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Comms
Assembling atom-sized pieces for micromachines goal of DARPA A2P program - News
December 31, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials are looking to develop technologies and processes to build nanometer-scale pieces whose dimensions are near the size of atoms—into systems, components, or materials that are at least millimeter-scale in size. The big hurdle to this goal is that many common materials, when fabricated at nanometer-scale, exhibit unique and attractive “atomic-scale” behaviors but lose them when they are built at product scale dimensions such as a few centimeters. So DARPA launched the Atoms to Product (A2P) program and chose ten groups to go and solve this challenge.
Radar/EW
Tactical ISTAR contract won by Elbit Systems for Asia-Pacific nation - News
December 30, 2015
HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. won a contract to provide an airborne, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) solution to an unnamed Asia-Pacific country.
Unmanned
DARPA unmanned VTOL aircraft program for small ships won by Northrop Grumman - News
December 29, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. A team lead by Northrop Grumman Corp. won phase 3 of the DARPA Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program, which will enable small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates to have their own unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to run intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions around the clock.
Avionics
Boeing gets second crew mission to International Space Station - News
December 29, 2015
HOUSTON. NASA officials ordered its second post-certification mission from Boeing Space Exploration as part of an effort to establish regular crew missions to launch from the United States to the International Space Station (ISS).
Radar/EW
Intel's acquisition of FPGA-maker Altera completed - News
December 28, 2015
SANTA CLARA, California. Intel Corp. officials announced today that the company completed its acquisition of FPGA-maker Altera Corp., which will now operate as an Intel business unit dubbed the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). Altera's FPGAs are used by military systems designers in electronic warfare, radar, and other signal-processing intensive applications.
Radar/EW
Air Force radar support program won by BAE Systems - News
December 28, 2015
WASHINGTON. BAE Systems won a U.S. Air Force Instrumentation Radar Support Program (IRSP) contract to give multiple agencies a wide range of radar support services. IRSP provides services across the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and at least seven foreign governments.
Unmanned
Navy Shipboard Laser Weapon System Demonstrator contract won by Northrop Grumman - News
December 23, 2015
REDONDO BEACH, California. Northrop Grumman won a contract from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) U.S. Navy to design, produce, integrate, and support shipboard testing of a 150-kilowatt-class solid state (electric) laser weapon system. The contract, dubbed Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD), will have three phases.
Radar/EW
ISR sensors, GaN materials, multicore processors dominant tech trends in 2015 - Story
December 22, 2015
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 the technology game changers and market highlights from 2015 in the military electronics market as well as make predictions for 2016.
Radar/EW
Solid-state pulse Doppler radar tracks small targets in high clutter environments - Story
December 22, 2015
Militaries worldwide are increasing funding for radar systems that can track small targets such as rubber boats in high clutter, littoral environments as well as in the high seas. In this Q&A with Spike Hughes, Sales and Marketing Director for Kelvin Hughes, he discusses how solid-state, pulse Doppler radar technology enables those capabilities and also is being developed to counter the threat of small unmanned aircraft. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
DoD C4ISR market revenue to benefit from COTS and IoT systems - News
December 22, 2015
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Analysts at Frost & Sullivan say they expect U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) spending to be flat through 2020 due to force structure reductions. However, activity and revenues should increase for the application of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based computing, security, storage, networking, and collaboration tools. Internet of Things (IoT) systems along with cloud and big data technologies will be necessary to complement the adoption of COTS-based smart phones, tablets, wireless networks and productivity applications of all kinds.
A.I.
IARPA conference for Hybrid Forecasting Competition announced - News
December 22, 2015
WASHINGTON. Officials at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced the organization will be hosting a Proposers’ Day Conference for the Hybrid Forecasting Competition (HFC) program on February 3, 2016, as part of the build up to the release of a new solicitation supporting the program.
Radar/EW
Top military embedded blogs of 2015 - Blog
December 22, 2015
The most popular blogs on Mil-Embedded.com in 2015 covered topics including the sale of GE Embedded to Veritas Capital, legal snags for long-range radar, cyber attacks, manipulating space and time, the Internet of Things, and more. Check out the top ten below.
Unmanned
Top ten military electronics stories of 2015 - News
December 21, 2015
Our most popular stories on Mil-Embedded.com throughout 2015 covered topics such as high energy lasers, canister-launched unmanned aircraft, electronic warfare pods, F-15 upgrades, and more. Check them out below.
From The Editor
Amos Deacon Jr., of Phoenix International Systems, passes away - Story
December 18, 2015
My first meeting with Amos Deacon Jr., founder of Phoenix International Systems, was in the mid-1990s at the old AFCEA Technet show in Washington. With his big booming voice, firm handshake, and arm around my shoulder he made an impression and made me a friend instantly during my first year in the military electronics industry. A more loyal friend in this business you could not find. Unfortunately we lost Amos and his big heart last month when he passed away from cancer at age 82.
Avionics
EASA and European Commission to keynote Aviation Electronics Europe 2016 - News
December 17, 2015
MUNICH, Germany. Gzim Ocakoglu, Policy Advisor, European Commission / DG MOVE and Friedhelm Runge, Avionics Expert, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have been announced as keynote speakers at the Aviation Electronics Europe conference and exhibition to be held April 20-21 in Munich, Germany at the MOC Event Center.
Avionics
New aircraft production down, avionics upgrade funding steady - Story
December 15, 2015
Budget cuts and sequestration have reduced funding for new aircraft platforms but there are still pockets of funding for avionics and flight decks in existing military aircraft. In this Q&A with Troy Brunk, Vice President and General Manager of Airborne Solutions for Rockwell Collins Government Systems, he discusses his outlook for military avionics technology, what pilots want avionics technology to do for them, and the situational-awareness benefits of synthetic vision technology. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
C-130 radios to get upgrades from Raytheon - News
December 14, 2015
MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon won a $29.6 million Air Force upgrade contract to install MXF-626K VHF Communications Systems on 178 C-130H Hercules aircraft. This upgrade makes sure C-130 radios comply with newly adopted European Air Traffic Management requirements by enabling 8.33 kilohertz (kHz) channel spacing in the range of 118 to 137 megahertz (MHz).
Radar/EW
Top ten radar/electronic warfare stories from 2015 - News
December 10, 2015
Radar and electronic warfare (EW) stories have been quite popular on Mil-Embedded.com throughout 2015, which is not surprising as military planners worldwide are boosting their C4ISR budgets to counter sophisticated threats. Our top read stories covered long-range radars, EMP weapons, small radars for coastal zones, Space Fence, and more. Check them out below.
Comms
Marine Corps ACV 1.1 EMD contracts won by SAIC and BAE Systems - News
November 30, 2015
QUANTICO, Virginia. U.S. Marine Corps officials selected SAIC in McLean, Virginia, and Land & Armaments LP in Sterling Heights, Michigan, for the Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase contracts of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 program. Each contract calls for solution is to be built from the ground up to be an amphibious vehicle.
Radar/EW
FPGAs, expensive and difficult to program, but essential to radar & electronic warfare systems - Story
November 23, 2015
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 the impact of FPGAs on military electronics designs -- how they are game changers in radar and electronic warfare signal-processing systems, but still difficult to program and expensive.
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