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Avionics
Avionics highlights from DoD budget request - Story
March 11, 2015
While there does not appear to be an end to sequestration any time soon, the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 budget re-quest for the Department of Defense (DoD) shows an increase over 2015: For FY 2016, the Department is requesting base budget funding totaling $534.3 billion, an increase of $38.2 billion from the FY 2015 enacted budget of $496.1 billion.
Avionics
Sale of ARINC Aerospace Systems Engineering and Support by Rockwell Collins to Field Aviation Inc. completed - News
March 11, 2015
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins, Inc. officials announced completion of the sale of the company's ARINC Aerospace Systems Engineering and Support (ASES LLC) business to Field Aviation Inc., a privately held U.S. company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Unmanned
Commercial unmanned aircraft to reach $1.27 billion by 2020 say market analysts - News
March 11, 2015
Research analysts at ASD Reports say in a new report that the commercial unmanned aircraft, or drone, market was valued at about $15.22 million in 2014 and that it is expected to grow to $1.27 billion by 2020.
Radar/EW
Patriot router development by Raytheon and Teldat for Poland moves to next phase - News
March 10, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon and TELDAT engineers completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of their effort to co-develop and co-produce advanced militarized routers for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system for Poland, which validates the TELDAT design's capability to meet all Patriot system requirements and also enables the company to move into the manufacturing and design qualification phase of the program.
Radar/EW
Navy Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) contract won by Northrop Grumman - News
March 06, 2015
LINTHICUM, Md. Northrop Grumman Corp. won the U.S. Navy's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 contract for developing and manufacturing the next-generation surface electronic warfare system.
Comms
Navy to use IXI Data I/O Converter to link radar, weapons and other systems over Ethernet - News
March 05, 2015
YORBA LINDA, Calif. U.S Navy tasked IXI Technology to provide its advanced Data I/O Converter system where it will convert information from the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) to fiber for the AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard electronic warfare (EW) system. The EW system provides electronic support and countermeasure protection for U.S. and international navies.
Radar/EW
Radar market expanding as is our coverage - Story
March 04, 2015
Embedded signal processing solutions are driving the bandwidth in modern military radar systems and electronic warfare designs – two of the hottest areas in the defense electronics market, both of which we cover extensively at Military Embedded Systems. The market for radar is especially strong and looks to stay that way.
Comms
Radiant Mercury contracts for cross domain intel sharing won by Lockheed Martin - News
March 02, 2015
DENVER. U.S. Navy officials contracted Lockheed Martin engineers to continue their support of the Radiant Mercury system that enables secure sharing of sensitive data between unclassified and classified security domains.
Radar/EW
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System tracks and simulates 3 ballistic missile engagements - News
February 27, 2015
WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. The Missile Defense Agency announced that it launched three short-range ballistic missile targets near-simultaneously from NASA’sWallops Flight Facility. Two U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile defense (BMD) destroyers then acquired and tracked the targets, while another destroyer also participated in associated operations.
Comms
Australian army to use Joint Fires Observer/Joint Terminal Attack Controller simulator from Rockwell Collins - News
February 26, 2015
GEELONG, Australia. Rockwell Collins engineers are providing the Australian army with its mobile Joint Fires Observer (JFO)/Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) simulator.
Radar/EW
Perimeter of Middle Eastern air base to be secured by E-scan radars from Blighter - News
February 25, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester, Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East.
Avionics
Digital cockpit design, leveraged for UH-60L Black Hawk upgrade, on display at IDEX - News
February 24, 2015
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers are showcasing the company's digital cockpit solution, which is being leveraged in an upgrade of the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) this week in Abu Dhabi in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Once upgraded the aircraft will be called the UH-60V.
Radar/EW
Missile defense radar, AN/TPY-2, gets processor upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 23, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will allow the system to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between a missile's warhead, and non-threats such as countermeasures.
Comms
Army M1A2 Abrams tanks to use Palomar BICU displays - News
February 20, 2015
CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Army officials awarded Palomar Display Products, Inc. a contract to produce and deliver their Biocular Image Control Unit (BICU) displays for Army M1A2 Abrams tanks.
Unmanned
Beam control system from Boeing looks to improve laser weapon accuracy on Navy ships - News
February 19, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boeing experts have been contracted to design and develop a beam control system that could enable enhanced accuracy for laser weapons on U.S. Navy warships.
Cyber
Record number of cyber attacks hit Lockheed Martin in 2014 - Blog
February 18, 2015
ARLINGTON, VA. Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn Hewson, announced that Lockheed Martin was hit by 50 cyber attacks during 2014, the most the company has ever seen directed against it and Hewson says she expects the number to only increase.
Unmanned
New rules/regulations for small unmanned aircraft proposed by FAA - News
February 18, 2015
WASHINGTON. Department of Transportation’s (DoT's) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced a framework of new regulations that would enable routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in today’s airspace, while keeping flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.
Radar/EW
Navy P-8A to get open systems architecture upgrade from Raytheon - News
February 17, 2015
MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon engineers will be providing a flexible, application-based architecture (ABA) enhancement for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a $15.5 million system development contract.
Comms
DARPA Fab Lab to improve ship Navy repair and maintenance with 3D printers and other tools - News
February 16, 2015
WASHINGTON. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy officials agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, also called Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced “mar-mack”) in Norfolk, Va., under DARPA’s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) program.
Radar/EW
Due Regard Radar tested onboard Predator B aircraft by General Atomics - News
February 13, 2015
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR), which marks the first functional air-to-air radar on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that meets the requirements for “Due Regard” operations in international airspace. Enabling such technology will help in the long run integrate UAVs into international and domestic airspace.
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