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11 Sep 25. Spectrum Instrumentation presents new flagship digitizers with 12-bit resolution and a maximum of 6 channels at 10 GS/s or 12 channels at 5 GS/s acquisition speed. The new DN6.33x digitizers belong to the company’s Netbox series, an easy-to-use instrument line that requires only an Ethernet cable to be controlled from any PC, laptop, or network. A comprehensive software package and a number of hardware features make them ideal for automated testing applications, capturing signals on multiple, perfectly synchronized inputs. With 15 new variants, Spectrum now offers a total of 94 different digitizer Netboxes, ranging from 5 MS/s to an ultrafast 10 GS/s sampling speed.
10 Sep 25. New multichannel GHz Digitizers with up to 12 channels. Spectrum Instrumentation presents new flagship digitizers with 12-bit resolution and a maximum of 6 channels at 10 GS/s or 12 channels at 5 GS/s acquisition speed. The new DN6.33x digitizers belong to the company’s Netbox series, an easy-to-use instrument line that requires only an Ethernet cable to be controlled from any PC, laptop, or network. A comprehensive software package and a number of hardware features make them ideal for automated testing applications, capturing signals on multiple, perfectly synchronized inputs. With 15 new variants, Spectrum now offers a total of 94 different digitizer Netboxes, ranging from 5 MS/s to an ultrafast 10 GS/s sampling speed.
Link to the product video (4 min): https://youtu.be/01gtR_RjBds
Each channel of the new DN6.33x digitizers features a 12-bit ADC with sampling rates of 3.2, 6.4, or 10
GS/s, and related analog bandwidths of 1, 2, or 3 GHz. Models are available with 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 channels,
giving users flexibility without overspending on unneeded performance. If only 1 or 2 channels are required,
the smaller DN2.33x series is available.
Key hardware features:
- Perfect synchronous sampling across all channels
- Four independent programmable input ranges (±200 mV to ±2.5 V) per channel with programmable offset,
on-board calibration, and precise timing alignment
- The standard memory allows 200 ms capture duration at full speed, expandable to 800 ms
- Front panel connectors for external clocks, triggers, and digital I/O are standard
Flexible acquisition modes – like transient, multiple, and optional block averaging – combine with advanced
trigger capabilities to allow the precise capture of rare or complex events. Each trigger has its own
timestamp, making it possible to time between acquisitions that may be separated by hours, or just fractions
of a microsecond.
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All units ship together with the powerful SBench 6 Professional software for acquisition, display, analysis and
documentation. SBench 6 handles large data files with ease, offers a wide choice of time and frequency
display modes and provides an easy way to control Netbox instruments. When embedding a unit into
automated testing systems, developers can create their own programs using the free SDKs, compatible with
C++, Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, and more. Optional accessories include a high-speed pulse generator
with four programmable outputs, and 19″ rack mounting kits.
Oliver Rovini, CTO at Spectrum Instrumentation for 25 years, reports: “The DN6.33x series combines speed,
resolution, and ease of integration. These digitizers are ideal for MIMO, in communications or radar, or
anywhere that time-correlated measurements may be needed, e.g. in aerospace, scientific research, photovoltaic
analysis and semiconductors. Each unit comes with a 5-year warranty, lifetime software/firmware
updates, and support directly from our design engineers. For long-term test platforms, our 15 years of
committed service and parts availability offer peace of mind”.
About Spectrum Instrumentation
Spectrum Instrumentation, founded in 1989, uses a unique modular concept to design and produce a wide
range of more than 200 digitizers and generator products as PC-cards (PCIe and PXIe) and stand-alone
Ethernet units (LXI). In over 35 years, Spectrum has gained customers all around the world, including many
A-brand industry-leaders and practically all prestigious universities. The company is headquartered near
Hamburg, Germany, known for its 5-year warranty and outstanding support that comes directly from the
design engineers. More information about Spectrum can be found at www.spectrum-instrumentation.com
12 Sep 25. Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has developed a digital asset management and intelligence platform Metis, which is boosting army mission readiness by helping personnel make smarter, data-driven decisions. Metis delivers a strategic advantage by bringing together siloed systems to create a connected view of assets and how they’re managed. By utilising a range of technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, Metis provides a connected view of asset reliability, availability and readiness across their lifecycle, enhancing maintainability and sustainment in the process. This real-time operational intelligence streamlines defence enterprises by reducing process duplication and enabling trusted information flows, ensuring everyone works from the same data improving the accuracy and availability of resource and asset information.
Named after the Greek Goddess of wisdom, Babcock initially developed Metis to boost mission readiness for the British Army as part of its Service Provision and Transformation Contract (SPTC), where it provides equipment support and fleet management for more than 30,000 vehicles, from main battle tanks to quad bikes.
Metis can also be configured for any organisation which has complex assets.
Tom Newman, CEO, Babcock’s Land Sector, said: “As a key strategic partner of the British Army, we are always looking at ways of delivering improved readiness to ensure soldiers have access to the right assets whenever and wherever they need them.
“Now, more than ever, it’s critical our armed forces have high levels of asset availability and Metis uses the latest technology to deliver this – giving them a key strategic advantage.”
12 Sep 25. Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company and Skyral announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Equipment Support and Sustainment for the British Army.
- Strategic partnership leverages Skyral’s advanced modelling and simulation technology to enhance British Army’s Equipment Support.
- Skyral joins Babcock’s METIS collaborative partner network – a digital capability that transforms fragmented data into actionable knowledge for intelligent asset management.
- Partnership enables planning transformation through realistic testing and adaptation of sustainment and regeneration strategies across peace, crisis, and warfighting scenarios.
Babcock and UK-based advanced simulation company Skyral have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking the launch of a strategic partnership to deliver next-generation modelling and simulation (M&S) capabilities to the British Army’s Equipment Support.
The collaboration combines Babcock’s deep expertise in defence support and engineering with Skyral’s cutting-edge digital twin and agent-based simulation technologies. Together, they will enable intelligent asset management and advanced planning tools to test and adapt sustainment strategies across the full spectrum of military operations.
At the core of the partnership is the development of a Supply Chain Planning Tool, designed to allow users to run detailed “what-if” scenarios and stress-test plans under realistic conditions. By simulating readiness, sustainment, and regeneration — including the impact of disruptor events such as supply loss, route denial, or combat attrition — the tool, integrated with Babcock’s METIS capability, will help identify bottlenecks, optimise force availability, and ensure plans remain agile in the face of evolving threats.
Naomi Hulme, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Skyral Defence, said: “This partnership with Babcock not only represents a significant advancement in military logistics planning for the British Army, it also exemplifies what the UK can achieve when British Primes and SMEs work hand-in-glove to develop cutting-edge sovereign capability for our Armed Forces.”
Kate Robinson, Managing Director, Through Life Equipment Support at Babcock, added: “The partnership with Skyral brings innovative modelling and simulation capabilities to advance the intelligent asset management support we provide to the British Army. By combining Babcock’s deep understanding of defence support services with Skyral’s advanced simulation technology, we’re delivering tools that will enhance the enterprise’s ability to plan, execute and sustain complex military operations.”
The partnership will ensure that complex supply chain planning keeps pace with evolving operational requirements. It addresses the growing need for forward-looking, interoperable planning tools that can adapt to diverse threat environments and operational scenarios.
This collaboration supports the British Army’s modernisation efforts by delivering advanced analytical tools that enhance decision-making across all phases of military operations – positioning UK defence innovation at the forefront of transformation.
Skyral brings a proven track record in defence modelling and simulation, having worked with UK, US, and NATO partners since 2016.
10 Sep 25. Europe’s tech leaders join forces for sovereign control of drone swarms.
- Europe’s leading defence technology companies are partnering to provide Europe with sovereign AI-powered swarm capabilities, tightly integrated with existing C2 systems and processes, to revolutionise the recce-strike complex.
- Military experts consider swarming drones – where drones communicate and synchronise between themselves on a mission – as the next step in battlefield autonomy. Working together, Helsing and Systematic will be able to deliver European leadership in this new capability.
- The companies are already working jointly with European militaries in pursuit of delivering these new capabilities.
Helsing and Systematic are today announcing a partnership to provide Europe with sovereign AI-powered swarm capabilities integrated with existing C2 systems and processes to revolutionise the recce-strike complex. The agreement has been signed at Europe’s largest defence exhibition, DSEI in London, and is the latest innovative partnership between European defence tech companies developing sovereign capabilities in Europe, for Europe.
By combining their expertise, the two companies are strengthening the continent’s digital defence industrial base, providing the capability and capacity required for quicker decisions, state-of-the-art targeting, and precision mass strike capabilities. This will allow military leaders to build up their capacity in this area and adopt lessons from Ukraine.
The partnership will integrate Helsing’s AI-powered defence tech platforms with the Systematic SitaWare suite of C4ISR currently used by more than 50 nations. This will allow customers to be instantly ‘drone ready’ and open the pathway to further scale the deployment of autonomous sensors and effectors as drone swarms.
The technology will enable the faster exchange of data between drones, such as ISR platforms and the Helsing HX-2 strike drone, which is deployed in Ukraine. SitaWare users can then deliver mission critical tasks at unprecedented speed and scale, such as developing target lists, creating plans and orders, tasking strike assets, deconflicting airspace to ensure safe operations, and delivering fused friendly and enemy force pictures.
The Helsing HX-2 strike drone.
Data gathered from the uncrewed systems will support tasks ranging from target nomination through to battle damage assessment. When operated in conjunction with the strike capabilities in the HX-2 system, commanders will have a comprehensive and seamless end-to-end F3EAD capability (find, fix, finish, exploit, analyse, disseminate).
Helsing’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, Gundbert Scherf, says: “This partnership brings together two entrepreneurial and sovereign European technology companies: Systematic, the leader in interoperable battle management systems, and Helsing, at the forefront of AI-enabled reconnaissance and strike. We share a mission and an ambition — to intelligently network our forces at the speed the threat situation demands. What wins wars is not individual systems, but the ability to connect them and to iterate at the speed of relevance. Together, we will deliver exactly that for Europe’s defence.”
Systematic’s Chairman and Founder, Michael Holm, says: “Systematic has always been at the forefront of data delivery for military operations, with Helsing emerging as one of the major European players in AI and new technologies. As the AI age is increasing how we can use data, partnerships such as this help our users to get the most out of their systems, and the other platforms that support them. As Europe continues to invest in its own defence technological and industrial base, we are helping to improve European sovereignty, while also providing our allies and partners with advanced data solutions.”
Editors Notes:
Helsing was founded in 2021 to provide “Artificial Intelligence to protect our democracies”, with the conviction that advanced technologies must be urgently moved from experimentation to operations, deterring wider conflict for a strong Europe. Helsing works closely with technicians across the defence industry and tacticians from militaries throughout Europe. Together, we develop systems that leverage AI and autonomy to generate autonomous mass that is affordable, scalable and sovereign.
Systematic’s SitaWare suite is now in use with over 50 military forces around the world, including 19 in Europe, and is also NATO’s land forces command-and-control platform. SitaWare allows users to develop a common operating picture (COP); discover, consume, and disseminate intelligence; and create and distribute plans and orders across all echelons. Systematic’s intelligence and decision support tool, SitaWare Insight, also allows the collection, collation, and processing of intelligence data using AI to uncover insights and monitor areas of interest.
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