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One more Littoral Combat Ship ordered by Navy - News
April 01, 2016
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy contracted a Lockheed Martin led team one fully funded Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Included in the contract is funding for seaframe construction, testing, and systems integration.
Comms
DoD budget impact on COTS - Story
March 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 our roundtable of industry experts discuss how the slight increase in the Department of Defense?s (DoD?s) overall Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request affects embedded commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics providers. Also discussed are which applications are best bets for COTS, market fluctuations, risk management, and predictions for potential defense budgets under a Clinton or Trump administration.
Comms
NASA budget cuts human exploration, increases CubeSat, R&D dollars - News
March 31, 2016
WASHINGTON. The Obama Administration?s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request for NASA cuts into human space flight funding while tripling finding for CubeSat, increasing investment in earth sciences, research and development (R&D). The overall budget request of $19 billion is down about $300,000 from FY 2016. Below are some highlights.
Comms
Military open architectures and VITA standards - Story
March 30, 2016
Custom designs and closed architectures are quickly becoming anachronisms, as commonality and interoperability of components are now standard requirements in military programs. More than two decades have passed since the famous commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) initiative hit the U.S. military market, and today common standards and COTS are now essential factors in every defense procurement equation. In this Q&A with Jerry Gipper, Executive Director of VITA ? the trade association behind standards such as VMEbus and VPX, he discusses how the defense community has moved away from custom, roll-your-own designs of embedded systems and is embracing open standards and open architectures in programs such as the U.S. Army?s MORA and VICTORY. He also provides an introduction to a new initiative being developed between VITA and the U.S. Navy, called HOST. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Space Fence radar test site opens in New Jersey - News
March 30, 2016
MOORESTOWN, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin officials announced the opening of a Space Fence radar array test site in Moorestown, New Jersey. This facility is representative of the larger Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based system now under construction on the Marshall Islands, specifically Kwajalein Island. The U.S. Air Force Space Fence will monitor objects in space.
Cyber
Cybersecurity market valued at $81.4 billion globally - News
March 29, 2016
LONDON. Analysts at visiongain see the cybersecurity market's global value reaching $81.4 billion in 2016 led by companies such as Northrop Grumman Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., and Intel. Cybersecurity submarkets included in the analysis are: network security, data security, endpoint security, application security, cloud security; and identity & access management.
Avionics
Army rotorcraft blade control tech developed by Army Research Lab - News
March 28, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland. U.S. Army researchers at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) performed a live-fire test on a rotor blade that has individual blade control technology.
Comms
First upgraded Assault Amphibious Vehicle delivered to Marine Corps - News
March 25, 2016
QUANTICO, Virginia. Science Applications International Corp. officials announced delivery the first Assault Amphibious Vehicle Survivability Upgrade (AAV SU) to U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico this month. It will be the first of 10 AAV SU vehicles scheduled for delivery for testing to the Marine Corps by May.
Comms
Hundreds of Army tactical vehicles get tech upgrades - News
March 24, 2016
FORT BLISS, Texas. Hundreds of Army tactical vehicles are getting upgrades within the Integration Motor Pool at Fort Bliss, Texas, in preparation of the Army's on-the-move communications Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 16.2 coming this spring.
Radar/EW
Microsemi to sell RF & microwave, embedded security, and custom microelectronics businesses to Mercury Systems - News
March 23, 2016
CHELMSFORD, Massachusetts. Officials at Mercury Systems announced today that the company signed a definitive agreement with Microsemi Corp. to purchase its embedded security, RF and microwave, and custom microelectronics businesses for about $300 million. The additional RF and microwave technology should strengthen Mercury's capabilities in military radar and electronic warfare applications.
Cyber
Thales closes acquisition of cloud security company, Vormetric - News
March 21, 2016
PARIS. Thales Group officials announced that the company's acquisition of Vormetric for ?375 million has closed following the approval of regulatory authorities. The acquisition, which enables Thales to add capability in data protection and cybersecurity, will place the Vormetric operation Thales?s cybersecurity business.
Avionics
IFF and missile warning system contract for Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter - News
March 17, 2016
NASHUA, New Hampshire. The U.S. Air Force chose BAE Systems to supply survivability and situational awareness technology -- its Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) technology dubbed AN/DPX-7 Reduced Size Transponder (RST) and its Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) -- for the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH).
Avionics
Software enables modern weapons integration into older military aircraft - News
March 16, 2016
TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon engineers have developed a software solution for integrating of new weapons into older aircraft. The software can be implemented across various platforms and current bomb rack systems.
Radar/EW
First SeaRAM missile system fired from DDG - News
March 15, 2016
ATLANTIC OCEAN. A live-fire SeaRAM missile system test was performed by sailors serving on the USS Porter (DDG 78), a Arleigh-Burke class, guided-missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain. SeaRAM is a self-contained detect-to-engage ship self-defense system that marries the sensor systems of a CIWS with an 11-round Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launcher.
Comms
NextGen funding in FAA's FY 2017 budget request - News
March 14, 2016
WASHINGTON. The Fiscal Year (FY)2017 budget request for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is
$15.9 billion, slightly less than the FY2016 enacted total of $16.3 billion. The entire FY 2017 Next Generation Air Traffic Management System (NextGen) effort totals $1.0 billion, a 2 percent increase over the FY2016 enacted total.
Avionics
NextGen, SESAR, ADS-B tech highlight agenda at Aviation Electronics Europe - News
March 14, 2016
MUNICH, Germany. Sessions on Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR), the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA'S) NextGen initiative, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance ? Broadcast (ADS?B) technology highlight the first day of the Aviation Electronics Europe conference and exhibition to be held April 20-21 in Munich, Germany at the MOC Event Center.
Cyber
Navy Tactical Cloud contract won by Charles River Analytics - News
March 14, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) selected Charles River Analytics Inc. for a contract to develop Navalytics, a framework for probabilistic, multi-source naval analytics and analytic services, to enable rapid development and deployment of rich, mission-critical analytics. The work will be performed under the Navy Tactical Cloud effort, which brings big data capabilities to the warfighting environment.
Comms
Major DoD program procurement and modernization budget highlights - Story
March 10, 2016
WASHINGTON. Funding slated for Department of Defense (DoD) major weapon systems programs for Fiscal Year 2017 totals $183.9 billion. The entire DoD budget request for FY 2017 is $582.7 billion, a $2.4 billion increase over the FY 2016 enacted total.
Radar/EW
Rohde & Schwarz transceiver covers frequencies from 30 MHz to 400 MHz - Product
March 06, 2016
Rohde & Schwarz?s MR6000A, an airborne transceiver in the R&S M3AR product family, is intended for applications in military and civil environments including airborne platforms such as helicopters, transport aircraft, jets, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The transceiver covers...
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Self-encrypting solid-state drive for sensitive data - Product
March 06, 2016
Microsemi?s 1 TB TRRUST-Stor SATA SLC self-encrypting solid-state drive is aimed at keeping sensitive data from getting in the wrong hands with features including AES-256 encryption, sanitization protocols, and Microsemi?s TRRUST Purge technology that renders data unrecoverab...
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