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Radar/EW
Railgun system from General Atomics demonstrated at Army Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) officials demonstrated its Blitzer electromagnetic railgun system at the U.S. Army's Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX)last month at Ft. Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Unmanned
Certifiable Predator B from GA-ASI finishes fuselage integrity testing - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that the company completed fuselage structural integrity testing of its Certifiable Predator B (CPB) unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
Radar/EW
Air Force ARTS program contract won by Textron Systems - News
May 02, 2016
HUNT VALLEY, Maryland. Textron Systems Electronic Systems won an $11 million order from the U.S.Air Force for 12 Advanced Radar/Electronic Warfare Test Station (ARTS) Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) systems to support the B-1B Lancer strategic bomber fleet.
Avionics
Safety critical COTS avionics, military avionics trends - Story
April 29, 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 our roundtable of industry experts discuss avionics design trends, safety certification of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and the buzz on the floor at the Aviation Electronics Europe show held last week in Munich, Germany.
Avionics
OpenGL SC 2.0 for shader programmable safety critical graphics released by Khronos - News
April 29, 2016
MUNICH, Germany. Officials at the Khronos Group consortium announced the availability of the OpenGL SC 2.0 specification for bringing programmable graphics to systems that require system safety certification such as commercial and military avionics systems as well as automotive safety systems. Khronos officials made the announcement at the Aviation Electronics Europe show held last week in Munich.
Radar/EW
DDC to buy Maxwell Microelectronics, expanding rad-hard business - News
April 29, 2016
BOHEMIA, New York. Officials at Data Device Corporation (DDC) announced that the company entered into an agreement to acquire the microelectronics group from Maxwell Technologies, Inc. in San Diego. DDC, already a player in the space electronic market, just increased their market share significantly by adding Maxwell?s space-qualified microelectronics solutions for satellites and spacecraft.
Cyber
Military training and simulation spending to increase, analysts say - News
April 29, 2016
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California. Industry analysts say that spending by the Department of Defense (DoD) on training and simulation is expected to increase throughout the fiscal years defense plan (FYDP) to make up for the previous years? training shortfalls. Frost & Sullivan researcher forecast a 1.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2020 for this sector. making it essentially a flat market once adjusted for inflation..
Radar/EW
Military rad-hard designs and big data in space systems - Story
April 28, 2016
In this Q&A with Ricardo Gonzalez Product Line Director, Space Products & Processing at BAE Systems in Manassas, Virginia, he discusses the impact of Department of Defense (DoD) budget cuts on the military space market, design radiation-hardened (rad-hard) components, and how BAE Systems handles big data and reduced SWaP requirements in their space products. Edited excerpts follow.
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Radar/EW
Navy Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
April 18, 2016
ARCHBALD, Pennsylvania. Lockheed Martin won a $25.8 million U.S. Navy contract to manufacture and deliver Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR) and also refurbish reusable shipping containers and provide the associated technical data, to eventually extend ELGTR production into late 2018.
Cyber
DarkNode appliance used to protect against internal and external cyberattacks - Product
April 14, 2016
Ultra Electronics 3eTI?s DarkNode (3e-636L2) is a Layer 2 industrial information assurance (IA) appliance with a built-in application layer rewall that is designed to protect critical infrastructure facilities from internal or external cyberattacks. Its security platform reports over...
Radar/EW
10 Gb/s ruggedized system for military, aerospace high-bandwidth applications - Product
April 14, 2016
Hercules Unleashed is a 10 Gb/s ruggedized commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) high-density interconnect system from Meritec. The Hercules Interconnection System is embedded in the rugged circular MIL-38999 shell to provide a durable and high bandwidth interconnect suitable for military and ae...
Radar/EW
Multipurpose GPP for configurable systems with low power requirements - Product
April 14, 2016
The IXI Technology configurable IXI-1 multipurpose general-purpose processor (GPP) is an SBC that integrates the high-performance and low-power Intel Atom Quad-Core CPU. An additional FPGA for flexible configuration of multistandard I/O interfaces provides support for the CPU. The accelera...
Radar/EW
Rugged dual-channel 4 GSPS ADC/DAC in 3U form factor - Product
April 14, 2016
The VPX3-530 3U VPX Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA ADC/DAC card from Curtiss-Wright is designed for defense applications such as signal intelligence (SIGINT), electronic countermeasures (ECM), and radar warning receivers (RWR). The rugged dual-channel 4 gigasamples per second (GSPS) ADC/DAC is packa...
Radar/EW
Manage Ethernet switches with 12 or 24 ports - Product
April 14, 2016
The Connect Tech LINQ/GbE is a rugged managed Ethernet switch box available for 12 or 24 Ethernet ports of 10/100/1000 Mbps. Using the Vitesse switch engine VSC7429, users have access to a range of Layer 2+ switching features, including VLAN support, IPv4/IPv6 multicast, QoS, and link aggr...
Avionics
DoD budget request funds platforms that leverage small form factors - Story
April 14, 2016
Regardless of which military trade show I attend or what military application is being discussed at a show, the common trend is that everything is getting smaller, whether it's GPS systems, avionics computers, unmanned aircraft system (UAV) payloads, etc. This trend bodes well for suppliers to the military of small-form-factor standards such as PC/104, COM Express, or SMARC.
Unmanned
Unmanned aircraft leverage PC/104, COM Express, and other small form factors - Story
April 14, 2016
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like PC/104, COM Express, and others.
Radar/EW
Radar/EW
PC/104 and small form factors popular in defense electronics systems - Story
April 13, 2016
Thanks to its longevity and modularity, the PC/104 standard continues to be popular with military system designers, especially, as their size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements continue to shrink.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy sonobuoy contract won by Sparton & Ultra Electronics joint venture - News
April 05, 2016
COLUMBIA CITY, Indiana & SCHAUMBURG, Illinois. Officials at Sparton Corp. and Ultra Electronics Holdings plc announced their ERAPSCO joint venture won subcontracts from the U.S. Navy worth about $53.7 million to manufacture sonobuoys, to enable greater sensor capability for the Navy in anti-submarine warfare applications.
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