, “but Russia’s behavior changed all that.”
The St. John, Newfoundland and Labrador-based industry official noted the capabilities offered by new A&D technologies for the Arctic transcend sovereignty – they support security, public safety and the energy sector with an emphasis on meeting “harsh applications”.
ADIANL member companies provide surveillance, unmanned systems, sensing and other products and systems with end-user applications for an Arctic operation.
Two representative association companies include EMSAT (specializing in the design of real-time cloud based software solutions to meet the challenges of environmental monitoring) and Compusult (specializing in the organization of large collections of geospatial and non-geospatial information used for military operations and other missions).
Association members also provide the capability to create harsh Arctic-like conditions for research and development purposes – making sea ice for example, for product testing and evaluation.
Jacobs also noted A&D sector companies and other representatives will convene at Maritime & Security Conference www.maritimearcticsecuirty.ca October 28-30 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador to advance the state-of-the-art in this domain.
New Product
Kopin (Booth 1968) has available for demonstration and further testing two configurations of its Precision Acquisition and Targeting System (PATS) – with internal and external range finders. Timothy Edwards, the company’s director of engineering in the visual products group, noted PATS is a fully integrated fire control system that converts any fielded optical sight into an intelligent and lethal targeting system. “By incorporating a state-of-the-art laser range finder, ballistic calculator and overlay display, the system increases the accuracy of any shooter using a fixed or variable magnification direct view optical gun sight.”Edwards estimated PATS allows a weapons user to achieve an approximate 10x improvement in learning how to engage a target.
Michael Presz, a company vice president of government programs and special projects, told MT that Kopin is looking to team with a weapons sight manufacturer to further advance the product. Queries from this sector are welcome while the team isat AUSA. A mature PATS design is expected in 2015.
Marty Kauchak