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Unmanned
Northrop Grumman Smart Node Pod demonstrates C4ISR interoperability - News
November 17, 2016
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated how its Smart Node Pod -- a small, self-contained, aircraft-mounted system -- can aid in battlefield communications and information-sharing across a wide variety of networks and mission threads. The Smart Node Pod's capabilities were presented during Bold Quest, a coalition demonstration and assessment event sponsored twice yearly by the Joint Staff at the Department of Defense (DoD); Bold Quest 16.2 was conducted in the Savannah, Georgia, area from mid-October through early November.
Avionics
F-22 sustainment contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
November 16, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $536 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for sustaining the F-22 Raptor.
Radar/EW
Autumn acquisitions touch military embedded computing, safety-critical markets - Story
November 16, 2016
Two key acquisitions colored the fall season in the embedded world, both of which will affect military embedded computing applications. One was at the component level, the other at the board and subsystem level, as Qualcomm bought NXP, formerly Freescale, for about $47 billion and then soon after Mercury Systems picked up avionics computer supplier Creative Electronic Systems (CES) for about $38 million.
Comms
Coast Guard Cutters get C4ISR and machinery control systems from Northrop Grumman - News
November 15, 2016
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers will design C4ISR and machinery control systems (MCS) for the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) under a contract from Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG). As many as 25 OPCs are expected to be built by the Coast Guard to replace its entire fleet of medium endurance cutters.
Radar/EW
XPand4208 includes quad-core Intel Core i7 processors - Product
November 14, 2016
The XPand4208 from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES), designed for avionics and vetronics applications, is a high-performance, expandable, computing and networking platform. The system has qualified under the MIL-STD-810F, DO-160F, MIL-STD-461F environmental, and EMI/EMC standards. This...
Radar/EW
Rugged switch with embedded x86 PC for military vehicles - Product
November 14, 2016
The Themis NanoSWITCH is a size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C)-optimized rugged multi-layer gigabit Ethernet switch with an embedded x86 PC. The NanoSWITCH enables enterprise-level layer 2/3 switching in the rugged environments found in military ground, air, and sea vehicles. Typical ap...
Radar/EW
F-series computing platform designed to meet SWaP requirements in harsh environments - Product
November 14, 2016
Elma Electronic?s S50F computing platform was designed with an Intel Corei7 processor at its foundation. The F-Series of the S50F-Intel Gen 4 Haswell general computing platform is expandable both in terms of I/O options and overall system size for enhanced performance while meeting...
Radar/EW
X-series adds M9290A CXA-m PXIe signal analyzer - Product
November 14, 2016
Keysight has expanded its X-series of signal analyzers with the CXA-m, a PXIe signal analyzer that offers specified performance up to 26.5 GHz. Its measurement capabilities include swept and FFT modes in the same instrument. The testing capabilities of the M9290A CXA-m PXIe signal analyzer...
Radar/EW
3U VPX features processor with mobile Intel QM77 Express chipset for radar applications - Product
November 14, 2016
ADLINK?s rugged 3U VPX 3rd-generation Intel Core i7 processor blade was designed for radar and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The VPX-3001 Series is a 3U VPX processor blade that features the processor with mobile Intel QM77 Express chipset. It pr...
Radar/EW
Board provides server-grade performance with storage connectivity - Product
November 14, 2016
The Concurrent Technologies TR C4x/msd board ? intended for military, aerospace, transportation, and test markets ? provides server-grade performance with storage connectivity for use in embedded computer applications. The 10G Ethernet dataplane connectivity enables users to bu...
Radar/EW
Qualcomm buys GaN supplier NXP - News
October 31, 2016
SAN DIEGO. Qualcomm Inc., and NXP Semiconductors in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, announced a definitive agreement under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP for $110.00 per share in cash, or about $47 billion.
Radar/EW
FPGAs fuel military electronic warfare, cognitive radio, and radar signal processing innovation - Story
October 31, 2016
Demand for increased signal-processing performance continues to be insatiable among military radar, electronic warfare (EW), and communications integrator especially as the latter two move into cognitive applications. In this Q&A with Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder of Pentek in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, he discusses how embedded signal-processing can enable cognitive EW and cognitive radio, how FPGAs have revolutionized embedded computing, and how the defense industry is competing for young engineering talent with the behemoths of the commercial world. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
Army procurement and COTS - Story
October 31, 2016
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss technology and market trends in the U.S. Army sector with exhibitors from the Association of the U.S. Army?s (AUSA) Annual Meeting held earlier this month in Washington. They cover Army unmanned system trends, the service?s approach to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement, market performance, and other trends.
Comms
DARPA simplifies contracting for those with little or no DoD experience - News
October 30, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) officials are introducing a simpler contracting approach for companies and other entities that have not previously worked with DARPA or had large contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Comms
Landsat spacecraft contract awarded by NASA to Orbital ATK - News
October 30, 2016
WASHINGTON. NASA officials awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, known publicly as Orbital ATK, for the purchase of Landsat 9 spacecraft in the amount of $129.9 million under a five-year, firm fixed-price delivery order.
Comms
Turbine trainer aircraft valued at $32 billion over next decade - News
October 30, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Analysts at the Teal Group are forecasting a world market for 2,737 turbine trainer aircraft worth about $32.3 billion over the next 10 years, more than 50 percent larger than the 1,876 aircraft worth $19.9 billion delivered in 2006-2015 (all in constant 2016 dollars).
Radar/EW
Radar and software interface supports VITA 49.0 specifications - Product
October 24, 2016
Model 71664 is a member of Pentek?s Cobalt family of XMC modules based on the Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Designed as a multichannel, high-speed data converter, it uses programmable digital downconverters (DDCs) and its PCIExpress output supports the VITA 49...
Radar/EW
Bidirectional optical extender provides optical-electrical bridge by over a mile - Product
October 24, 2016
Avionics Interface Technologies? MIL-STD-1553 Fibre Optic Databus Extender is an optical-electrical bridge for extending a MIL-STD-1553 databus by over a mile in length. The optical extension offers a low-latency mechanism for sending 1553 data through noisy environments and across l...
Radar/EW
DAL-C certifiable XMC 2.0 SBC for aerospace and defense applications - Product
October 24, 2016
Creative Electronics Systems (CES) offers the MFCC-8557, a DAL-C-certifiable XMC 2.0 single-board computer (SBC) for aerospace and defense applications. It is designed to meet the DO-178C/DO-254 certification process and can be delivered with all documentation, certification evidences, and...
Radar/EW
GaN transistors for electronic warfare and communication systems - Product
October 24, 2016
NXP has expanded its family of gallium nitride (GaN) radio frequency (RF) power transistors to include six driver or final-stage amplifiers that have frequency coverage ranging between 1 to 3000 MHz. The additional line of transistors join NXP?s portfolio of RF power transistors aime...
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